Day 6 - June 15, 2013
Research the scientists who have been involved in the science of natural disasters. Pick one whose work has increased our knowledge of natural disasters (predicting, surviving etc.). Write a paragraph telling who he/she is and how do their contributions help the people of the world survive natural disasters. Include a link to where you found the information you wrote about.
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DeleteAndrea Donnellan is currently a geophysicist, in which she studies the earth by using magnetic, gravity, seismic and electrical methods, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Not only does she hold that amazing title but she is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research) of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California. In her field she studies earthquakes and crustal deformation so that she is able to understand the complexity of earthquake fault systems. He contribution is to the technology world in which she impacted by further developing it. She has gone on many trips in order to further advance her understanding of natural disasters. In her trips to California, Antarctica, the Altiplano of Bolivia, Mongolia, and Variegated Glacier in Alaska she was able to get more funds granted, more connections within proposal committees and has advanced many projects.
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John Milne was a seismologist and geologist who has been involved in the science of natural disasters. John Milne made the first seismograph(a machine that helps measure earthquakes), and help make seismological stations. John Milne was born December 30,1850 in England. He went to King's College and the Royal School of Mines and became an engineer. He worked in Europe a mineral investigator. In 1880 he worked with 2 other scientists, Sir James Alfred Ewing and Thomas Gray to make a simple seismograph. He studied earthquakes for the next 20 years. His contribution helped improved the seismograph. John Milne died of kidney disease on July 31,1913.
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I Couldn't find any information about any scientist, that was involved in the science of natural disasters
ReplyDeleteOne scientist that has been involved with natural disasters is named Charles Richter. He was the one who invented the richter scale for the magnitude of earthquakes. It helped people find out the size of seismic waves of an earthquake. This system was developed in 1935. The contribution was helpful to human kind because it let the people know how much damage the earthquake will cause. It will help by also help prepare the area for what is about to happen. They can prepare the house and get the supplies they need to survive the disaster. He made it much easier to let people get prepared for what disaster and how bad it is.
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ReplyDeleteDavid Alexander Johnston (December 18, 1949 – May 18, 1980) was an American volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington. One of the principal scientists on the monitoring team, Johnston died while manning an observation post about 6 miles (10 km) from the volcano on the morning of May 18, 1980. He was the first to report the eruption, transmitting the message "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being swept away by the lateral blast created by the collapse of the mountain's north flank. Though Johnston's remains have never been found, remnants of his USGS trailer were found by state highway workers in 1993.
Link :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Johnston
Thomas Jaggar was a geologist, he was born January 24, 1871 and passed January 17, 1953. Although Thomas is no longer alive, while he was still around he founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and directed it from 1912 to 1940. Jaggar strongly believed "that experimentation was the key to understand earth science." HVO was the first American volcano observatory, Jaggar decide to create it after his expedition to experience nature first hand. Due to Jaggar creating this observatory, scientists have been able to observe before hand instead of only going to the location of a natural disaster and seeing the after math. People of Hawaii must also feel safe due to the fact that Americas first volcano observatory is located in their hometown.
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http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/1997/97_03_21.html
David Bratt has been seen the aftermath of some of the terrifying disasters in recent years including the earthquake in Gujarat, India and tsunami in coastal area of southeast Asia.
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ReplyDeleteOne scientist that is important and has been involved in natural disasters a lot is Charles Francis Richter. Charles Richter invented the Richter scale. The Richter scale measures the intensity of earthquakes on a scale from 1 to 10.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/502857/Charles-F-Richter
Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an american seismologist and physicist. He was the creator of the Richter magnitude scale. Because of his invention we are able to know the size of earthquakes. There are now rates for earthquakes. We can identify how bad an earthquake can be because of this invention. This invention is used by scientist all over the world who watch earthquakes.
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ReplyDelete"Greg Lyzenga has been working in the Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group since 1980. He earned both a masters and a PhD in Applied Physics (geophysics) from the California Institute of Technology, and earned a B.S. in physics with distinction and departmental honors from Harvey Mudd College. Greg is also a professor at Harvey Mudd College today.
His professional interests include solid earth geophysics and geodynamics, measuring crustal deformation by space geodetic methods, numerical modeling of crustal tectonics and rheology, as well as supercomputer applications of simulation and visualization, and asteroid studies."
