Yesterday’s article published in the Seattle Times, profiling the DNR-hosted Seismic Scenarios Catalog, prompted so many hits to our site that many users received intermittent service error notifications. Rest assured, we are working on this issue and expect service to return to normal soon. We first blogged about the Seismic Scenarios Catalog on its public […]
Month: May 2013
May Image of the Month: Mount St. Helens, WA
Unsurprisingly, we highlight Mount St. Helens for our May Image of the Month. May 18 is the anniversary of its violent 1980 eruption. This image was taken at sunrise during a September 2012 thermal and mineral spring geothermal sampling trip conducted at the Pumice Plain and Breach areas on the north flank of the volcano. […]
Trevor Contreras to Speak at Ice Age Floods Institute, Puget Lobe Chapter Meeting on May 6
DGER mapping geologist Trevor Contreras will address the Puget Lobe Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute on May 6, giving a talk titled “A Closer Examination of Hood Canal and the Puget Lowland.” Trevor says, I will be talking about some of the important findings from five years of geological mapping along Hood Canal. […]
The Washington Geology Library has new hours!
Starting May 1, 2013 the Washington Geology Library will be open to the public Monday-Thursday 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, closed on Fridays. The library is located on the first floor of the Natural Resources Building (NRB) in Olympia, across the hallway from the Division of Geology and Earth Resources. Please visit us!
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