Sifting volcanic paydirt to help forecast eruptions
More than 100 volcanoes pimple the adolescent skin of Alaska, spreading from ear to ear. Some are loud, flamboyant and obnoxious. Others are sneaky and quiet, escaping notice until a pilot sees a gray...
View ArticleNew study traces Io’s volcanic tides
Hundreds of volcanoes pockmark the surface of Io, the third largest of Jupiter’s 78 known moons, and the only body in our solar system other than Earth where widespread volcanism can be observed. A new...
View ArticleNew automated volcano warning system forecasts imminent eruptions
Scientists have developed an automated early warning system for volcanic eruptions, according to a new study. The new system helped government officials warn the public of impending eruptions in Italy...
View ArticleRehearsing for eruptions
In the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to help run several "tabletop" exercises with the USGS and our partners where we walk through a timeline of what might happen during a volcanic eruption,...
View ArticleSubterranean Serendipity: Scientists stumble upon a new way to sample magma
Scientists have never directly observed magma beneath the Earth’s surface. But thanks to the discovery of easily accessible magma chambers, it may now be possible, report scientists at the 2017...
View ArticleThe human side of volcanology at IAVCEI 2017
Every four years, the volcanological community gets together somewhere in the world to spend a week (or two) talking about...you guessed it, volcanoes. And because volcanology - like any ‘disaster...
View ArticleÍsland: Volcanoes
If you're a volcanologist - or really any geology buff who appreciates volcanoes - Iceland is flat-out paradise.
View ArticleDormant volcano near Rome is waking up
A long-dormant volcano outside Italy’s capital is entering a new eruptive cycle, a recently published study finds. Scientists previously assumed Colli Albani, a 15-kilometer (9-mile) semicircle of...
View ArticleCommon sense and volcano tourism
It's not very often that I comment on news articles, but a reader of the blog recently brought this one to my attention, and it hits close to home. The article is in the Washington Post's Travel...
View ArticleResurrected post: Earth science-y catchphrases
My father and I share a habit: we tend to point out and grumble over certain catchphrases we hear or read in a news report, mostly because they're misused, overused, or just plain don't make sense. He...
View ArticleDomes galore: Panum Dome, Long Valley
Oh, man. Summer is a terrible time for keeping up with blog posts, but I've had a good reason to be absent - I was off in Denver on business and slightly wilder parts of California with my alma mater's...
View ArticleMore pillow basalt at Rodeo Cove
I promised photos of the second part of my trip to see pillow basalts at the Marin Headlands, and here we are, just as the fog was lifting in the early afternoon. After exploring the Point Bonita...
View ArticleResurrected Post: Volcanology databases
Note: This is a post I was writing back in October of 2013, during the last government shutdown. There's a little rambling about data availability, but it's mostly supposed to be a list of some useful...
View ArticleEdinburgh: Old Town and older volcanoes
My PhD advisor relocated to Scotland last year, and I finally had a chance to visit her in Edinburgh. And wow, what a great place for a geologist to go!
View Article“Is the volcano erupting yet?” (A quick Pompeii review)
So, you may have seen me mention on Twitter that I was planning on seeing Pompeii this week - and I did, properly fortified with some nice cider at a nearby pub beforehand. I'm not going to give you...
View ArticleVolcanic eruptions bubbled beneath Earth’s largest extinction
Long before the dinosaurs died off, the “Great Dying” killed nearly all life in the ocean, 70 percent of terrestrial animals and even insects. But this mass extinction more than 250 million years ago -...
View ArticleHoly city of Islam lies in volcanic peril
Researchers have designed a new model to predict the riskiest areas of Al-Madinah, the second holy city of Islam that sits at the northern tip of a dangerous volcanic field. The model could improve...
View ArticleSo you want to be a volcanologist?
In addition to my blogging and on-again-off-again relationship with Twitter, I like to take my geologizing to places outside the office. Just yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk with a girls' STEM...
View ArticleBenchmarking Time: Mount Terrill, Fish Lake Plateau, Utah
The next benchmark in my collection is another from Fish Lake in Utah. This is one of my favorite places to do field work, despite the fact that quite a bit of it is vertical and I was cursed with a...
View ArticleWater in really big groups of hot rocks: When you can’t say “hydrothermal...
By now you've hopefully seen the geo-meme that Anne Jefferson over at Highly Allocthonous started using the Up-Goer-Five text editor, which forces you to write a description of something using only the...
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