ORONO, Maine, April 15 -- University of Maine issued the following news release:
In a short 30-minute hike up several hundred feet, Abigail Hall of Olympia, Washington, was standing atop a volcano surrounded by a rocky expanse of red-brown igneous overlooking green hills, a small village and the Atlantic Ocean. She and a dozen other students marveled at the lava fields below with steaming vents and ruined buildings as they learned about a 1973 eruption that destroyed hundreds of buildings and wreaked havoc on the nearby farms.
The visit was part of a 10-day trip across Iceland in May 2025 that brought students not only to a volcano but also a geyser, a glacier, mountains, and the rugged coastline. They even trekked through a lava tube cre...