Harmful algae, marine blooms, and simple population models

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; ASFA 3: Aqua, Algae, Algal blooms, Aquaculture, Aquaculture effluents, All tags... Black Sea, Dinoflagellates, Environmental factors, Environmental impact, Eutrophication, Hazards, Marine pollution, North Sea, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Population dynamics, Q1 01461 Plankton; Q5 01524 Public health, medicines, danger, Red tides, Toxins, Fewer tags

Example of an integrated approach for health and environmental risk assessment: The case of organotin compounds

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Assessments, Decision Making, Decision theory, Environmental effects, Hazards, All tags... International cooperation, Organotin compounds, Pollution (Environmental), Public Health, Public-health, Risk, Risk assessment, Tin Compounds, Toxicology Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts; Aqualine Ab, X 24230 Legislation & recommended standards; SW 3030 Effects, Fewer tags

Planning of protection of geological environment

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: China, People's Rep., Environment management, Environmental planning, Environmental programs, Environmental protection, All tags... Geology, Hazards, Human Population; Pollution Abstracts, M1 210 Human Population-Geosphere Interactions; P 9000 ENVIR, Regional planning, Socioeconomics, Sustainable development, Technology, Fewer tags

Wildfire Adapted Ecosystems Meet Man's Development

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Arid environments, Climatic conditions, Decision making, Droughts, Environmental policy, All tags... Environmental protection, Fires, Forestry, Hazards, Human Population, Human ecology, M1 200 Human Population-Biosphere Interactions, Natural disturbance, Planning, Population-environment relations, Urban populations, Wildfire, Fewer tags

Tragically difficult: The obstacles to governing the commons

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Costs, Fisheries, Global Warming, Groundwater Management, Hazards, All tags... Management Planning, Resources Management, Risk, SW 4020 Evaluation process, Water Resources Abstracts, Fewer tags

Global climate change -- the latest assessment: does global warming warrant a health warning?

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Biological diversity, Climatic changes, Environmental health, Environmental stress, Global warming, All tags... Hazards, Human Population; Pollution Abstracts; Health & Safety Scien, Human impact, Hydrology, M1 300 Public Health and Risk Factors; P 6000 TOXICOLOGY AND, Organic matter, Ozone, Pollutant persistence, Pollution, Public health, Terrestrial environments, Fewer tags

Risk analysis and risk management: a European insight

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Environmental protection, Hazards, Management, Public health, R2 23070 Economics, organization, All tags... Risk Abstracts, Sustainable development, Technology, decision making, Fewer tags

Municipal Coastal Hazard Planning: Los Angeles and Orange County City Responses, California

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Coast (see also Shore), Coastal Zone Management, Coastal areas, Coasts, Disasters, All tags... Economics, Environment management, Geological hazards, Hazard, Hazards, Hurricanes, Land use, Planning, Regional planning, SW 4020 Evaluation process; O 6080 Legal/Governmental; Q2 02, Storm surges, Survey, Surveys, USA, California, USA, California, USA, California, Los Angeles Cty., USA, California, Orange Cty., Water Resources Abstracts; Oceanic Abstracts; ASFA 2: Ocean , Fewer tags

Hazard and risk-based approaches to comparing toxic emissions

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: EE 451.1 Air Pollution Sources; EE 454.2 Environmental Impac, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Environmental impact, Hazards, Human toxicity potential, All tags... Life cycle analysis, Mathematical models, Risk assessment, Risk based models, Toxicity, Fewer tags

Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool Methodology

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool, Disasters, Emergency preparedness, Hazards, R2 23030 Natural hazards; H 6000 Natural Disasters/Civil Def, All tags... Risk Abstracts; Health & Safety Science Abstracts, Sustainable development, damage, Fewer tags

Survey of geology, geologic materials, and geologic hazards in proposed access corridors in selected quadrangles, Alaska

As part of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) effort to make final recommendations of federal land parcels to be considered for selection by the State of Alaska according to provisions of the Statehood Act, a decision was made to identify and evaluate potential access corridors. Corridor maps were compiled for a total of 78 quadrangles throughout Alaska. This map suite shows relevant geologic information at a scale of 1:250,000 for 10-mile-wide corridors straddling centerlines for proposed access routes throughout Alaska. The maps are based on geologic data compiled from existing, published mapping. Each compiled corridor geology map was used to derive maps of potential construction materials, data quality,...

