Natural Hazards and Catastrophes 2009

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Syllabus

Class schedule

Class and Lab Assignments PLEASE recheck this periodically!

Carla Whittington's natural hazards lecture notes and powerpoint pdfs

Rubric for field reports

Field Trip Consent Form

Field trip schedule 2009

Student Information form

Selected links   

Natural hazards guides; Earth science resources;  

Annenberg Foundation Earth Revealed online videos

Check out geologic materials on reserve at the Kirk Library at Centralia College. Other relevant links are listed therein.

Final exam topics: hurricanes, weather and related climate processes and paleoclimate, and bolides (comets, asteroids, meteors, and meteorites).

Lectures

Lecture 2 Mount Rainier field trip slides

Lecture on Pac NW earthquake hazards Mount Rainier resources

Chapter 4 Earthquake risk, probabilities, etc Mass wasting and landslides

Chapter 5 tsunamis Coastal processes and hazards

Volcanic hazards lecture Chapter 10 Earth's weather and paleoclimate

Chapter 14 Hurricanes Chapter 15 tornadoes

Chapter 17 Bolides

Earth Sciences at Centralia College

Page revised on Dec 4, 2009