mt. st. helens

Because unlike hurricanes, volcanoes are fuzzy, pink, and cute?

User Image bioephemera | February 25, 2009
As a native of Washington State, where we could literally scoop white ash off the ground in handfuls after Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980, I have one thing to say about Bobby Jindal's totally disingenuous dig at "volcano monitoring": if geoscience is such a big waste of money, sure, let's stop monitoring volcanoes - and hurricanes, too. That okay with y'all? I wonder what Jindal's fellow Republican governor Sarah Palin thinks of his advice, given that Alaska's Mt. Redoubt may erupt any day. . .

The best thing about going to a conference is...

sporte | January 14, 2008
is coming home and flying into Seattle. I took these pictures with my phone (in Airplane Mode, of course). In the first shot, you get to see Mt. St. Helen's and all the interesting geology around it. Can you tell which way the volcano blew? Mt. Rainier is in the background The second shot is downtown Seattle.