Tags: Alaska, State Of, Ambler River Quadrangle, Anchorage Quadrangle, Aufeis, Avalanche, All tags... Baird Mountains Quadrangle, Barrow Quadrangle, Barter Island Quadrangle, Beechey Point Quadrangle, Bendeleben Quadrangle, Bering Glacier Quadrangle, Bethel Quadrangle, Bettles Quadrangle, Black River Quadrangle, Bradfield Canal Quadrangle, Candle Quadrangle, Chandalar Quadrangle, Chandler Lake Quadrangle, Charley River Quadrangle, Chignik Quadrangle, Circle Quadrangle, Cold Bay Quadrangle, Construction Materials, Cordova Quadrangle, De Long Mountains Quadrangle, Demarcation Point Quadrangle, Dillingham Quadrangle, Eagle Quadrangle, Engineering, Fairbanks Quadrangle, Flaxman Island Quadrangle, Geologic Materials, Geology, Glacier Outburst Flood, Harrison Bay Quadrangle, Hazards, Healy Quadrangle, Holy Cross Quadrangle, Howard Pass Quadrangle, Hughes Quadrangle, Icing, Iditarod Quadrangle, Ikpikpuk River Quadrangle, Iliamna Quadrangle, Jokulhlaup, Juneau Quadrangle, Kantishna River Quadrangle, Karluk Quadrangle, Kateel River Quadrangle, Killik River Quadrangle, Lake Clark Quadrangle, Lime Hills Quadrangle, Livengood Quadrangle, Lookout Ridge Quadrangle, McGrath Quadrangle, Meade River Quadrangle, Medfra Quadrangle, Melozitna Quadrangle, Misheguk Mountain Quadrangle, Mount Katmai Quadrangle, Mount McKinley Quadrangle, Mount Michelson Quadrangle, Naknek Quadrangle, Naled, Noatak Quadrangle, Norton Bay Quadrangle, Nulato Quadrangle, Ophir Quadrangle, Permafrost, Petersburg Quadrangle, Philip Smith Mountains Quadrangle, Port Moller Quadrangle, Railroad, Ruby Quadrangle, Russian Mission Quadrangle, Sagavanirktok Quadrangle, Selawik Quadrangle, Shungnak Quadrangle, Sleetmute Quadrangle, Solomon Quadrangle, Survey Pass Quadrangle, Taku River Quadrangle, Talkeetna Quadrangle, Tanana Quadrangle, Taylor Mountains Quadrangle, Teshekpuk Quadrangle, Transportation Corridor, Tyonek Quadrangle, Ugashik Quadrangle, Umiat Quadrangle, Unalakleet Quadrangle, Utukok River Quadrangle, Wiseman Quadrangle, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Tsunami inundation maps of Fox Islands communities, including Dutch Harbor and Akutan, Alaska

Potential tsunami hazards for the Fox Islands communities of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor and Akutan were evaluated by numerically modeling the extent of inundation from tsunami waves generated by hypothetical earthquake sources and taking into account historical observations. Worst-case hypothetical scenarios are defined by analyzing results of a sensitivity study of the tsunami dynamics related to various slip distributions along the Aleutian megathrust. The worst-case scenarios for Unalaska and Akutan are thought to be thrust earthquakes in the Fox Islands region with magnitudes ranging from Mw 8.8 to Mw 9.1 that have their greatest slip at 30-40 km (18-25 mi) depth. We also consider Tohoku-type ruptures and an outer-rise...

Tags: Active Fault, Akutan, Coastal, Earthquake, Earthquake Related Slope Failure, All tags... Emergency Preparedness, Engineering, Engineering Geology, Fault Displacement, Faulting, Flood, Fox Islands, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Hazards, Inundation, Land Subsidence, Landslide, Modeling, Raster Image, Seismic Gap, Seismic Hazards, Slides, Slope, Slope Instability, Tides, Topography, Tsunami, Unalaska, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Tsunami inundation maps for the city of Sand Point, Alaska

Staff from Alaska Earthquake Center, Geophysical Institute and Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys evaluated potential tsunami hazards for the city of Sand Point, on Popof Island in the Shumagin Islands archipelago. We numerically modeled the extent of inundation from tsunami waves generated by local and distant earthquake sources. We considered the results in light of historical observations. The worst-case scenarios are defined by analyzing results of the sensitivity study of the tsunami dynamics with respect to different slip distributions along the Aleutian megathrust. For the Sand Point area, the worst-case scenarios are thought to be thrust earthquakes in the Shumagin Islands region with magnitudes...

