We can talk more about Mountsburg, but that's just one example of, you know, very high threat.

It's going to have an effect, not just the ash in the atmosphere, which is true for any volcano

in Alaska. All the volcanoes of Alaska are, for the most part, going to be ash producing.

And even if they're out in the Aleutian Islands, there's going to be an effect or a potential

effect on air travel travel just the the

routes of of of of of of jet planes you can't have uh modern jet engines fly through in

through an ash cloud and so we work with our partners at the weather service and the FAA

to ensure that that doesn't happen.

So that's a hazard that exists for all volcanoes in Alaska.

But for the very high threat ones like Spur,

readout, Augustine, Akatan, and Makushan,

there we have that, but we also have the proximity to population, so it has

an even greater impact on our society. That was Matt Haney. He's the scientist in charge at the

Alaska Volcano Observatory, where he leads

the charge to monitor and communicate the activity of Alaska's volcanoes, some of the most

closely watched in the world. He explains that there are several ways to count Alaska's volcanoes, but one of the most striking

is this. Fifty-four of them have erupted in the last three hundred years. That's more than

any other U.S. state. Most of these volcanoes are found along the Aleutian arc, a seismically active chain

that stretches from Mount Spur just 80 miles west of Anchorage, through Cook Inlet, and out

across the Alaska Peninsula, and Aleutian Islands. A few outliers, like Mount Edgecombe in southeast and Mount Rangel near Glen

Allen, add even more complexity to tracking volcanic activity across Alaska. As a

volcanologist, Matt is part of a network that assesses volcanic risk using the

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