Images

Oblique aerial photograph of north flank, crater, lava dome and new glacier (behind dome), Mount St. Helens, Washington state, USA. Mount Hood, Oregon, is faintly visible in the background.

Mount St. Helens crater and dome as seen from SugarBowl, on the NE flank of the volcano. September 2005

Berm from a 1997 lahar is visible along the channel. Mount St. Helens' east crater wall is visible in the background.

South side of Mount St. Helens lava dome, as seen from the east, showing the dome and part of the glacier forming at the base of the dome. August 29, 2005

Mount Rainier as seen from Paradise Ridge, Washington.

Hydrothermally altered rock of Sherman Crater's western crater wall, Mount Baker, Washington.

Glacier Peak, Washington, in the prime of summer when much of the snow has melted from its flanks.

Sherman Crater (foreground) below the summit of Mount Baker, Washington.

Storage vans, referred to as the "Freezer Farm" sit outside the Woods Hole Science Center 

Pahoehoe lava flows are fed by overflows from the fissure 8 lava channel. Geologist ground crews photographed this flow along Nohea Street in Leilani Estates subdivision.

Swath bathymetric map of the Cape Fear submarine slide, the largest slide on the US Atlantic coast. Data were collected on the R/V Atlantis in 2003.

Northeast crater wall above Sugar Bowl, Mount St. Helens with annotated deposits from some of the Spirit Lake Stage eruptive periods. Photograph from late summer 2003.

Norris-2003. Location map of seismometers and GPS receivers deployed to help monitor the Norris Geyser Basin.

Lab setup aboard R/V Gyre in the Gulf of America from the 2003 field season. Computers, recorders, and other electronic gear are securely mounted in racks or on tabletops and shelving for stability in rolling seas and for access.

Cable Canyon was burned during the Grand Prix-Old Fire of 2003 and experienced debris flows and floods in response to the December 25, 2003 rainstorm. Two people lost their lives at this site.

Crater Lake bathymetric map showing the geology of the caldera floor with post-caldera eruptive units. Oregon

Houses in Rodanthe, NC, are left in the waves at the ocean's edge following the passage of Hurricane Isabel, which made landfall as a category 2 storm in the Outer Banks on September 18, 2003.

Mount Baker summit, Washington. Coleman Glacier to the left and Easton Glacier to the right. Lower peak on the right is the edge of Sherman Crater. View to east.

View to the southeast through the area affected by the increased thermal output at Norris' Back Basin in the summer of 2003. The foreground shows steaming areas where boiling water and steam have approached the surface, resulting in increased ground temperatures.

Area of burned trees from a 2002 wildfire, caused by a lightning strike, at Mesa Verde National Park.

Black Buttes stratovolcano and south side of ice-mantled Mount Baker. Aerial view northeastward. For Black Buttes, strata of the two highest crags (Lincoln Peak, left, and Colfax Peak) display opposing 308 dips that frame the gutted edifice.