Teton Science School 2014: Geysers Galore

Today We went to Yellowstone national park. We went out and learned about geothermal activity. The four types of geothermal activity are geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and fumeral. We saw many things including the geyser Old Faithful and a rainbow colored hot spring, which is the world's third largest hot spring. We learned that Yellowstone has over half of the world's geysers, which include Old Faithful, and the world's biggest geyser, the steamboat geyser. Yellowstone is full of geothermal activity is because millions of years ago one of the many plates collided with the Yellowstone volcano, and that is why Yellowstone has so much geothermal activity. And so that concludes our "amazing" experience Yellowstone

-(Dr.) Sal Viscusi (with help from Garen Middleton)

Today we went from eating breakfast super early to driving a two hour ride to the geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles of Yellowstone National Park. We first went to one part of Yellowstone where they had many hot springs a few mud pots and fumaroles and almost no geysers. Then we went to the part of the park where Old Faithful and many other geysers and hot springs were. They had a visitors center where we went in for about twenty minutes and then we went and watch old faithful erupt which was really cool. Then we went to two other places where they didn't have many geysers but they had a lot of mud pots and a lot of hot springs and fumaroles. We had a lot of fun there. Then we drove to Jackson Lake on a two hour drive where we ate pizza and skipped stones and had a lot of fun. Then we came back to TSS where we are now sitting, relaxing, and playing games with each other. Tomorrow we are going to be doing a low ropes course and learning about pika research for the next day. Then on Saturday we come home and as cool as the Tetons are, home is a very nice place. Bye!

-Sincerely,

Cameron Fox Keeler