Dee McGonigle PhD, RNC, FACCE

DXM12@psuvm.psu.edu

Hello! This is a vanity page that is constantly being updated and maintained.... There are rich resources on the Net as well as fun items that everyone should check out! Here are the URLs of some of the fun things....

This full-color camera at Netscape Communications actually takes photos of their fish.

Here is one site that is interesting. This camera takes a picture of the coffee-maker so people know whether or not to hike over for a cup?!?!?

Mercury Project, a team at University of Southern California, has a tele-operational robot arm over an excavation site. You can position the arm, deliver a burst of compressed air to loosen the area, and view the spot again with a real-time color image.

Børre Ludvigsen's house-on-the-net has a couple of remote-controlled pan & tilt cameras run "real time'' over CU-SeeMe. Currently they're by request only, but they'll be open for direct control fairly soon. Requests to Tom Heiberg or Børre.

Don't forget to check out Jeff Schwartz's Interactive Sites page and his own page.

Cygnus Support has outdone it's 1993 `finger xmastree@cygnus.com' with an interactive web site that features a Christmas tree that's "so interactive it's almost like it's in your home." Choose

• to see a full-size picture of the tree, updated every two minutes
• to watch an MPEG movie of the tree which is 20 frames long, updated every fifteen minutes
• to vote on the different features of the tree; every fifteen minutes the system will do the vote count and change the tree accordingly
• to send one of ten random cards to someone you're thinking of
• and much, much, more

Michael Sattler (msattler@jungle.com)

Paulina Foster Chart

My research interests include Computer-Mediated Instruction, Nursing Informatics, Human-Computer Interface,Maternal-Child Health, and Community and Family Health Nursing.

This page is consistently under construction.

Volcanoes!

Introduction

Volcanoes have been a part of earth's history long before humans. Compare the history of human beings, a few million years in the making, to that of the Earth, over four billion years in the making.

Volumes of Some Well-Known Volcanic Eruptions

  Eruption                      Date           Volume in km^3
  --------                      ----           --------------
  Paricutin, Mexico             1943                 1.3
  Mt. Vesuvius, Italy           79 A.D.               3
  Mount St. Helen, Washington   1980                  4
  Krakatoa, Indonesia           1883                 18
  Long Valley, California     pre-historic       >450 & <700
  Yellowstone, Wyoming        pre-historic           2400

Volcano Terminology

• caldera
• vesicularity
• pahoehoe
• rheology
• lahar

Volcanic Places in the USA

Mount St Helens

Long Valley

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Volcanic Places on Mars

Research Project

1. Type of volcano
2. Geographic location
3. Name, distance, and population of nearest major city
4. Date of most recent eruption and date of most destructive eruption
5. Other events associated with the last eruption (earthquakes, floods, mudslides, etc)

Then, attach a one page description on the major hazards to humans in the vicinity of this volcano. Speculate on what you would do if you were in charge of minimizing the risk to the population.

References

• Michigan Tech Volcanoes Page
• NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) IDS Volcanology Team
• Volcanic Hazards Information from the United States Geological Survey
• Volcano Listserv
• Volcano Watch Newsletter
• Volcano Prediction Article
• JASON Project VI: Island Earth
• NGDC Natural Hazards Data
• Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program

Results of diagnostic tests

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