Essay from the 2012 Annual Report.

Proposals for Child Development Accounts ("CDAs") have been around for more than ten years. They are now widely accepted as part of the mainstream discourse on potential Federal tax policy initiatives. The purpose of this paper is to address the primary design issues and political opportunities...

Numerical models for simulation of mass flows are typically focussed upon accurately predicting the paths, travel times and inundation from a single flow or collapse event. When considering catchment-based hazards from a volcano, this is complicated by often being faced with several possible...

Volcán Citlaltépetl (Pico de Orizaba) with an elevation of 5,675 m is the highest volcano in North America. Its most recent catastrophic events involved the production of pyroclastic flows that erupted approximately 4,000, 8,500, and 13,000 years ago. The distribution of mapped deposits from...