Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing

Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309454158

Volcanic eruptions are common, with more than 50 volcanic eruptions in the United States alone in the past 31 years. These eruptions can have devastating economic and social consequences, even at great distances from the volcano. Fortunately many eruptions are preceded by unrest that can be detected using ground, airborne, and spaceborne instruments. Data from these instruments, combined with basic understanding of how volcanoes work, form the basis for forecasting eruptionsâ€"where, when, how big, how long, and the consequences. Accurate forecasts of the likelihood and magnitude of an eruption in a specified timeframe are rooted in a scientific understanding of the processes that govern the storage, ascent, and eruption of magma. Yet our understanding of volcanic systems is incomplete and biased by the limited number of volcanoes and eruption styles observed with advanced instrumentation. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing identifies key science questions, research and observation priorities, and approaches for building a volcano science community capable of tackling them. This report presents goals for making major advances in volcano science.

Probing Volcanoes

Probing Volcanoes
Author: Laurie Lindop
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761327004

Explores the life of volcanologists, the scientists who leave the safety of the laboratory to participate in the dangerous work of studying volcanoes, describing the work they do, the dangers they face, and the benefits of their work.

Probing the New Solar System

Probing the New Solar System
Author: John Wilkinson
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2009
Genre: Astronomy
ISBN: 0643095756

Discoveries made about our Solar System using ground-based and space probe technology.

Volcanoes Inside and Out

Volcanoes Inside and Out
Author: D. M. Souza
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 082256355X

Why does a volcano erupt? How many different kinds of volcanoes are there? Once believed to be the work of a fire god named Vulcan, volcanoes have long fascinated people. Looking at three different types of volcanoes—composite, cinder cone, and shield—uncover how and why these magnificent and deadly mountains change the earth for the better, and for the worse.

Probing Deep Space

Probing Deep Space
Author: Giles Sparrow
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836872798

Explores how current data helps explain various phenomena, and describes the theories and practical methods that may help unravel future cosmic questions as they arise.

Thinking Continental

Thinking Continental
Author: Tom Lynch
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1496202813

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about "thinking continental"--connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes--to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship. Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.

Inside Volcanoes

Inside Volcanoes
Author: Philip Steele
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836872507

Explores volcanoes by describing how they are created, where they are located, why they erupt, and the damage they can do.