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Here's the latest from DISASTER RESEARCH  May 6, 1993

                DISASTER RESEARCH 116
                 TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1)  A Request from Australia for Information
2)  A Request from Arizona for Contacts
3)  A Request from the U.K. for Help with Research
4)  Introducing Colorado HazardNet
5)  Another Offer from the Hazards Center
6)  A Special Publication from the Hazards Center
7)  Training in Oregon
8)  Meetings
9)  Last Minute Inclusions Forwarded from VOLCANO-L
    A. Seeking Volcano Articles
    B. Seeking Data on Volcano/Ozone Correlations
    C. Seeking Data on Rainfall/Volcano Eruption Correlations

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                 A Request from Australia for Information

[One of the staff at the Australian Emergnecy Management Institute writes:]

I have been asked by one of the instructors here if I could put a request on
the network for information about the Twin Towers bombing. Could you . . .
also advise me of . . . any other forum I should post the same request to.
Many thanks

Paul Bladen
Librarian
Australian Emergency Management Institute
[e-mail]

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                    A Request from Arizona for Contacts

[A DR correspondent in Arizona recently wrote:]

I wanted to let you know, I will be spending next year in Uganda on a
Fulbright with the university, Makerere University. I hope to stay on the
hazards network, but I will have to find out how to receive messages there
next year. To the best of my knowledge, there is no network connection yet in
Uganda. If that is wrong, I would be pleased to know that. Meanwhile, if you
have colleagues in Uganda who are interested in disaster or hazards warning
research, I would very much like to know about it and would try to make some
useful contacts. All the best.
  Ford Burkhart, Journalism, Univ of Arizona, [phone]
  [e-mail]

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                A Request from the U.K. for Help with Research

[Sue Ellis (who has posted requests on DR before) writes:]

I have a new request! As part of the research programme here into emergency
shelter for disaster relief, we are trying to establish the potential
performance of a poly-carbonate sheeting material. One of the things we need
to ascertain is how it responds to exposure to heat and u.v. light. To this
end I am looking for contacts in Africa, Latin America, India, Pakistan, etc.,
who would be prepared to help me out with a small experiment.

The requirements of the test are by no means arduous. All that is required is
to place three samples of the material in direct sunlight for various time
spans and then send them back to me.

Would anyone in the afore mentioned countries be willing to help?

Thank you again in advance
Sue Ellis
[e-mail]
The Research Centre
24 Crawley Green Road
Luton, Bedfordshire LU1 3LF
U.K.

[Editor's note: Sue indicates that help from persons in *any* warm, sunny
climes (U.S. Southwest and Australia outback included) would be appreciated.]

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                    Introducing Colorado HazardNet

The Colorado Society for Natural Hazards Research has developed a bulletin
board system for professionals involved with hazards in the state of
Colorado. The system, called Colorado HazardNet, is open to researchers,
engineers, educators, government officials, students and the general public.

The system is designed to address issues of hazard education, engineering,
social aspects, emergency management, as well as all of the various types of
hazards in Colorado. Message areas, file upload/download, and bulletins
are available on the BBS.

Colorado HazardNet can be accessed at [phone] (2400,8,N,1) hours
7AM-11PM, 7 days a week.

For more information contact:
 Lee Wesley Row, III                   Voice:   303-497-6764 (U.S.)
 Geophysicist                          Fax:     [phone] (U.S.)
 National Geophysical Data Center      Ftp:     192.149.148.121 (anonymous)
 World Data Center-A for               Surface: NGDC / WDC-A
 Solid Earth Geophysics                         325 Broadway, E/GC1
                                                Boulder, CO 80303 USA
                    E-mail:  [e-mail]

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                    Another Offer from the Hazards Center

In DR #113 we offered to e-mail to anyone requesting it an electronic version
of a list of "Information Sources" on hazards and disasters - organizations,
agencies, and institutions - that appeared in the March 1993 "Natural Hazards
Observer." In the May 1993 issue of the Observer we published "Information
Sources II" - a list of *periodicals* dealing with hazards and disasters that
the Hazards Center staff has found informative and useful. The list includes
the title, address for ordering, frequency of publication, and cost.

