Interesting volcano monitoring sites (Developmental, Engineering):
1.http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/earth-science/geology/evidence-of-el-hierro-volcanic-eruption-visible-from-space/41796.html/comment-page-1
This site shows the close monitoring of the volcanic eruption taking place of the coast of Spain.
2. http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/25/el-hierro-canary-islands-spain-volcanic-risk-alert-increased-to-yellow/
This site compares the recent earthquake activity to the volcanic erupting taking place of the coast of Spain.
3. http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/adventure-travel.html
This site monitors all of the planet's volcanoes and gives virtual tours of them.
4. http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
Oregon State has a database of all of Earth's volcanoes and their current statuses.
Yellowstone fires of 1988 links I used for the blog entry 10-4-2011
1. http://www.firewisewyoming.com/firebehavior1.html
This link is great as it explains the dynamics of fire and describes how to prevent forest fires
2. http://wyohomelandsecurity.state.wy.us/Library/mitigation_plan/Chap17_Wildland_Fire.pdf
This link helps in looking at the fires from different views and showing what the state of Wyoming has done to help mitigate fires such as 1988 from occurring again.
3. http://www.x98ruhf.net/yellowstone/fire.htm
This link describes the history behind the 1988 fires
Other interesting sites
This site gives information on current disasters that are happening and it explains how to prepare for disasters as well. (Developmental)
www.fema.gov
Drought monitor map room which shows how dire the wildfire situation in Texas actually is. (Behavioral)
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Another climate prediction tool which shows the drought in Texas wont be getting better over the wintertime. (Engineeing)
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
The link below has climate data for Eau Claire,WI; but with this site you can search for any city in the world and find climatic data for it. (Developmental)
http://www.worldclimate.com/cgi-bin/grid.pl?gr=N44W091
This link has very cool remote sensing/aerial photographs of environmental hazards and weather systems. (Developmental)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/
One of my favorite websites, I visit weather.com daily to get my current weather updates and check out the severe weather alerts for the country. (Behavioral,Engineering)
http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/currentweatherusnational/index_large.html
I love this link because of its large gallery of satellite images of hurricanes! (Behavorial)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2011/h2011_Roke.html
This is one of the best sites to find current global events. (Behavorial)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/earth_climate/geography/
This link shows interesting severe weather photos such as tornadoes and hurricanes.(Behavorial)
http://www.extremeinstability.com/index.htm
This link shows before and after pictures of the March earthquake in Japan. (Behavorial)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html
This site shows all of the current hazards that are occruing though the world and display them on a Bing aerial photo map. There are various layers you can turn on and these layers displays other factors that these hazards are impacting. (Behavorial)
http://www.pdc.org/iweb/pdchome.html;jsessionid=56AC5F1018881AF5F9AFEA1DF8846549
This is NOAA's national outlook tab which provides maps for reference. (engineering)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/outlook_tab.php
The United Nation's Environmental Program: their goal is to lead by example by providing encouragement, long lasting partnerships, and inspiration to nations to help improve quality of life for future generations.(developmental)
http://www.unep.org/
WWF-their goal is to protect all endangered species and threatened species from going extinct through sustainable development(developmental,behavorial)
http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/
This site shows all of the live earthquakes around the globe. It is a great tool for risk magement strategies and is part of the developmental paradigm.
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
