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After two days of scientific talks in a Pasto hotel, the geologists interrupted their meeting for morning field trips around and into the volcano. By early afternoon, geologists taking measurements and samples were scattered across the floor and steep rim of the volcano's crater when the mountain blew...
...story starts in 1988 when, after 40 years of quiescence, Galeras began a fresh round of unrest that brought Williams and other scientists running to southern Colombia. Because Galeras hovered just a few miles above the city of Pasto (pop. 300,000), the U.N. put the volcano on its list of natural hazards in need of urgent attention. After shaking and coughing small eruptions for months, Galeras squeezed a plug of lava onto the surface that it blew apart in a dramatic eruption on July 16, 1992. Given the mounting activity, Williams had no problem enticing volcano experts from...
Last month, to improve methods for predicting eruptions and thus save lives, 90 scientists from around the world gathered for a U.N.-sponsored conference in the southwestern Colombian city of Pasto. New techniques for detecting pre- eruption changes in the composition of vented gases had shown theoretical promise, and the scientists hoped to test them on Galeras, an active volcano several miles to the west that had not erupted since July 1992. Once again though, the insights of science were employed too late to be effective...
After learning of the deaths of their six colleagues and the three Colombian tourists, many of the volcanologists attending the Pasto conference quietly left. The few who remained for the final session completed proposals to pursue gravity and gas analysis forecasting. The deaths on the mountain also led them to call for more rigorous safety measures on volcanic sites -- and to demand an end to tourism at Galeras. Visitors are no longer permitted to approach the volcano...
Edward Tolini, Le Bocage--Watertown MA Native turkey from Essex Braised rabbit with polenta (corn meal mush not unlike grits, but tighter, more' dense) Apple pie Pecan pie Some kind of anti pasto--eggplant...