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Wednesday Whatzits

Discover insights on domestic volcanic unrest and activity from Dr. Jacob Lowenstern at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory seminar.

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This is another busy Wednesday for me as the Geology Dept. at UC Davis will be hosting Dr. Jacob Lowenstern, USGS scientist and director of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. He will be giving the weekly seminar, along with another talk in the evening at Sacramento State as part of the Volcanological Society of Sacramento meeting (which is open to the public for those of you around Sacramento). I'm especially excited for the evening talk entitled "Domestic volcanic unrest and activity in 2009: Kilauea, Redoubt, Yellowstone and Washington, D.C.". I'll be sure to report any fun tidbits.

For those of you unfamiliar with Dr. Lowenstern, as mentioned above, he is the scientist-in-charge of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, so you could consider him to be a man in charge of a caldera. That is no small task as we've seen in the BBC/Discovery Channel film Supervolcano. Speaking of which, I always love to ...

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