Every year, hundreds of people are killed by natural disasters. Whether it be a flash flood in Kansas, a mudslide in Ecuador, or a sandstorm in Libya, mother nature sometimes throws whatever she has in her arsenal at mankind. However, which natural disaster poses the worst threat. Two prominent e...

Oceanography as Viewed from Space Introduction At first thought, studying the oceans from space seems to be a bizarre idea. Space observation helps oceanographers do research with manned and unmanned space systems. The space systems can be satellites and/or space shuttles that observe various f...