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Brian Atwater's Reading List:

For Discussion:

Marco Cisternas, et al., Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake, Nature, Vol. 437/15 September 2005/doi: 10.1038/natue03943.
Kenji Satake, et al., Fault slip and seismic moment of the 1700 Cascadia eqrthquake inferred from Japanese tsunami descriptions, Journal of Geophysical Research, Voll. 108, NO. B11, 2535, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002521, 2003.
Yuki Sawai et al., Transient .Uplift After a 17th-Century Earthquake Along the Kuril Subduction Zone, Science, Vol. 1918, 306, 10 December 2004.
Kenji Satake and Brian F. Atwater, Long-Term Perspectives on Giant Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Subduction Zones, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2007.35:349-374

For Reference:

Brian F. Atwater et al., The Orphan Tsunami of 1700—Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1707, 2005.

A 133-page book on this topic can be downloaded at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1707/; however, the book is better viewed printed and bound, with paired pages facing one another.

Neal Driscoll’s Reading List:

For Discussion:

Driscoll, N.W., J. K. Weissel, and J.A. Goff, 2000. Potential for large-scale submarine slope failure and tsunami generation along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast. Geology, 28: 407-410.
Hill, J.C., N.W. Driscoll, J.K. Weissel and J.A. Goff, 2004. Large-scale elongate gas blowouts along the U.S. Atlantic margin, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B09101, doi: 10.1029/2004JB002969.
Kori Newman et al. Active methane venting observed at giant seafloor pockmarks along the mid-Atlantic shelf break with the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle SeaBED, recent paper.

Howard Kunreuther's Reading List:

For Discussion:

Howard Kunreuther, Reflections on U.S. Disaster Insurance Policy for the 21st Century, July 2006.
Howard Kunreuther, Disaster Mitigation and Insurance: Learning from Katrina, Annals, AAPSS, 604, March 2006.

John S. Pallister’s Reading List:

For Discussion:

John Pallister, WHOI Talk Outline, Volcanic Hazards along the Pacific Rim—A Petrologic and Social Perspective, Geodynamics Program, April 19, 2007.
Pallister et al., Chapter 30. Petrology of the 2004-2006 Mount St. Helens lava dome—implications for magmatic plumbing and eruption triggering. A Volcano Rekindled: The Renewed Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2004-2006, in press.
Richard Kerr, High Tech Fingers on Earth's Erratic Pulse, Science, Vol. 299, 28 March 2003.
Carolyn Driedger et al., Chapter 24. Hazard Information Management During the Autumn 2004 Reawakening of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington, A Volcano Rekindled: The Renewed Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2004-2006, in press.
William Scott et al., Chapter 1. Overview of 2004 to 2005, and Continuing, Eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, A Volcano Rekindled: The Renewed Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2004-2006, in press.

Porter Hoagland’s Reading List:

For Discussion:

Daniel K. Lew and Douglas M. Larson, Valuing Beach Recreation Amenities in San Diego County, What are They Worth? Economic Values from a Recreation Demand Study, Sea-Technology, August 2006.
Kevin Wohlmut, The Limits of Scientific Models, The New York Times, February 27, 2007.
Cornelia Dean, Next Victim of Warming: The Beaches, The New York Times, June 20, 2006.
Cornelia Dean, The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Natural Tendencies, The New York Times, February 20, 2007.
A Collaborative Project of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Evaluation of Erosion Hazards, Summary, April 2000.
Timothy J. Wood, Caution: Moving Beaches: Shoreline change is slowly whittling away Cape Cod, Cape Cod Life, Annual Guide 2006.
Daniel Cusick, Parks: Rising sea, frequent storms strangle Gulf Islands, Greenwire, April 5, 2007.

Derek Elsworth ’s Reading List:

For Discussion:

Derek Elsworth and Barry Voight, Dike Intrusion as a trigger for large earthquakes and the failure of volcano flanks, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 100, No. B4, pages 6005-6024, April 10, 1995.
Barry Voight and Derek Elsworth, Instability and collapse of hazardous gas-pressurized lava domes, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 1, pages 1-4, Jan. 1, 2000.
Derek Elsworth, Barry Voight, G. Thompson, and S.R. Young, Thermal-hydrologic mechanism for rainfall-triggered collapse of lava domes, Geology, v. 32; no. 11, pages 969–972, November 2004. doi: 10.1130/G20730.1; 4 figures.

For Reference:

Derek Elsworth and Simon J. Day, Flank collapse triggered by intrusion: the Canarian and Cape Verde Archipelagoes, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 94_1999, 323–340.
Barry Voight et al, Unprecedented pressure increase in deep magma reservoir triggered by lava-dome collapse, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, L03312, doi:10.1029/2005GL024870, 2006
John Simmons, Derek Elsworth, and Barry Voight, Classification and idealized limit-equilibrium analyses of dome collapses at Soufrie`re Hills volcano, Montserrat, during growth of the first lava dome: November 1995–March 1998, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 139 (2005) 241– 258.
Christina Widiwijayanti, Geodetic constraints on the shallow magma system at Soufrie`re Hills Volcano, Montserrat, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 32, L11309, doi: 10.1029/2005GL022846, 2005.

