LINKS TO VOLCANOES

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General Information       

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Outreach/framework.html
Learn about the volcanoes in our own back yard! Not only can you view real-time updates about volcanic activity, but you can build your own volcano model in your classroom and learn why volcanoes erupt.

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/Stromboli.HTM
Information on Stromboli.

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/Vesuvius79.HTM
NASA radar images of Vesuvius.                                                                                                            

http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/                                                                                                        
A Web Soil Survey brought to you by the Natural Resource Conservation Service

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/fliers/se-0801.shtml        
Photographs of Volcanoes and other Natural Disasters                   

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Photo/volcano_cams.html
USGS: Website for Volcano Cams around the world.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
USGS: Website for Volcanoes around the world.

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes
Information about current global volcanic activity, research in remote sensing of volcanoes and their eruptive products, hazard mitigation, Decade Volcanoes, and links to government research

http://www.volcanoes.com
The Ultimate Volcano and Volcanoes resources page

http://www.granular-volcano-group.org
Introduction to the physics of granular flow such as clouds of ash or streams of sizzling muck

http://www.edu.gunma-u.ac.jp/~hayakawa/English.html
Catalog of volcanic eruptions

http://www.geo.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/tchiba/chibah.html
Volcanic related geology, many pictures and movies

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/
The Savage Earth, information regarding earthquakes, volcanoes, and other natural features of the earth

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology/video.html
Vents: video clips from research dives

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/monitor/
Monitoring Active Volcanoes with the USGS

http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp
Smithsonian Institution-Global Vulcanism Program:The Global Volcanism Program seek better understanding of all volcanoes through documenting their eruptions during the past 10,000 years.

www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work
Descriptive volcanology at how volcanoes work.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc
Volcanoes: An on-line vulcanology textbook by Robert I. Tilling of the United States Geological Survey: Types os volcanoes, types of eruptions, submarine volcanoes, related phenomena, plate tectonics, volcanism on the planets, volcano monitoring and research.
 

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/
How volcanoes work

 

United States

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update
On-the-spot reports, eye-catching photos, video, maps, and data on the deadly Kilauea volcano

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV
Hawaii Center for Volcanology

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hawaii/
Hawaiian Volcanoes

http://terra.nasa.gov/Gallery
Lava flows from past eruptions are laid bare in a thermal infrared satellite view of Mauna Loa in Hawaii

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/msh/
Eruptions of Mount St. Helens: Past, Present, and Future

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/washington.html
Washington Volcano Ash Advisory Center - Real time graphics

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch
VOLCANO WATCH: Weekly newsletter form the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/seismicity/nepac/gordaridge01.html
Hydroacoustic montoring: see the noise of the volcanic eruption off the Oregon coast

http://www.avo.alaska.edu
Geologic maps and detailed hazard assessments and more...at the online atlas assembled by the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

http://www.jqjacobs.net/writing/volcanoc.html
The Volcanoes of the Cascades: Majestic and perilous volcanoes and their eruptive history, including Mt. St. Helens and Crater Lake

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volcus
Volcanoes of the U.S.: Detailed information about US volcanoes by Steven R. Brantley of the USGS.

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/
Mich. Tech. U Volcanoes Page: Worldwide Volcanic Reference Map,|
recent and ongoing volcanic activity from Keweenaw observatory
 

 

International

http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/unzen/index.html
UNZEN: Decade Volcano

http://www.heptune.com/pagan.html
Pagan, North Marianas: A close up look at an active volcano.  This page provides information and photographs of Mt. Pagan volcano and the 1994 eruption, as well as some general information about the island.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/pinatubo/
FIRE and MUD:.Eruptions and Laharsof Mount Pinatubo, Philippines

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0301/feature2/
Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/
Photo Glossary of Volcanic Terms

http://www.edu.gunma-u.ac.jp/~hayakawa/volcanoes/asama/guide/Eloc1.html
Guide to the Asama volcano

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
Cascades Volcano Observatory

http://www.terindell.com/asylum/jason/index.html
Jason 3, Galapagos Islands, origin & much more

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/
Hawaii Volcano Observatory

http://www.field-trips.org/tours/sci/volcano/_tourlaunch1.htm
Volcanoes of Hawaii field trip.

http://www.letsgo-hawaii.com/volcano/panhalemau.html
Halema'uma'u Overlook, Hawaii

http://www.letsgo-hawaii.com/volcano/panvolchouse.html
Volcano House Lookout, Kilauea crater, Hawaii

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/kilauea.html
The Hawaii Center for Vulcanology: Kilauea Volcano

http://www.geo.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/tchiba/chibah.html
Tatsura Chiba's amazing Japanese volcano home page.  Airial photographs, animation etc.

http://www.desertusa.com/magdec97/rock/rockpile.html
Inselbergs: Unique volcanic rock formations at Joshua Tree National Park

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/west.indies/soufriere/govt/
Montserrat Volcano, Official releases concerning the situation at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, West Indies

http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vrc/others/fujigeol.html
Volcanic history of Mt. Fuji

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/SlideSet/ljt_slideset.html

http://www.heptune.com/pagan.html
Pagan, North Marianas: A close up look at an active volcano.  This page provides information and photographs of Mt. Pagan volcano and the 1994 eruption, as well as some general information about the island.

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/page-1.html
Aerial view of the excavated city of Pompeii

http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/sunset/sunsetft.html
A geological survey of Sunset Crater Volcano national monument

http://www.swisseduc.ch/stromboli
Scale Stromboli and other volcanoes in Switzerland in this virtual field trip.

http://www.field-trips.org/tours/sci/volcano/openhelp.htm
Tramline tour of many  volcanoes

http://goodearthgraphics.com/virtual_tube/virtube.html
The virtual Lava Tube


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