Acknowledgments

This World-Wide Web site was originally developed in 1995 by Benjamin Cook while he was a master's student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. Developmental support was provided by the people and organizations acknowledged below. The site is currently hosted by the Department of Earth and Space Systems' WWW server.

Organizations

Visualization Lab at the Locke Computer Center: Technical support for this project was provided by C&C Visualization Lab at the Locke Computer Center, University of Washington.
National Science Foundation: Funding for Mr. Cook's East Java tsunami survey expenses was provided by the National Science Foundation.
U.S. Department of Defense: Funding for Tsunami! 's development has been provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, through the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program that generously supported Mr. Cook's graduate study and research.

People

Eddie Bernard: Dr. Bernard, Director of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, provided advice and encouragement during the formative stages of Tsunami! 's development.
Frank Gonzalez: Dr. Gonzalez, an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, offered valuable input on Tsunami! 's content.
Samuel Herschbein: Many Macintosh-related computer questions were answered by Samuel Herschbein, the software engineer for Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington.
Fumihiko Imamura: Runup data presented in the East Java tsunami survey section have been provided by Dr. Imamura, who also offered encouragement and suggestions on the development of Tsunami!
Bruce Jaffe: Dr. Jaffe provided the 1995 East Java tsunami survey images and captions presented in the East Java tsunami survey section.
Daniel McCrumb: Mr. McCrumb, a graduate student in the Department of Geology at the University of Washington, developed the case studies presented in the "Survey of Great Tsunamis" section.
Ronald Nece: As a member of Mr. Cook's Master's Advisory Committee, Dr. Nece offered many helpful suggestions that enhanced both the presentation and content of Tsunami!
Catherine Petroff: As the Chairman of Mr. Cook's Master's Advisory Committee, Dr. Petroff provided much-appreciated guidance throughout Tsunami! 's development.
Gegar Sapta Prasetya: Damage data presented in the East Java tsunami survey section were provided by Mr. Prasetya, who offered Mr. Cook much encouragement on the development of Tsunami!
Nobuo Shuto: Dr. Shuto of the Disaster Control Research Center at Tohoku University in Japan provided many of the superb animations available through Tsunami!
Dennis Sigrist: Dennis Sigrist, former acting Director of the International Tsunami Information Center, supplied the information on tsunami hazard mitigation and the tsunami warning system.
Bill Steele: Bill Steele, the University of Washington's Seismology Laboratory Coordinator, provided beneficial input on Tsunami!'s content and presentation.
Costas Synolakis: Mr. Cook's interest in the development of an on-line, interactive, tsunami-information resource was stimulated by several conversations that Dr. Synolakis and he had during the summer of 1994 concerning the production of a multimedia documentation of the East Java tsunami survey.
Harry Yeh: Mr. Cook's interest in tsunamis stems directly from the exposure to tsunami research he got while working for Dr. Yeh as an undergraduate research assistant at the University of Washington. Dr. Yeh also provided funding through the NSF that allowed him to participate in the 1994 East Java tsunami survey.