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Nazria Ramjohn
ReplyDeleteA scientist that has made an impact on their effect to humankind would be R. A. Fisher. His work in population given the foundations for the vast productivity increases of twentieth-century agriculture. He did all of this on his own, but he stood apart from his actions by inventing many of the statistical methods that would define his scientific hypothesis testing. Without Fisher's statistics, large-scale medical researches would be meaningless. He basically started it. All this after he came to the basis for Mendelian the fortune of repeating characters. He relates to natural disasters because he was a evolutionary biologist and he the process of life on Earth. Life on earth made the outcome of natural disasters probably a slit bit more than before because humans started to build and construct, etc on Earth.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fisher.html
Lisandro Jimenez
ReplyDeleteMark Smith, is a member of the Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group. Mark has had years of experience working with field systems related to crustal deformation studies.
"Mark has been involved in the measurement of crustal deformation using space techniques since its inception. He participated in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) experiments which were used to measure plate tectonics by tracking distant quasars in space. They initially used very large antennas 60 meters in diameter. He has seen the equipment used to measure plate tectonics shrink as he next used mobile VLBI systems transported on vans and now works with very lightweight portable GPS systems."
http://www.scec.org/education/k12/learn/mas.htm
Franco Barberi was the head of a serious risks commission. Hes also a volcanologist. This scientist and 6 others were actually convicted of being involved with the Italy earthquake disaster. The were convicted for giving inaccurate information . They contributed by not warning the people correctly. Every one thought that a major earthquake wasnt going to arrive but one did occur very unexpectedly and so it destroyed the town of I'Aquila .
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ReplyDeleteA scientist who has made a change for natural disasters is Charles richter. richter was the creator of the richter scale. this invention changed the way humans look at earthquake. because of the richter scale we see how big the earthquake is.richter studied at california institute of technology. Angelo Lucatorto
ReplyDeleteSeismic waves are the vibrations from earthquakes that travel through the Earth; they are recorded on instruments called seismographs. Seismographs record a zig-zag trace that shows the varying amplitude of ground oscillations beneath the instrument. Sensitive seismographs, which greatly magnify these ground motions, can detect strong earthquakes from sources anywhere in the world. The time, locations, and magnitude of an earthquake can be determined from the data recorded by seismograph stations.
ReplyDeleteThe Richter magnitude scale was developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter of the California Institute of Technology as a mathematical device to compare the size of earthquakes. The magnitude of an earthquake is determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs.
http://inventors.about.com/od/qrstartinventors/a/Charles_Richter.htm
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ReplyDeleteDavid A. Johnston was a geologist he worked with the USGS also known as United States Geological Survey. He was known as a Volcanic Eruption Prediction ,because of his work geologist were now able to identify Characteristics patterns in seismic waves that tell when magmatic activity. David was killed by the eruption of St. Helen on May 18 , 1980. After his death his fellow USGS gathered his work & their ideas and decided to go to the authorities in order to have St. Helen closed down to the public. In which saved plenty of lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Johnston#Scientific
Charles F. Richter is the creator of the Richter scale an accurate way of recording the sizes of earthquakes. He was born on April 26, 1900. He died on September 30, 1985. He originally created it in 1935. These devices can detect ground movement and greatly amplify these movements and put it down on paper so you can see when where and at what time an earthquake happened.
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ReplyDeleteMany scientists made an impact on society for their discoveries and inventions. They changed the way man saw things and changed the way we do and say. They were the people who changed everything we do and if it wasn't become of them, we wouldn't be here now. Many scientists studied the earth, both of its good effects and bad effects as well. There discoveries saved countless lives. John Miline was one of those scientists. He created the seismograph that helps recorded and predicts earthquakes. He was a brilliant British Scientist and a mining engineer. Ever since 1880, when John created the pendulum seismograph, it’s been developed in the U.S. and widely used throughout the world today.
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ReplyDeletejohn miline was a seismologist and a geologist and also a doscience for natura diisasters. he was also work with 2 other sicentistis name sir james and slfred ewing. also studing about earthquke for about 20 years
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ReplyDeleteJay Parker became a member of the satellite geodesy and geodynamics systems group in 1996. His passion lies in applications of fast and accurate numerical models to geophysical remote sensing. His past projects were model projects that determined the climate change and pollution sources. Jay Parker is currently working on a method to determine earthquake and after-slip fault movements, finite element models of earthquake cycles, and new methods for GPS data processing on super computers.
