Natural Disasters and Earth System Research (Wildfire)
Project By- Tania Crowell, Mukhtar Stones, Alyssa Straface, Queren, Ashton Woodson
Blog Feed
Response
Hurricane Katrina
Unknown Author. “How Do Hurricanes From?”. NASA, Oct. 6th, 2016
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/hurricanes/en/
Unknown Author. “11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina”. DoSomething.com. Date unidentified
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hurricane-katrina
History.com Staff. “Hurricane Katrina”. History.com. 2009
http://www.history.com/topics/hurricane-katrina
Jeremy Zilar. “Hurricane Relief: How to Help”. The New York Times. Date unidentified.
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/hurricane-recovery-and-volunteer-resources/
Reflection ~ Throughout this project, the research my team and I found taught me a lot about hurricanes and the different spheres of the earth. Before the research, I thought hurricanes only affected/were affected by atmosphere and hydrosphere. My understanding on how hurricanes are formed and what they do increased and I now know more than the 2 systems affects/are affected by hurricanes. One main system that is affected and caught my eye is the biosphere, which is life. Hurricanes can be very deadly towards organisms as a whole; not just humans. They also affects the geosphere which destroys organism's homes.
Yellow Stone Wildfire in 1988
The earth systems affect one another because the spheres are all part of the same interconnected system, changes in any sphere ultimately affect the other spheres as well. The actions of nature and people changes in all of the other parts of the Earth system.
A disaster management specialist plans and directs programs and procedures for responding to natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes. Emergency management directors plan responses to emergencies and disasters to minimize risk to people and property. Their plans must comply with local, state, and federal regulations, as well as established best practices.
Some efforts that could be done in order to create a substantial future are by minimizing resources (some renewable, some not), population, pollution, global warming, species extinction, etc. are some examples.
Natural Disasters: Hurricane Irma
Natural Disasters: Hurricane Irma
Posted in Environmental Science
Reflection:
The earth system is made of four and a half spheres. Atmosphere: The air that surrounds the earth, Geosphere: The Geosphere is the rocks and minerals of the earth. From hot magma to the sandy beaches, this is all part of the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, and cryosphere: Hydrosphere is made up of all the water on earth, cryosphere is the frozen water of the earth system, and Biosphere: it is composed of all of the living organisms on earth.
Each of these sphere kind of play a role in each other especially when talking about hurricanes. Besides hurricanes destroying people's homes, community, taking individuals lives away they have an impact on the environment as well. Hurricanes also cause strong wind that can completely defoliate forest and cause changes in wooded ecosystems. Animals can be killed by hurricanes or impacted indirectly through changes in habitat and food availability caused by the high winds, storm and the crazy rainfall.
Hurricane Irma - The Disaster of 2017
Natural Disasters
Reflection: The Earth System is made up of multiple systems including the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, & cryosphere. These systems all have an effect on natural disasters, they have a huge influence on them. It was beneficial learning about the earth's systems and the effects they have on natural disasters. I learned how as well as why natural disasters occur and I think everyone should do research on the earth systems and natural disasters, especially those who live in areas mostly effected by them. It's great to be educated about the topic.
Natural Disasters & Earth System: Flood in Sierra Leone
Reflection:
The Earth is made up of four spheres. The systems are Atmosphere, Biosphere, Geosphere, and Hydrosphere. The Atmosphere is the mass of air that is around the Earth to protect it. Biosphere is responsible for maintaining life. Geosphere is the Earth's crust and matter/land. Lastly, hydrosphere is all water that makes up the Earth.
Each system plays a role in Natural Disasters. When researching about Sierra Leone I found out that when system is affected by climate change it can trigger another system to react. For example, the heavy rains (hydrosphere) in Sierra Leone caused over saturated grounds which triggered a mudslide. Understanding environmental science can cause awareness to what human activities effects our Earth systems. To create a sustainable future I think that it can be possible reduce all the human activities (i.e. mining, construction) then that can benefit the systems.
