Lab 9
This map above shows facilities that are at risk for coastal flooding. You can see that in the upper left hand corner there is a thin line of coastal flooding that occurs along the coast. When compared to the central part of the map, there is a change in elevation and you can see that the lower elevated lands are more affected by coastal flooding.
When you compare the "surge elevation" map and "population affected" map, you can see that as you go more inland the depth elevation of water decreases, but people are still greatly affected for a category 3 hurricane. Individuals who live closer to the coastlines probably take in more damage from the hurricane than individuals who live on higher elevated grounds and are away from the coastlines.
Lab 8
These maps above show 100 year floods @ 780ft, 790ft, and 800ft. Pictured is the campus of the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
The images above show 3D images of a flood occuring in Eau Claire. You can see that higher elevated buildings such as buildings located at upper campus are not affected by the flood. The flood level was set at 800ft using the raster calculator (Con "uwec3ftdem"<= 800, 1, 0).
Lab 7
Lab 8
Lab 7
These five areas show different reasons for mass wastage.
1. Known to have a lot of earthquakes, the west coast has a lot of mass wastage triggered from earthquakes.
2. This area is very mountainous being in the Rocky Mountains area. This includes avalanches and rock slides.
3. In the Yellowstone region this area gets a lot of rain. This in turn could create pools of water underneath different types of bedrocks.
4. In the Ozarks area, mass wastage could be due to bedrock rotting.
5. The Appalachian Mountain area has a lot of different types of bedrock; some that are degrading due to rainfall.
With much of the rain accumulating in the northeast region of the map and the debris flow heading south, the parcels are at risk to be part of the mass movement. Due to land development and moving the stream flow, excess water increases the risk of mass wastage.
Lab 6
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Top 5 Countries
 
Top & Side View of "tin" lahar flow Mt. Rainier
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Lab 5
Areas that have higher levels of liquification and greater building damage density had more building strucures that were unable to enter or unsafe. Although there were sections that had very high levels of liquification, there were reports of no damages to buildings in that area.
In both the PGA and PGV maps, stations were located in areas that were on the edge of higher levels of PGA and PGV or in areas that had lower levels of PGA and PGV.
Lab 4
The Midwest and the South have some of the highest drought levels in the country. With their high productivity in producing goods such as corn, wheat, soybeans, and fruits, these regions of the United States have been impacted by the drought severely. When looking at the current crop yields, one can see that areas in the Midwest had lower yields than other locations. This could be due to the high amounts of corn that is produced in the Midwest. With corn needing high amounts of water to grow, the lack of rainfall could've contributed to the report of lower crop yields.
There are also four main soil types (mollisols, aridosols, and ultisols, entisols) that are also in regions that produce crops. From visual analysis of the three maps, aridosols and entisols were able to still produce higher crop yields than areas that are dominant in mollisol type soil. Even though the South had dryer levels of drought, it also had a higher crop yield as well. The location and type of vegetation grown in an area are greatly affected by the soil type and amount of precipitation.
data: USA Soil Survey, Palmer Drought Severity Index September, and Current Crop Yield
Lab 3
Lab 2
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| The paradigm that best reprsents this map of the United State's risks for natural hazards for landslides, earthquakes, and hurricanes is the Engineering paradigm. In order to make this more of a complexity paradigm, the implementation of socio-economic status should be added. |
Lab 1
Survival Map
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| The strategy was to build the hospital, school, hotels, and houses on the higher elevated grounds. The buildings were built on higher grounds as a precaution to take minimal damage of water coming inland. Defense wise; sand dunes were set up alongside the coast with water breaks out in the ocean. These were set up to slow down the water coming in as well. Trees were also set up as another line of defense to catch any debris, if any, coming in from the ocean. |
Kill Map
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| The strategy to maximize deaths and damage were to not build any defenses and to build as many cheap houses as possible with the amount of meney that you are given. |
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