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GeoGirls Geology and Technology Field Camp 2020

Cascades Volcano Observatory Open House May 9, 2020

High ice content permafrost bluff erosion at Barter Island in 2019 after several coastal storms and a prolonged time of anomalously high air temperatures. 

Delaware River

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center geologist, Ben Gutierrez, moderates a panel at the 2019 Partnership Eucation Program (PEP) 10th Anniversity Conference and Celebration, Woods Hole, MA June 28-30, 2019.

USGS technician Jennifer O’Keefe Suttles stands within a Phragmites stand within the Herring River Estuary, part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. 

USGS scientists Nicholas van der Elst and Alan Yong installing a seismometer near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in southern California in order to record its aftershocks.

This photo looks north along the broad Fissure 8 channel. At its widest section, the Fissure 8 channel is about 430 meters (1400 feet wide). In the upper right section of the photo, Highway 132 can be seen cutting through the braided section of the channel. USGS photo by M. Zoeller.

A closer view of the braided section of the Fissure 8 channel, with Highway 132 cutting across both branches. USGS photo by M. Zoeller.

"Earthquake camp" of the Hayden expedition in 1871, located on the north shore of Yellowstone Lake near Steamboat Point. Photo by William H. Jackson, courtesy Yellowstone National Park (https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/history/jacksonphotos/Image…).

Earthquake hazard map showing peak ground accelerations having a 2 percent probability of being exceeded in 50 years, for a firm rock site. Black box outlines Yellowstone region. The map is based on the most recent USGS models for the conterminous U.S. (2018), Hawaii (1998), and Alaska (2007).

Yellowstone earthquakes that occurred during 2010-2019. Blue symbols indicate events that occurred as part of swarms, while red indicates non-swarm seismicity. Map courtesy of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations.

Thurston Lake and Mount Konocti, Clear Lake Volcanic Field, California.

Mount Konocti as seen from the town of Clear Lake.

Imperial Geyser looking south. This hot spring pool is about 30 m (about 100 ft) across and contains alkaline-Cl waters with a steam vent in the pool and mudpots outside the pool area (in the upper right part of this photo). USGS Photo by Pat Shanks, 2019.

Beryl Spring's strongly boiling blue pool is about 8 m (25 ft) wide and contains high-chloride liquid water with a near-neutral pH. Immediately behind the pool is a loud, hissing fumarole producing a white cloud of steam. USGS Photo by Pat Shanks, 2002.

Jack. R. Friedman is a social scientist with the Reducing Risk project of the USGS Natural Hazards Mission Area.

2020 Volcano Awareness Month Schedule Overview. Details are posted on the USGS-Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's website at https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/.

Map of seismicity (yellow circles) in the Yellowstone region during 2019. Gray lines are roads, red line shows the caldera boundary, Yellowstone National Park is outlined by black dashed line, and gray dashed lines denote state boundaries.

Still image from January 2, 2020, YVO video update.

The December 18 overflight provided updated aerial photographs of Kīlauea summit, covering the caldera floor and showing the current size of the water pond in Halema‘uma‘u crater. The label "downdropped block" shows the large portion of the caldera floor that subsided, along with the Halema‘uma‘u region, during the 2018 eruption.