Hiking Through Jagged Lava Flows, Sierra Negra, Galapagos (IMAGE)

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Hiking Through Jagged Lava Flows, Sierra Negra, Galapagos

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Funded through an NSF grant, an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Miami, University of Rochester, University of Idaho and the Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito, Ecuador have joined forces to study one the world’s most active volcanoes, Sierra Negra in the Galápagos. Photo shows part of the team traveling to the caldera (L-R) Dr. Mario Ruiz and his student Daniel Pacheco from the Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Quito, Ecuador) and Dr. Dennis Geist of the University of Idaho (Moscow).

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Falk Amelung, University of Miami

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