January 25, 2022 — Kīlauea summit fieldwork

Emily Bryant, a geologist and field engineer visiting from the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, installs an upgraded webcam on the east rim of Halema‘uma‘u at the summit of Kīlauea. The active lava lake is in the western half of the crater, in the upper right portion of the photo. Bryant is here to help deploy and program instrumentation for network hardening, funded through the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (H.R. 2157) to support recovery and rebuilding activities in the wake of Kīlauea's 2018 summit collapse and lower East Rift Zone eruption. USGS photo by M. Patrick.