"What's going on in there?"

About this site:

This is my own personal project to consolidate existing geyser data sources into a single database.
It will bring together older information from the Old Faithful Log Book as transcribed by Lynn Stephens, electronic logger eruptions from Ralph Taylor, webcam viewer reports and real-time submissions from gazers in the Upper Geyser Basin. This site will be continually improving for a while, and I welcome any and all comments and suggestions.
The biggest technology wave to sweep geyser gazing since two-way radios and electronic monitoring will be smart phones and I think this site will help make them useful to the gazer.
--Jake Young, April 2011

About the data:

Data is collected by people and people make mistakes--it's not a perfect process.
There are errors in the data.
Such is the nature of collecting information for natural processes that continually change.
Nobody gets paid to do this stuff (although I will entertain offers!) so it's a labor of love.

Some individuals have contributed a lot to the geyser data cause:
Ralph Taylor has done amazing work for years with his electronic loggers and data interpretation.
Lynn Stephens has done a lot of typing and deciphering of handwriting in transcribing the Old Faithful Vistor Center logbook.
Geyser gazers everywhere, from seasonal volunteers to week-long vacationers to webcam watchers, have given a great deal too.

Update History:

• User Home page updated with a better layout
• User options including:Custom selected geyser intervals and the ability to turn on or off other features
• Reference map added
• Ability to add a comment to an eruption entry that is not yours
• Ability to delete flags, attachments, and confirms
• Ability to add attachments to notes
• Night mode added
• Timeline logbook display option added
• Personal checklists feature
• Type in search box for selecting geysers
• Added retrieve function options including exporting the search to a CSV file
• More reference links added
• More geysers added to the list

• User Home page added
• YouTube attachments display in an embedded frame
• Durations are shown in the Recent entries pages
• Basic user profiles made visible
• Ability to change account password
• Notes can be deleted or edited

• Flags being pulled from geysers.net
• Entry form updates with "Long" and "Short" for Old Faithful rather than "Major" and "Minor"

• Entries being pulled from sister site,geysers.net
• Rudimentary "recent activity" page for each geyser
• Entries with 2 flags or more are automatically deleted

• Added ability to mark "electronic" times

• Logic added to identify "primary" entries and "secondary" entries for observations of the same eruption event
• Added ability to confirm an eruption
• Behind the scenes: eruption times stored in Unix epoch time
• Publishing XML file of observations to help sync data with sister site,geysers.net

• Added entry editing
• Added URL attachment to entry
• Added "Current Intervals" display to home page

• New Privacy Policy
• Added Open Source Database License (ODbL)

• Added user registration and log in
• Added functionality to delete and flag eruption entries
• Updated entry form to check for a bad entry before submitting
• Can mark eruptions as questionable with (?)
• Old Faithful shorts recorded as "minor"
• Updated entry forms to look better in Internet Explorer
• Updated look & feel

• GeyserTimes.org goes live
• Limited webcam entries stored
• Eruption entry form
• Can view entries in "daily log" format
• Basic structure