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  • The obvious danger, when you're working on a volcano, is dying.

  • We know that at any point things could go south in a bad, bad way.

  • We take respirators to deal with poisonous gases,

  • we take hard hats to deal with small ejecta from the volcano

  • ...but there's only so much you can prepare.

  • When I've stood at the rim of an active volcano, I feel like I'm getting a window

  • inside the heart of our planet.

  • It's like looking into something from another world.

  • That is when you can get really great data

  • about the chemistry of the lava, about the makeup of the gases,

  • about how explosive the lavas might be,

  • and about how much pressure you're seeing in the magma chamber.

  • More people than ever before are living in areas that are volcanic hazards.

  • We have millions and millions of people who live around these amazing things, but that are also deadly.

  • My work involves looking at volcanoes in every different way you can imagine, to try to understand

  • what makes them tick, and help me someday predict how they're going to erupt.

  • I mean, that's really the holy grail of volcano research,

  • because we really want to save lives.

  • Field work when you're studying volcanoes is different every single time.

  • First you've got to get to the area, and that may mean taking a helicopter in,

  • it may mean hiking through jungle-like vegetation or tromping through a desert.

  • Volcanoes are unpredictable, and that is because we don't have a good window inside of them.

  • It's not like you can drop a little robot down and have it measure everything that's going on.

  • What we're really looking for when we're out there collecting data

  • is information that shows a change.

  • Is the composition of the gas different?

  • Do we see that the volcano is inflating?

  • Is the ground actually moving up or moving down as the magma chamber fills or evacuates?

  • A volcano could be building up pressure inside of it without any outward indications.

  • We make hazard maps, we look at old lava flows, map out where the lava has gone previously,

  • and then say, “okay, worst case scenario, what could this volcano do?”

  • A lot of the data that we collect when we're out in the field is used to make models

  • and help to try to forecast eruptions.

  • We can't do that yet with any degree of certainty, but we're getting better.

  • There have been many deaths, actually, of volcano scientists while working on active volcanoes,

  • and it's very sad.

  • But we're prepared to take that risk, because we think that what we're doing brings value

  • to our greater society around us, and we want to add to

  • that body of knowledge out there about our planet.

  • All of us have a really healthy respect for all the different parts of the natural world.

  • It's some sort of hell-scape, but it's also beautiful.

  • The lava is this brilliant, brilliant red and orange and it's constantly moving.

  • It never stops. It's like an angry ocean.

  • You get to see the freshest earth on the planet.

  • So it really, to me, shows in the clearest possible way that we have a living planet.

  • And that is why I love it - that's why I keep coming back.

  • In another episode of Science In The Extremes, a biologist in Antarctica

  • vlogs about the extreme conditions in which he conducts research.

  • Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe to Seeker.

The obvious danger, when you're working on a volcano, is dying.

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