Hurricane Irma
Natural Disasters & Earth Systems: Flood in Sierra Leone
In this project, we talk about the four different systems of the Earth. Each and every system play a part into the other. I say this because if there is to much rain which is part of the atmosphere, then the ground will get soaked causing mudslides among other things. It's imperative that we understand how their disasters work so that we are able to predict what will be the outcome, how we can fix the damages. Learning about natural disaster also help with just getting a better understanding of the earth and how it works. As time has passed we have seen dramatic changes in the earth. I've only been on this earth for 18 years and I can see big changes from when I was little to now. The earth is changing and we need to change with it, this means bettering ourselves. Being more conscious of how we use things, our pollution, we need to take a step forward in the right direction so that our home can be sustainable for us
Natural Disaster and Earth System Research
The Earth System is broken down into four different processes; those processes include the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere. Each process plays a huge role in the way the Earth operates but all essentially play a different role. When a natural disaster occurs its very likely that it will bounce between all four of these processes causing each system to be affected. When researching for this project I not only enjoyed learning about the earth system but learning about all the different natural disasters. After this project and now knowing what I know I feel as though its essential for everyone to know information about these topics to prepare and have knowledge for a natural disaster in case it ever occurs around them. After looking over my peers projects and reading my comments I think I could of added more information and more creativity to my project. I had the intention that we were presenting our info-graphic to the class so me and my group intended on just elaborating on our information to the class during out presentation. If we knew we were doing our gallery work me and my group members would of included more information on our info-graphic.
Natural Disasters and Earth System Research
1. How do the earth systems affect each other?
Earth's systems can affect each other by natural disasters. They have a strong influence on everything around them which can cause a chain of events. For example, an earthquake can split land through the middle, affecting the land (geosphere),but it can also split in the ocean and cause a tsunami, that could wash out everything it's close to on land (hydrosphere). And then tornado can just rip anything to spreads because of hot and cold temperature winds chasing each other (atmosphere). They all influence the living organisms because they are very dangerous and life threatening (Biosphere).
2. How can an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters?
They can help us be prepared for what ever natural disaster comes next so we can be away from harm. Like if an earthquake just started, we could predict if it will cause a tsunami depending on where it happened.
3. What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future?
We could create 100% life proof safe houses to keep ourselves in when when ever natural disasters happen or leave to be safe.
Reading about this I was really surprised, but I was told that this was the season for natural disasters. I didn't remember this happening last year, but I know this year is really shocking to me because we're frequently hearing about natural disasters every week.
After the presentations, a common theme that everyone said was the fact there was too many words and they were condensed which made it hard to read. They thought everything else was positive though.
Climate Change and Hurricane Irma
Natural Disasters and Earth System Research - Cristian Fernandez
Earth systems can affect each other in many different ways, these interactions often happen during large natural events or disasters but also happen in our everyday lives. The hydrosphere interacts with the geosphere by moving large amounts of land between and away from places creating new formations and diminishing others. In natural disasters the importance of the different environmental systems is exaggerated because the changes are on such a large scale they force their way into other systems. To explain my last point, when a hurricane happens mainly the atmosphere and the hydrosphere interact with each other, but when the conditions of this event become extreme the geosphere can be affected because the combination of water and wind can move large amounts of land to the sea or other parts of the land. The understanding of natural science is key to aiding in handling natural disasters. This is because without the understanding of how hurricanes work or why earthquakes happen it is impossible to correctly prepare for them. This lack of knowledge can be the cost of billions of dollars in recovery from a natural disaster. For creating a sustainable future the thing we have to think about is preparation for these events, it seems like a waste of time to create things to try to prevent natural disasters. Except for sea walls and few other things that can completely solve an issue it should be our primary focus on designing houses that can withstand more extreme weather and buildings that can hold up to larger earthquakes.
Earthquakes- Natural Disasters and Earth System Research
There are a few different earth systems but they are all connected in some way. Whenever something happens to 1, the others are also affected. Natural disasters usually makes this very obvious. For example, Earthquakes start out by a disruption in the Geosphere. This usually directly affects the atmosphere by releasing methane into the air and the hydrosphere by causing huge waves. A tsunami would form and hit the nearest city. This causes pollution in the water and the biosphere is directly affected by this. We will able to find way to stop this with more studying and research. We may be able to predict events that would affect our systems and prepare for them. In order to be prepared for the future we must learn more about this stuff. It would save a lot of lives and it may even allow the natural systems of the earth to last longer.
