Eyewitness to an Exploding Volcano: Mount St. Helens
In 1980, Keith Ronnholm was a graduate student in the geophysics program at the University of Washington. On May 18, he was camped at Bear Meadows, 10 miles from Mount St. Helens, and captured photographs of the explosive eruption, before racing away from the onrushing blast cloud and dodging falling rocks. He has an extensive collection of eyewitness photos from numerous vantage points, and he will narrate the events of that morning and discuss how the mountain has evolved since that time. The talk will be a visual treat — many of Keith's pictures are unique and different from the usual photos of the eruption. Plan to attend via Zoom on 1/10/25 as this talk will not be recorded and will be online only this month!
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Speaker Bio:
Now retired, Keith Ronnholm was a research scientist with the University of Washington Joint Institute for the Atmospheric and Ocean (JISAO), deploying and maintaining climate monitoring buoys for NOAA.