Yellowstone News and Information

A Christmas (misinformation) story:  Yellowstone edition Misinformation and misconceptions about Yellowstone are nothing new.  This past Christmas saw a particularly challenging episode of misinformation that caused widespread and needless concern—especially because there are many places on-line to find scientific information about Yellowstone’s current activity. Yellowstone  Caldera  Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles directed and narrated a live radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel  The War of the Worlds .  The incident is famous for supposedly having incited a panic that the events being described were really happening.  Some people apparently thought that Martians were invading Eart...