Chloe Anderson

Goals 

• Understand and contextualize volcanic processes on the Eastern Snake River Plain

Research Interests

Physical volcanology, igneous petrology, science communication, geohazards, remote sensing, planetary geology 

Tasks for 11/16:

• send Ar/Ar email

• Update colors on aspect map

• check slope map for the divot-y feature on the W vent

• Review the other tight vent chains -- are we on the best one? (Existing dates matter)

• Confirm public vs private land status

• Keep logging EREF

• Reach out to SPAN about placement

• Finish summarizing Hughes et al. and Watts et al.

• CC: outline

Tasks for 11/9:

• Finish editing paper summaries

• Registration

• Email CalVO about Ar/Ar 

• Thesis plan:

  • Redo hillshade (raise sun angle and put it in a physically plausible orientation), also make slope, aspect, and curvature maps

    • lock in sample location targets (check against dirt roads and legal access)

  • Add in the oddball we noticed (check access)

• Keep logging EREF

• Read/summarize Hughes et al. and Watts et al.

• Pick a Caldera Chronicles topic

Tasks for 11/2:

• Edit paper summaries

• take ID written driver test

• Check for sample of Q1 report

  • either way, write 1 paragraph describing work undertaken since starting; bring bullet points to meeting 10/27

• Thesis plan: 

  • fill in the how many/where answers, type of analysis needed for Cu

  • Bring map to meeting 10/27

• Keep logging Eagle Rock

  • Where exactly was the core taken?

Tasks for 10/26:

• Get new license

• Plan: shared dike system and evolution, plus sunstone (Scooby-Doo monster or cool science?)

  • Boil down plan into major and minor hypotheses (1 each)

  • Make list of data needed and the type(s) of analyses needed to get that data

  • Draft sampling plan, organized by type of sample

  • Check property access (public vs private)

• For reading group: read/summarize

  • McQuarrie and Rodgers (1998) <you lead this one>

  • Ellis et al. (2013)

Tasks for 10/19:

• Get ID license

• Write up summary/couple of questions in your own words about the research topics we discussed. (Cinder Butte/ID 530; vent 6136 to SP crater line <and nearby>)

  • Where would you need to go? (make a simple map)

  • What are your hypotheses?

  • What analyses would you need?

• Find extracurricular

• Chat with DP

Tasks for 10/5:

• Follow-up with HD about INL/USGS driver course; get it sorted out

• Write up a summary/couple of questions in your own words about the research topics we discussed. (Cinder Butte/ID 530; vent 6136 to SP crater line <and nearby>)

  • Where would you need to go? (make a simple map)

  • What are your hypotheses?

  • What analyses would you need?

• Find extracurricular

• Papers to read/summarize (discuss 9/30):

  • Chadwick et al. (2023)

  • Miller and Hughes (2009)