Homemade lava flows fuse science with art
Channel: AGU
Date: 29/06/2017

Eastern North America has no active volcanoes. But residents of upstate New York can see real-life lava flowing much as it does in Hawaii, Iceland, and Italy. 

The glowing molten rock spills from an outdoor furnace in the Syracuse, N.Y., where an artist and scientist at a local university have teamed up to recreate natural lava flows. Their scorching outpourings provide a better understanding of the mechanics of volcanic eruptions and solidify into replicas of volcanic discharges that the duo would like to display in museums or other unlikely settings for puddles of lava. 

Read more about how the Syracuse Lava Project got started here: https://eos.org/articles/homemade-lava-flows-fuse-science-with-art-on-video

Or, visit the Syracuse Lava Project website here: http://lavaproject.syr.edu/

Video produced by Lauren Lipuma and Derek Sollosi at AGU. 

Music:  GravitationalWaves by airtone (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/55021
Images and video provided by Robert Wysocki, Jeffrey A Karson & Lauren Lipuma.  Additional Imagery from Google Earth