Hello Cheryl! Thanks very much for the information regarding the Augustine site. It's interesting and it's always good to hear from you. I hope you and everyone you care for--along with all the good folks at AVO--are doing well and are safe. Hope you can also "qualify" for the vaccination waiting list. The 2020 field season had to be a bit difficult for AVO and I hope 2021 is better. Since I qualify as a coot, I've already had both shots. 'May or June when things melt out." I understand completely as mid-May is generally when the last snow leaves our home and driveway. I look forward to driving cars now and then instead of the trucks. Have a good week. Ed    In a message dated 3/1/2021 9:39:22 AM Alaskan Standard Time, Avoemails@avo.alaska.edu writes: Hi Ed, Hope you are doing well - there are actually two of us here now who answer AVO emails -- myself and John Perreault, who does a bunch of GIS tasks as well as AVO Radio. :)We reached out to one of our field techs about what happened to that site, and she said:"This site at the summit of Augustine Volcano gets completely buried each winter by many feet of snow, which can result in slow crushing of the equipment - most often we find shattered solar panels, but anything outside the hut can be vulnerable. The metal hood and vent on the east wall of the hut were part of a gas sampling experiment designed to measure emissions from the nearby fumarole.  While the hood itself looks to be solidly constructed, I suspect that the weight of the snow on that hood caused inward force on the fiberglas hut wall and eventually cracked it. Our fiberglas shelters are designed to withstand a lot of snow burial while remaining light enough (~400 pounds empty weight) that a couple field techs can skid them into position if the helicopter placement isn't perfect -  it's important that the solar panels face south!The AUSS hut was repaired in summer 2020 and although it's currently offline since since the solar panels and radio antenna are buried in snow, it has a fair chance of coming back online in May or June as things melt out." I learned a bunch from her answer - thanks for askingCheryl-- Hello AVO (Cheryl?), I enjoyed the new photos posted on your website and was curious about one. What caused the damage to the seismic station on Augustine? Is that bear damage on an island volcano? Info and URL below. Thanks, I know you have more important things to do, but I can't help being curious. Sincerely, Ed MarkerKenai    Seismic site AUSS on Augustine summit.Date:    July 15, 2020 9:20 PM AKVolcano(es):    AugustinePhotographer/Creator:    Mayo, WyattURL:    http://www.avo.alaska.edu/images/image.php?id=163571