What’s New?
GEOG 3402: Natural Hazards
Spr., 2010
Finals week:
Answers to Exercise 3 are posted
on the Exercises page. Exercise grades are posted on CULearn.
“Cumulative” topics
that might show up in the final exam are general notions we’ve covered thru the
class: general hazard loss trends, probability/magnitude, risk, exposure, vulnerability;
and the three categories of adjustments depicted on the model (flow chart)
shown many times.
I’ll add office hrs
to Thursday, 9:30-11:30, and 2-3; and Monday 1100-1200. The final exam is in the normal classroom on Monday at 7:30
pm.
I’m at 1333 Grandview:
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/find_us.html
Exam and exercise 2
will be handed back tomorrow, and answers are now posted—the exam on main page
and the exercise on the exercises page.
Exercise Three is
also now posted and will be introduced tomorrow in class. It is due in a week.
SPRING BREAK: Have a
good and safe Spring Break—I’ll be trying to catch seismic waves in
We are slightly more
than a full class behind in the syllabus, and will cover severe weather and
intro to hurricanes on Tue after spring break so that you can start in Exercise
2. We may extend the deadline for turning in that exercise.
Wed. Mar. 10: There’s
a key for Exam 1 on the main page…if you have questions about how we graded,
especially the short-answers, come see me.
We’re running a
couple of classes behind on the syllabus, and we’ll catch up!
Monday, Mar. 1; Post
First Exam:
Please note that we
are one class behind on the syllabus, so we’ll finish Chap 5 on preparedness
and warning systems on Tue., Mar 2 and maybe start tectonic hazards (Chap. 6).
Thur. feb
4;
Exercise 1
A word doc and an excel
spreadsheet are posted on the Exercises page of the class website. We
introduced the exercise today (thur) and will go over
it again next Tuesday. In today’s class
we didn’t spend much time on question 6, the expected utility decision
analysis, so will attend more to it Tuesday, but from class and the Burton, Kates and White reading about the “Fisherman’s Dilemma” you
should be able to work this problem.
Thur. Jan. 21:
I have fixed some of
the date and chapter number errors on the syllabus and appreciate students
bringing these to my attention---we are reading chap. 2 “Dimensions of
Disaster” for next Tuesday, not chap 3 (on “Complexity” which we will skip
entirely); these fixes made no major change in class schedule. Please note also
that the ‘topics” as listed on the syllabus are related to the text chapters
but not always verbatim versions of the text’s chapter titles.
Thur, Jan. 14:
This week’s
introductory lecture notes are now posted---these will be PDF’s
of the PPT’s. If you want the PPT please e-mail me.
Pre-Class:
Welcome to Geography 3402: Natural Hazards.
Class begins 0800 on Tue, Jan. 12.
Look over the syllabus, a tentative version of which is on this website. We’ll briefly review it during the first class and then quickly move on to foundational concepts for the course.
We will use the textbook extensively, so you’d be well served to have one at your full disposal. A few outside readings will be posted on the class website and easily downloaded as PDFs. Exercises, including data spreadsheets, are also downloaded from this website.
Bill Travis