Mt. Baker in Washington. Image taken by John Scurlock.
Eruptions reader Robert Somerville brought to my attention the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center, a "clearinghouse for research on Mt. Baker" in Washington state. The center is a non-profit organization that is affiliated with the Geology Department at Western Washington University - and from the looks of the website, they've already done a great job in compiling a lot of information about Mt. Baker, including an excellent eruptive history of the volcano. Mt. Baker is one of the most active Cascade volcanoes, with active fumarolic activity at the summit (forming ice caves in the multitude of glaciers). Mt. Baker was also the site of a strong increase in fumarolic activity/hydrothermal activity in the mid-1970s that had people worried the volcano was going to erupt. It didn't and the thermal increase dissipated over the next year. A hazard map for Mt. Baker ...