That list is now also available in electronic format. Persons wishing to
acquire it need only send a note requesting the list to hazards@
vaxf.colorado.edu.

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                A Special Publication from the Hazards Center

The latest publication from the Hazards Center is "Guidelines for the Uniform
Definition, Identification, and Measurement of Economic Damages from Natural
Hazard Events" (Special Publication #28, 1993, 28 pp., $5.00 [$6.00 beyond
North America]) by Charles W. Howe and Harold C. Cochrane. The guidelines
establish a standard set of definitions and measurements of natural hazard
damages and are intended to strengthen institutional capabilities to conduct
such evaluations. The booklet provides guidance on defining hazard damages;
establishing dollar values for physical impacts; and developing a conceptual
framework for identifying and measuring direct economic damages of all kinds.
This publication can be ordered from the Publications Clerk, Natural Hazards
Information Center, IBS #6, Campus Box 482, University of Colorado, Boulder,
CO 80309-0482, USA; [phone]; fax: [phone]. A complete list of
all Hazard Center publications is available from the same address.

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                      Training Available in Oregon

The Oregon Emergency Management Association and Oregon Contingency Planners
Association are cosponsoring a series of disaster management training courses:
     October 26-29, 1993             Managing Emergency Operations
     November 9-10, 1993             Emergency Operations Center Management
     February 8-10, 1994 \           Damage Assessment and
     June 7-9, 1994      /              Recovery
     April 5-6, 1994                 Establishing Emergency Management Policy
                                        and Legal Issues in Emergency Management
     April 7-8, 1994                 School Disaster Planning Seminar
All sessions will be held in Portland, Oregon. For more information contact:
Oregon Emergency Management Association, P.O. Box 391, Gresham, OR 97030,
Attn: Course Manager; fax: [phone]

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                               Meetings

[Note: These are the most recent anoouncements received by the Hazards Center.
Additional announcements (by the score) can be found in earlier issues of
Disaster Research. See the information at the the end of this issue for
instructions on how to obtain back issues.]

7th U.S. National Conference on Wind Engineering. Sponsors: University of
California at Los Angeles, Wind Engineering Research Council, and the National
Science Foundation. Los Angeles: June 27-30, 1993. Topics relating to hazards
include hurricane and tornado damage assessment, analysis, and mitigation, and
wind hazard and risk assessment. Contact: Gary Hart, Civil and Environmental
Engineering Department, UCLA, 5532 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1593.

2nd International Conference on Emergency Planning and Disaster Management.
Lancaster, U.K.: July 11-15, 1993. Contact: Dr. Peter Vincent, Emergency
Planning '93 Conference Office, Bowland College, Lancaster University
Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT, U.K.; fax: [phone]; tel: [phone];
e-mail: [e-mail]

Sixth Chilean Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering. Santiago,
Chile: August 9-13, 1993. Contact: Asociacion Chilena De Sismologia E
Ingenieria Antisimica, San Martin, #352, Santiago, Chile; tel: [phone].

Second Annual "New Avenues in Risk and Crisis Management" Conference. Las
Vegas, Nevada: August 12-13, 1993. Contact: Dr. Larry Barton, Department of
Management, University of Nevada, 4504 South Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV
89154; [phone]; fax: [phone].

Sustaining the Ecological Integrity of Large Floodplain Rivers: Application of
Ecological Knowledge to River Management (with the companion workshop:
Restoring the Ecological Integrity of the Upper Mississippi River System).
La Crosse, Wisconsin: July 12-15 (workshop: July 18-19), 1994. Contact:
Kenneth S. Lubinski, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Management
Technical Center, 575 Lester Avenue, Onalaska, WI 54650; [phone].

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      Last Minute Inclusions from VOLCANO-L ([e-mail])

A.                Seeking Volcano Articles

<<Tom Waters of Earth Magazine sends the following request for ideas
for articles about volcanoes. Please respond directly to him with your
ideas to the address: [e-mail]>>

I am sending this message to talk not about the listserver but about something
perhaps more interesting - volcanos. I am associate editor of Earth magazine,
which reports on the Earth sciences for readers who aren't necessarily
scientists. We haven't had a major article on a volcano topic in the last
year, so I'm trying to come up with one now. Do you have any suggestions?

