Lots of dust storm warnings in Arizona today.

Video on Dust Storm safety from the National Weather Service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThCp5GZZlao

New book:
"Development and Disasters: Natural hazards and vulnerability reduction" (2nd ed.) by J. Lewis and I. Kelman.

Free PDF download https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3006/development-and-disasters thanks to UCL Open Access.

Practical Action Publishing.

#OpenAccess #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #development #hazards #NaturalHazards #vulnerability #resilience

https://www.europesays.com/1810209/ US and Australia have long fought fires together. Climate change threatens joint efforts | News #2019–20AustralianBushfireSeason #AerialFirefighting #australia #Climate #ClimateChange #disasters #fire #firefighter #firefighting #fires #GlobalWarming #hazards #NaturalHazards #wildfire #wildfires

This is a wake up call: A fire at Vistra Energy's Moss Landing battery storage facility in California destroyed thousands of lithium batteries – and a significant amount of the state's clean energy storage capacity. Fire was allowed to burn itself out rather than engaging with it directly. Pollution post fire are water pollution from hazardous chemicals related to lithium batteries as well as plastics. #water #pollution #hazards #lithium #batterystorage #energy. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2464625-fire-at-worlds-largest-battery-facility-is-a-clean-energy-setback/

Postfire Debris-Flow Hazards
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https://www.usgs.gov/programs/landslide-hazards/science/postfire-debris-flow-hazards <-- shared technical article / overview
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http://alturl.com/po3yj <-- USGS Post-Fire Debris Flow Hazard Assessment Viewer
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https://earthquake.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/ls/ <-- Post-Fire Debris-Flow Hazards USGS spatial data / GIS Services
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USGS #LandslideHazardsProgram #NaturalHazards #3DEP #NGP #NationalGeospatialProgram #GIRT #GeospatialInformationResponseTeam #GIS #geology #hydrospatial #hydrology #landslides #debrisflows #fires #postfire #lidar #elevationdata #hazardassessments #preparedness #massmovement #engineeringgeology #risk #hazards #impacts #cost #economics #geomorphology #geomorphometry #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #remotesensing #soil #model #modeling #LosAngeles #LA #LosAngelesfires #California #wildfires #opendata
@USGS

UNMC: Take the ‘Death Stairs’ if You Dare
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2024/11/13/take-the-death-stairs-if-you-dare/ #stairs #hazards

Question:

I've been #TechnicalWriting for a while, but this is the first piece of #equipment with physical #safety #hazards I've had to write the manual for.

Are there any relevant #standards I don't know I don't know about that might be relevant? Like are there standard implementation of safety/hazard glyphs (like the WHIMIS and MDS symbols?)

Any "safety critical equipment" manual do's and don'ts? Things that you've learned the hard way? #TechnicalWriters

time for a re- #introduction

I'm an incoming Ph.D. student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Dr. Miyuki Hino.

I'm interested in climate #adaptation and #resilience, #equity, social and technical #networks, and compound #hazards.

I previously worked in local government performing research and spatial analysis.

When not working, I'm riding #bikes, walking the dog, shooting film, and sampling taco trucks.

I'm senior researcher at #CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and #IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris).
http://www.ipgp.fr/~lacassin

Working on #geology, #earthquake and sometimes #volcanic processes, related #hazards and risks, science communication…

I'm executive editor at TEKTONIKA https://twitter.com/WeAreTektonika (a DOA journal not yet on Mastodon), and advocate of #openscience, free #openaccess

Just moving from Twitter to Mastodon, and learning how to use it. Will keep the two accounts alive, at least for some time…