6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 From: Melanie Holmes <holmesauthor11@xxxxxxxxx> When I speak in venues close to home (Chicago, IL, USA), I ask, â??Why should Midwesterners care about volcanology?â?? While no volcano lurks in my backyard, it is indeed important for all of earthâ??s denizens to grasp the importance. Budgets (and sometimes lives) are built and broken on what the public understands or lacks in comprehension. When I set out to write the first-ever biography of a volcanologist, I didnâ??t realize the potential outcome could be that young and old, here and there, could perhaps grasp a science that is largely esoteric. David Johnston is the only USGS team member to have died in an eruption. Harry Glicken joins him as the only other American volcanologist to have died in an eruption. After Galeras, Baxter and Gresham outlined ways to keep volcanologists (and tourists) safe near active volcanoes. This book, the one about Davidâ??s formation as a boy, a man, a scientist, is more than a book about science. It is that. But it is also a book about people who put their lives in harmâ??s way for the sake of public safety. People who toil in obscurity, unless that is, they die, as David did on May 18, 1980. As one volcanologist told me after she read an advance copy of Davidâ??s book, it breaks down the science and the hazards in a way that lay people can understand. Itâ??s not written for experts, though experts contributed and have endorsed it. Itâ??s not written for scientists, though science is an important overarching theme; including the Johnston familyâ??s personal experiences that helped to form Davidâ??s goals and outlook in life. This book, according to a recent review written for the Association of College & Research Librariesâ?? (a division of the American Library Association) Choice magazine, is â??highly recommended for all readership levels.â?? The book came out last May 2019 in conjunction with the eruptionâ??s 39th anniversary. I flew to the mountain so that I could stand in the place where David died and talk about how he lived. This book feels important; it is an honor to have put words to the story of a volcanologist. Title: *A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life & Legacy of David A. Johnston* Release date: May 18, 2019 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Link to UIP catalog: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/44tmq5nw9780252084317.html (note, it is also on Amazon, there is Ebook option also) 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 ============================================================== Volcano Listserv is a collaborative venture among Arizona State University (ASU), Portland State University (PSU), the Global Volcanism Program (GVP) of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). ASU - http://www.asu.edu/ PSU - http://pdx.edu/ GVP - http://www.volcano.si.edu/ IAVCEI - https://www.iavceivolcano.org/ To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxx. To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxx. Please do not send attachments. ============================================================== ------------------------------
