Tracking Lava Flows with the USGS
We meet USGS geologists, Matt Patrick and Tristan McDonald, on the Big Island who show us what it is like to track an active lava flow, and then we head to the lab to learn how scientists, Julia Hammer, Thomas Shea, and Samantha Jacob recreate volcanic conditions
Watch the trailer for Season 1, Episode 8 on Vimeo or Youtube.
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Curriculum Connections:
- Grade 4: Plate Tectonics
- Activity: Modeling Plate Movement
- Sciences and the Sacred: Geology and Hydrology of Maunakea
- Grades 6-12: Continental Movement by Plate Tectonics
- Activity: Modeling Plate Spreading
- Compare-Contrast-Connect: Volcanoes
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Contact information:
Kanesa Seraphin, Ph.D.
kanesa@hawaii.edu
