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Mount St. Helens

A scientist surveys a smoking Mount St. Helens in a wintry landscape.
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An Iconic Eruption Shaped Careers, as well as Landscapes

by Jane Palmer 26 May 202012 April 2022

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens influenced scientists who witnessed the event and spurred a new era in physical volcanology.

A view looking southeast toward Mount St. Helens from the Castle Lake Viewpoint in June 2017
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Lessons from a Post-Eruption Landscape

by J. J. Major, C. M. Crisafulli and F. J. Swanson 24 April 202012 April 2022

Four decades of research into biophysical responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens have vastly improved our understanding of how landscapes react to cataclysmic disturbances.

Shadows of girls hiking in a line
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GeoGirls: Confidence Erupts from a Camp at a Volcano

by Lesley Evans Ogden 22 April 202012 April 2022

Summer camp at Mount Saint Helens empowers girls with science, confidence, and fun.

Black-and-white image of Mount St. Helens in 1980 with a billowing ash plume
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U.S. Readies Health Response for the Next Big Eruption

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 March 202010 May 2022

Forty years after the explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens, scientists, communities, and civic officials are evaluating plans to best protect public health before, during, and after an eruption.

Two brothers equipped with backpacks and ice axes stand on the summit of Mount Adams (3,743 meters), admiring their next objective: Mount Rainier (4,392 meters), the tallest and most challenging of the Cascade volcanoes.
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Climbing the Occasionally Cataclysmic Cascades

by Mary Caperton Morton 27 February 202010 May 2022

Living in Geologic Time: Every one of the Pacific Northwest’s volatile volcanoes is likely to erupt again before the range goes extinct.

Mount St. Helens memorial at Johnston Ridge Observatory
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Honoring Volcanologist David Johnston as a Hero and a Human

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 27 June 20192 May 2022

A new biography details the life and legacy of the scientist who died on Mount St. Helens.

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