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NSF Presentations [PDF]

 

PIRE meeting, Dec 2008, Washington, DC

 

12/08

 

 

Reverse Site Visit May 2008, Washington DC

                

05/08

 

External advisory panel meeting presentations 07/09 [PDF]  

 

Evaluating the impact of a non-governmental organization on local risk perceptions and disaster preparedness in Los Planes de la Laguna, Santa Ana volcano, El Salvador

Bowman

 

 

 

A digital processing and compilation approach for using remotely sensed imagery to identify geological lineaments in hard-rock terrains: An application for groundwater exploration in Nicaragua

Bruning/Gierke

 

 

 

Differences in understanding risk: The case of early warning for Volcan de Fuego

Escobar-Wolf

 

 

 

Remote sensing for hazard mitigation and resource protection in Pacific Latin America: An overview

Gierke

 

 

 

Patterns in open vent, strombolian behavior at Fuego Volcano, Guatemala, 2005-2007

Lyons, Waite, Rose, Chigna

 

 

 

Integration of high-temporal resolution SO2 emission rates and geophysical data at Central American volcanoes

Nadeau, Waite, Palma, Dalton

 

 

 

Assessing the threat of Central American volcanoes

Palma, Rose, Escobar-Wolf

 

 

 

A remote-sensing approach to characterize the hydrogeology of mountainous areas: Application to the Quito Aquifer System (QAS): Ecuador. Dissertation Research Proposal

Rios-Sanchez

 

 

 

RS4Hazards volcanic hazards research update

Rose

 

 

 

Unraveling shallow conduit processes: Integrating multiple data sets to evaluate volcanic hazards in Guatemala

Waite

 

 

Field Campaign reports [PDF] 

 

 

 

 

Report on the field work being conducted in Los Planes de La Laguna, Santa Ana volcano, January-June 2009

Bowman

06/09

 

 

Extrusion at Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala 2009

Brill

06/09

 

 

Fieldwork report: Physical volcanology and hazards

Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala: January – February 2009

Escobar-Wolf

06/09

 

 

Debris Avalanche Deposits of Volcán Barú, Panamá  Cumulative report on fieldwork in progress:  January 2008 – June 2009

Herrick

06/09

 

 

Monitoring Surface Deformation at Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador, Using GPS  Sept. 08 – Nov. 09

Lechner

06/09

 

 

Overview of project and initial findings from January 2009 seismo-acoustic experiment at Fuego volcano, Guatemala

Lyons, Waite

06/09

 

 

Report on UV camera field campaign, Fuego

and Santiaguito volcanoes, Guatemala December 2008-January 2009

Nadeau, Dalton

06/09

 

 

Report on the field work carried out on Pacaya volcano, Guatemala, January-February 2009

Palma, Matias, Cobin

06/09

 

 

Report on the field campaign to Guatemala, Fuego and Santiaguito Volcanoes, in June-July 2008

Palma, Lyons  

08/08

 

PIRE presentations

 

 

 

 

Turrialba Volcano Field Work Summer 2010

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Morales

10/09

 

 

Developing culturally appropriate disaster risk reduction strategies in El Salvador

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Bowman

10/10

 

 

Lineament mapping in karst terrains: Los Haitises Aquifer in the Dominican Republic and Tanamá Aquifer in Puerto Rico

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Alonso and Rios-Sanchez

10/09

 

 

MTU PIRE Project Monthly (September 2010) Meeting 

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Gierke

09/10

 

 

Ba xchul tuj amaq ba’a’j

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Silverman

09/10

 

 

Where I’ve been...where I’m going?

