Scientist Explains What Water in Kilauea's Volcanic Crater Means | WIRED
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Don Swanson, a scientist with the United States Geological Survey, explains why researchers are so interested in a pool of water that's formed in the crater of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano.
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Don Swanson is always the go-to guy for accurate Kilauea volcano info. Even after retirement. The guys a wealth of knowledge. Got to talk with him often while out at the lava flows for many years before his retirement. Halemaumau Lake.
Thank you for the context. He seems like an amazing scientist.
I have a Feeling that even though he is a scientist on volcanoes he also knows a lot on woodworking and local government
Lol
Wood working and love making. Also new hobby volcano research
Probably loves breakfast too
Does he play an instrument and have an alter ego?
'Don Swanson' sounds like a fella who likes his whiskey single malt and neat 😂
Tree finga shotssss
And sips it slowly.
You really gotta be passionate about your job, when you still do it after retirement!
Forced retirement.
Maybe it wasn't a job, maybe he did it because he loved it, and you know the how the old saying goes don't ya...
We should all be so lucky
Or there is no one qualified enough to truly replace him.
its very hard to lose your passion for something like this; there's always something new to find and learn about. I don't see myself ever really retiring
wow d ron swanson really changed a lot after parks and rec
not yet...coca cola, wants a piece of the cake 2
To bad his first name isnt Ron. Wouldve been perfect
Nestlé is already on its way to buy the water
pee pee poo poo
like 10 years late on that.
Don't you mean "take" the water ?
Nestle fks us over and charges us for it
Nestle pays a $100 a year license to pump millions of gallons daily until your local springs and creeks run dry.
I remember Don in an interview during the 1980 St. Helen's eruption. I got a chance to meet him. Really fun guy to chat with and an enormous wealth of knowledge.
This man knows what he's talking about. I hope people listen to what he says
We're ALL GOING TO DIE!!! Quick get a tinfoil hat and give as your money to the church of pedophiles
@@evanhorn6658 ?
@@evanhorn6658 uh...
If you see a guy named Steve with a diamond pickaxe, he's just there to set up a nether portal.
I live in Hawaii and it was a beautiful sight to watch all this
Which island and which part? No one local to the Hilo side of the Big Island has spoken fondly of the eruption.
Well I live on Oahu but I went to Hawaii island when it was happening. It was bad for the people that moved but beside that I thought how slow it was moving made it look like a harmless lava flow like the others recent ones. At that time I did not now it was heading toward to the Hilo side
@@pnoland0771 harmless lave flow...its lava lol nothing harmless about it.
@@pnoland0771 ...
I’m glad they have the Swanson’s protecting our National Parks & Rec 👍🏼👍🏼
Great interview. Thank you gentlemen. Peace and Love.
Yeeeaaahh, Don Swanson is the man!! An excellent report on the doings of our favorite volcano. We are all excited to see what Tutu Pele will do next! Mahalo nui WIRED and Dr. Swanson!
Is really not gonna comment that the guy is called Don Swanson? And that he has a mighty moustache?
Elivelton Luza Nice
I did notice that!
Been wondering what his brother was up to
Dude is a goat. Treks through lava rock all his life for the sake of volcanology
Everyone is....
That was so informative and gave so much information about the past and probable future of the Beautiful Kilauea volcano 🌋
Great content. Thanks for the video!
I imagine that the water in the caldera is saturated with sulphur. I'm so excited to see where this leads in the future.
Thanks Don for the honorable mention of Auckland, New Zealand :P we just love to be reminded that our largest city sits on an active magma resevoir.
Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world, a full mile taller than Everest and its a volcano, Kilauea and Mauna Loa are side vents.
That is so cool.
Michael Clark yeah but the mountain is in a lower place than mt Everest. Everest Isn’t really the tallest mountain its the highest peak in earth
Excellent interview skills! 👍👍👍
My favorite volcano is Mt. Paektu located in my country. It’s a supervolcano that’s the number one tourist attraction in North Korea. It’s predicted to erupt soon
Just like yellow stone ? 👍
Don is such a great Scientist. I remember see him at Mt Rainier back before and after the May 18th eruption. I am glad hes still loving his job even in retirement
4:45 okay... So that was a road once. Dang.
Yep.
There *used to be* a whole parking lot at the end of that road. It's somewhere down there in the crater now.
@@marvinkitfox3386 woah D:
Thank you, this was my obsession last year. I checked in every day and it was fascinating to watch although those who lost houses would disagree. This is now just as fascinating, cannot wait to see what is in that water.
Sulfur lol
They'd feel the same actually. They treat the volcano like some god
Sounds like what my water heater did to our garage last year
this was interesting, thank you.
Mahalo Don Swanson. Lets try to keep Volcano community safe, as always.
Hualani sorry the what community
It's only a problem because people started building houses in the area.
