{"id":80137,"date":"2018-05-22T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T18:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=80137"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:49:05","slug":"soest-volcanologists-kilauea-science-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/22\/soest-volcanologists-kilauea-science-response\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology\">SOEST<\/abbr> volcanologists, past and present, play a major direct role in K\u012blauea science response"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_80138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80138\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-soest-houghton-kilauea-eruption.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Houghton with Kilauea eruption behind him\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-soest-houghton-kilauea-eruption.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/manoa-soest-houghton-kilauea-eruption-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Houghton at the K\u012blauea eruption. (Photo courtesy of <abbr title=\"School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology\">SOEST<\/abbr>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/GG\/people\/gg_profile_houghton_b.html\"><strong>Bruce Houghton<\/strong><\/a>, the Gordon A. Macdonald Professor of Volcanology at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (<abbr>SOEST<\/abbr>) at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa, has been a part of the field response team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/volcanoes.usgs.gov\/observatories\/hvo\/\">Hawaiian Volcano Observatory<\/a> (<abbr>HVO<\/abbr>) since a week before the new K\u012blauea eruption began.<\/p>\n<p>Commented Houghton, &ldquo;The <abbr>SOEST<\/abbr> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/GG\/index.html\">Department of Geology and Geophysics<\/a> (<abbr>GG<\/abbr>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.higp.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Geophysics and Planetology<\/a> (<abbr>HIGP<\/abbr>) have an outstanding endorsement of our training of volcanologists as seen in the composition of the <abbr>HVO<\/abbr> response crew.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The group of around 40 <abbr>HVO<\/abbr>-affiliated scientists working 24\/7 at the observatory includes nine past or present <abbr>GG<\/abbr>\/<abbr>HIGP<\/abbr> graduates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jim Kauahikaua<\/strong> (United States Geological Survey (<abbr>USGS<\/abbr>) scientist, ex-scientist-in-charge)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frank Trusdell<\/strong> (<abbr>USGS<\/abbr> scientist)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wendy Stovall<\/strong> (<abbr>USGS<\/abbr> scientist)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mathew Pattrick<\/strong> (<abbr>USGS<\/abbr> scientist)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carolyn Parcheta<\/strong> (<abbr>USGS<\/abbr> scientist)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Orr<\/strong> (<abbr>USGS<\/abbr> scientist)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samantha Isgett<\/strong> (post-doctoral researcher)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brian Shiro<\/strong> (current <abbr>PhD<\/abbr> student)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brett Walker<\/strong> (current <abbr>PhD<\/abbr> student)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Walker commented, &ldquo;It is like a reunion of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 21st century students in physical volcanology.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>SOEST<\/abbr> Dean Brian Taylor further noted that &ldquo;these numbers demonstrate the benefits to the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> of the teaching in volcanology offered at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa and are also a strong endorsement of the quality of our degrees.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/kilauea-eruption-2018\/\">Read more <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories on the university&#8217;s work on the K\u012blauea eruption.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Marcie Grabowski<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Houghton and nine past or present School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology graduates are working 24\/7 at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitoring the K\u012blauea eruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1409,378,170,1313,92,9,108,176],"class_list":["post-80137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-geology-and-geophysics","tag-hawaii-institute-of-geophysics-and-planetology","tag-kilauea-eruption-2018","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-volcano","tag-volcanology","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80137"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117852,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80137\/revisions\/117852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}