SCI201-140A-14 SHAQUANTA GABRIEL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY October 12, 2014 DISCUSSION BOARD 2 PROFESSOR MCBRIDE Stewardship and Sustainability The definition of stewardship and sustainability is environmental stewardship is basically managing natural resources. Sustainability is managing resources so that they are used at or below the rate at which they are produced, i.e. in a sustainable way. (http://answrs.yahoo.com). Examples of environmental resources include: clean
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Tropical Cyclones in the Atlantic Basin Statistical Analysis of the Number of Hurricanes from 1938-2013 Jeremy Erwin 6-25-2014 Word Count: 470 For this discussion I decided to research tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and determine how many hurricanes have developed from 1938 to 2013. According to the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) article found here , there have been a total of 222 storms since 1938 that were strong enough to be categorized as hurricanes
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there from a very small child. I was raised in a small town just twenty-five miles southwest of New Orleans. I spent many years dodging hurricanes and massive Tropical storms but unfortunately one year my luck ran out. HURRICANE KATRINA: Satellite Images Confirm Aerosol Geoengineering and EM Modification of CAT-3 Storm Chemtrails The tropical depression that became Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and meteorologists were soon able to warn people in the Gulf Coast states
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Airmass : Meaning and Characteristics “An air mass may be defined as a large body of air whose physical properties, especially temperature, moisture content, and lapse rate, are more or less uniform horizontally for hundreds of kilometres.” According to A N Strahler and A. H. Strahler: “a body of air in which the upward gradients of temperature and moisture are fairly uniform over a large area is known as an air mass.” * An air mass may be so extensive that it may cover a large portion
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to the atmosphere that living things breathe and is used for photosynthesis. TROPICAL TYPHOON: -Is a storm system characterized by counterclockwise rotating air mass around a central called core (or eye) that a low pressure. -Is called typhoon or hurricane,depending on what specific region this stormy system occurs. -is the generic term for a non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic
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of a Cyclone? All hurricanes may hold an element of danger, but some have many more catastrophic social, economic and environmental impacts, mainly due to an area’s income level. Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis were both very powerful tropical storms, but differed greatly in impacts in the two areas, due to economic reasons, as we will explore in this essay. On the morning of 29th August 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, with winds of around 200 km/h and 200-250mm of rainfall
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Samantha Manuel Dr. Xiongya Gao English 111 September 22, 2014 On August 29, 2005, there was a hurricane forming in the Gulf of Mexico. Her name was Katrina. It started as a small tropical storm, but as it entered the warm waters of the Gulf it grew to be a monstrous storm. So monstrous, that it would destroy anything in its path. Covering the coast lines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. During this time, I contacted family members of their plans. We decided to head in different directions
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A Gender Comparison of Resiliency among Older African American Katrina Survivors Name Institution Date A Gender Comparison of Resiliency among Older African American Katrina Survivors The hurricane Katrina is rated the fifth most deadly hurricane in the history of the United States. The period of the hurricane witnessed massive destruction of property besides lost of lives. In addition to thee various forms of loss that became manifested in the period of the menace, a number of cases
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Tropical forests A rainforest is a thick of tall trees which is found in tropical areas where there is a lot of rain. The largest rainforests are in the Amazon River Basin (South America), the Congo River Basin (western Africa), and throughout much of southeast Asia. Smaller rainforests are located in Central America, Madagascar, Australia and nearby islands, India, and other locations in the tropics. Due to human intervention, today more than 40% of the worlds original forests have gone, for example
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