1. Some Notions for your Research Project 1.FEMA Project - Recording High Water Marks from the December Flood Event in North Creek and Bear Creek Need at least 6 students in 2 groups The Bushwackers The Investigative Reporters Could accommodate as many as 16 students in 4 groups

2. FEMA Project – High Water Marks Can you see the high water mark?

3. A Disaster-Resistant University Report for University of Washington Bothell http://www.oregonshowcase.org/index.cfm?mode=projects&page=uoplanning 1 to 3 groups working to recreate the Risk Assessment portion of the report for UWB Potentially 1-3 other groups to recreate some of the Appendices

4. Other Ideas Feasibility and Options for Establishing a Program to Train UW Students and Personnel to Assist in Disaster Response Search and Rescue Operations Assessing the Vulnerability of Seattle’s Municipal Wastewater System to an Earthquake on the Seattle Fault Assessing the Economic Impacts of Downed Bridges from an Earthquake on the Seattle Fault Geomorphic and Socioeconomic Correlations in Risk from Projected Tsunami Flooding (or Mt. Rainier Lahar Flows) in Washington State

5. Other Ideas A Comparison of Gender-Based Risk from Flooding: New Orleans vs. Bangladesh Social Inequities in Hurricane Katrina Impacts Influence of Reef and Mangrove Degradation on Sumatra Tsunami Impacts The Applications of Poverty Mapping in Natural Hazard Mitigation Landslide-Generated Tsunami Risk for the United States

6. Darwin’s Theory of Coral Atoll Formation Bora Yap

7. Coral Atoll

8. Atoll Formation

9. Volcanic Island Chains