2011

The theme of the recent seminar I attended with the Yellowstone Association Institute was geomorphology, the study of landforms – why they look the way they do today...

Yellowstone is such a fascinating place. There are over 10,000 thermal features in the park, the highest concentration of geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles on the...

What a difference twelve months makes! This time last year I was working at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, robotically lobbing pumice into Naknek Lake on...

Time certainly does have a tendency to fly, doesn’t it?  When I first arrived in the park last May I signed up for “Shaping the Northern Yellowstone Landscape”...

The rumors have been around for weeks, if not centuries. People have trekked to Yellowstone from all corners of the planet, wondering…seeking…searching for answers. Inquiries have been made...

Some friends from Utah recently came to visit me in Yellowstone. Oh, no, wait… This guy didn’t come from Utah to see me. But these four did! The...

Actually, that title is slightly misleading. I didn’t really begin to decipher this whole volcanic rhyolite lava thing that’s on the ground in Yellowstone until a couple days...

If there were one thing I could say about all the volcanic commotion that produced the wondrousness of Yellowstone National Park, it would be that it ain’t over...

Today (my day off!) I had a chance to spend a few hours with a summer class from Montana State University’s Institute of the Environment, formerly Big Sky...

I’m really trying to bring these blog posts back to geology topics. I was doing so well at the beginning! Since my arrival in Yellowstone Park back in...