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Workshop Presentations

The following links contain the powerpoint presentations in portable document format (.pdf), and where available, supporting files and animations that were part of the workshop presentations.

Be Disaster Safe

• Be Disaster Safe

Lightning

• The Science of Lightning
• MoD Lightning

Tornadoes

• The Science of Tornadoes
• MoD Tornadoes

Hurricanes

• MoD Hurricanes
• How Do Wind Vanes Work?

Floods

• The Science of Floods
• MoD Floods

Emotions, Coping, & Adjustment

• In the Aftermath
• Facing Fear
• A good research article on fear of storms (storm phobia) has been prepared by Westefeld, Less, Ansley, and Yi (2006).
• Another article that extends the research of Westefeld et al., was written by Coleman, Newby, Multon, and Taylor (2014).

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