Environmental Disaster Management   Tags: disaster management, earthquake, environment, hurricane, nuclear, oil spill, radiation, sandy, tornado, tsunami  

2011 Tornado Information.  NOAA (Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) statistics and analysis of tornado activity for 2011.  Many links to other weather information.

Tornado FAQs.  NOAA answer guide on tornado basics, historical tornadoes, climatology data, and research information.

Tornadoes... Nature's Most Violent Storms. Information from NASA the weather conditions that cause tornadoes and preparedness measures.

Environment/Natural Disasters. Discover Magazine. Retrieved on June 22, 2010

Grant, bob. Scientists brace for oil impact. The Scientist.com. May 17, 2010.  Retrieved on June 22, 2010.

Oil Spills. National Library of Medicine. May 21, 2010.  Retrieved on June 22, 2010.

Readings of Environmental Radioactivity Level by (Japanese) Prefecture Time-series data of the affected areas. Collected and mapped four times a day by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

OCHA Situation Reports Frequently issued humanitarian situation reports from the United Nations.

Google Crisis Response - Japan Includes maps, updated information & peoplefinder

Interactive Map of Japan  - Displays real-time Tweets, along with YouTube videos and Flickr photograpy

Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal - from the Harvard Center of Geographic Analysis.

Satellite Images of Pakistan Flooding

Animals in Disasters 

   This web site is a list of web sites that have information on dealing with animals in disaster situations.

This guide identifies information resources useful for researching environmental disasters and ways to prevent/minimize them or to manage the aftermath.  The scope of coverage includes:

• operational and monitoring technologies
• chemical hazards
• risk management
• disaster planning
• laws and regulations
• environmental consequences
• economic impacts
• health risks
• public relations management

There are sub-tabs below the In The News tab with information about specific types of disasters.

Google.Org Crisis Response Map - Contains power outage infromation, shelter locations, weather radar, webcams, YouTube videos, public alerts, evacuation routes, and traffic conditions.

The following links are courtesy of librarian Emily C. Wild of the U.S. Geological Survey:

USGS SURGE GAGES:
State level information on the hurricane storm surge, in real time where available.  The USGS surge gages deployed under mission assignment from Regions 1, 2, and 3 are being updated and posted to the following viewer: http://water.usgs.gov/floods/events/2012/sandy/sandymapper.html
Real-time conditions, where available, will be posted through the points on the map.  Additional tabular data will also be available through the above site

USGS: Coastal Change Hazards: Hurricanes and Extreme Storms
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/sandy/coastal-change/

USGS Water Watch
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/

USGS news blog, Hurricane Sandy: http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/sandy/?from=title

USGS news release, Hurricane Sandy : http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3440&from=rss_home

NOAA's National Weather Service information on Hurricane Sandy: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?5-daynl#contents

NASA information on Hurrican Sandy: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2012/h2012_Sandy.html

Naval Research Lab-Tropical Cyclone Web Page http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/TC.html

Links to State-level information - Hurricanes @ USA.gov http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Weather/Hurricane.shtml

New York City's Severe Weather page: http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/nycsevereweather/weather_home.shtml

New York (State) Severe Weather page: http://www.nyalert.gov/

BP Oil Spill

Mount St. Helens

3 Mile Island

Debris after a Tsunami

Testing for Pollution after Hurricane Katrina

All images in this column were retreived from AP Digital Photo Archive, an ASU Libraries subscribed database.

Gasland (documentary) on Fracking for Natural Gas

The film's website

Living With the Spill  A documentary about the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

A Village Called Versaille A documentary film about a community in New Orleans

Industrial Processes and Waste Stream Management  A series of videos related to industrial waste management

The Prediction Problem A documentary about the difficulties of predicting earthquakes

Anatomy of an Earthquake (streaming) A video discussing the potential multiple disasters that might occur with a major earthquake in southern California