A selected bibliography: Remote sensing applications in wildlife management
David M. Carneggie, Donald O. Ohlen, Lawrence R. Pettinger
1980, Report
Citations of 165 selected technical reports, journal articles, and other publications on remote sensing applications for wildlife management are presented in a bibliography. These materials summarize developments in the use of remotely sensed data for wildlife habitat mapping, habitat inventory, habitat evaluation, and wildlife census. The bibliography contains selected citations...
Landsat wildland mapping accuracy
William J. Todd, Dale G. Gehring, J. F. Haman
1980, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (46) 509-520
A Landsat-aided classification of ten wildland resource classes was developed for the Shivwits Plateau region of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Single stage cluster sampling (without replacement) was used to verify the accuracy of each class....
Earthquakes, September-October, 1979
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 74-77
The months of September and October were quite active, seismically speaking, compared to the previous 2 months. One great earthquake, a magnitude (M) 8.1, was centered in the West Irian region on September 12. Two major (M=7.0-7.9) earthquakes occurred, one on October 12, a M=7.3 off the west coast of...
The earthquake educational institute at San Francisco State University
R. Sullivan, R. Pestrong, H. Strongin
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 174-176
The Earthquake Educational Institute was established in 1978 at San Francisco State University under a grant from the U.S National Science Foundation. The goal of the Institute is to develop earthquake-related curricula for use in elementary and secondary schools in the hope that, by educating students about earthquakes, they will...
Earthquake alarm; operating the seismograph station at the University of California, Berkeley
B. Stump
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 88-97
Monitoring active volcanoes
R.I. Tilling
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 131-134
One of the most spectacular, awesomely beautiful, and at times, most destructive displays of natural energy is an erupting volcano, belching fume and ash thousands of feet into the atmoshpehere and pouring out red-hot molten lava in fountains and streams. ...
Tremors from earthquakes and blasting in the Powder River basin of Wyoming and Montana
C.H. Miller, F. W. Osterwald
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 212-219
Coal in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana (fig. 1) is greatly in demand. It can be economically mined from the surface, and the land is much easier to reclaim than land above underground mines that has been damaged by subsidence or by underground fires. Exploitation of the...
The Carlisle earthquake of December 26, 1979, in northern England
G. Neilson
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 71-73
At 3:57 a.m on the morning after Christmas Day 1979, a large area of northern England and southern Scotland was shaken by an earthquake. In the mesoseismal area, a few miles north of Carlisle, chimneys toppled into the streets or fell through roofs, and people ran in panic into the...
Lifeline earthquake engineering; an interview with C. Martin Duke
T. Tugend
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 104-107
Estimating earthquake potential
R.A. Page
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 16-24
The hazards to life and property from earthquakes can be minimized in three ways. First, structures can be designed and built to resist the effects of earthquakes. Second, the location of structures and human activities can be chosen to avoid or to limit the use of areas known to be...
Earthquake alarm; operating the seismograph station at the University of California, Berkeley.
B. Stump
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 88-97
An alarm bell rings at the seismographic station and at the office of the campus police. It is 3:00 on a foggy San Francisco morning. Somewhere in the world an earthquake has occurred. The police telephone the duty seismologist at home telling him that the alarm has triggered. He makes...
Earthquake hazard hunt
M. P. MacCabe
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 193-194
The Earthquake Hazard Hunt should begin at home, with all family members participating. Foresight, imagination, and commonsense are all that are needed as you go from room to room and imagine what would happen when the Earth and house started to shake. ...
Children and the San Fernando earthquake
S. J. Howard
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 190-192
Before dawn, on February 9, 1971, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred in the San Fernando Valley of California. On the following day, theSan Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic, through radio and newspapers, offered mental health crises services to children frightened by the earthquake. Response to this invitation was immediate and...
Continuous monitoring of Mount St. Helens Volcano
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 220-227
Day by day monitoring of the Mount St. Helens Volcano. These are four scenarios, very different scenarios, that can occur in a average week at Mount St. Helens. Ranging from eruptions of gas and to steam to eruptions of ash and pyroclastic flows to even calm days. This example of...
Charles F. Richter; an interview
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 4-8
Charles F. Richter, renowned seismologist, is a professor emeritus at the California Institue of techonology (Caltech). He is best known to the public for the Richter magnitude scale; but he is equally recognized in the scientific community for many other contributions to seismology including his books Elementary Seismology (1958) and...
Sir Harold Jeffreys
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 48-53
Sir Harold Jeffreys is a world authority in theoretical geophyiscs. hew as born in Northumbria (northeast of England) and educated at Armstrong College (now the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Cambridge University. He is now a Senior Fellow of St.John's College, Cambridge. He has published over 300 scientific papers and is...
Seismology in South America; an interview with Alberto Giesecke
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 64-70
Dr. Alberto A. Giesecke is head of the Instituto Geofisico del Peru, in Lima, Peru, and Director of Centro Regional de Sismologia para America del Sur (CERESIS). The center is dedicated to the coordination and promotion of earthquake hazard mitigation. Dr. Giesecke was President of the National Research Council of...
Seismology at the Australian National University; an interview with Anton L. Hales
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 54-59
Dr. Anton L. Hales is a leading seismologist who has just retired as Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. Prior to that, he headed the Geosciences Division at the University of Texas at Dallas, and, before that, he was Director of...
Earthquake prediction in the Soviet Union; an interview with I. L. Nersesov
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 60-63
Dr. I. L. Nersesov is a seismologist with the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow. He is one of the leaders in the Soviet national program of earthquake prediction. ...
Earthquake education in California
M. P. MacCabe
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 172-173
In a survey of community response to the earthquake threat in southern California, Ralph Turner and his colleagues in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the public very definitely wants to be educated about the kinds of problems and hazards they can expect...
A grassroots movement in Glendora, California
S. Jagoda
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 185-187
DeLaine Morgan is a teacher at Sandburg Junior High School in Glendora, Calif. Because of her efforts, the Glendora Unified School District is establishing an earthquake preparedness program in each of the District's schools. The following interview relates how this program got started and what individuals can do to get...
Earthquakes, January-February, 1980
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 200-202
Earthquakes, November-December, 1979
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (13) 113-116
An economical educational seismic system
J. D. Lehman
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 197-199
There is a considerable interest in seismology from the nonprofessional or amateur standpoint. The operation of a seismic system can be satisfying and educational, especially when you have built and operated the system yourself. A long-period indoor-type sensor and recording system that works extremely well has been developed in the...
Earthquakes, July-August, 1979
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 36-39
There was one major (magnitude 7.0-7.9) earthquake during this reporting period. The quake occurred on August 26 in the Philippine Islands. Strong or damaging earthquakes, which struck many parts of the world, caused casualties and damage; deaths were reported in China and Kashmir, and damaging earthquakes occurred in Costa Rica,...
