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Jim Pickett

Liquid Assets | Documentary Film | Public Education Initiative - 0 views

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    The story of water and water use
Jillian Williams

Rogue Waves: Monsters of the deep (The Economist) - 0 views

    • Jillian Williams
       
      1995- 2004 Waves are getting larger & more requent
  • Rogue waves are not tsunamis, which are set in motion by earthquakes
  • Rogue waves seem to occur in deep water or where a number of physical factors such as strong winds and fast currents converge. This may have a focusing effect, which can cause a number of waves to join together.
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  • Africa’s wild coast
  • ogue waves—which begin with a deep trough followed by a wall of water the size of an eight- or nine-storey building.
  • 1995 an oil rig in the North Sea recorded a 25.6-metre wave.
  • 2000 a British oceanographic vessel recorded a 29-metre wave off the coast of Scotland
  • 2004 scientists using three weeks of radar images from European Space Agency satellites found ten rogue waves, each 25 metres or more high.
Kevin Collon

Resource: Human Geography: People, Places, and Change - 0 views

  • Human Geography combines economic and cultural geography to explore the relationships between humans and their natural environment, and
  • tionships
  • to track the broad social patterns that shape human societies
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  • . Imagining New Worlds
  • Reflections on a Global Screen
  • Global Firms in the Industrializing East
  • Global Tourism
  • . Alaska: The Last Frontier?
  • Population Transition in Italy
  • . Water Is for Fighting Over
  • A Migrant's Heart
  • Berlin
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  • . The World of the Dragon
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    Basic Definition of Human Geography
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