I think this project turned out pretty good. I wish we didn't use so may words but our information was there. It turned out much better than I expected. Next time we should try to limit the amount of words we use to make it more interesting to read.
Earth systems & Earthquake in Mexico City
Reflection :
The Earth System consists of four major spheres. The Earth System is made up of the Atmosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere & Cryosphere, and Biosphere. The atmosphere is the mass of the air surrounding the Earth. The geosphere is made up of matter that makes up the Earth. The hydrosphere is all the water that makes up the Earth. The cryosphere is the frozen part of the hydrosphere. Last, but not least is the Biosphere which is where all living things live.
The Earth System has many different spheres that affect the Earth in many ways. The spheres work in different ways, but they don't only affect the Earth they affect each other too. Natural disasters are a perfect example on how the spheres affect each other. When a natural disaster occurs all of the spheres are affected by it, for example during an Earthquake the atmosphere releases methane into the atmosphere which has an affect on the biosphere because it has to deal with life, and the human beings living on Earth. The understanding of environmental science would help aid during these natural disasters because it would help us gain more information about what is occurring, and would also help us prepare better for the disaster. It would also help us predict more about when these disasters will occur. The efforts we could make for the future is just to prepare for it, and know how to prepare / do during these disasters because we can never predict when a disaster could happen. I believe we should also talk/ learn more about these disasters, and how we can recover from them.
In class today we did a gallery work to present our projects. We had to write feedback for our peers. While reviewing the feedback, my group and I received positive/ good feedback. People liked how we presented our information, and the pictures we included. The negative feedback we received was about how we put to much information, and how we should've made it shorter.
Natural Disasters Research:
Reflection: During the gallery walk, I noticed other groups did a very good job at explaining the different systems and how they affect each other. I think my group could of did it a little better with explanation. The feed back that we got was good. Other groups were saying we did a nice job presenting, it was creative, designed well but then others wanted to see a video. Overall, I think our project was good and we all worked very well on it equally.
Yellow Stone 1988 Wildfire
Natural Disasters and Earth System Research
Identification of Roles
Natural Disasters occur because of movements or changes within some of the Earth's systems. These systems include:
Biosphere ~ the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
Cryosphere ~ Is the frozen water part of the Earth system. Beaufort sea and North Alaska. The one part of Cryosphere is the ice that is found in the water which includes frozen parts of the ocean that surrounds Antarctica and the Arctic.
Hydrosphere ~ Hydrosphere is all of the waters on the Earth’s surface (Oceans, Lakes, etc.); including water above the surface, like in clouds. The connection Hydrosphere has with hurricanes, is the formation of them. Hurricanes start with storms over the
Atmosphere ~ The blanket of gas on the surface of a planet or satellite. The atmosphere of the Earth is about 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen. Natural disasters include tornadoes and severe storms.
Geo-sphere ~ Any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere. Natural disasters include volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
Reflection
The earth's systems affect each other in somewhat of a domino effect. I say this because for example, a natural disaster that forms in the Atmosphere or the Hydrosphere can have a major effect on the Geosphere, possibly creating enough to cause harm to living organisms in the Biosphere. An understanding of environmental science help in natural disasters because although we can’t stop natural disasters from occurring, we can prepare for them, especially with our advancements in meteorology and forecasting natural disasters such as hurricanes. The efforts we can make to create a better future is helping those are in need of it most, and understanding that if we all pitch in, we can make recovery easier.
Citations
Unknown Author. “How Do Hurricanes From?”. NASA, Oct. 6th, 2016
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/hurricanes/en/
Unknown Author. “11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina”. DoSomething.com. Date unidentified
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hurricane-katrina
History.com Staff. “Hurricane Katrina”. History.com. 2009
http://www.history.com/topics/hurricane-katrina
Jeremy Zilar. “Hurricane Relief: How to Help”. The New York Times. Date unidentified.
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/hurricane-recovery-and-volunteer-resources/
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SLA Beeber Graduation 2017
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by Jeremiah Grier, Codi Resnick, Cole Rooney, Qualee Bentley, and Tajaire Taylor
Physics Project
This piece of art is about the first letter of both Jade and Juan´s name. We decided to do that based upon that is the beginning of our names. Thats is why we chose that letter J for our names.
