[Geysers] A link to YNP

[sgryc at comcast.net]

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From: Janet Chapple <jochapple at earthlink.net>
> Here's a radio link I missed from last summer, in which Rick Hutchinson 
> is heard talking about geysers, and an eruption (or two) is/are 
> recorded, making me wish I had been able to meet him and, of course, 
> fueling my desire to hurry up and get back there.
> 
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4797916
> 
> Can anyone guess what geyser is recorded here? Steve Gryc?
> 
> Janet Chapple

I listened to the NPR "audio postcard" which is nicely recorded and a great little memento of Rick Hutchinson.  In a couple of places it sounds like there is a tour guide speaking in the background, and I'm guessing that the piece was recorded on Geyser Hill.  One might assume, also, that we are hearing the most frequently erupting geysers.  My best guess would be that the first geyser eruption is Big Anemone with its quick fill, brief and small eruption, and audible drain.  Rick comments, "Nice short one."  (I wonder about Rick's comment regarding the area of "ground" two meters across that is pulsating.)  The high pitched sizzling sound that's heard next as a transition might be Ear Spring.  As Rick talks about the Yellowstone caldera, I might hazard a guess that the small, lazy eruption we hear is that of Little Anemone.  The next eruption may be Plume with its very audible bubbling fill.  As Rick talks about the "areas of geysers in the world," the low, cavernous, boiling
  sounds could be those of Aurum between eruptions.  Those are my guesses.  I did record all the same sounds myself, but I'm open to other suggestions.  Though I am a musician, I don't have perfect pitch or perfect geyser.

Steve Gryc