Volcano research goes high-tech
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GPS, radar systems and digital cameras help scientists, but Mount St. Helens isn't a hotbed of the latest technology.
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By exploiting the physics of how light reflects off of pits in a plastic surface, researchers have come up with a method for storing 1,000 gigabytes of data on a DVD-size disk.
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By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Dec. 14--GOVERNMENT CAMP -- High tech has come to the mountains, with  more on the way.   Unmanned drones and a high-tech triangulation of cell phone signals and  phones with global positioning systems were on site Wednesday.
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Geologist David Johnston wouldn't have died on Mount St. Helens today. New equipment developed since the 1980 eruption of the volcano has made it possible for volcanologists to take better measurements without hiking up the volatile mountain, a requirement 24 years ago that cost Johnson his life.
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MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. - A second long tremor early Sunday and an increase in volcanic gases strongly suggest magma is moving inside this seething volcano.
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More steam gushed out of Mount St. Helens following an increase in earthquake activity, keeping scientists guessing as to what is happening deep within the volcano and perhaps showing that the mountain's seismic activity may not be over yet.
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Scientists continue to monitor two volcanoes that the Alaska Volcano Observatory says could send dangerous ash into the air at any time.
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Government scientists have warned  hikers and researchers not to go near the crater of the Mount  St. Helens volcano because there is an "increased likelihood"  an explosion could occur, sending rocks and debris down the  side of the mountain.
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While earthquakes, steam and magma are getting all the attention on Mount St. Helens these days, the volcano&#39;s most unique feature could
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US scientists fear a surge in activity at the Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state might be a sign it is on the verge of erupting.
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered what likely triggered the eruption of a &quot;supervolcano&quot; that coated much of the western half of the United States with ash fallout 760,000 years ago.
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The American Geophysical Union got a peek at techniques and tools from Microsoft Research's eScience group.
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Using radio waves to study an Alaskan volcano, researchers have detected a new type of volcanic lightning generated by thunderstorm-like activity in ash clouds.
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Even as Mount St. Helens threatens to erupt, scientists are planning a network of Global Positioning System receivers to map the volcano&#39;s movement and help predict the likelihood of an eruption.
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Another eruption of steam and ash at Mount St. Helens kept the rumbling volcano on the minds of many around the nation . Seismologists are predicting a larger eruption - one with magma instead
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LASER technology is helping researchers at Otago University understand more about the wily brown trout.
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Earthquake intensity is increasing and preliminary measurements show magma may be moving into the crater area of Mount St. Helens, federal scientists warned Wednesday.