David Cavell

Project:

Create a detailed map of the Sixmile Butte volcano and associates flows and understand its place in the eastern Snake River Plain (ESRP) volcanic history. One portion of the project will do field mapping of the Sixmile area to identify flow fronts and boundaries and understand the eruptive history and construction of the volcano. The other portion will be to use geochemical data of Sixmile Butte and surrounding volcanoes for identifying potential trends in magma evolution within the ESRP and if we can see the regional evolution of an evolved center.

Goals:

Post-Masters:

1. Work as a volcanologist at an observatory, or with a state or federal agency monitoring and/or modeling volcanic hazards

2. Work as a geologic mapper, mapping, predominantly volcanic areas, to improve and complete the geologic map coverage of the western United States and other locals

3. Look further into volcanic geochemistry within the ESRP and/or other volcanic regions

Long Term:

• Graduate with a Masters degree

• Create a detailed map of the Sixmile volcano flows

• Understand the geochemistry of the ESRP

Short Term:

• Collect data from field samples and interpret the data

• Write thesis

• Effectively educate undergraduates in the introductory Earth Systems labs

• Create and grow a social and professional network with faculty/staff and fellow graduate students

For 8/1:

• Trace:

  • Compare ranges of change to other SROTS for the variation within any one unit

  • Add 2 WSU-MSU crossover samples

  • Check similarity between plag field estimates and point counts from thin section set; Can you use field estimates to compare to Ba, Zr, Sr?

  • Do plag vs Sr plot

  • make heatmaps of Ba, Sr, Zr across ESRP. For units with multiple values, use median and stdev. Locate data based on vent location, not sample location.

  • Do time series style plots of the same trace values for cores (start with Potter)

• MGO spread:

  • remove Lavatoo

  • Check Helmuth data for Pond, other data that could be added to file

  • Update MgO spreads using Potter flow groups

• MEO:

  • for the three subsurface pints with the low Mg# and low K/P: where are those located (horizontally and vertically) relative to the rest of the subsurface data? Which points represent overlap where the same subunit is present in surface and subsurface data records?

  • Make the Fenners clean for thesis (flow groups, connecting subunits to approximate time sequence)

• Clustering:

  • Repeat existing version, but normalizing all three inputs first. Does it come out the same?

  • Try reduced set of samples that have ol% (viz ok)

  • Look up why ward.D2? How different are other results? (How sensitive are the results to the algorithm choice?)

• Look at plag paper

• Keep writing

For 7/25:

• Reach out to MSU to see whether they are still planning on running the samples

• Trace:

  • Dig into the ones that we have point counts for, particularly subdivided olivines

  • Which xls will take Ba, Zr, or other trace elements with ranges of values?

  • Compare ranges of change to other SROTS, both a) the bulk distribution of the ESRP and b) the variation within any one unit

• MgO spread: 

  • review Potter data considering the specific flow groups

  • filter Lavatoo based on strat column in Miller. Check coordinates from core location. Look to separate 5206, Lavatoo, and maybe Quaking Aspen?

• MEO: 

  • mixing: do targeted point combinations and check outcome values for things like Ba

• Clustering of flow groups:

  • try using clustering dendrogram in R on department machines, considering ex., MgO, Ol%, Ba

  • see tutorial for coding support; pay attention to assumptions about inputs and clustering algorithm

  • How do the geochem flow groups relate to the petrography data? How do the dendrogram groups relate to the previously interpreted groups?

• "Duplicate samples" from Dietz and Hughes: Is there any change in the trace? (none observed in MEO)

• Check slides for Dietz's surface samples, compare to own modal distributions

• Look over papers from SKN

• Keep writing

For 7/17:

• Trace:

  • dig into whether spreads are related to changes in petrography, etc.

  • Likely causes of shifts in barium and zirconium?

  • Write interpretations with justifying figures

• MgO spread: check all core values to confirm that they actually belong to the correct unit (Kimama test on Lavatoo, others)

• MEO

  • Put together outline to guide SKN through the mixing testing

• Diagrams as a whole:

  • resymbolize based on flows/groups and interpret

• Do kmeans on geochem (do elbow plot to identify ideal number of groups): Does it create the same groups?

• How do the geochem flow groups relate to the petrography data?

