6 NEWS NOTES
Wait and see for El Niño * A flood of new statistics * Ancients right about Delphi * Pursuing the North Magnetic Pole * Field Notes

13 POLITICAL SCENE
Becoming a Standard-Bearer
Influencing a policy means demonstrating its importance to an elected official’s constituents. As constituents ourselves, geoscientists are uniquely qualified to make this connection.
David Curtiss

14 FOR STUDENTS
A Summer of Fossils
For these twin geology students, field-based summer internships fueled their passion for fossils.
Celina Suarez and Marina Suarez

28 GEOPHENOMENA
Mount Pelée, Martinique
On May 8, 1902, the eruption of Mount Pelée killed 28,000 people and became the century’s largest volcanic disaster.
Christina Reed