<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>In a message dated 2/27/2006 5:10:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, riozafiro@comcast.net writes:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This all could apply to anybody, so my 2 scents:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Any suggestions for the following would be really helpful:<BR>1. Tips for collecting data-- for example, I noticed that in some  <BR>Gazers' data books, they have abbreviations, which makes it easier  <BR>and quicker to write down times. I think things happen quickly at the  <BR>Silver Globes (from my unofficial observations) as the functions  <BR>change between each one.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>If you were sitting right there taking the data, then I wouldn't expect any standard abbreviations to be necessary (that is, you probably wouldn't be using i.e for "in eruption," or n.s. for "near start," and etc. On the other hand, there would be nothing wrong with you inventing of some kind of personal shorthand for use only when recording things.</DIV> <DIV>     Things do happen quickly at the Silver Globes, so recording times to the second would be desirable. Doing it "to the whole minute" would likely miss some relationships. When I do that sort of thing, I usually write down the hour only for the very first entry, then continue with minutes:seconds.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>2. How long should I stay to get a good picture of what's going on  <BR>there? I am not sure I can dedicate an entire day--Lynn, you say "a  <BR>few hours". would three hours be about right? Less? More?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>This of course depends on what is being studied. In the case of Silver Globe, then three hours might actually be a bit short -- to me, the control there would be the frequency of Slit Geyser. Any decent study of that complex ought to include several Slit eruptions, and sometimes it goes quite a while between eruptions.</DIV> <DIV>     For another example, for something like an update on the activity of Slide Geyser, three hours would probably be excessive. And boring.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>3. Should I watch nearby geysers, too, such as Jewel? Or just  <BR>concentrate on the ones I am writing about? There's a nice view of  <BR>the Old Road Group from there, I do plan to bring my binoculars!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>Not necessary, and certainly I wouldn't look so far afield as the Old Road area -- unless, of course, something new (rejuvenated Baby Daisy or some such) was going on. I would also say that any reasonable observation of Jewel would need eruption time _and_ number of bursts. And watching that could easily cause you to miss something at Silver Globe.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>4. Anything else? I do plan to have a couple of seasoned Gazers read  <BR>through the article before publication.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>Remeber the modern understanding of names there, as recently discussed here -- Silver Globe [SG] is the blue pool below (south of) the boardwalk (it is simply Silver Globe, no "Spring" or "Geyser" or "Pool" in the name); Silver Globe Cave Geyser [C] is right below the walk to the left (east) of Silver Globe; Silver Globe Pair Geyser [P] is the pair of holes beyond Silver Globe; and Slit Geyser [S] (Silver Globe is no longer part of its name) is beyond Pair. On the other side of the boardwalk, Silver Globe Geyser [GG] is the thing in the deep hole; BBG-3 [3] is to its east; Avoca Spring [A] is the elongated spring north of Silver Globe Geyser.</DIV> <DIV>     OK, so shorthand again: as necessary, you could probably note the geysers with the letters that I placed within brackets in the above.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>