EXTERNAL: [Geysers] New OFVEC webcam

[Whitledge, Vicki M.]

There are many ways to have fun.

There is the fun to be had by going out & looking at Grand, trying to figure out when it lasted erupted by what it is doing in the morning when you don't know the overnight time.  I love being out in the basin.  Especially early in the season, early in the morning. Meeting other early risers, sharing data.  :)

There's also fun to be had playing around with (i.e. analyzing) a complete data set of eruptions...say a complete set of Turban eruptions.  It is really hard to get a complete extended set of Turban data without using electronics.  There's not that many times you can leave it and I need my sleep.  Playing around with incomplete sets of data is no where near as fun as playing with a complete set of data, so it is important.

Now I know, we won't likely be getting remote, real-time telemetry of Turban but I like data, the more the better.  There's nothing quite like a nice set-up spreadsheet just full of data...it's like a little playground.  I may not be the norm, but I'm not alone either.

What's really the best is relating what you see in person with what you see in the data.

It is all in the eye of the beholder.

Vicki Whitledge


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From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu [geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] on behalf of TSBryan at aol.com [TSBryan at aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:14 PM
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Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: [Geysers] New OFVEC webcam

Once upon a time there were rather few gazers. They went out into the geyser basin, never sure of what they might find. They need'nt ask a ranger to download data, as there was no such thing. They didn't ask what a Webcam showed, as there was no such thing. They didn't call out on a CB or FRS radio, as there was no such thing. They actually passed along data, verbally, even to rangers who wrote it down and passed it along because they cared.

Gosh, they had a lot of fun. Whither the good 'ol days? (Yeah, I know..........)

Webcams down basin. Relays of electronic info. Why? Good God, people, it's not that important.

Scott
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In a message dated 8/25/2010 4:51:14 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, udo.freund at lmco.com writes:
Real-time temperature telemetry sounds great, but I believe we need visual confirmation
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