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Workshop 1 (January 15th 2000)"HOW PREDICTABLE ARE NATURAL DISASTERS?""Nothing can beat the excitement of collecting a singular piece of data, of measuring it delicately, of pronouncing it fit, and extracting its story. One thing an academic program in science must do is communicate science by current example and past history. Columbia's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory combine to do this very well. Whether we're in the field, at the bench, or in front of a computer, we all seem to feel and draw on the institutional memory here. You have to keep poking at the earth to learn its secrets. As a seismologist, I do a lot of field work collecting data from earthquakes and explosions. I use these data to model the structure of the upper mantle and crust." But just how predictable are natural disasters? How can appropriate information and warning reach the general public? What about other kinds of natural hazards--hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, heat waves, etc? This workshop will provide the chance to find out more about such problems, and develop some ideas about how to present these topics to your students.
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