You ever see a pressure cooker opened while it was under pressure? Kileaua and Krakatau are different volcano types, but thats the illustration of 'explosion' I'm going with here. Water won't become a gas if it is under sufficient pressure. Water remaining liquid is incompressible, remains hot end energetic, and that pressure exerts a hydraulic action across overlying rock substrate that lifts the outer circumferential gradations of structure and fractures them. While at the same time the aquifer becomes acidic. Once there is sufficient fissuring in the rock substrate to create a path to the surface, whether by following a lava tube or taking new paths, underground water is able to become steam and it expands violently on release. The expansion is cataclysmic, overlying rock table and underlying magma chamber content is drafted along with the 'outgassing' of the water. Its shockwave can blow a large overburden of the surface geography into smithereenies. These hurricane blasts are the loudest sounds ever heard on Earth. I'm guessing the water shown here is not deep enough to be trapped under an overlying rock strata.
It's a great neighborhood
I went to Hawaii and saw the crater back in February it was crazy the tour guide showing pictures he and his brother took of the crater and the lava and looking at the lava flows
Water: it really _is_ free real estate! 🌋
Should give a nice full glass to all investors of nestle etc
The authorities are probably Minecraft players trying to get rid of the lava
I play minecraft lol i subscribed that was funny lol
Runs back up out of the mines to grab more water in my bucket lol there be diamonds down tharr!
Ahmed Wael did he just subscribe to two people for making a joke
@Ahmed Wael he said it 3 times. But who cares anyway. He wanted to make sure everyone knew he was laughing. LOL
Jez another minecraft kid with a kid comment.
I would think. A grappling gun style water collector would be a cheaper way to go. Instead of a hook. You could put a device where you could remotely open up and let water in and close after it's been collected. Then bring it in with a towing device. I would think that would be a good idea
@ 06:30 *"We can Date the water . . ."* . . . and I thought I've had some adventurous Dating experiences!!!!!
Is there an update on this?
They need to use a drone. The risk is just to high to send anyone directly over that pond. I'm afraid it's going to be very acidic and the ground is probably unstable still. IDK, I'm not an expert.
More than anything the water is probably just chock full of methane.
just me it’s solid rock there, so that wouldn’t be an issue as long as you’re not touching g it with bear skin, as it’s super sharp rock. As for the water, you have a point there. It may be more sulfuric than regular.
The difficulty with sending a drone is the same as if they sent a helicopter into the caldera: wind currents/updrafts. Think of a boiling pot of water, that's basically what the air currents in the caldera are doing, so it would be very turbulent to fly in. A heli up above the caldera with a long rope and bucket may actually be safer/more stable than trying to fly a drone down in.
They won't land a heli in there and get out to manually take a sample, if that was what you were thinking.
The air can be displaced , any heavy gas emmited and your toast ,dead, rock is fresh broken sharp and loose , it's a very dangerious place ,
Did you notice that your gold shirt with microphone is reminiscent of Kirk in Star Trek?
As long as it's not red he should be safe 😂
Lol
@@amanofmanyparts9120 he has a redish/purplish looking color shirt underneath
Underground Water or better land formation for the island?
Lava drained out, then it rained. It's a rock crater. Rain doesn't drain into rock, just evaporate. Hawaii rains pretty much every day hence the slow and steady increase.
there is also a tiniest of tiny chances that the magma in the shaft may descend to such a depth that allows the water to fill the entire shaft, though not seen on the surface this could cause a steady formation of layer after layer of rock filling the shaft to create a dormant volcano or even an "extinct" volcano, which would shift the pressure to another point creating another island.
I don't know why but I always find stuff about Volcanos fascinating .
7:10 did he say we’ve been LOL’d
Wow, what a great job to do in retirement
I’m envious ❤️
Hard to believe there was a lava lake last year to a water lake now.
Not really that hard to believe
Crater Volcano is below sea level and it is an island... Not that hard bro....
There's something weird about how that lava fountain looks. It almost looks like it's CG, but I can't quite put my finger on why.
Like an old 50's movie... its the physics of the lava, we associate with "smaller" outbursts of similar "fluid" substances Idk XD.
Don Swanson is definitely the main character of a volcano action movie
In your best Dr.evil voice "liquid hot magma!"
Hmmm so Kilauea is going to be helpful in understanding White Island. (video of White Island was in above)
That is so cool.
Did anyone else get confused by the image of the video? I mean before you click the video there is an image in representation and it seems as if there is an upside down mountain on the top of the image and a ground floor on the buttom of the image.
With the arrow pointing at the pick xD xD it felt wierd seeing the image that way
8:04 imagine just driving on the road and then suddenly the ground start caving in and the car falls inside of the volcano and boom you dead
That would suck
I really respect what people do and especially the old timers. Getting a sample is soooo easy and cheap if they just let some younger people in the circle. There were several young people in the robotics program that I recently went though who would quickly overcome the obstacles that would surely arise using a drone to collect the sample, less than two days.
