Chris Waythomas
Chris Waythomas
light looking small
Just very light small amounts, you have to be looking for it to find it in the snow, very fine-grained stuff.
attached island might names various
Other names might have been attached to it by various people, but for now what's in the dictionary, which is our reference, is Augustine Island and Augustine Volcano.
kindness standard
It's a new way of monitoring volcanoes now, but this is going to be kind of the standard way of doing it.
happened sooner surprised
It happened a little sooner than we thought, but we weren't surprised that it happened.
drop effort goes name simplest
I don't know that there was any concerted effort to drop saint. Typically the way this goes is that the simplest name sticks.
authority maps people
Who has the authority to do this? Well, the people that make the maps ... you've got to standardize things at some point.