Some Notions for your Research Project

1. Some Notions for your Research Project • FEMA Project - Recording High Water Marks from the December Flood Event in North Creek and Bear Creek • Need at least 6 students in 2 groups • The Bushwackers • The Investigative Reporters • Could accommodate as many as 16 students in 4 groups

2. FEMA Project – High Water Marks Can you see the high water mark?

3. A Disaster-Resistant University Report for University of Washington Bothell • http://www.oregonshowcase.org/index.cfm?mode=projects&page=uoplanning • 1 to 3 groups working to recreate the Risk Assessment portion of the report for UWB • Potentially 1-3 other groups to recreate some of the Appendices

4. Other Ideas • Feasibility and Options for Establishing a Program to Train UW Students and Personnel to Assist in Disaster Response Search and Rescue Operations • Assessing the Vulnerability of Seattle’s Municipal Wastewater System to an Earthquake on the Seattle Fault • Assessing the Economic Impacts of Downed Bridges from an Earthquake on the Seattle Fault • Geomorphic and Socioeconomic Correlations in Risk from Projected Tsunami Flooding (or Mt. Rainier Lahar Flows) in Washington State

5. Other Ideas • A Comparison of Gender-Based Risk from Flooding: New Orleans vs. Bangladesh • Social Inequities in Hurricane Katrina Impacts • Influence of Reef and Mangrove Degradation on Sumatra Tsunami Impacts • The Applications of Poverty Mapping in Natural Hazard Mitigation • Landslide-Generated Tsunami Risk for the United States

6. Darwin’s Theory of Coral Atoll Formation Bora Bora Yap

7. Coral Atoll

8. Atoll Formation

9. Volcanic Island Chains