http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/03/managing-hazard-risk-and-weather-extremes-at-agu/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/03/managing-hazard-risk-and-weather-extremes-at-agu/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:04:08 +0000 Courtney St. John http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=32719 Researchers from the Earth Institute's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions will present their work at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco this week. Psychology doctoral candidate Katherine Thompson will present a poster entitled “The Psychology of Hazard Risk Perception”; and visiting research scholar Diana Reckien will present a poster entitled “Realities of Weather Extremes on Daily Life in Urban India—How Quantified Impacts Infer Sensible Adaptation Options.”]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/12/03/managing-hazard-risk-and-weather-extremes-at-agu/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/to-comilla-and-back/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/to-comilla-and-back/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:35:34 +0000 Mike Steckler http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31363 I've just arrived back in Bangladesh with an engineer to install 6 new GPS stations to add to our studies of earthquake hazards and land subsidence. Our first stop was Comilla University, the westernmost exposed fold of the collision between the Ganges-Bramaputra Delta and the Sumatra-Andaman-Burma plat boundary.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/to-comilla-and-back/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/13/lurking-under-bangladesh-the-next-great-earthquake/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/13/lurking-under-bangladesh-the-next-great-earthquake/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:56:45 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16190 After the recent great quakes that have swept away entire coastlines and cities in Japan, Haiti and Sumatra, scientists are now looking hard at the nation that may suffer the gravest threat of all: Bangladesh. A new documentary from the Earth Institute follows seismologists as they trace signs of deeply buried active faults, past movements of the earth, and sudden, [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/13/lurking-under-bangladesh-the-next-great-earthquake/feed/ 20