Whats it like to work on volcanoes?
Volcanoes are inherently beautiful places where forces of nature combine to produce awesome events and spectacular landscapes. For most of us, they’re FUN to work on! Most people are fascinated by volcanoes, and many may feel a strong connection to them in the same way we sometimes feel a connection or familiarity to a place, like a favorite coastline, a river valley, or forest. In the words of a scientist, “for me, there’s something fundamental and moving about the idea of magma rising from deep inside our restless planet to flow gracefully onto its surface, as in Hawaii, or explode violently into its atmosphere, as at Mount St. Helens. I’m fascinated by the knowledge that some of the gases I breathe were once miles deep in the Earth, and arrived in my lungs by way of a volcano.” Perhaps no spot on Earth is untouched by the effects of volcanoes. In fact, more than half of the Earth’s surface is covered by volcanic flows, especially the sea floor. All forms of life on Earth are linked
