New USGS Professional Paper Chapter — A Decade of Geodetic Change at Kīlauea’s Summit— Observations, Interpretations, and Unanswered Questions from Studies of the 2008–2018 Halema‘uma‘u Eruption
A new chapter of USGS Professional Paper 1867, "The 2008–2018 Summit Lava Lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i" was recently published online. The 2008–2018 lava lake at the summit of Kīlauea marked the longest sustained period of lava lake activity at the summit in decades and provided a new opportunity for observing and understanding lava lake behavior.
Chapter G, "A Decade of Geodetic Change at Kīlauea’s Summit— Observations, Interpretations, and Unanswered Questions from Studies of the 2008–2018 Halema‘uma‘u Eruption," discusses diverse geodetic observations made during 2008-2018, when Kīlauea Volcano had an active lava lake at the summit. Geodetic monitoring during this period used numerous tools, including Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), tilt, and gravity, and shed important light on the exceptional and well-documented decade-long Kīlauea summit eruption and its accompanying phenomena; the datasets revealed a range of processes occurring on widely different timescales.
Chapters currently available in USGS Professional Paper 1867, "The 2008–2018 Summit Lava Lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i":
- Chapter A : Kīlauea’s 2008–2018 Summit Lava Lake—Chronology and Eruption Insights
- Chapter B : Views of a Century of Activity at Kīlauea Caldera—A Visual Essay
- Chapter E : Patterns of Bubble Bursting and Weak Explosive Activity in an Active Lava Lake—Halema‘uma‘u, Kīlauea, 2015
- Chapter F : Groundwater Dynamics at Kīlauea Volcano and Vicinity, Hawaiʻi
- Chapter G : A Decade of Geodetic Change at Kīlauea’s Summit— Observations, Interpretations, and Unanswered Questions from Studies of the 2008–2018 Halema‘uma‘u Eruption
