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Visiting Backcountry Thermal Areas in the Yellowstone Wilderness with Jake Lowenstern

April 25, 2018April 30, 2018 Kirk Schleiffarth

Jake Lowenstern is currently the Project Chief for the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program. From 2002-2017, he served as Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. To study the interaction of magmas and their overlying hydrothermal systems, he applies techniques ranging from gas and and isotope geochemistry to igneous petrology to U-Th-Pb geochronology. A 1986 graduate of Dartmouth […]

Can CO2 trigger a thermal geyser eruption? with Bethany Ladd

March 25, 2016March 31, 2016 Christopher Spencer

Bethany Ladd was an MSc student working on the role dissolved gas pressure in geyser eruption with Dr. Cathy Ryan in Geoscience at the University of Calgary. They continue to work together unlocking the mysteries of dissolved groundwater gases with a number of applications. In Yellowstone, a visitor curious about geysers might read a sign […]