http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:26:40 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:26:40 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=296838 This is a complete course syllabus, including instructor guides and powerpoint presentations. It comes from the FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project. This graduate seminar stresses the analysis of hazard mitigation policy and practice, based on independent thought and judgement by the students. The seminar setting is designed to encourage student research; students prepare and present two shorter papers on selected aspects of federal and state mitigation policy during the term, as well as a longer term paper at the conclusion of the course. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=296861 This course is intended to help create a new generation of emergency managers who are betterinformed and better prepared to make decisions, obtain relevant information, and betterunderstand how to make effective impacts on reduction of earthquake hazards.The course consists of 15 sessions. The first half of the course addresses basic earthquakeconcepts that may not be familiar to those without a technical or engineering background.Issues and terminology such as earthquake magnitude, faults, and earthquakehazard/earthquake risk, are important concepts for hazard managers to understand frommore than just a cursory standpoint. The concepts are essential for a completeunderstanding of earthquake hazards and for communication with the many individualsand entities that interface with emergency management programs. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=515686 Lessons from ten years of CSB investigations on preparing for chemical disasters. Investigation Details: T2 Laboratories Inc. Reactive Chemical Explosion Herrig Brothers Farm Propane Tank Explosion. Video Download possible from the mirror site