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Oso disaster had its roots in earlier landslides

By Guest PostSeptember 7, 2014Environmentbasile luyet, biobanking, diabetesmedikament, earthquakes, evolution of skull, father of cryobiology, field of biobanking, haiti, hazard, helfen, human variation, joanna radin, john considine, julia fitzgerald, kaleb sellers, life on ice, new zealand, peroxychem, phenomenon of biobanking, public cloud infrastructure, risk, roots, sap hana

The disastrous March 22 landslide that killed 43 people in the rural Washington state community of Oso involved the “remobilization” of a 2006 landslide on the same hillside, a new federally sponsored geological study concludes.

The research indicates the landslide, the deadliest in U.S. history, happened in two major stages. The first stage remobilized the 2006 slide, including part of an adjacent forested slope from an ancient slide, and was made up largely or entirely of deposits from previous landslides. The first stage ultimately moved more than six-tenths of a mile across the north fork of the Stillaguamish River and caused nearly all the destruction in the Steelhead Haven neighborhood. (more…)

Army drug users twice as likely to use synthetic marijuana as regular marijuana

By Guest PostJuly 1, 2014Generalalcohol, cave in chiapas, fourth maya codex, grolier club, grolier codex, hazard, holiday parties, maya archeology, maya codex, social work, spice, spirit up, synthetic marijuana, university of washington

Social work researchers from the University of Washington have found that among a group of active-duty Army personnel who use illicit drugs, the most abused substance is synthetic marijuana, which is harder to detect than other drugs through standard drug tests. (more…)

Study Highlights How Twitter is Used to Share Information After a Disaster

By Guest PostMay 22, 2012Media, Technology2011 nuclear disaster, andrew binder, fukushima, fukushima daiichi, fukushima disaster, hazard, Japan, nuclear plant, social media, technology issues, tool, tsunami, tweets, Twitter, twitter posts, united states, websites

A study from North Carolina State University shows how people used Twitter following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, highlighting challenges for using the social media tool to share information. The study also indicates that social media haven’t changed what we communicate so much as how quickly we can disseminate it.

“I wanted to see if Twitter was an effective tool for sharing meaningful information about nuclear risk in the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,” says Dr. Andrew Binder, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and author of a paper describing the work. “I knew people would be sharing information, but I wanted to see whether it was anecdotal or substantive, and whether users were providing analysis and placing information in context. (more…)

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Oso disaster had its roots in earlier landslides

Army drug users twice as likely to use synthetic marijuana as regular marijuana

Study Highlights How Twitter is Used to Share Information After a Disaster