Images

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

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.

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.

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.

Plantation forestry on the slopes of Mt Etna during the 2002 eruption, unaffected by several millimetres of fallen ash.

2001/2002 Landsat 7 Imagery showing New York City the day after 9/11 and one year later.

View southward toward Mt. McGinnis and two large landslides on the northeastern side. These slides had roughly 40 million cubic meters of material and travelled 10 km down glacier. This is the cover photo of the May 16th, 2003, Science.

Quito's international airport was covered with 3-5 mm of ash from the 3 November 2002 eruption of Reventador Volcano, located ~60 miles to the east of the Ecuadorean capital. The airport was closed for 8 days while clean up took place.

Scientist from the USGS collects a gas sample into an evacuated/vacuum flas from a steam vent near the Shoshone Geyser Basin.

Collapse of Kīlauea's caldera floor has exposed South Sulphur Bank, prominent in the mid-19th century but covered as lava flows filled the caldera. The flat top of the white deposit shows how high the caldera fill reached. As the caldera floor dropped in mid-June 2018, South Sulphur Bank was again exposed.

Obsidian Cliff exposes the interior of a thick rhyolite lava flow erupted about 180,000 years ago. The vertical columns are cooling fractures that formed as the thick lava flow cooled and crystallized. The flow consists of obsidian, a dark volcanic glass.

About 130 mm (5 inches) of peak uplift from 1995 to 2001 is shown in this interferogram in the Three Sisters Wilderness. Magma accumulating at about 7 km (about 4.5 mi) depth is the likely cause of uplift. The area of uplift, about 20 km (12 miles) in diameter, is almost entirely within the wilderness area.

Scientist Jonathan Godt samples a landslide headscarp in Alameda County, CA.

Sherman Crater, to the left of the true summit, at Mount Baker, Washington, aerial view to the northwest.

Mount Baker, aerial view to the northeast.