by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Politico, Eric Scigliano writes about the many local geological hazards that are not, somehow, accounted for in FEMA’s new National Risk Index. The ambitious federal project intends to map disaster risks across the country to aid in the allocation of funds for...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
For Science News, Beth Geiger writes about an undersea mystery: A possible supervolcano lurking under Alaska’s Aleutian islands. Geophysicists are piecing together data from different sources including satellites and gas analysis to hypothesize about a possible...
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 | Mar 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
At the University of Oregon, volcanology started 50 years ago, Jim Barlow writes. And what is now the Oregon Center for Volcanology was originally led by a Nicaraguan coffee farmer turned researcher. Jim’s story on the University of Oregon website is rich with...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2017 | ScienceWire
Steve Olson is author of Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens, which won the 2017 Washington State Book Award in the History/General Nonfiction category. And Steve’s not finished telling us stories about the volcano. In Scientific American, he reports...
