[Geysers] Dwarfs and names

[TSBryan at aol.com]

There are conventions that need to be satisfied in all this. Arguments  
against naming are NOT arguments against identifying in some recoverable but  
less formal fashion. Like it or not, there are rather strict constraints on 
the  naming of things, at least in what can be called "official." [And yes, I 
have  violated such constraints at times.] 
 
This does not mean things can't be identified. Of course "we" want to be  
able to keep track of such things as the various "Dwarfs," but that can be 
done  with some sort of informal designation based, perhaps on a relative 
position  within the group ("Dwarf #2 SW") or geographic position 
(latitude-longitude,  though I really questions such designations as that which appeared 
on Facebook a  day or two ago where both lat and long were cited to 15 
(fifteen!) decimal  places).
 
For the record, the vent that is essentially always visible spouting toward 
 the base of Arrowhead Spring is indeed "North Dwarf." "Red Dwarf" is/was  
more-or-less in the center of the cluster.
 
Scott Bryan
 
 
In a message dated 12/19/2014 4:58:41 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
eric at zimtek.com writes:

 
The reason I started this thread was for exactly the reason Mara  
describes, plus having some way to start to collect data on it via Geyser  Times of 
what we are observing on the webcam...many here keep saying vents  open and 
close, but if we are not identifying (naming) those vents and track  their 
eruptions, then we have no record of how long they have been active or  an 
easy way to analyze if there are correlations in their behaviors or even if  
the vent actually does disappear! 



On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Mara Reed <_mara.reed at me.com_ 
(mailto:mara.reed at me.com) > wrote:  
 
Despite the fact that those vents may be gone soon, would it not be  
prudent to have some consensus on unofficial names (at least for those vents  
known to do anything in recent years) so that one can say “such and such  Dwarf 
erupted” in discussion of the area and people actually know which vent  it 
is? If nothing else, there still seems to be confusion as to whether the  
perpetual spouter vent is called “Red” or “North.” Maybe it stops being  
perpetual in a few years, maybe it continues its current activity - nobody  can 
know - but it sure makes it easier to discuss when we have a consistent  
name for it. With all due respect to Lee Whittlesey, I’d also wager it makes  
it easier to dig up information on a particular feature when the name used  
is  consistent.





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