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Misinformation and misconceptions about Yellowstone are nothing new.  This past Christmas saw a particularly challenging episode of misinformation...

Happy New Year!  Now that we’ve started in on a new calendar, it’s time for the traditional look back at Yellowstone activity in the year that was.

A common scale for expressing the size of an explosive volcanic eruption is the VEI—Volcanic Explosivity Index.  Eruption size can’t be determined by...

Changes in gas emissions can forewarn of volcanic or hydrothermal activity.  Continuous monitoring of gas concentrations by a station deployed in the...

The historic flooding event, caused by an “atmospheric river,” that hit the northern areas of Yellowstone from June 10-13, 2022, forever changed the...

A monitoring overflight of Mauna Loa's Northeast Rift Zone and Kīlauea's summit eruption. Both eruptions continue with greatly reduced output.

A new seismic tomography model using a cutting-edge imaging approach that harnesses supercomputing provides an updated view of Yellowstone’s magma...

The Fountain Hotel was a grand structure in the Lower Geyser Basin, serving hundreds of visitors at a time during an era of stagecoaches and staged...

The Snake River Plain is a prominent river drainage that cuts a broad “smile” across southern Idaho, easily recognizable from satellite imagery. The...

The track of the Yellowstone hotspot is defined by a series of old caldera systems that get older the farther to the southwest you get from...