If you want to measure a climate trend, one thing you certainly have to account for is the seasons. It would be unwise to take one measurement in July, a second measurement in December, and declare that we are descending into an ice age. The same is true for measuring ground deformation. There is seasonal movement you have to consider, including in Yellowstone National Park.
It took him 25 years, stretching from 1996 to 2022. He missed one year – 2020 – due to the pandemic. In all, Duell estimates he’s trekked more than 2,000
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Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week s contribution is from R. Greg Vaughan, research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
We do not define the habitat of wolves just by observing where a wolf pack may be standing at any given moment; they move around. Similarly, you can think of a thermal area as the âhabitatâ of individual thermal features, like geysers and hot springs. Hot fluids also move around (underground), so just because a patch of ground in Yellowstone is either warm or cool doesnât mean it will stay that way.