• Check Hughes' data: are they from different cores? If from the same cores as Dietz, do they agree (duplicates)? If from surface: how do they relate to the surface map? Check Hughes' field notes for hand sample descriptions of SMB-04 samples

• Make a figure that combines flow unit map with surface samples from Hughes and Dietz -- have tables showing how the Hughes and Dietz data for those samples compares to the unit as defined by Cavell data

• Keep staring at petrography graph -- does it support/reject other ideas?

• Keep writing

For 7/3 (Field camp informal meetings in between):

• update trace element tables (correct the normalization issue)

  • plot the trace elements

  • write brief interpretations with justifying figures

• MgO spread: check all core values to confirm that they actually belong to the correct unit (Kimama test on Lavatoo, others)

• MEO

  • There are two groups in the Fenner plots of the core data. Do those two groups (gray-x, blue-diamond) relate to the groups in Dietz's La enrichment groups?

  • Game-play with the K2O/P2O5 vs Mg#: are you looking at two groups (D-N and D-S) that can be mixed to get the others (surface)? Re-symbolize into distinct core sets and surface.

• Fence diagram:  compare at sample (flow pulse) scale, not mixing scales between samples (surface) and entire thickness of local core preservation. Consider locations of cores, geochemistry, plausible paleotopography, petrography (when available), etc. Use CoMU rules for vertical stacking.

• Check Hughes' data: are they from different cores? If from the same cores as Dietz, do they agree? If from surface: how do they relate to the surface map? Check Hughes' field notes for hand sample descriptions of SMB-04 samples

• Keep staring at petrography graph -- does it support/reject other ideas?

• Keep writing

For 5/22:

• MgO spreads: 

  • Remove non-Kimama from Kimama group (maybe have to remove whole group?)

  • Check KB data for split across different eras of measurement or dating

• MEO

  • Relate core groups to the La enrichment groups in Dietz

  • Plot K2O/P2O5 vs Mg# (see Dietz Fig 2.20)

• Make a fence diagram to show (im)plausible lateral correlations

• Is there anything else to interpret from the xl % graph?

• Keep writing

For 5/9:

• MgO spreads: 

  • Remove non-Kimama from Kimama group (maybe have to remove whole group?)

  • Remove Table Legs outlier (asterisk)

  • Check KB data for split across different eras of dating

  • Anything fishy about Lavatoo?

• MELTS:

  • FeO adjustment wonky, talk to KM

  • Check Dietz and McCurry stuff for initial T

• Keep calling Ashley (WSU)

• Ol plots

  • check 0.62 value

  • make version of plot as additive bar chart (use horizontal lines to indicate which are in stratigraphic order)

  • add new plot or secondary axis for Ol sizes (median and stdev)

• Make a fence diagram to show (im)plausible lateral correlations

• Keep writing

For 5/2:

• Add other oxides from MELTS to plots

  • use lines instead of points

  • show KM

• finish powdering

• Point counts

  • check order of Dietz points

  • combine Dietz and own data

  • Can you quasi-correlate any points?

  • What's the combined narrative?

• Keep reaching out to WSU, follow up with Erika

• Ask Dietz about lone wild MgO value

• Look at thin section 142_157 to check olivine status

• Keep writing

For 4/25:

• Graduation deferral paperwork 

• Play with new MELTS option

• Keep powdering

• Keep point counting Dietz

• Keep reaching out to WSU

• Follow up with MSU

• Use existing Dietz values to add to Ol vs MgO plot

• Keep writing

For 4/18:

• Graduation deferment

• I heard that advisors have to fill out a form about the out-of-department classes: Fill it out in Docusign and bring to SKN to click (ask Dali)

• MELTS is cursed by the devil

  • ask KM if her team has a machine that currently runs it

• Start on powdering

• Keep point counting Dietz

• Use existing Dietz values to add to Ol vs MgO plot

For 4/11:

• Fenner diagram: add modeled lines for the estimated parent melt undergoing simple fractional xl-ization

  • Maybe ask Ryan N?

• Point counting with Dietz's slides 

• Select samples for additional powdering, bring justifications to next meeting

• Check Dietz's most-different MgOs (can you add to Ol vs MgO plot?)

• Check FeO vs Ol

• Communicate with Erika/Cody/WSU about fusing

• Pull Spear thesis (1979) (ILL?)

For 4/4:

• On context map: add labels for source boundaries

• Add faults (if you don't have them, email SKN)

• Fenner diagram: add modeled lines for the estimated parent melt undergoing simple fractional xl-ization

• Organize data in terms of eruptive sequence

• See about using Dietz's thin sections

• Plot ol and plag %s rather than use table

• plot ol vs MgO - does one predict the other?

