By John Larson
For The Mountain Mail
A team of three professors and two graduate students from New Mexico Tech, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, have installed electronic equipment in the vicinity of the Redoubt Volcano near Kenai, and have been monitoring the eruptions since March 23.
Semi-retired physics professor Paul Krehbiel told the Mountain Mail the team, lead by electrical engineering professor Ronald Thomas, installed monitoring equipment at four separate locations – comprising the Lightning Mapping Array – on the eastern side of Cook Inlet. [...]
Thomas said the Tech research is unique in the scientific world.
“This leading-edge research. We’re the only ones doing it,” he said. “After doing lightning research for the last 16 years, we have the right knowledge and the right equipment.”
“This is really exciting for us,” Thomas said. “You plan and hope you can do something like this once in a lifetime. It’s hard to judge a volcano before it happens and get the sensors set up before it erupts.”
The project is being supported by the National Science Foundation, with cooperation from the University of Alaska’s Volcano Observatory, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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