{"id":1282,"date":"2009-08-15T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T01:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2009-08-15T17:53:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T01:53:44","slug":"discovering-smu-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/discovering-smu-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering SMU research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a new faculty member at SMU, I am interested in the research being done by my colleagues. In the spirit of things, I have subscribed to the SMU Research Blog [1]. I was interested to see a recent post about the discovery of a fossil supervolcano in the Italian Alps [2]. Learning about the lifespan of a supervolcano is critical, since the United States is home to one which has not erupted in about 1\/2 million years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1283\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smu.edu\/research\/2009\/07\/rosetta_stone_of_supervolcanoe.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1283 left\" title=\"The Yellowstone Caldera (&quot;supervolcano&quot;)\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2000space-view-zoom_med2a-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"The Yellowstone caldera. (Image: USGS, Smith and Siegel)\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2000space-view-zoom_med2a-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2000space-view-zoom_med2a.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yellowstone caldera. (Image: USGS, Smith and Siegel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I bring this up because it&#8217;s a recent step in the furthering of research into vulcanism. Many communities in the U.S. and around the world are built around volcanos. Understanding the life-cycle of these common features on the earth is critical to warning communities about impending eruptions, and educating them about the risk of living near a volcano.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between a run-of-the-mill volcano and a supervolcano is first that we ALL live near the Yellowstone Supervolcano and should it erupt again, it has the power to drastically change the climate of the earth for a long period of time. Much like the &#8220;nuclear winter&#8221; scenarios in the post-1945 nuclear age, a supervolcano puts so much debris in to the atmosphere it causes drastic cooling on a global scale, in addition to scorching the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Just one more neat thing going on at SMU.<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smu.edu\/research\/index.html\">http:\/\/blog.smu.edu\/research\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smu.edu\/research\/2009\/07\/rosetta_stone_of_supervolcanoe.html\">http:\/\/blog.smu.edu\/research\/2009\/07\/rosetta_stone_of_supervolcanoe.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a new faculty member at SMU, I am interested in the research being done by my colleagues. In the spirit of things, I have subscribed to the SMU Research Blog [1]. I was interested to see a recent post about the discovery of a fossil supervolcano in the Italian Alps [2]. Learning about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-science","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}