California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea
This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.
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Andreas_Rebmann"(Survivors) told us that they were experiencing ongoing “displacement” in the sense that their lives had not returned to normal, even though they were back in their “place of residence.”
"Depression and anxiety disorders were pervasive. Many residents had regular nightmares of waking up in water. They talked about recurring “breakdowns” in which they became overcome with emotion and physically collapsed. A 2007 study showed that 20 percent of New Orleans residents were categorized as having a Katrina-related serious mental illness, and 19 percent showed signs of minimal to mild mental illness (Sastry and VanLandingham 2008; Thomas 2008)."
"Margot, an elderly woman still living in a FEMA trailer next to her destroyed and as yet unrebuilt home, described the problem: 'I haven’t had a mail box in three years, OK. I mean symbolically that’s it right now. I don’t even have a mailbox. You know, if you want to put it in one sentence. I am just tired of not having a mailbox, ya know, because I don’t know where I live.' "
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Andreas_RebmannI really don't know how to find this information. I can update this after asking you about it tomorrow.
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Andreas_RebmannRadiation treatments from EMS
Zone of effect of Chernobyl
Long term treatment of radiation exposure
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Andreas_RebmannCiting of information, articles, and books on previous disasters as well as past attempts by organizations such as Reponse Assistance Network created by Internation Atomic Energy Agency, or the World Association of Nuclear Operators.
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Andreas_Rebmann-Other cultural mistranslations of medicinal language, and how they effect treatment
-Common English cultural mistranslations of medicinal language
-How old Byron Good really is
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Andreas_RebmannIt appeared to be mostly a compilation-based study, amassing and comparing previously completed research to reach the conclusion and build the argument in the paper. Primarily, the author cited outside sources for all of the “heavy-lifting” science, and was primarily drawing the over-arching conclusion about the relationship between natural disasters and epidemics.
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Andreas_RebmannThey used statements and reports from both the ambulance agency and FDNY.
A series of visualizations of the concept of "fast disasters."