Can ASTER Help Avert Disaster?
The two places couldn’t be more different: the Soufrière Hills Volcano, in the sunny Caribbean Island of Montserrat, a few hundred miles from the Equator, and the Bezymianny Volcano, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, a similar distance from the Arctic Circle.
And volcanologist Michael Ramsey is able to study both from the comfort—and safety—of the Image Visualization and Infrared Spectroscopy (IVIS) Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Mt. Semeru, photographed by Pitt professor Michael Ramsey, prior to its eruption. Two of Ramsey’s colleagues were killed and Ramsey was hurt when it erupted last July. |
Sidebar: Surviving an Eruption: Michael Ramsey injured at Mt. Semeru
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