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ALT The mile-wide crater of Costa Rica’s Poás Volcano hosts a steaming lake that occasionally explodes. Debris from past eruptions covers an area of 150 square miles around it. Credit: Kevin Krajick
ALT USGS November Virtual Public Lecture Screenshot Opening Slide Titled: " "Six Eruptions at Two Volcanoes Over the Past Three Years - How the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitors some of Earth’s most active volcanoes." Background image is of Mauna Loa summit and Kilauea (foreground) on Feb. 2023.
ALT Dr. Jim Kauahikaua conducts an interview at the summit of Kīlauea in 2011, when he was the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Scientist-in-Charge.
ALT Dr. Jim Kauahikaua, accompanied by his wife, Jeri Gertz (left), traveled to Washington, D.C., where he received the DOI Meritorious Service Award on May 5, 2015, in recognition of his scientific contributions in the field of volcano hazards and leadership of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory for the U.S. Geological Survey.
ALT Dr. Jim Kauahikaua using an instrument that detects very low frequencies on Pu‘u‘ō‘ō lava flows. The instrument allows for the continuous monitoring of the cross-sectional area of molten lava in the lava tube.
ALT Dr. Jim Kauahikaua explains the Geologic Map of the Island of Hawaiʻi at a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory outreach event in 2011.
