Where have all the updates gone??

Hello volcano explorers! Where has the time gone??? The in-house WordPress VW eruptions and faq blogs are nearly ready to go (let’s say by October 1) – all of the old posts have been saved and all future updates will be made from the new blogs which are @:
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Amazing New Images of Redoubt!

 
Stromboli online has posted some absolutely stunning images from the Redoubt eruption including this gem.
See all of their photographs @ Stromboli Online!

OSU researchers journey into the deep ocean to study undersea eruptions.

When OSU’s William Chadwick and Robert Dziak traveled to the Mariana Islands northwest of Guam in 2004, they observed something no one had seen before — a live, deep-ocean volcanic eruption from a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV.
They repeated the feat in 2006, gathering video footage of such high quality that [...]

Exploring Vesuvius

The University of Rhode Island has developed an educational website designed to help students learn about the processes of explosive volcanic activity through the use of inquiry-based techniques. The exercises use the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius volcano in Italy as a type example of a large explosive eruption that had a significant impact on [...]

Amazing Tongan Eruption Photos

Alan Taylor from the Big Picture Blog on Boston.com has posted some amazing images of the Tongan eruption. I’d link there directly except the public comments are just not exactly… well… scientific.
Here are a few low rez linked out versions while they last though!

 
 

Ash from Redoubt

After two months of restlessness and a day of heightened earthquake activity, Alaska’s Mount Redoubt Volcano erupted explosively on Sunday, March 22, 2009, at 10:38 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Overnight, four additional large eruptions occurred, the fifth one larger than the previous ones. Scientists estimated the plume reached a [...]

Ashfall from Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka

NASA’s Earth Observatory recently posted this amazing image of ashfall from Shiveluch.
The Shiveluch (sometimes spelled Sheveluch) Volcano is the most active of the arc of volcanoes that dot northeast Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Lava domes build and collapse fairly regularly in the caldera, sending cascades of ash and debris down the slopes. In the first week [...]

Minchinmavida and Chaiten Volcanoes, Chile

The Andes Mountains along the western coastline of South America include numerous active stratovolcanoes (steep-sided, cone-shaped volcanoes). The majority of these volcanoes were formed and are still fed by magma generated as the Nazca tectonic plate under the southeastern Pacific Ocean moves northeastward and plunges beneath the South American continental plate—a process known as subduction. [...]

New Website Focused on the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius volcano!

Steve Carey and Haraldur Sigurdsson recently announced the development of a new instructional website dealing with explosive volcanism and the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius volcano in Italy (http://www.gso.uri.edu/vesuvius/Home/index.html).
A principal feature of this web-based exercise is the coupling of inquiry-based techniques with a virtual reality field trip using panoramic photography and eruption simulations to enable [...]

Redoubt Rumbles

Unrest at Redoubt Volcano continues, though no eruption has yet occurred. Seismicity levels have increased since yesterday evening and have also risen markedly over the last hour. Pilot reports, clear AVO webcam views, and satellite and radar views confirm that Redoubt Volcano has not yet erupted at the time of this report. Redoubt remains at [...]