• Get the fused samples and process

For 3/21:

• On context map: add labels for source boundaries

• Add faults (if you don't have them, email SKN)

• Add other ESRP data, including Sixmile to map with ternary, for ternary, remove axis tick labels and enlarge MEO text

• When samples arrive, work with Andy (follow up with TR if nothing arrives by Wednesday)

• Revise spread figure to replace box-and-whiskers with points and connecting lines

• Fenner diagram: add modeled lines for the estimated parent melt undergoing simple fractional xlization

• Thin section madness; for first thin section compare with field notes/sample

• Colloquium presentation!

For 3/7:

• On map: add scabland overlay, add labels for source boundaries

• Add other ESRP data, including Sixmile to map with ternary, for ternary, remove axis tick labels and enlarge MEO text

• When samples arrive, work with Andy

• Make range figure for least compatible MEOs comparing various volcanoes

• Fenner diagram: add modeled lines for the estimated parent melt undergoing simple fractional xlization

• Low time pressure: adjust unit colors on sample context map to increase differences

• Send plag growth papers to SKN

• Thin section madness; for first thin section, correct math and compare with field notes/sample

For 2/28:

• On map: add scabland overlay, add labels for source boundaries

• Make figure with ternary diagram inset and ESRP map, using different colors for the sample groups (use different symbols for core)

• Follow up with Kurt about trace analysis

• Make figure showing ranges of values within a single unit and across a recharge set (Kimama), show SKN and KM

• Low time pressure: adjust unit colors on sample context map to increase differences

• Send plag growth papers to SKN

• Bring thin section data next week (does not need to be complete)

• Start slides for colloquium talk 3/12, bring initial draft

• Practice slides 3/3

For 2/21:

• On map: 

  • readjust Helmuth contact (add text to Intro about the differences in contact as related to heterogeneity), add scabland overlay

  • Add lines to denote the sources of contacts for various parts of the map

• Check COTM-parallel groups on ternary in GESRP vents: where do these other groups occur?

• Tuesday: email about trace if nothing heard before then

• Geochem story: Hughes and McCurry

• Add legends to maps

• Map: zoomed out version

• Keep learning about plag growth and cooling patterns

• Thin sections

For 2/7:

• On map: 

  • readjust Helmuth contact (add text to intro about the differences in contacts as related to heterogeneity), add scabland overlay

  • Add lines to denote the sources of contacts for various parts of the map  

• Add error bars to Fenner plots where appropriate

• Check COTM-parallel group on ternary in GESRP vents: where do the other groups occur?

• Check the La vs MgO from Dietz; make the plots pretty

• Simplify the geochem story. Focus on contextualizing with narratives from Hughes and McCurry

• Stay in contact about Trace

• Add legends to various maps

• Map: make a zoomed-out version with other flow boundaries and subsurface sample locations

• Expand plag story

• Thin section mayhem

For 1/31:

• Check Dietz's low MgO on P2O5 and NaO (Fenner)

• Check COTM-parallel group on ternary in GESRP vents: are these Cedar?

• Check the La vs MgO from Dietz; make the plots pretty

• Simplify the geochem story. Focus on contextualizing with narratives from Hughes and McCurry

• Maps: move NE boundary to match river

• Map: symbols for catch-and-release, collected, and analyzed; revise INL name

• Map: make a zoomed-out version with other flow boundaries and subsurface sample locations

• Email about trace element data

• write first draft of plag growth story

For 1/24:

• Check high MgO values from Dietz (switched values?)

• Sort Dietz data in Fenner diagrams by enrichment group

• Make/find Fenner diagram illustrating a single reservoir with zoning, single reservoir with deep recharge

• Read moar geochem, pull more detailed interp from Hughes

• Review/revise methods section (Ch3), add figure showing field description and sample locations, describe field campaign design

• With luck: receive trace element data

• Look up papers on plag growth during ascent

• {SKN: reply to scheduling email}

For 1/17:

• Create Fenner diagrams that show interpreted sequence, make Hughes and Dietz data background with different symbols for surface and subsurface

• Write bullet points for interpretation from Fenner diagrams

• Read Hughes paper about ESRP geochem interp

• Convert your Fe to FeO format

• Issue with pet scope stage: SKN check in with Kurt and Kendra about status

• Review/revise methods section (Ch3)

• Review/revise based on feedback in Ch 2

• With luck: receive trace element data

• Schedule committee review meeting with SKN and Kendra (check if KM got prospectus copy)

For 1/8:

• Add context GESRP to Fenner diagrams

• Check Fe reporting state (FeO* vs Fe2O3*)

• Plot TAS

• Geochem comparison to Haley's data: does the closeness of fit change if you consider her different groups?

