A New Lake — Water Not Lava — On Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii
Between 2010 and 2018, a large lava lake bubbled and spattered within Kilauea’s summit caldera. Then in May 2018, as part of a broader eruption…
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Phytoplankton Bloom off Hawaii Island Fueled by Kilauea Lava
When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters off Hawaiʻi Island. The lava-impacted seawater…
Hawaiian Solar Observatory Granted Construction Permit
The world’s largest solar telescope will finally be built atop Haleakala, the dormant volcano that is the highest peak on the island of Maui. Last…
Kilauea’s Halema’uma’u Lava Lake At Highest Level
The state of the lava lake in the Halema’uma’u Crater at Kilauea is now at its highest level since its formation in 2008, reaching 50…
Native Hawaiian Vertebrate Species Reported Extinct
Scientists have confirmed that there have been no sightings of the copper striped blue-tailed skink in the Hawaiian Islands since the 1960s and are now…
Airborne NASA Radar to Study Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, returned to Hawaii to study the Kilauea volcano. Mounted under NASA’s…
Lava Fingerprinting Reveals Differences Between Hawaiian Volcanoes
According to UBC research published this week in Nature Geoscience, Hawaii’s main volcano chains, the Loa and Kea, have distinct sources of magma and also…