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Volcano Monitors Unite!

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Basho2/25/2009 7:16:11 pm PST

Jindal’s Eruption of Hot Gas:
thedailybeast.com

“I was kind of taken aback by the way volcanic monitoring was portrayed in the speech,” said Brad Singer, a professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin. “Every once in awhile there’s some odd science research going on that sounds so out there that it’s not useful and even I can laugh at some of those. But volcano monitoring is a serious business. I would say there are hundreds of thousands of people in the US who live in the sphere of hazard associated with many individual volcanoes.”

(As an aside, I wonder what is Jindal’s opinion on fruit fly research…)