Harry Glicken

Harry Glicken

Mount St. Helens, photographed by Harry Glicken one day before the 1980 eruption, taken from the spot where David A. Johnston died the following day (today known as Johnston Ridge)

A memorial plaque to Harry Glicken at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Harry Glicken (1958 – 1991) was a volcanologist who was killed on 3 June 1991 by a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen in Japan. Also killed were forty-two other scientists and journalists, including volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft.

Glicken was scheduled to observe Mount St. Helens on 18 May 1980, the day of its eruption; however, he was not present on that day as he had an interview at a college in California. His replacement, David A. Johnston, was killed by the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Publications

• Geology and ground-water hydrology of Spirit Lake blockage, Mount St. Helens, Washington, with implications for lake retention (1989) U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1789
• Rockslide-debris avalanche of May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington (1996) U.S. Geological Survey Open File 96-677
• The effects of ground water, slope stability, and seismic hazards on the stability of the South Fork Castle Creek blockage in the Mount St. Helens area, Washington (1985) U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1345
• The effects of ground water, slope stability, and seismic hazard on the stability of the South Fork Castle Creek blockage in the Mount St. Helens area, Washington (1984) U.S. Geological Survey Open File 84-624

External links

• Glicken at vulcan.wr.usgs.gov
• Yoshiaki Ida and Barry Voight, Introduction to the Harry Glicken memorial special issue on "models of magmatic processes and volcanic eruptions", Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research Volume 66, Issues 1-4, Models of Magmatic Processes and Volcanic Eruptions, July 1995, Pages ix-xvi.