Get to know CVO: Maciej Obryk and the USGS debris-flow flume
At the Cascades Volcano Observatory, staff use technical skills and creativity to solve complex problems and innovate for the future. Maciej’s experiments are too large for the observatory, so he travels 3 hours southeast of CVO to the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Blue River, Oregon to study debris flows. Another important aspect of these flume experiments is that scientists can deploy instruments (like infrasound, laser rangefinders and seismic sensors) to see if they can detect the incoming flows. Next week we will meet two more scientists working to help prepare communities west of Mount Rainier for future lahars by