Yellowstone News and Information

  Borehole instruments: The hidden component of geophysical monitoring in Yellowstone Release Date: August 16, 2021 When it comes to data, Yellowstone is a geophysicist’s dream. There is continuous activity from earthquakes, geysers, and of course, the volcano itself. A keen eye may be able to spot one of the park’s numerous GPS or seismometer stations hard at work, but some of the park’s data collectors are buried deep within the Earth, hidden from sight in boreholes. Yellowstone  Caldera  Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Courtenay Duzet, graduate student at the University of Montana and intern at UNAVCO. When it comes to monitoring data, Yellowstone is one of the best-covered volcanic systems in the world! Numerous instruments are distributed throughout the park to collect data for assessing the state of the vo...

  News Release Tourism to Yellowstone creates $560 million in economic benefits Report shows visitor spending supports 6,110 jobs in local economy Yellowstone National Park sign at sunset at the North Entrance NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: June 15, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3.8 million people to Yellowstone National Park in 2020 spent over $444 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 6,110 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $560 million. The peer-reviewed visitor spending analysis was conducted by economists with the NPS and the U.S. Geological Survey. The report shows $14.5 billion of direct spending by more than 237 million park visitors in communities within 60 miles of a national park. This spending supported 234,000 jobs nationally; 194,400 of those jobs are found in the...