I am so happy and proud of our district and students. John Wood teaches middle school science at Talbert Middle School in Fountain Valley, California. The West Antarctic rift system is one of the major rifts in the world and home to many volcanoes although only a handful are currently active. Erebus and the East African volcanoes are situated in places where the earth’s crust and tectonic plates are being pulled apart by forces creating rift valleys. Mount Erebus has a summit elevation of 3,794 meters (12,448 ft) and the rocks resemble those at the volcanoes Kilimanjaro and Kenya in East Africa. Mount Erebus is located on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes (Bird, Terror, and Terra Nova) as well as McMurdo Station, the largest research station in Antarctica and the center of operations for the US Antarctic Program. Even in summer winds can be over 100 mph. They slept in tents in temperatures that reached as low as -40 F (-40 C) but had a 16 by 24 foot hut to live in and shelter from the stormy weather. Erebus Volcano Observatory, a research station situated 3400 meters (12,451 ft) high near the summit crater of the volcano. The 11-person team lived and worked at the Mt. They continued monitoring emissions of gases and aerosols and maintained instruments to monitor the weather and deformation of the volcano. This allowed the team to cat-scan the inside of the volcano. Then they set off explosion at 14 sites on and around the volcano using dynamite and other materials to create seismic waves that were recorded by the seismometers. The team installed 100 seismometers to supplement 32 already installed on the volcano. A second seismic experiment looked at the deeper crustal structure under the volcano to understand where the magma is generated. Most of the team members undertook a major seismic experiment which imaged the conduit (pipe) which feeds molten magma to the permanent lake of lava in the crater of Erebus volcano. The team from NM Tech worked at the summit of the volcano for over four weeks during the austral summer of 2008-09. Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth and the most active in Antarctica.
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