• Wrap up point counts

• Finish final class assignments

For 12/12:

• Sign up for colloquium talk day (April 2?)

• Make MEO figures

• Tighten language in DOMU

• Last 2 slides of point counting! Aim to get at least 1 done.

• Double check book vs GIS entries, especially in areas near contacts

• {SKN: check out Ch 2 draft}

For 12/5:

• Double check book vs GIS entries, especially in areas near contacts

• Yay for point counting!

• Revise DOMU

• Wrap up class assignments

• Finish program of study 

• {SKN: check out Ch 2 draft}

For 11/21:

• Wrap up revised viz of REE plot

• Continue the point counting party! 

• Finish writing DOMU

• Edits to summit area of map

• work on final projects for classes

• apply for BLM position in NM

For 11/14:

• apply for BLM position in NM

• work on final projects for classes

• Point Counting Extravaganza!!! Party time!!

• REE

  • remove USGS 139

  • add Hughes data

• Revise map

• Hold: Finish DOMU

For 11/7:

• REEs:

  • compare REEs in Dietz to find ones that are more similar

  • compare to Dietz strat column

• THIN SECTIONS

  • FINISH THE BESTIARY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DAVID! -David

• Finish DOMU

• go to field for blank NE from crater section and SW from crater

For 10/31:

• REES:

  • Does the La spread in the Dietz data reflect space? How?

  • Fix sort problem in Hughes' sheet (go back to original)

• Make map without plag symbols; make polygons open (not filled) over lidar; add Y-O labels

• Write descriptive definitions of subunits based on the hand samples and field descriptions

• Finish bestiary 

  • example of what you think of as "bubbly"

For 10/24:

• Check normalization of REEs

• Finalize maps: bring to next meeting

• THIN SECTION MADNESS

  • Make your bestiary: identify all (sub)populations, describe how to identify them, snag photos, estimate percentages

For 10/17:

• Input Haley's data & make figures

• Keep playing with map symbology

• Make new lidar map figures

  • compare contacts with lidar morphology

• Keep working on Ch 2

For 10/10:

• Chat with Glenn once he's back

• Talk to Kendra about Haley's data access

• Contact MCS support about MELTS not connecting

• Tinker with map symbology to decide confidence on current grouping

• {SKN: review Ch 1} Email SKN to remind her

• Keep poking Ch2

For 10/3:

• Re-read Giordano paper (visc)

  • figured it out

• Show Glenn the flood maps

  • Glenn has been too broken to find outside of class

• Add SROT examples to spider diagram

• Plot geochem targets for Hughes and Dietz datasets

  • Haley's geochem data is not in the draft you sent me

  • Sr and Y not in Scott's data

  • cant find anything on Rb/Ba ratio outside of Barton's thesis

• Email MSU to confirm receipt of samples

  • should get a receipt next week, Tyrone is out of the country doing field work

• Email McCurry about MCS question

• Tinker with map symbology to decide confidence on current grouping

• {SKN: review Ch 1}

• Keep poking Ch2

  • will be "finished" 10/4

For 9/26:

• georeferencing more maps from Warner to determine more precisely which flood condition is more likely for the felsic rocks found

• need to read more of Shaw (1972) for viscosity calculations (lots of words and different equations)

  • Visc calculations

• geochem targets

  • majors, Sr/Y v Mg# (plag- vs ol-forming), K2O2/P2O5 v Mg# (AFC-crust, FC, AFC-gabbro), La v Mg# (population separation), Rb/Ba (assim), Tb/Yb (spinel peridotite mantle source)

• Keep fighting with MCS

• Add trace to REE plots

• Update contacts based on new field data

• {SKN: review Ch 1}

• If time: start on Ch2

• Get Haley's thesis, review

For 9/19:

• Find Braeden Warner thesis (ask Glenn?) for flood conditions

• Label points on map, add summit mark

  • Are current contacts granular enough?

