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Lava fountains from Fissure 8 reach heights of 200 ft overnight. The cinder and spatter cone that is building around the fissure is now about 165 ft at its highest point.

This image was taken through the eyepiece of a microscope. Pollen is mixed in with a few larger pieces of organic material.

A lab technician holds up the finished product after processing: an almost pure slide of pollen.

In the sample preperation room, a lab technician weighs sediments samples before placing them in a warming oven to dry.

A Tetons sunrise in Antelope Flats, Wyoming.                                         

Hydrologist Lauren Zinsser collects a periphyton sample from the lower Boise River in southwestern Idaho

Driftwood on the edge of a sandy beach, against the background of the Fire Island breach, with the other edge of the breach in the background.

The Fissure 8 viewed from the north at 7:50 AM. The cone is roughly 50 m (165 ft) high at is peak, and a plume of sulfur dioxide and other volcanic gases rises as an orange tinge from the erupting lava fountains (hidden within the cone). Lava is still flowing out of the ventunabated as a full channel.

Several laze plumes rise along the ocean entry margin as break outs feed many small and large flows. The largest Pāhoehoe breakout area is on the northern margin of the flow.

A close up view of the pāhoehoe breakouts along the northern ocean entry.

Male McKay's Bunting on St. Matthew Island

U.S. Geological Survey laboratory technician at the Baton Rouge Sediment Laboratory processing a water sample with the modified riffle splitter used to analyze cooperative program samples (photograph by Aimee Downs, U.S. Geological Survey).

SIR 2018-5147

Breaching of Fire Island, NY occurred during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 (Wilderness Breach). Wilderness Breach in 2018 as seen from a low angle, note the other side of breached island is in the distance.

Halema`uma`u Crater - June 13, 2018

Map as of 10:00 a.m. HST, June 13, 2018. Given the dynamic nature of Kīlauea's lower East Rift Zone eruption, with changing vent locations, fissures starting and stopping, and varying rates of lava effusion, map details shown here are accurate as of the date/time noted. Shaded purple areas indicate lava flows erupted in 1840, 1955, 1960, and 2014-2015.

Fissure 8 lava fountain during this morning's overflight of the lower East Rift Zone.

Fissure 8 fountains to heights of 130-140 ft. The lava spatter chills and the fragments are building a cone on the downwind side, now nearly as tall as the fountain itself.
 

Fissure 8 lava fountains continue to reach heights of 40-45 m (130-150 ft) from within the growing cone of cinder and spatter, which