Thursday, May 26, 2011

Annotated Bibliography

Bolt, Bruce A. Earthquakes. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1999. Print
Earthquakes is a great book that covers all the basics but with deep explanation. The book is divided into how it feels to be in an earthquake and where they occur. It explains how to collect data, the earth dynamics behind earthquakes and what causes them. What is most interesting is that earthquakes are the causes behind other natural disasters like volcanic eruptions and tsunamis which the book explains thoroughly. Bruce Bolt is Professor Emeritus of seismology and former Director of the Seismographic Station at the University of California at Berkley. He is very involved in earthquake hazard reduction.   
Corliss, William R. Tornadoes, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather Phenomena. Sourcebook Project 1983. Print
The book is very well organized that a lot of researches would appreciate. The book covers a wide variety of unusual weather with a description, evaluation and sketches. After each explanation, if any, the reference is underneath that subject which gives another place to go to understand the topic. William R. Corliss compiled this book and kept it full of the information needed.
Palmer, Prof. Leonard and KOIN-TV Newsroom. Mt. St. Helens: The Volcano Explodes! Lee Enterprises, Inc., 1980. Print
This book is great for the pictures and science of Mt. St. Helens explosion in 1980. The news crew and people collecting data went through extraordinary measures. It gives great detail of explanation and pictures for the before, during and after of Mt. St. Helens eruption. The science explanation of a volcano and terminology is also included in the book, which can help fulfill any curiosity of how and why a volcano would erupt. Some of the people involved in collecting the data died while on the slopes but others lived to write this book. Professor Leonard Palmer worked at Portland State University and was invited to go with KOIN-TV news team to look at the Eruption.
Reiss, Bob. The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future. New York: Hyperion, 2001. Print
This book has a personal touch which can be comforting but it has also has a twist that can frighten the audience. The book starts and ends in an eleven year time span to prove a point that the weather is getting worse for a reason. The books point of view is through the eyes of a researcher, meteorologist, and families affected by storms and the predictions from them for the future. Bob Reis is a former reporter and who has won the National Magazine award for reporting about the Amazon and he is also an author of ten novels and two books. 

Winchester, Simon. The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883, Krakatoa. New York: Harper Collins Publishers 2003. Print
This book takes you through the events of an eruption off the cost of Java as the earth’s most dangerous eruption. This book is very exciting because the history of the volcano includes the death of forty thousand people and the change in weather all over the world. This eruption was iconic and the perspective from the author gives it a great new way to see this event. The author Simon Winchester was a geologist at Oxford and worked in Africa. No he is a full-time globe-trotting foreign correspondent and writer.