• MCS

  • recharge & assimilation 

• Start REE plots using existing data based on Barton

• Initial viscosity calculations

• Map out other geochem targets to discuss

• Make shared drive for thesis draft; share with SKN

  • Send Ch1 draft to SKN

  • If time: start on Ch2

For 9/12:

• Back to Sixmile on the 14th? hvea idae for mppaing aera

  • Emily or Kyleigh available?

• Map:

  • Add ol, plag %'s and sizes to dots on map for all field observations

  • Add summit

• Re-start MCS process

  • rhyolite/Arco Hills/Copper Basin

  • Graveyard Point/high-MgO

  • Stratigraphic order?

• Read Barton Thesis, summarize useful points

• Register for 1 cr research problems under RA, 1 cr Thesis under SKN

For 8/29:

• Geothermal competition? Talk about the deets

• <Did fieldwork, collected rocks, sweated a lot>

• Finish sample processing for thin sections and XRF/ICPMS

• Working on what is needed to ship powders to MSU

  • heard back from MSU; filling out paperwork

• Look up thin section costs, send favorite to SKN

• Finish draft map (may need to bleed over slightly)

• Re-start MCS process

  • rhyolite/Arco Hills/Copper Basin

  • Graveyard Point/high-MgO

  • Stratigraphic order?

• Put together proposal for return to Sixmile

For 5/21?:

• Update maps: remove rhyolite, fix Sixmile location, adjust frame to include Wapi; convert stdev to stdev relative to mean (%)

• Lavatoo: search for Hodges et al. (2024) for lumping/splitting question

• Field scouting trip: make plan, including maps

  • get DEM, make hillshade; airphotos

• Debug MCS

For 5/8:

• Finish prospectus final draft

• Final grades due

• Add stdev to map

• Lavatoo

  • organizing by site, then elevation -- check coordinates of surface samples rel. to core

  • flag within site for odd jumps in MgO

  • check fence diagram (Hodges) for possible lumping vs splitting

• Box plots: check Zr data columns

• Play with MCS

For 4/25:

• Geostats and 6603 presentations {SKN attend 8 am Thursday}

• work on prospectus 2nd draft

• Add more dome(s) to box plots

• Check Lavatoo breaks in Mg trends to see if they relate to anything spatially (horizontal or vertical)

• Stddev map where stdev is relative to its own unit, not whole set

• Finish figures

• Field assistant for me and Dali rumor???

For 4/18:

• See if Kendra has experience with MCS, if not then try Scott

  • meeting with Mike, 19th Apr

• Map of geochem variance

  • look at the lavas in box and whiskers

• Plot Lavatoo with Sixmile chem to see if the trends line up

• Check to see if we have Zr data for other COTM lavas, especially in the north. If so, add to plot.

• Add figures to summaries

• What fraction of the Potter FeO measurements (by unit) are within 10% of mean of all values (by unit)?

  • 88%

• Add to short summaries (see file for notes)

• <SKN: finish draft feedback>

• Keep working on figures

  • to be completed this weekend/following week

For 4/11:

• Set up meeting with MMC about MCS

• Dive into Lavatoo samples to check spread

• Add BSB rhyolites, remove BSB basalt

• Are there other trace elements that could be used?

  • ZR (is plotted)

• Write short summaries of Potter analysis stuff and geochem interpretations

• IASE! 

• Finish prospectus draft

For 4/4: 

• see about reply from SSH about Wapi weirdo

• make plots for FeO and one or more trace elements

• Soooo much grading!

• MCS tutorial(s)

  • run a couple viable scenarios

-Need to email MMcC about good ways to run it for ESRP basalts as I ran into errors and questions

• Prep suggested fall schedule

For 3/28:

• Send unit numbers and associated depths for Kimama core to SKN

• {SKN email about Kimama core access}

• Check Wapi plot -- any chance Wapi Park was included? Difference in who collected/processed? Also check to confirm Antelope Butte.

