A Volcanologist
What is a Volcanologist?
Mount St. Helens
As an Volcanologist I could go there and study. I loved it when I traveled there and learned all about its history. website:fs.usda.gov
Mount Rainer
This volcano has not erupted since the beginnning of the 19th century. An interesting fact is that it is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. website:vulcan.wr.usgs.gov
A Volcanologist at work.
This picture shows a Volcanologist at work on a volcano. website:en.wikipedia.org
What do you do when you are a Volcanologist?
A volcanologist studies lava, ash, and rock that are produced by the volcanic eruptions. That helps the volcanologist to learn about what happened within the volcano to learn what happens underneath our feet in the Earth's crust. A volcanologist also studies rocks and ash that was formed by volcanoes thousands or millions of years ago. A volcanologist would then be able to map out where exactly the lava once flowed. A volcanologist will study volcanoes to learn things that may help to protect people in the future.
What is the Salary of a Volcanologist?
What kind of education would you need to become a Volcanologist?
How does being a volcanologist have to do with the environment?
What are the advantages of being a volcanologist?
- Actually working on volcanoes all day
- Being able to warn people who live by the volcanoes to evacuate, so they won't die
- Studying past eruptions and learning from them
- Traveling all over world
What are the disadvantages of being a volcanologist?
- The chance of being by the volcano when it is erupting
- The chance of watching the people who choose not to evacuate suffer or die because they stayed
- Not making much money the first couple of years
- As a volcanologist, you will need to study for about 10-13 years to become a qualified and certified volcanologist
- Living in a tent for 2-3 months
- Eating native food
What are some interesting facts on being a Volcanologist
- You would be spending a lot of time in places like Hawaii, Iceland, Alaska, or Italy
- You would get to go inside the crater of an active volcano
- Have the chance to figure out if dinosaurs died out because of volcanoes