PS. They would probably do it in exchange for air fare and a reference letter.
@4:54 There was a highway there?
So, all volcanoes are different? What a break through! WOW!
When she finally blew it was the gnarliest experience of my life. I got a sunburn after dark watching her flow
Rain water or not. It looks like a nice hot spring in couple of years.
8:00 I live in Auckland New Zealand. I've been looking at the North Head at the tephra that looks scary 1000's of phreatomagmatic explosions although I believe is rate many happened during the last glacial period so levels were low.
Fun fact, in Auckland you're actually safer on an old volcano (except Rangitoto) - they're part of a monogenetic basaltic field which means after they erupt and form, they don't erupt again. North Head is a great spot to see tuff deposits, and the view of the harbour isn't half bad either!
When i first saw the reporter (Matt Simon) i thought he was wearing a Star Trek uniform.... LOL he looks like a natural in such a costume!
When you're watching this video in Auckland New Zealand, and you forgot that the entire city is sitting on hundreds of dormant volcanoes that could wake up at any time, threatening the 1M people who live there and constitute a quarter of the county's population.
Yeah, the could wake just like Yellowstone could blow tomorrow...
At minute 9:11 you show a volcano which I'm a 100% sure is not Kilauea. Any idea what volcano it is? If you had a name I'd very much apreciate it.
Maybe the ground sunk and it's gonna form a giant spa :D
Or it's turned itself into a huge cannon getting ready to blast the atmosphere with its deadly excretions.
It wouldn't be a good idea if it was a spa. Water near volcanoes can get extremely hot. If you see the color of the water it's a similar color to Yellowstone nation parks water. Not a good thing to swim in
That sounded gross
They coulda tried a cup on the bottom of a drone the first day, unless it’s too hot and melts it
Don swanson was at Mount St. Helens in 1980 before the eruption
It's cool to live next to Kileaua
There is the theory regarding Krakatoa. "Thermoplastic reaction" between sudden rush of sea water into a magma chamber. Similar to pouring water on a greasy frying pan.
It feels like Don and Ron are one and the same Swanson.
A sample would be invaluable
The forbidden volcano water
The thumbnail was very trippy
Use a steal cable with a vessel attatched to it retrive a sample in this way
can`t wait to see the new C.Neistat video...".Giant Marshmallow on a giant drone"
Pick up a sample with the drone.
That is a primordial pool, that's gonna be the basic fundamentals of life in that water. Man wouldn't that be awesome.
I wonder if itll become a hot spring
People be like: Hmm... This volcano is very active...
Let's live near it!
I like Don, he looks like a risk taker, a man who will do what it takes to get the job done
Builds house on volcano volcano erupts
Suprise pikachu face
geologist : its a calm volcano (5x)
tHeSciENceWriTer: DoYoUkNowMorE?
I guess Lake Toba started this way million of years ago after the eruptions.
09:12 to 09:17 shows Whakaari/White Island in NZ while Mr Swanson comments on observing the impact of water upon volcanic eruptions. Answer obliged three months later on 09 Dec 19 (czcams.com/video/FbEVp4j92YM/video.html).
Learn to equalize volume levels.
You should see the new studies done!
They had this in Dr.Stone
Water appeared on Taal volcano's crater after more than a month since it exploded.
This is nature at its best making new lakes
Woop woop! Auckland New Zealand!
And let's just ignore Mauna Loa, the largest volcano on the island and it's increasing activity and how that may be tied to Kilauea's activity.
No ones ignoring it. HVO reports on it often.
How bout Mauna Kea? They tryna build a thirty meter telescope and everyone is pissed off about it
They've been saying for years that Mauna Loa is going to erupt again, they just don't know when. So they are not ignoring it at all.
Lol people who move next to an explosive planetary force and complain about it possibly exploding and destroying their homes is hilariously the biggest "I told You so" us in mainland US laugh about. 😂😂😂
It rained?
I like this Guy. There is something on him that make me wanna listen to him for hours ^^
What if it is rechanneling to onther place ?
Don Swanson even sounds like Ron Swanson
How much for a bottle of volcano water
My favorite is at 2:25
Is it just me or does he look like he's wearing a Star Trek uniform!!! X)
Very interesting but I'm disappointed, why dont they have the water sample yet , and give a complete picture of the situation.
USGS ROCKS! I love you guys.
I lost all train of thought on the volcano after I heard the name Don Swanson
Someone just jumped in with a water bucket to prevent the fall damage
Also especially SO3, look H2O+SO3=H2SO4 or Sulfuric Acid.
This style made the Grand Canyon, you'll see maybe.
Has it been raining?
What we need is a giant tool like the one that pops zits...but for volcanoes. 😂