…still have over 500 miles to go, and those will be driving out of the cloudy hills of Pennsylvania and into the warmer, more hospitable regions of the South. The…
…year. We can easily change the latitude and collect a new set of data. Figure 1 shows the global insolation pattern from the North Pole to the South Pole. The…
…100 US locations among them and compared the insolation data calculated by Energy3D for a horizontal surface and a south-face vertical surface with 30 years of data collected by the…
…surge brought on by Isaias caused the third highest high tide ever in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. And Isaias caused hundreds of power outages throughout the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic states…
…at the University of South Florida and a seismologist at Earthscope Consortium, we created the GeoCoder, an innovative block-based programming environment that allows students to manipulate scientific-grade tephra dispersion equations…
…geological periods when they formed, as well as the topographic features in a region. Below is a geologic map of Massachusetts. You can see a North-South trend of the bedrock,…
Robert Constantinescu, a Ph.D. candidate in volcanology at the University of South Florida (USF), flew to the island of St. Vincent after the explosive activity at the La Soufrière volcano…
…other, like the volcanoes of Japan and the Andes Mountains of South America. Some volcanoes form along divergent boundaries, like the volcanoes of Iceland. You can use Seismic Explorer to…
…and GPS receivers. Tiltmeters measure the deformation, or tilt, of the land near the volcano. GPS receivers allow scientists to see how the location (East/West/North/South and elevation) of the receiver…
…think about the impacts associated with the hazards? The new GeoCode Explorer model and curriculum developed in partnership with UNAVCO and the University of South Florida allows students to investigate…