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Rusch, Elizabeth.
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Booktalk
#1 Learn
about volcanoes and what is being done to monitor their
eruptions by the Volcanic Disaster Assistance Program
(VDAP). It’s fun to learn about volcanoes from a safe
distance. This book combines facts with fabulous
photographs as it follows the VDAP on location,
monitoring volcanic activity and saving lives and
property. As we read this book, some of these
emergencies are taking place in the southern Pacific! (Pennsylvania
Young Reader's Choice Award, 2015) Booktalk
#2 Horrified
by the deaths of 23,000 people in the 1985 eruption of
Nevado del Ruiz in the Andes Mountains, United States
Geological Survey scientists, including Andy Lockart,
realized that nearly one billion people worldwide live
in the shadows of dangerous volcanoes and created the
VDAP team. From Mexico to the Philippines, members of
the VDAP team move in to measure the telltale signs of
impending eruptions – rumbling earth, shooting steam,
puffing ash plumes – in an effort to predict eruptions
and order life-saving evacuations. If they get it right,
countless lives are saved. If they get it wrong? Join
the VDAP team as they predict, monitor, and sometimes
personally confront pyroclastic flows, rolling ash
clouds, powerful earthquakes, and swiftly-moving
mudflows that result from volcanic eruptions. (Booktalk
by Betty T.
(BT) Bouton, Fort Johnson Middle School, Michelle King,
Kennedy Middle School, South
Carolina Junior Book Award)
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| SUBJECTS: Volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes. Volcanologists. |
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