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Video: Naples (Campania) from Layers: Places in Peril
Published September 10, 2012 - No Comments
“Naples” is part of “Layers: Places in Peril,” an art and earth science exhibit currently in the Aylward Gallery. We had the opportunity to film Professor Waller while she was working on this painting. Visit http://foxblogs.uwc.edu/layers/ for more information about ...
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Layers: Venice, Italy
Published March 29, 2012 - 2 Comments
The history of the city of Venice is one of escape. Its original settlers found their way out into the uninhabited marsh and island swamps to escape the marauding barbarians laying waste to the mainland. It was a successful escape. The success with water borne trade and mastery of th ...
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Layers: The World Ocean
Published January 31, 2013 - No Comments
The World Ocean…massive and powerful, covering seventy percent of our Planet Earth, home of the oceanic food web, regulator of the atmosphere, and the source of most of the oxygen we breath. While we think of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean as singular entities, they are all part of one ...
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Layers: San Francisco
Published July 26, 2012 - No Comments
One of the most beautiful and important cities in the United States, San Francisco is rent by numerous fault lines. To simplify you can picture the faults bunched together like a deck of cards stood on edge. Each fault is a card, lined up on its edge, as they cut through the city, maki ...
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Layers: Red River Valley, Grand Forks, ND
Published March 29, 2012 - No Comments
The Red River flows northward between Minnesota and North Dakota. The land there is flat – very flat. This is prairie land turned into breadbasket. It’s “north country,” with long, brutal winters and heavy snowfalls. The bitter cold slides down the river valley from the e ...
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Layers: New York City Metropolitan Area
Published October 30, 2012 - No Comments
Infrastructure is the glue that holds modern urban society together. Hazards attack people and infrastructure both; if the infrastructure becomes unusable, the toll of the hazard can be much greater and the time to recovery longer. The New York City Metropolitan area is vulnerable to a var ...
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Layers: New Orleans
Published August 10, 2012 - No Comments
New Orleans shows many faces and has many pasts. Common to all has been wind and water. Just above where the Mississippi empties into the subtropical waters of the Gulf of Mexico, on a long curve of a river defined by curves, just above or just below water, New Orleans is a city in per ...
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Layers: Naples, Italy
Published July 26, 2012 - No Comments
People often respond to terrible hazard danger with denial and indifference. This is particularly true for disasters which occurred long ago. Without victims to remember and relate the terror of the hazard striking, threat seems remote despite historical or geomorphic evidence. Such is ...
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Layers: Mt. Rainier, Seattle, Tacoma
Published March 29, 2012 - No Comments
Her white mantled majesty looms placidly over the entire Seattle- Tacoma metroplex. Reassuringly there anytime the sky is clear enough to reveal her beauty. Her permanence is somehow reassuring despite the fact that Mount Rainier is the volcano in the backyard. One day, sooner or lat ...
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Layers: Florida Coastline, Daytona Beach
Published March 29, 2012 - No Comments
Most of the time the ocean waves lap the shorelines of Florida with a gentle regular rhythm. This is the nation’s vacationland. Children run and squeal with delight as the water rushes up the sand and engulfs their tiny feet. People collect shells or surf cast for fish. Elderly men p ...
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Layers: Florence, Italy
Published July 24, 2012 - No Comments

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About Layers
Published February 24, 2012 - No Comments
Layers addresses the confluence of human activity (including city planning and structure, design, locale) with increased hazard vulnerability due to global climate change (storms, drought, ocean acidification, rising sea levels), floods, wildfires and tectonic processes (volcanoes, earthqu ...
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About Layers

Published February 24, 2012 at 9:40 pm - No Comments

Layers addresses the confluence of human activity (including city planning and structure, design, locale) with increased hazard vulnerability due to global climate change (storms, drought, ocean acidification, rising sea levels), floods, wildfires and tectonic processes (volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis). The title, Layers refers both to earth science, (the broad, density based layers of atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere [...] IWEBIX Webdesign

Exhibits Info

Published February 24, 2012 at 10:02 pm - No Comments

Layers Exhibition Reception: September 14, 2012 First showing of Layers will take place in the Aylward Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, 1478 Midway Road, Menasha, WI 54952. Show dates: September 4-October 14, 2012. Public Reception takes place on Friday, September 14, 2012. The university gallery is located at 1478 Midway Road in Menasha. Driving [...]

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Layers: The World OceanPublished January 31, 2013 at 7:19 pm
Layers: New York City Metropolitan AreaPublished October 30, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Video: Naples (Campania) from Layers: Places in PerilPublished September 10, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Layers: New OrleansPublished August 10, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Layers: San FranciscoPublished July 26, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Layers: Naples, ItalyPublished July 26, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Layers: Florence, ItalyPublished July 24, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Layers: Venice, ItalyPublished March 29, 2012 at 7:28 pm

Layers: Places in Peril

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