7 September 2011
Catching up
Posted by Jessica Ball
It’s been a while since my last post, for various reasons – family matters and beginning-of-the-semester hoopla among them. I hope to be blogging regularly again soon, but in the meantime, I’ll have to make do with posting a few of my favorite photos from this summer. (Which was also a time of interrupted blogging, but for natural-disaster-based reasons rather than human ones.)
In no particular order…
Rimstone formation inside the Soda Dam near Jemez Springs, NM.
Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs, CO (from a distance).
Capulin cinder cone volcano in northern New Mexico.
Columnar jointing in a lava flow front at Capulin.
The Las Conchas Fire burning above Los Alamos, NM in July 2011.
Huerfano Butte, a volcanic plug near Walsenberg, CO.
Indonesian shadow puppets of the latest Merapi eruption from "The Arts of Survival" exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM.
A prarie dog showdown in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico.
Jessica Ball is a volcanologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, researching volcanic hydrothermal systems and stability, and doing science communication for the California Volcano Observatory. She previously worked at the Geological Society of America's Washington DC Policy Office, learning about the intersection of Earth science and legislative affairs. Her Mendenhall postdoc and PhD focused on how water affects the stability of volcanoes, and involved both field investigations and numerical modeling applications. Her blogging covers a range of topics, from her experiences in academic geosciences to science outreach and communication to her field and lab work in volcanology.
Great pictures-especially the picture from the Arts of Survival exhibition- I posted a link on the Museum facebook page this am. Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful pictures. Though I must say the one with the two prarie dogs was the best.