by Chris Tachibana | Jun 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Steve Olson knows a thing or two about volcanoes. He wrote Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens, the Washington State Book Award winner for Non-Fiction in 2017. On the 40th anniversary of the mountain’s eruption, Steve wrote an opinion piece for the Seattle...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Andrea Watts, our correspondent in the U.S. Forest Service, now writes for the Rocky Mountain Research Station (@usfs_rmrs)—for example on how to predict how many trees died in a forest fire. She still writes for the Pacific Northwest Research Station (@usfs_pnwrs),...
by Matt Vivion | Aug 2, 2019 | Past Events
Volcano Camping Adventure at Mount St. Helens NSWA experienced the majesty, awesome destruction, and amazing rebirth of the Pacific Northwest’s most violent volcano on our first-ever camping adventure Aug. 2 – Aug. 4. Hosted by the Mount St. Helens Institute, we...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Mount St. Helens is still telling stories. And Steve Olson collects them in his new book Eruption, which puts the science and history of the mountain in the context of personal reports from people who were nearby when it blew in May 1980. On Monday, March 7, Steve...