Environment & Geology

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Geotimes October 2004 Sever, Pratt & Libick	Mount St. Helens Activity Updates Updates on Mt. St. Helens activity from October 1 to October 14.
Wired October 2004 Michael Behar	Rendering Inferno Fighting forest fires is increasingly being left to computers, with simulations taking wind, air temperature, humidity, altitude, terrain, and vegetation into account and producing 3-D animations that chart the most probable path of a wildfire.
Science News October 9, 2004	Eye on Mount St. Helens A link to images of Mt. St. Helens taken by the Johnston Ridge Observatory's VolcanoCam.
Geotimes October 2004 Dere, Martin & Wallace	Energy Issues Take Center Stage in Senate Races Earth science issues, such as the future of Yucca Mountain or petroleum drilling in Alaska, may not take center stage in the minds of many voters, but they do figure into some prominent U.S. Senate races this year.
Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever	Mount St. Helens Alert Level Lowered On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey lowered the alert level for Mount St. Helens in Washington from a Level 3 Volcano Alert to a Level 2 Volcano Advisory.
Geotimes October 2004	Mount St. Helens Erupts More than a week after seismic activity began, Mount St. Helens in Washington has now erupted a thick plume of white steam and light ash reaching as high as 15,000 feet
Geotimes October 2004 Pratt & Lubick	Mount St. Helens Could Erupt in Days to Months In the next few days to a month, there's a 70 percent chance that a small to moderate eruption event will happen at Mount St. Helens, site of the violent and deadly eruption of May 18, 1980.
Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever	Super Waves Sink Ships For centuries, sailors have reported giant walls of water rising up out of nowhere, and for the first time, satellite observations are confirming the existence of such rogue waves.
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman	Tsunami Story Strikes Again Mega-tsunamis are not nearly as frequent as the news stories, and the likelihood of an event is relatively low. Continued debate among scientists, however, keeps the stories in the news and heightens the perceived threat.
Geotimes October 2004 Naomi Lubick	Traveling on Mars Over the past nine months, Mars' twin rovers have delivered amazing photographs and data to Earth, and now the first published science findings have appeared.
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