Step 2: Interpreting and analysing geographical data and information Discover the facts about your supervolcano’s previous eruptions. What would a similar-size eruption mean today? Examine the effects of an eruption on the local, national and global scale. Step 3: Concluding and decision-making Compile a series of recommendations that you would make for managing this hazard in the future. You can base this on current monitoring and risk management programs or you can look at what is being done elsewhere in the world and recommend improvements if you think they are required. Step 4: Communicating Create a report for the rest of the class on your chosen supervolcano. Be creative in the way you want to communicate your information. For instance, you can prepare: • a mock news report • a front-/double-page spread for a newspaper • a radio interview with a group of ‘geologists, volcanologists and politicians’, assigning roles to different people. The key is to ensure that your report is both informative and interesting.
FIGURE3 Hot boiling mud and sulphur springs due to volcanic activity in Wai-O-Tapu, New Zealand
TOPIC14 Geomorphological processes and hazards
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