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Yellowstone Science a Quarterly Publication Devoted to the Natural and Cultural Resources Yellowstone Science A quarterly publication devoted to the natural and cultural resources A Chat with a Geophysicist Yellowstone’s Architecture Windows into the Earth Reviewed A Tribute to Aubrey Haines Volume 8 Number 4 NPS photo Through a Glass, Darkly? On the surface of the wild “Wonder- that reflect a motley collection of styles Haines passed from his earthly life, caus- land” that is today called Yellowstone, and eras. ing mourning among many Yellowstone modern Americans have noticeably left Underneath the park teem the unseen, fans. In his NPS career and afterward, their mark, in the buildings they have uncontrollable forces of the earth’s geol- Aubrey pursued the facts behind count- constructed over the last century or more. ogy, only hinted at by the surface mani- less tales and traditions of park history. A historic structure can be especially val- festations of geothermal energy. Many Looking through the windows Aubrey ued—or censured—based on how it re- scientists and visitors long to see and opened onto Yellowstone Park’s “cre- lates to the surrounding human-built and understand what lies beneath Yellow- ation,” some viewers saw light and others natural landscape. Nowadays whenever a stone. Robert B. Smith has worked to saw shadows cast upon a sacred story; new building is proposed in the park, open such a window for the better part of they even tried to close the window. I was extensive discussion precedes (and con- four decades and, in this issue, shares honored to know him, briefly, and hope siderable criticism follows) the chosen some of his journeys of geologic discov- that park managers and others will al- architectural design. In this issue, Rodd ery. Accompanying that discussion is a ways value professionals like him who Wheaton provides readers a window on review of a recent book co-authored by provide new perspectives of Yellowstone, park architecture, as evidenced in park Bob entitled Windows into the Earth. be it of a “dark” past or an explosive hotels, ranger stations, and other facilities This autumn, eminent historian Aubrey future. SCM Yellowstone Science A quarterly publication devoted to the natural and cultural resources Volume 8 Number 4 Fall 2000 Table of Contents Windows into Yellowstone 2 Since 1959, Bob Smith has studied what he calls the “greater Yellowstone geoecosystem.” He explores the geology of the area (as revealed in his recently published book Windows into the Earth) and discusses his current park research. Interview with Geologist and Geophysicist Robert B. Smith Architecture of Yellowstone: A Microcosm of 14 American Design Beginning with early pioneers and the U.S. Army, Yellowstone’s architecture has evolved in parallel with styles throughout America. by Rodd L. Wheaton Book Review 20 Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks by Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel. Editor Sue Consolo-Murphy Reviewed by Mike Thompson Assistant Editor and Design A Tribute to Aubrey Haines 23 Tami Blackford The death of former park historian Aubrey Haines in September is a great personal Kevin Schneider and professional loss for friends of Yellowstone. by Paul Schullery Assistant Editors Mary Ann Franke Alice Wondrak News and Notes 25 New Archeological Finds • New Publications Available • Housing Available for Printing Park Researchers • Thermophilic Algae May Help Cut Greenhouse Emissions • Artcraft, Inc. John Varley Honored for Fisheries Work • Greater Yellowstone Area Parks to Begin Inventory Effort • Errata Bozeman, Montana Yellowstone Science is published quarterly, and submissions are welcome from all investigators On the cover: Aerial view of a rare conducting formal research in the Yellowstone area. Correspondence should be sent to the eruption of Steamboat Geyser in Norris Editor, Yellowstone Science, Yellowstone Center for Resources, Geyser Basin, July 6, 1984. From P.O. Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Windows into the Earth: The Geologic The opinions expressed in Yellowstone Science are the authors' and may not reflect either National Park Service policy or the views of the Yellowstone Center for Resources. Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton Copyright © 2000, the Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History & Education. National Parks, by Robert B. Smith and Lee Support for Yellowstone Science is provided by the Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, J. Siegel. History & Education, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to serving the park and its Above: Ionic columns, which were added to visitors. For more information about the Yellowstone Association, including membership, write to the Lake Hotel during its 1922–23 neo- P.O. Box 117, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. classicist renovation. NPS photo. Yellowstone Science is printed on recycled paper with a linseed oil-based ink. Windows into Yellowstone An Interview with Geologist and Geophysicist Robert B. Smith Bob Smith Dr. Robert B. “Bob” Smith has been They also had me assist with surveying associated with Yellowstone geology for lake bathymetry and limnology. We had four decades. Bob is a professor of geol- an old surplus navy boat with a depth ogy and geophysics at the University of bottom sounder on it from which we did Utah. He has conducted research in the seismic profiling of the lake. We also park since 1959 and has operated the lowered water and bottom sampling de- Yellowstone seismic and GPS networks vices down the water column. All the way since 1982. He is a former president of the along, the sounder recorded data from Seismology Section and a fellow of both beneath the lake bed with echoes of rock the American Geophysical Union and the sediments beneath it. “Hey,” I’d look at Geological Society of America. A lively my boss, “what is all this?” He said, speaker who talks about the many con- “Mind your own business. You’re sup- nections of features and resources in what posed to worry about fish, not about rocks.” he calls a greater Yellowstone But I thought it was pretty neat. That was “geoecosystem,” Bob graciously spoke 1956. with senior editor Sue Consolo Murphy in I didn’t finish high school, actually. I 1999 during one of his many trips to the was admitted to college early, but I left park. Windows into the Earth: The Geo- to spawn and be captured for study. that year after the opportunity came for logic Story of Yellowstone and Grand When we were taking graylings, griz- me to work in Yellowstone. I ended up at Teton National Parks is his new book with zlies would come to our cabin because Madison Junction that fall doing stream co-author Lee J. Siegel (Oxford Univer- they could smell fish eggs inside the chemistry and creel censuses, all these sity Press 2000; 240 pages, 69 illustra- building. I was sitting in my bed one things about fishing. Then the Hebgen tions). night, and I heard this roar and pounding Lake earthquake ripped off in 1959, and I on the cabin. After that I slept with a switched into geology. That really got me Yellowstone Science (YS): How did two-bitted ax across my bed the rest of interested. We students went up to the you get interested in geology? the time. I figured they were going to Hebgen Lake area and saw the aftermath Robert Smith (RS): I actually got started come right through the door. of this major earthquake, including fault here in Yellowstone; I worked in 1956 as I then helped map the tributaries of mapping and scarp measurements. a GS-0. I think that’s the truth—maybe it Yellowstone Lake that could support YS: You weren’t here at the time? You was a 1. fish spawn. I did surveys of water chem- didn’t experience the quake? YS: No pay? istry, salinity, and sediment conditions. RS: No. I was just finishing a summer RS: Very little. It was a great year I think I walked every mile of the drain- geology field course in southern Idaho. At because my job was the lowest GS level age that summer. Monday they put a around midnight the ground started shak- they had. I was stationed at Lake working pack on my back and said, “See you ing as we said, “It’s a big earthquake.” It’s for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Friday.” There were no radios, no GPS what really got me interested in this mix- They brought us on in late February; we (Global Positioning Systems), old maps, ture of geophysics—a combination of drove “weasels” across Hayden Valley. nothing, you just went. I would go up physics and geology. I also like the bio- These were the first snowmobiles, these every stream, every tributary. I lived that logical side of things because I started out little army weasels, horrid things. summer at Fern Lake, upper Pelican, doing that in Yellowstone. I went on and There used to be a grayling fish hatch- and we had cabins at Clear Creek, down got degrees in geology, a Ph.D. in geo- ery at Grebe Lake, west of Canyon. My at Trail Creek, and at Peale Island. We physics, and I started doing lots of other first job was to ski in and open up this worked our way around Yellowstone things; I went to pilot training in the Air building and get the water flowing and Lake. That was really a fantastic experi- Force, I put seismographs all over Europe then install fish traps and wait for the fish ence. to snoop on Russian nuclear testing, and 2 Yellowstone Science Figure 1. Space view of Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks from satellite images overlaid on digital elevation maps. The 8,000-foot-high Yellowstone caldera was produced by a giant volcanic eruption 630,000 years ago.
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