Steve Ward’s Reading List:

For Discussion:

Ward, S. N. and S. Day 2001. Cumbre Vieja Volcano -- Potential Collapse and Tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3397-3400.
Ward, S. N., 2002. “Tsunamis” in The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, ed. R. A. Meyers, Academic Press, Vol. 17, 175-191.
Ward, S. N. and S. Day, 2005. Tsunami Thoughts. Recorder – Journal of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, December 2005, 38-44.

For Reference:

Ward, S. N. and E. Asphaug, 2003. Asteroid Impact Tsunami of 16 March, 2880, Geophys. J. Int., 153, F6-F10.
Ward, S. N. and S. Day, 2003. Ritter Island Volcano- Lateral collapse and tsunami of 1888, Geophys. J. Int., 154, 891-902.
Chesley, S. R. and S. N. Ward, 2006. Impact-generated tsunami: A quantitative assessment of human and economic hazard, J. Natural Hazards, 38, 355-374, DOI 10.1007/s11069-005-1921-y.
Chesley, S. R. and S. N. Ward, 2007, Tsunami Balls: A granular approach to tsunami runup and inundation, Submitted to Communications in Computational Physics special issue on Computational Geophysics.

John Mutter's Reading List:

For Discussion:

J. C. Mutter, The Earth Sciences, Human Well-Being, and the Reduction of Global Poverty, Eos, Vol. 86, No. 16, 19, April 2005
J. C. Mutter, Accounting For the Victims: Darfur to New Orleans, Fieldston School Presentation, February 15, 2007

For Reference:

Jeffrey D. Sachs, John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, Michael Faye, and Gordon McCord, Columbia University and UN Millennium Project, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1:2004

Jeff McGuire's Reading List:

For Discussion:

Kanamori, H., Rupture Process of Subduction-Zone Earthquakes, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet Sci. v14, 293-322, 1986
Song, T. A. and Simons, M., Large Trench-Parallel Gravity Variations Predict Seismogenic Behavior in Subduction zones, Science, v301, 630-633, 2003

For Reference:

Wells, R. E. et all, Basin-centered asperities in great subduction zone earthquakes: A link between slip, subsidence, and subduction erosion? J. Geophys. Res., v108, 2003.

Jonathan Snow’s Reading List:

For Discussion:

Jonathan E. Snow and Henrietta N. Edmonds, 2006, Ultraslow-Spreading Ridges: Rapid Paradigm Changes, Second Final Submission to Oceanography v1.2 – 12.29.
Jonathan Snow, Wilfried Jokat, Eric Hellebrand1, Richard Mühe and Shipboard Scientific Party, ARK XV/2, 2001, Magmatic and Hydrothermal Activity in Lena Trough, Arctic Ocean, EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Vol 82, No 17, April 24 2001, Pages 193, 197-198.
Eric Hellebrand and Jonathan E.Snow, 2003, Deep melting and sodic metasomatism underneath the highly oblique-spreading Lena Trough (Arctic Ocean), Earth and Planetary Science Letters 216, 283-299.
Jonathan E. Snow, Eric Hellebrand, Anette von der Handt, Steffen Gauger, Peter Lemke, 2004, Arctic Lena Trough is an ultramafic continental margin, v. 0.05 6.9.2004 – Rough draft – Semi-complete.
Francois Nauret, and Jonathon Snow, Geochemical Evidence for Garnet Melts in Lena through MORB (Arctic Ocean)

Kelin Wang Reading List:

For Discussion:

Wang, Kelin and Hu, Yan, 2006, Accretionary prisms in subduction earthquake cycles: The theory of dynamic Coulomb wedge, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, B06410, doi:10.1029/2005JB004094
Wang, K.,2000, Stress–strain ‘paradox’, plate coupling, and forearc seismicity at the Cascadia and Nankai subduction zones, Tectonophysics 319 (2000) 321–338
Wang, Kelin, Elastic and Viscoelastic Models of Crustal Deformation in Subduction Earthquake Cycles, In The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults, edited by T. Dixon and J. C. Moore, Columbia University Press, in press.

A. M. Celâl Sengör Reading List:

For Discussion:

Sengör, A. M. C., 1995, Sedimentation and tectonics of fossil rifts: in Busby, C. J. and Ingersoll, R. V. , edts., Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 53-117.
Sengör, A. M. C., 2001, Elevation as indicator of mantle plume activity: in Ernst, R. and Buchan, K., editors, Geological Society of America Special Paper 352, pp. 183-225.
Sengör, A. M. C. and Natal'in, B. A., 2001, Rifts of the world: in Ernst, R. and Buchan, K., editors, Geological Society of America Special Paper 352, pp. 389-482.

Di Jin Reading List:

For Discussion:

Burke, K., 1996, the African Plate: South African Journal of Geology, v.99, pp. 339-409
Zeckhauser, Richard, 1996, The Economics of Catastrophes, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, pp. 113-140.
Papathoma, M and D. Dominey-Howes, 2003, Tsunami vulnerability assessment and its implications for coastal hazard analysis and disaster management planning, Gulf of Corinth, Greece, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 3: 733–747
Schulze, William D., et al., 1990, Should We Try to Predict the Next Great US. Earthquake? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 18, 247-262.