It's hard to explain what kind of topic would make a good article for us. We
don't emphasize late-breaking news as much as some other magazines, but we do
want to cover current research, something that would seem interesting and not
old-hat to those of our readers who are Earth scientists. but it also has to
be something that will seem important and not heopelessly esoteric to the rest
of the readers. The ideal topic would be global in its implications yet local
in its focus. In fact, I'm hoping that my reporting on the story can include a
trip to see a volcano where somebody is working.

Thanks for your help.
Tom Waters

B.             Seeking Data on Volcano/Ozone Correlations

There is a study going on at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, about natural and
anthropogenic influences on stratospheric ozone depletion. We have the
longest total ozone measurements performed at a scientific station at
Arosa, Switzerland. This record is available since 1926 until now. It
shows the annual fluctuations in total ozone. In this record, one can see
some very sharp decreases (e.g. 1927-28, 1964, 1975, 1983, and 1992).
Also, the record shows a clear negative trend since roughly 1970 till now.
Before that time, no negative ozone concentration trend could be observed
except for some short fluctuations mentioned above.

If possible, we would greatly appreciate to have as follows:

1) All volcanos that significantly reached the stratosphere, and estimations
on how much gaseous (SO2, H2SO4, HCl) and aerosol (especially Cl containing)
material was ejected into the stratosphere (roughly bigger than 15 km asl).

2) A possible explanation for the observed strong decrease in ozone around
1927-1928.

3) A possible explanation why no significant decreases were observed in
total ozone between 1930-1960.

4) Is it possible that there were more eruptions in between 1970-92 that
significantly reached the stratosphere than in the times 1930-1960, and
could this perhaps also account for the observed negative trend in the
total ozone since the last 20 Years ?

For contact e-mail, we kindly ask to write to: [e-mail]
or Fax: [phone]

Again, thanks for any help in our research and for distributing this mail
to other scientists that could help and are interested in this search.

Our poste address is :

Dr. Beat Oberholzer
Atmospheric physics ETH-Zurich
Honggerberg HPP
CH-8093 Zurich
phone [phone], or
41 1 377 26 21 (Dr. Bruno Martinelli)

C.       Seeking Data on Rainfall/Volcanic Eruption Correlations

In recent months, the deaths of volcanologists at Galeras and Guagua Pichincha
has drawn attention to small gas eruptions and their potential precursors.
This was discussed recently in an article in Science Magazine (v. 260, p.
289-290, 16 April 1993).  In 1989- 1991, Mount St. Helens experienced a series
of small gas eruptions similar to the deadly ones in South America.

As at Galeras, gas is exsolving from the magma conduit at Mount St. Helens at
a rate sufficient to have caused these eruptions, though the events at Mount
St. Helens were not preceded by the screw-type seismic events described at
Galeras.  As I show in an article that will (hopefully) appear soon in the
Geological Society of America Bulletin, however, the Mount St. Helens events
were all preceded by heavy rain.  The correlation is so strong (about 1 in
10^5 that the correlation was fortuitous) that there was almost certainly a
cause-and-effect relationship.  In his report to the Bulletin of the Global
Volcanism Network (v. 18, no. 2, p. 2), Pete Hall also notes that gas
eruptions on Guagua Pichincha occur during rainy weather.

      DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW OF CASES WHERE GAS ERUPTIONS ON VOLCANOES
                      ARE ASSOCIATED WITH RAINFALL?

I am attempting to compile a database on this phenomenon to see if we can
identify a common causal mechanism.  If you have any information, please send
it to me by e-mail at the return address on the letterhead, or by normal mail
or telephone to:

Larry G. Mastin
U. S. Geological Survey
Cascades Volcano Observatory
5400 MacArthur Blvd.
Vancouver, WA  98661  USA
tel. [phone]
fax [phone].
e-mail: [e-mail].

I would appreciate any leads that can be offered.
Thanks,
Larry Mastin

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