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ReplyDeleteThe person I chose would be Charles Richter. He created a scale that compares the size of Earthquakes." Seismic waves are the vibrations from earthquakes that travel through the Earth; they are recorded on instruments called seismographs. Seismographs record a zig-zag trace that shows the varying amplitude of ground oscillations beneath the instrument. Sensitive seismographs, which greatly magnify these ground motions, can detect strong earthquakes from sources anywhere in the world. The time, locations, and magnitude of an earthquake can be determined from the data recorded by seismograph stations." "On the Richter Scale, magnitude is expressed in whole numbers and decimal fractions. For example, a magnitude 5.3 might be computed for a moderate earthquake, and a strong earthquake might be rated as magnitude 6.3. Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; as an estimate of energy, each whole number step in the magnitude scale corresponds to the release of about 31 times more energy than the amount associated with the preceding whole number value." source-http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/richter.php
Charles Richter . the creator of the richer scale. the scale measure the waves of earthquakes. the richter scale measures the magnitutde of an earthquake based on seismograph oscillations. the richter scale works by taking readings of vibrations caused by earthquakes. its then caluctated to compare it with other earthquakes. this helps people today by letting us know how bad a earthquake will be.
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A scientist who has studied natural disasters is thor thordarson. He has a masters degree in volcanology. He studies Archean , volcanic rocks and more modern volcanic rocks in Iceland.He also had academic studies in sedimententolgy, petrology, glaciology and oceanography. This helps because Thor knows how to read all types of maps, he can study any particular Information dealing with volcanoes. He chose to be a scientist in this study because he had witnessed the eruption at ruaphu volcano in new Zealand -Shaquille Adams
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Nathaniel Boyce
ReplyDeleteA scientist that was involved, in the study of natural disasters is John Mile. John mile is best known for understanding an evaluating earthquakes. He was also responsible for creating the world's first modern seismograph.
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/milne.html
Dave Johnston, 30-year-;old volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, was swept away by the great directed blast of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Because Dave had been an organizer of the AGU meeting at Bend, am editor of its abstracts and field-trip guidebooks, and a champion of the Pacific Northwest, it is particularly appropriate to dedicate this volume to him, in grateful remembrance of the effect that Dave's enthusiasm, diligence, and vitality had upon so many of us. As a working colleague and daily running companion. David Johnson was also one of the first scientist on the sight of Augustine volcano erupted.
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this was the only thing i could find on google. i didnt know what to type in on the search engine.
One scientist who had a role in natural disasters is Charles Richter. Richter made his scale from 1-10, changing the way humans look at earthquakes forever. If it weren't for his involvement, no one would know the true intensity.
ReplyDeleteI cannot find any scientist that deals or delt with natural disasters all the scientist i find is people who studies other results but its not saying where they get these results from
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Charles F. Richter created the Richter magnitude scale. He had a significant impact on people because without this scale people wouldn't know how strong the earthquake's intensity was.
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One scientist who had an impact on Natural Disasters is Dr. Ted Fujita. Fujita said that tornados would be weaker when near large cities based on the air circulation and dampness near them. Fujita also created te Fujita scale. This tells how destructive a tornado is.
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I can't find any site that has a scientist that deals with natural disasters it brings me to a site full of natural disasters and the study of it
ReplyDeleteOne scientist that help prevent natural disasters is Reichart von wolfsheild . He is a inventor and host on invention usa he helps people learn ways to stay safe in natural disasaters .He spreads these inventions and ideas through media increasing awareness.
ReplyDeletei can not find a website of scientists who study and research natural disasters.
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Charles Richter was a scientist who was involved in the science of natural disasters. Charles Richter was responsible for the development of the Richter Magnitude Scale. This scale helped differentiate and compare the size of earthquakes. The magnitude is expressed in whole numbers and decimal fractions on the Richter Magnitude Scale making it easier to read. Charles Richter's development does not measure the damage caused by the earthquake, it only warns us about the size of the earthquake.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Elchin Khalilov and a team of scientists had a job of finding a direct relationship between the major natural disasters and missile launches since 1950. Professor Elchin Khalilov and his team of scientists actually found a link between the two. The link was the weight of the launch vehicles and number of major disasters. These showings have opened people’s eyes to see this influence on natural disasters.
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