How times have changed! When the Museum first opened its doors to the public in 1908, William Taft was elected president, the world’s first major commercial oil field was discovered in Iran, and for the first time ever the ball dropped in Time Square to herald the New Year. Ford Motor Company produced...
3/24/09 After months of warning signs, including seismic signals , heat pulses, gas releases, and melting glacial ice, which led to several upgrades and downgrades in alert status from the Alaska Volcano Observatory , Alaska’s Mount Redoubt Volcano – 10,200 feet high and 100 miles southwest...
2/2/09 We exist on a thin crust of solid rock which overlies the churning cauldron of Earth's interior. When molten rock extrudes onto the surface, we call it a volcano, and these can take a huge variety of forms. Today I will focus on three volcanoes which have shown recent signs of life: one which...