Tags: Active Fault, Alaska Earthquake 1964, Aleutian Islands, Bathymetry, Coastal, All tags... Coastal and River, Earthquake, Emergency Preparedness, Engineering, Engineering Geology, Fault Displacement, Faulting, Faults, Flood, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Hazards, Humboldt Harbor, Inundation, Land Subsidence, Modeling, Popof Island, Raster Image, Sand Point, Seismic Gap, Seismic Hazards, Seismology, Shumagin Islands, Surface, Topography, Tsunami, Water, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Engineering-geologic map of the Alaska Highway corridor, Tetlin Junction to Canada border, Alaska

During 2009, the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys continued a program, begun in 2006, of reconnaissance mapping of surficial geology in the proposed natural-gas pipeline corridor through the upper Tanana River valley. The study area is a 12-mi-wide (19.3-km-wide) area that straddles the Alaska Highway from the western boundaries of the Tanacross B-3 and A-3 quadrangles near Tetlin Junction eastward to the eastern boundaries of the Nabesna D-1 and C-1 quadrangles along the Canada border. Mapping during 2008-2009 in the Tanacross and Nabesna quadrangles linked with the mapping completed in the Tanacross, Big Delta and Mt. Hayes quadrangles in 2006-2008. Surficial geology was initially mapped in...

Tags: Aeolian, Alaska Highway Corridor, Alaska Pipeline, Alaska, State of, Beaver Creek, All tags... Canada, Chisana River, Engineering, Engineering Geology, Eolian, Gasline, Geologic Hazards, Geologic Map, Geology, Hazards, Landslide, Landslide Deposit, Loess, Midway Lake, Nabesna, Nabesna Quadrangle, Nabesna River, Natural Gas, Northway, Northway Junction, Periglacial Slope Failure, Permafrost, Pipeline, Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline, Retransported Loess, Scottie Creek, Tanacross Quadrangle, Tanana Basin, Tanana River, Taylor Highway, Tetlin, Tetlin Junction, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Thawing Permafrost, Translational Landslide, Transportation Corridor, Unconsolidated Deposits, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

EnviroAtlas - Food, Fuel, and Materials Metrics for Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Food, Fuel, and Materials category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that provide or support the production of food, fuel, or other materials, the need or demand for these items, the impacts associated with their presence and accessibility, and factors that place stress on the natural environment's capability to provide these benefits. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

EnviroAtlas - Clean and Plentiful Water Metrics for the Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Clean and Plentiful Water category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that filter and regulate water, the need or demand for clean and plentiful water, the impacts associated with water quality, and factors that place stress on water quality and supply. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this web service is located within each web...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

Relative risk site evaluation for buildings 7740 and 7741 Fort Campbell, Kentucky

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality; Pollution, Air pollution, Asbestos, Atmospheric gases, Construction, All tags... Hazards, Heavy metals, Land pollution, Lead, Metals, Military, Military operations, Oxygen, Pesticides, Pollution surveys, Q5 01503 Characteristics, behavior and fate; P 5000 LAND POL, Radioisotopes, Radon, Risk assessment, Risks, Sediment pollution, USA, Kentucky, Fort Campbell, USA, Kentucky, Fort Campbell, Volatile compounds, Water pollution, Fewer tags

Superflu is being brewed in the lab.

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ANTE, ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (AN), Epidemics, Hazards, Health, All tags... Influenza, Research, Viruses, Fewer tags

USGS National Index of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise

The goal of this project is to quantify, at the National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea- level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables coastal geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tidal range, wave height, historical rates of relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables furnishes a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise. Data downloads available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds68/

Tags: cmgp, coastal and marine geology program, coastal hazards, erosion, hazards, All tags... oceans, oceans and coastal, oceans and estuaries, shoreline, shoreline change, u.s. geological survey, united states, usgs, whcmsc, woods hole coastal and marine science center, Fewer tags

Seismic Landslide Hazard for the City of Berkeley, California

This map describes the possible hazard from earthquake-induced landslides for the city of Berkeley, CA. The hazard depicted by this map was modeled for a scenario corresponding to an M=7.1 earthquake on the Hayward, CA fault. This scenario magnitude is associated with complete rupture of the northern and southern segments of the Hayward fault, an event that has an estimated return period of about 500 years. The modeled hazard also corresponds to completely saturated ground-water conditions resulting from an extreme storm event or series of storm events. This combination of earthquake and ground-water scenarios represents a particularly severe state of hazard for earthquake- induced landslides. For dry ground-water...

Categories: Web Site; Tags: 06001 = Alameda, Berkeley, California, Earthquakes, Hazards, All tags... Landslides, USA, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags