Want to get a some more volcano news from aspiring bloggers in my First Year class? Check out their first posts on the blog for the class - we'll be continuing to add posts as the semester goes on. Feel free to leave comments to cheer them on (but remember, this is the first time many of them have ever blogged, let alone about volcanoes!)
News for this Monday evening:
Hawai`i: Lots of video and information on the rising lava lake at Halema`uma`u, the eruption at Pu`u O`o (top left) and the subsequent collapses of the pit crater. HVO released video of the spatter cone and lava flows from the flank Pu`u O`o vent and it never ceases to amaze me to think that all the orange, gooey material is rock at room temperature. The floor under Pu`u O`o have risen over ~60 meters / 200 feet in the last ...
