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Risk Management 101 for IT Professionals Essential Concepts - The Three Categories of Threats
This video explains the categories of threats.<br<br/>/>
This clip is from the chapter "Understanding Risk" of the series "Risk Management 101 for IT Professionals: Essential Concepts".This section explains how to understand risk.
This clip is from the chapter "Understanding Risk" of the series "Risk Management 101 for IT Professionals: Essential Concepts".This section explains how to understand risk.
NASA
Through Smoke and Fire, NASA Searches for Answers
For years, NASA has used the vantage point of space, combined with airborne and ground-based field campaigns, to decipher the impact of fires—from first spark to final puff of smoldering smoke— and help other agencies...
NASA
NASA Captures Hurricane Harvey's Rainfall
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC and 21:25 UTC on the 27th of August nearly two days after the storm made landfall as it was...
NASA
The Little Satellite That Could
The satellite was tiny, the size of a small refrigerator, only supposed to last one year and constructed and operated on a shoestring budget — yet it persisted for a total of 17 years on orbit.
On March 30, 2017, the...
On March 30, 2017, the...
Science360
Passport to Discovery - Surf's Up!
Today your Passport to Discovery takes you to Oregon State University at their Wave Research Laboratory. Come learn how this facility uses two different wave making pools to recreate natural disasters and learn how NSF supports this...
NASA
NASA | Earth's Water Cycle
Water is the fundamental ingredient for life on Earth. Looking at our Earth from space, with its vast and deep ocean, it appears as though there is an abundance of water for our use. However, only a small portion of Earth's water...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Alaska Tsunami
In this video adapted from Alaska Sea Grant, discover why multiple tsunamis resulted from the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. Essay, discussion questions, and links to related material included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: 1964 Alaska Earthquake
This video adapted from the Valdez Museum & Historical Archive, explores what happened during the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 through original footage, first-person accounts, and animations illustrating plate tectonics.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Weather Fitness
In this video, students learn a variety of fitness activities in which they depict the weather though movement. [10:38]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Warming Threatens Shishmaref
In this video segment adapted from Spanner Films, visit the Alaska Native village of Shishmaref, and learn how an entire town may be forced to relocate because of warmer temperatures, melting sea ice, and coastal erosion.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: When Nature Strikes: Volcanoes
Volcanoes are one of the most powerful natural hazards on Earth, but supervolcanoes are so large that they have the ability to alter the world's climate. [5.33]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: When Nature Strikes: Landslides
Landslides occur when material like debris, rock, and soil become dislodged from the earth and slide downward at speeds that can approach 100 miles per hour. David Montgomery at the University of Washington studies past and present...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: When Nature Strikes: The Science of Natural Hazards
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Geosciences has partnered with NBC Learn and the Weather Channel to produce a 10-part video series that explores the science of natural disasters and research to avert their human...
Other
Earth Science: Chapter 8: Iv Natural Hazards
A teacher-created video that reviews natural hazards, and how they occur, for a secondary school science course. Includes lots of fascinating details. [11:13]
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Big Idea 8: Natural Hazards Affect Humans
Watch how natural hazards occur, how they affect our lives and what we can do to prepare for and mitigate their effects. [4:27]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Massive Quake Prompts Tsunami Warnings
Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the USGS, explains the connections between quakes and tsunamis.
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Natural Hazards
In this video, Paul Andersen explains how natural disasters (like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and flooding) have affected and will continue to affect humans on the planet. Many of the natural hazards (like volcanoes and storms) can...
TED Talks
Ted Ed: An Astronaut's View of Earth
This video provides a harrowing look from an astronaut's view of what is going on in our world. What we will we do to make our world a differnt place? This video shares what its like to see the Earth from orbit. [4:00]