• See if you can get more GESRP stdevs from geochem set

• Add sentence about dashed line, complete partial sentence, and add figure caption to VdPT guide

• Look up info on MCS

• **Talk about Fall classes**

For 3/14:

• Update equations for stddevs, associated plots

  • make a mini slide deck

• Write quick-guide to Van der Plas and Tobi (1965) chart

• Talk about field assistant(s)

For 3/7: 

• Update equations for stddevs, associated plots

  • make a mini slide deck

• Write quick-guide to Van der Plas and Tobi (1965) chart

• Poster draft

For 2/29:

• {SKN: methods review}

• Add unit number labels to spreadsheet

• Calculate average and stdev for each of the units; use those values for another forecast

• Review USGS proposal option

• Read/summarize Van der Plas and Tobi (1965)

For 2/22:

• Add strat lines from Potter to % error predictions; assess how flow boundaries influence error calculations

• Submit TRGS proposal

• Submit CERE proposal

• Write abstract for ISU Research Symposium and send to SKN (due 2/21)

For 2/15:

• depth series: calculate % of errors <10% for the other n groups (repeat what we did for n=4)

• Write TR draft; send to SKN

• Send SKN geochem rates as a budget for TR draft

For 2/8:

• plot % error as depth series for linear predictions using n=2,3,4,5

  • can be separate graphs per species

  • Consider using line instead of point in xy scatter

• Gather info on Tobacco Root requirements/timing

• Look up geochem analysis rates (check BYU, MSU, Hamilton)

• <In meeting: discuss plag paper summary>

For 2/1:

• Play more with predictive value of preceding point(s) (within Potter series)

• Read/summarize Chadwick et al. (2023)

• {SKN review problem statement in Moodle before Monday}

• Keep working on plag paper summary

For 1/25:

• Look for info on high P units

• Explore possible predictive use of previous points along time-space trend

• Look for geochem evolution calculations for Cedar Butte

• Revise problem statement draft

• Look for info on plag crystal growth rates (summarize paper(s))

For 1/18:

• Plot MgO vs FeO, look for relationship and likelihood trends (also FeO vs TiO2)

• Revisit Group X vs Group Y rules

• Look into High Fe-Ti and High K-Fe units

• Compare Melts output for 2% H2O

• {SKN: review problem statement draft}

For  12/13:

• Track down MgO plotting issue for Cedar

• Add plots for Pond Butte and Crater Butte

• Look at changes from using different Melts version

For 12/6:

• Plot Sixmile, Cedar Butte, Pond, and Crater values on the more cyclic graphs from Potter (check Hughes geochem database)

• Play with Melts

For 11/29:

• Look for longer form associated paper to Hawaii melts paper

• Read/summarize Potter paper

• Wrap up partially complete second Melts review

• {SKN: share notes from Sixmile fieldwork}

For 11/8 (SKN away, email check-in):

• Adjust chem distributions to reduce number of divisions

• Talk to Haley about how to access additional core data; ask her if she can present to us

• Keep playing with MELTS

• Find/read/summarize paper using MELTS on basalts (x2)

For 11/1:

• Plot chemical distributions as color ramped symbols specifically for Sixmile

• Talk to Haley about consistency between her surface/core data vs older values

  • consistency between samples (sampled same cores that were sampled previously)

• Read up on MELTS

For 10/25:

• Compare geochem from Butte 5206 (Miller) with Sixmile; make/justify interpretations

• Use stats to compare surface and subsurface data from Sixmile (same population?)

• With Geochem file: pick 3-4 elements and make a heat map of their distribution (ignore actual contacts, etc., and just look for major trends)

• {SKN: email Susie J about ISGC options}

For 10/18:

• {SKN: read EdMap, email Zac}

• Find/read/summarize Miles Miller (2009)??

• Make list of key needs for grants

For 10/11:

• Read/Summarize DeNosaquo et al. (2009)

• Look up ISGC, GSA funding opportunities

For 10/4:

• Read/summarize Hayden (1992) thesis

• Draft budget: adjust to a per-day cost, assume 2 people, free camping, $50/day vehicle

For 9/27:

• Read/summarize Hughes et al. (2020), McCurry and Rodgers (2009)

• Start draft budget for fieldwork

For 9/13 (email meeting):

• Look up EdMap details

  • appear to be announced in early Nov., past deadlines have been early Jan.

• (Next semester: plan for Geslin proposal)

• Summarize McCurry et al (2008) 

• Seminar! 

• {SKN: ask Scott about geochem data access}

For 9/6:

• {SKN see if I can figure out website access issue}

• Populate upper part of website

• Read/summarize and add project relevance for: Hughes et al. (2002), Hughes et al. (2002b)

• More social stuff

For 8/30:

• Populate upper part of website

• Read Lev paper and write abstract

• Review Helmuth map and pamphlet, write notes

• Read Kuntz paper and write abstract

• Do something social