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Volcano Research Keeps Its Distance

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Barbara Grant

MEXICO CITY -- A Pan-American research team has been using photonics to watch a nearby volcano in hopes of learning how to forecast eruptions, assess health risks for people who live near volcanoes and determine volcanoes' effects on air pollution. Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers Fraser Goff, Steve Love and Dale Counce recently joined vulcanologist Claus Siebe of La Universidad Nacional Autonóma de Méjico to measure sulfur dioxide, water vapor, hydrochloric acid and other gases emitted by Popocateptel, an active, 17,800-ft volcano 50 miles southeast of Mexico City....Read full article

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