D. L. Johnson, Tsunami Team. Tsunami. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.[http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/index.html]. March 20, 2011.
This website is controlled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that helps any group or individual with tsunamis. This website is valuable because of the wide range of information. They focus on how to be prepared and the warnings that are present or predicted. There are guides to keep safe during a tsunami and basic advice for the people around areas that are known to be in danger by tsunamis. D. L. Johnson is the head of the tsunami team that focus their careers on tsunami research, along with the DART development project at NOAA/PMEL to catch photographs of tsunamis.
Bourgeois, Joanna and Brian Atwater, Frank Gonzalez, Randy LeVeque, Bob Freitag, Catherine Petroff. Tsunami! University of Washington.  Wordpress. [http://faculty.washington.edu/cpetroff/wordpress/]. March 20, 2011.
This website is maintained by a group of professors and students. It is a clever way to show hands on research project and learning experience for views and those in charge.  It is valuable for those that are interested in seeing the big picture but in small doses. All the authors are professors at University of Washington and control every dynamic on their website about tsunamis. These professors are a part of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and dedicate the website  to the general knowledge of tsunamis.
 National Hurricane Center. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.  U.S. Department of Commerce. [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/] March 20, 2011.
This website is very trustworthy. The government has full control of the information that goes out on hurricanes. It is updated every day and at any time when there is hurricane activity. Hurricane history is provided, awareness, forecasts, satellite information, and many more precautions that would be useful when involved with hurricane activity. The government is in charge of this website and it does not constitute the employees or any field offices to be named.
Wensing, Mathew and Brad Wiemerslage. Stormpulse. U.S. Steel, Humana Healthcare and the Mosaic Company. [http://www.stormpulse.com/] March 20, 2011.
Stormpulse is a weather website that lets you put in your location to find the weather, but it does not only tell you the forecast. Stormpulse is a main reference for businesses and government agencies when they are in need to plan. This website also helps reduce weather risks for industries including energy, transportation and more. The co-founder and chief executive Mathew Wensing lived through hurricanes and threats which gave him the drive to create the best weather map.
Parkinson, Giles. Climate Spectator. Business Spectator.[ http://www.climatespectator.com.au/]March 20, 2011.
This website is all funded by advertisements. It covers policy and science, smart energy, green business, clean tech and enviro-markets. This website sounds off subject but it is not because it gives the strength of the people behind weather. It’s a fascination website for smart people that are interested in reading and getting involved. The website covers a lot about climate change that scares a lot of people for in the future. The climate spectator himself Giles Parkinson stays very involved with the website by his personal posts.
The Weather Channel. NBC Universal. The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital. TRUSTe.[http://beta.weather.com/?pin=true]
The weather channel website is a comfortable website for people to use. The name is familiar and it is also a TV channel and one hundred percent trustworthy. The website gives you exact weather anywhere with severe weather reports, videos, forecasts, maps and more. If a user went to the website looking to see if where they wanted to travel was safe or wanted to know what kind of weather was known for that area, this website would be a great place to go. Many work for the weather channel but are not listed on the website.
Clara Barton. American Red Cross.  [http://www.redcross.org/]                
This website is a very well known organization. They provide relief for victims of a disaster, give blood to hospital patients, training for the public and emergency social services to the U.S. military and their families. This website is very helpful to anyone that is looking for help or want to volunteer their help. The organization is very trustworthy and the website is a great place to get all the information you need when it comes to the American Red Cross.
Shah, Anup. Global Issues. One World, Media Channel, Global Vision, the Institution for Economic Deomocracy. [http://www.globalissues.org/]
This website cover global issues and gives reason and explanation to how they are inter-related. What makes this website useful is the facts behind how a natural disaster made an area better or distressed more that it was before. It covers the political side of how things are affected by each other. The website provides a list of issues that are interesting to most and world news that connects to the issues presented on this website. The creator, Anup Shah became interested in global issues and wrote most of the articles on the website. 
King, Hobart M. Geology.com. Google, NASA, NOAA, USGS. Mansfield University Geography and Geology Department. [http://geology.com/]
This website covers great information and makes a great resource for anything in the subject of geology. There is no way to go wrong when looking for information. The website covers insightful news, careers, articles, maps, satellite images and a dictionary. Natural disasters and the scientific involvement have a great deal of focus on this website. The author, Hobart King is a licensed geologist and worked at Mansfield University until 2008 and now focuses all his time on geology and geology.com.  
 National Geographic Society. National Geographic. [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/]
This website is very helpful with anything that has to do with the planet. You can find things on the website that focus on the weather, natural disasters and more. National Geographic is a great website to go through because it can cover any interest and subject that is being searched. It is non-profit and been around since 1888. The interests include geography, archaeology and natural science.
Brotzge, J., and S. Erickson. "Tornadoes without NWS Warning." Weather & Forecasting 25.1 (2010): 159-172. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 May 2011.

This article explains the problems of tornadoes without warning of their presence. This article respects the idea that the tornado was not in range of the radar but there have still been too many tornadoes without warning. The size of the tornado had an impact on the warning or not but if the tornado was weak and not warned, sometimes the tornado enlarged. This is a good article to make a point of the importance of warnings. The authors J. Brotzge and S. Erikson went to the University of Oklahoma.
ChiChing, Liu, Alan T. Linde, and I. Selwyn Sacks. "Slow earthquakes triggered by typhoons." Nature 459.7248 (2009): 833-836. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 May 2011.
This article has another point of view with the triggering of earthquakes. A typhoon being the trigger, the article includes the pressure in the ocean and the strength of the slow movements stir up to make the long movements and create the larger and longer earthquakes. The article is useful because it has the earthquake trigger theory that scientist are trying to learn and understand more. The authors attended the Institute for Earth Sciences.
Repetto, Robert, and Robert Easton. "Changing Climate, More Damaging Weather." Issues in Science & Technology 26.2 (2010): 67-74. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 May 2011.
This article explains the safety for the public with infrastructures and the investments needed. The damage from a weather disaster can cause extreme cost to fix but by investing more into the infrastructures, damage can be overcome. This article would be a good read because of the interesting facts and ideas the author has to offer.  Robert Repetto is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation in Washington, DC and Robert Easton is a professor emeritus of applied mathematics of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Stephenson, Frederick E., and Alexander B. Rabinovich. "Tsunamis on the Pacific Coast of Canada Recorded in 1994–2007." Pure & Applied Geophysics 166.1/2 (2009): 177-210. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 May 2011.
This article is full of records between a fifteen year span. It is very interesting to see the amount of tsunamis recorded but not on the news or made public because of their level of severity. These are only records of tsunamis on the Pacific Coast of Canada but it is a recommended article because it goes into detail of how the scientist are trying to find the best areas for reading tsunamis. The authors Frederick Stephenson and Alexander Rabinovich did not include information of themselves for this article.
Wilcock, William S. D. "Tidal triggering of earthquakes in the Northeast Pacific Ocean." Geophysical Journal International 179.2 (2009): 1055-1070. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 May 2011
The article takes earthquakes into a new perspective with the idea of tidal stressors. Experiments are done and documented to explain the idea. Low tides and high tides have a significant difference in the detail of when and if the tidal triggers. This would be recommended for a good point of view with what is going on under the ocean. The author, William Wilcock attended University of Washington, School of Oceanography.