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Brill

09/10

 

 

April  6 & 8, 2010 - Quantitative Interviews and Qualitative Surveys - Applications in the Developing world 

04/10

 

 

Remote Sensing - how to acquire images

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Rios-Sanchez

03/10

 

 

Gierke’s visit to PCMI students in Suriname

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Dr. Gierke

02/10

 

 

PIRE website tracking using Statcounter.com

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Paterson

02/10

 

 

Peace Corps El Salvador 2007-2009

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Lechner

02/10

 

 

Inter-institutional and International Cooperation on water resources and volcanic risk: Quito, Ecuador

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Dr. Galarraga-Sanchez

02/10

 

 

Possible consequences of a volcanic crisis

in southern Italy

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Carolina Garcia        (Univ of Milan)

01/10

 

 

Peace Corps Panama and MTU Master’s International

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Herrick

01/10

 

 

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar

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Dr. Palma

12/09

 

 

Satellite measurements of SO2 emission and dispersion during the 2008-2009 eruption of the Halema’uma’u, Kilauea

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Dr. Carn

12/09

 

 

Mariah Maggio: Peace Corps and A Single Drop

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M. Maggio

12/09

 

 

Ecuador Geophysics Fieldwork

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ATT students

12/09

 

 

Master’s International Program Guatemala 2007-2009 [PDF]

Erdem

11/09

 

 

PCMI teaching program in Houghton Middle School [PPT]

Tubman

11/09

 

 

A remote sensing approach to characterizing hydrogeology in mountainous areas: Applications to the Quito Aquifer System (QAS) Geophysical Research  [PDF]

Rios-Sanchez

11/09

 

 

Future eruptive crisis scenarios at Volcan de Fuego:What can we infer from the historical record?  [PDF]

Escobar-Wolf`

11/09

 

 

October 15, 2009 - GSA practice talks by Lyons and Paterson, presentation by GMES alumna Gari Mayberry, “The U.S. Volcano Disaster Assistance Program's response to an  energetic phase of the world's only erupting carbonititic volcano--Ol  Doinyo Lengai  (Tanzania)”, PIRE overview.

10/09

 

 

September 10 & 11, 2009 - Quantitative and Qualitative Survey Methods and Applications in the Developing world

09/09

 

 

Community Involvement in Galeras Volcano Workshop, Pasto, Colombia

Bowman

07/09

 

 

Santiaguito-Fuego ‘09 [PDF]

Lyons

03/09

 

 

Continuous SO2 monitoring:  UV camera at Fuego Jan 9-21, 2009

Nadeau

03/09

 

 

March 20, 2009 — Two presentations (original and revised).

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03/09

 

 

Life is Calling...how far will you go? Peace Corps Philippines  [PDF]

Maggio

11/08

 

 

Peace Corps Guatemala: Fuego volcano 2005-2007 [PDF]

Lyons

11/08

 

 

Peace Corps + MTU Master’s International [PDF]

Blankenbicker

11/08

 

 

October 7, 2008 - Internal assessment plan

Paterson

10/08

 

 

San Miguel Volcano [PDF]

Colvin

04/08

 

 

El Salvador Field Work March 08 [PDF]

Bowman et al.

04/08

 

 

Comparing volcanic risk at Volcán de Fuego and Cerro Quemado, Guatemala [PDF]

Escobar-Wolf

04/08

 

 

UV camera and geophysical time series data collection: Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua [PDF]

Nadeau et al.

03/08

 

 

Boaco Nicaragua Fieldwork [PDF]

Bruning

03/08

 

 

The Effectiveness of Remote Sensing Techniques in Lineament Mapping for Groundwater Exploration in Volcanic Terrains  [PDF]

Bruning

02/08

 

 

February 29, 2008Project update and IRB overview

 

02/08

 

 

Identification of geologic lineaments and groundwater flow systems using digital elevation models, satellite imagery, and spring data in Quito, Ecuador [PDF]

Rios-Sanchez

01/08

 

 

Peace Corps Nicaragua - Essa Gross [PPT]

Gross

01/08

 

 

Guatemala Trip [PDF]

Bowman et al.

03/08

 

 

October 26, 2007 - Program logistics, upcoming travel

 

10/07

 

 

Dalton Research - Guatemala 2007 [PDF]

Dalton

09/07

 

 

September 14, 2007 - General project update

 

09/07