e-Mission: Operation Montserrat

STEP 1:

Mission Control needs you! Protect the men, women, and children on beautiful Montserrat Island. Form emergency response teams. Plan. Prepare. Live the mission

STEP 2:

Apply now. Write a cover letter, complete a resume, design a mission patch. If mission control accepts your proposal, your class will be scheduled for a mission.

STEP 3:

Is Mt. Pinatubo volcano like Montserrat’s? Examine seismic data. Make predictions. Watch out for lahars, pyroclastic flows, and exploding tephra!

STEP 4:

An Atlantic Ocean storm cell forms. Is it another Hurricane Georges? Will 150 mph gusts rake the sleepy town of Plymouth? Math helps forecast the path of destruction.

STEP 5:

As you walk the crystal white Caribbean beaches, do you feel the tremors? Can peaceful Montserrat Island survive nature’s violence? What is your emergency plan?

STEP 6:

Data tells stories. Data helps predict the future. Data, graphs, charts, and rapid information flow. Emergency response experts organize for the big day.

STEP 7:

Communicate, coordinate, and meet the challenge. The Internet lifeline links your Emergency Response Teams to Mission Control and a Caribbean island under siege.

STEP 8:

Wrap-it-up! Did your Emergency Response Teams succeed? Did the volcano erupt? Did the hurricane hit the island? Are the men, women, and children of Montserrat safe?


	e-Mission: Operation Montserrat is based on a real historical event. The volcano on the normally tranquil island of Montserrat has come to life. As flaming pebbles and lava begin their devastation, emergency response teams learn a hurricane is approaching. Using real-time hurricane and seismic data, teams of student specialists assist Mission Control in saving the residents from certain destruction