Tag: Volcanoes
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A New Land
Winter 2010
John Bishop was late getting to Mount St. Helens.He was only 16 years old when it blew in 1980, and it would be
another decade before he began crawling around the mountain as part of
his doctoral studies.“I was worried I missed all the actionâ€...
Categories: Environmental studies, Botany, Biological sciences
Tags: Mount St. Helens, Volcanoes
Safer skies
Fall 2009
When Alaska’s Mount
Redoubt volcano rumbled to life this past spring, images of the plume
of ash rising from it probably revived terrifying memories among 240
people who survived its last eruption in 1989. They’d been passengers on KLM flight ...
Categories: Earth sciences
Tags: Geology, Volcanoes
Mount St. Helens: The perfect laboratory
Spring 2004
It is impossible to accept the immensity of Mount St. Helens and the
effect of its catastrophic 1980 eruption unless you are able to stand
beneath the enormous crater on the pumice plain and listen to John
Bishop talk about lupines.
Categories: Environmental studies, Biological sciences
Tags: Mount St. Helens, Volcanoes