http://www.oercommons.org/browse/keyword/fires daily 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.oercommons.org/courses/oral-history-and-digital-stories-from-cape-town People in South Africa have a dynamic but largely unrecorded heritage. The Centre for Popular Memory CPM creates spaces for these stories to be heard seen and remembered The CPM presents various oral history and memory courses for on and off campus students such as a 1st semester postgraduate course Oral History Method and Practice and Theory HST4034Z which provides skills training in oral history interviewing and interpretation an undergraduate course Memory Identity and History HST3037S explores trauma and memory across case studies of the Holocaust Apartheid and Rwanda and the representation of trauma through oral history films photographs cartoons and performances. The video clips are snippets from the following projects. Street Stories, a film documentary project tracking socio political issues and perceptions around race gender and belonging through the individual recollections of over 400 people who live or work on three arterial roads in Cape Town Bridging the Digital Divide. The program concentrates on the generational and cultural divisions between apartheid survivors and their descendants and the IT skills divide between what is perceived to be a developing country and first world technology This project seeks to build strategic partnerships that will result in strengthening scholarly dissemination. Performing Stories The CPM project Performing stories trained young people in 4 provinces between the ages of 1835 to use oral history recordings to create performative outcomes Centre for Popular Memory Humanities Social Sciences 2010-11-08T01:09:33 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/fly-down-to-the-california-fires-august-25-1999-1-40-pm-pdt SeaWiFS captures fires in California. Gene Feldman Stuart Snodgrass Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/annually-occurring-aerosol-features-biomass-burning-in-south-america-from-august-through-september-1987 Aerosol index over South America from August 1, 1987 through September 30, 1987 as measured by the Nimbus-7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Andy Acuna Colin Seftor Jay Herman N. Hsu Pawan Bhartia Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/annually-occurring-aerosol-features-biomass-burning-in-southern-africa-from-july-to-september-1986 Aerosol index over Africa from July 2, 1986 through September 7, 1986 as measured by the Nimbus-7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Andy Acuna Colin Seftor Jay Herman N. Hsu Pawan Bhartia Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/san-diego-fires-from-seawifs-january-3-2001 Zoom down to show fires in San Diego, California, on January 3, 2001, as captured by SeaWiFS Gene Feldman Stuart Snodgrass Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/san-diego-fires-from-seawifs-january-4-2001 Zoom down to show fires in San Diego, California, on January 4, 2001, as captured by SeaWiFS Gene Feldman Stuart Snodgrass Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/smoke-from-eastern-australia-1-02-2002 The Fires in New South Wales Continue to Send Great Quantities of Smoke Across the Tasman Sea. Gene Feldman Stuart Snodgrass Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/australian-fires-1-4-2002 Zooming down to New South Wales, Australia to view smoke. Gene Feldman Stuart Snodgrass Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/trmm-biomass-burning-smoke-inhibits-rainfall-cloud-cover-with-fires-march-1-1998 Cloud Cover with Fires March 1, 1998 Smoke from forest fires has, for the first time, been proven to inhibit rainfall, according to an extensive analysis of data taken from NASAs Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft. Daniel Rosenfeld Greg Shirah Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/trmm-biomass-burning-smoke-inhibits-rainfall-water-droplet-size-and-fire-march-1-1998 Correlated water droplet size and fires over northern Borneo on March 1, 1998 Daniel Rosenfeld Greg Shirah Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/trmm-biomass-burning-water-droplet-size-precipitation-and-fires-with-cloud-cover-march-1-1998 Correlated water droplet size, precipitation, fires, and cloud cover over northern Borneo on March 1, 1998 Daniel Rosenfeld Greg Shirah Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/trmm-biomass-burning-hot-spots-on-march-1-1998 Hot spots from biomass burning indicated on a topographic map of Borneo Daniel Rosenfeld Greg Shirah Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/biomass-burning-over-south-america Biomass burning is the burning of living and dead vegetation. It includes the human-initiated burning of vegetation for land clearing and land-use change as well as natural, lightning-induced fires. Scientists estimate that humans are responsible for about 90% of biomass burning with only a small percentage of natural fires contributing to the total amount of vegetation burned. Burning vegetation releases large amounts of particulates (solid carbon combustion particles) and gases, including greenhouse gases that help warm the Earth. Studies suggest that biomass burning has increased on a global scale over the last 100 years, and computer calculations indicate that a hotter Earth resulting from global warming will lead to more frequent and larger fires. Biomass burning particulates impact climate and can also affect human health when they are inhaled, causing respiratory problems. Here are three images of South America on October 7, 2004. The first image is shows clouds and fires on that day. The second image is clouds and Nitrous Dioxide (NO2) concentrations in the stratosphere. The last image overlays the fires on the NO2 data. Ernest Hilsenrath Greg Shirah Lori Perkins Mark Schoeberl Pepijn Veefkind Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-lights-of-earth-full-spin The Lights of Earth can be seen from space. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earths surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS VIS band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds. The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series. Christopher Elvidge Craig Mayhew Marc Imhoff Robert Simmon Stuart Snodgrass Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-lights-of-earth-united-states The Lights of Earth can be seen from space. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earths surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS VIS band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds. The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series. Christopher Elvidge Craig Mayhew Marc Imhoff Robert Simmon Stuart Snodgrass Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/a-pop-up-of-the-arizona-fires RODEO AND CHEDISKI FIRES IN ARIZONA - On June 21, 2002, the Rodeo and Chediski Fires in east-central Arizona were still two separate fires. This true-color scene from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus aboard the Landsat 7 satellite shows the massive quantities of smoke streaming northward from the fires, which are burning about 100 miles east-northeast of Phoenix. The smaller Chediski Fire is on the right, and the Rodeo Fire is on the left. Over the weekend of June 22, the two fires merged into a single 300,000+ acre blaze. Darrel Williams Greg Rhodes Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/time-sequence-of-arizona-fires The Arizona Fires is believed to be the largest fire to date in the history of the state which started on June 18, 2002. The following data was taken from the Terra-MODIS instrument which was collected over a course of eight days. Darrel Williams Greg Rhodes Greg Shirah Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/zoom-into-arizona-fires-with-state-borders Data taken from SeaWiFS shows the extent of the largest Arizona wild fires which started on June 18, 2002. Greg Rhodes Norman Kuring Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/transient-aerosol-features-great-china-fire-from-april-through-may-1987 Aerosol index over the Northern Hemisphere from April 14, 1987 through May 30, 1987 as measured by the Nimbus-7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Andy Acuna Colin Seftor Jay Herman N. Hsu Pawan Bhartia Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/aspen-fire-arizona Images from NASAs Terra and Aqua satellites have become a regular part of the National Inter-agency Fire Centers firefighting toolkit. The images help the center track fires on a daily basis and are used in allocating precious firefighting resources. Alex Kekesi Stuart Snodgrass Vincent Salomonson Science and Technology 2010-01-15T11:05:50 Course Related Materials