Field team in the Sierra Negra study are, from left, Javier Jaramillo of Parque Nacional de Galapagos, Mario Ruiz of Instituto Geofisico Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Gabrielle Tepp of the U.S. Geological Survey and Sarah Jaye Oliva of Tulane.
Scientists from Tulane University are part of an international team of researchers whose study of the 2018 eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano in the Galápagos Islands provides vital information about future volcanic activity on the islands.
Their most recent research was published this month in the scientific journal
Nature Communications, revealing the first detailed description of the 2018 eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano, one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
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IMAGE: Field crew downloading data from a continuously operating Global Positioning station in the Sierra Negra caldera, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. view more
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Hours before the 2018 eruption of Sierra Negra, the Galápagos Islands largest volcano, an earthquake rumbled and raised the ground more than 6 feet in an instant. The event, which triggered the eruption, was captured in rare detail by an international team of scientists, who said it offers new insights into one of the world s most active volcanoes. The power of this study is that it s one of the first times we ve been able to see a full eruptive cycle in this detail at almost any volcano, said Peter La Femina, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State. We ve monitored Sierra Negra from when it last erupted in 2005 through the 2018 eruption and beyond, and we have this beautiful record that s a rarity in itself.