Rylie Berwanger

Personal & Academic Goals:

My overall goal is to prepare myself for the next steps after my M.S., which in my mind currently is pursuing a Ph.D. I love being in the field and problem solving. I also love combining science with creativity, especially through making figures and communicating scientific ideas visually.

• Improve in scientific reading, writing, and communication

• Develop a deeper understanding of the volcanic processes that shape the Snake River Plain

• Develop as a field volcanologist! 

• Gain skills to add to my toolkit!

Research Interest:

Physical volcanology, Igneous petrology, Geochemistry, Magma plumbing system evolution

Rylie discussion:

• 6601 student presentation title

For 11/12 (zoom):

• Field trip:

  • finalize itinerary 

  • Make list of unit descriptions (based on Fairfield quad and Honjo) to take to field

  • create caltopo

  • PCA: clip landsat imagery down to target zone, avoiding stuff like farms, then redo PCA. This should help with differentiation

  • Go to field!

• check credits in pre-thesis for spring (make credits add to 12)

• Finish summaries for Honjo, Ellis, and McQuarrie papers

• write report

• Make calendar event for reading group next week

• Read for reading group

Rylie discussion:

• talk about 6601 project proposal

For 11/5:

• Finish Honjo thesis and reading group papers

• Remind Shannon that meeting for Nov 12 is on zoom

• Field trip on 11/7

  • pick targets: what features do you want to see, and how will you get to them? Look for dirt roads. Make maps with target points. Make a schedule based on legitimate driving times/distances, starting and ending in Poky.

    • Leave 7 am

  • download DEM for area

  • ask Carrie if she has a PCA lab/assignmetn she can let you borrow

  • {SKN: find and send QGIS stuff}

  • {SKN: email DC about getting chips sent over}

  • Review BBH folder system, look for shapefiles

• Pick preferred classes for registration

Monday- plan what parts I am reading and how much each day, read!!!!!!

Tuesday

• read

• download DEM area

• review BBH folder system, look for shapefiles

• look at potiental places 

Wednesday- 

• PCA

• look at poteitnial places 

• continue reading!!

Thursday

• Summarize 

• have itinary for Shannon

Rylie discussion:

• registration for next semester

• shape files of area B and C? or does NMG have a GIS file I can use?

For 10/29:

• Read/summarize the papers SKN sent for group reading

  • Pick day/time for group reading

• Read/summarize Honjo thesis

• Review schedule and propose one or more field dates for a 1-day visit, make plan for targets to recon (any weekend but Nov 14-15)

  • start your GIS for the thesis

  • what interests me, what do I want to see to obtain geologic context (e.g dome like, dike, collect sample)

• {SKN: email D about getting chips sent over}

• Plan a time in calendar to do thesis work!!!

• Continue tracking

Rylie discussion:

• Plan a time in calendar to do thesis work!!!

• HW tracker pattern: 

  • Sustained concentration: frequently report 4–5/5 focus, even on long assignment

  • Completion speed: Overthinking, redoing work, and spending a long time understanding material may be consuming more time than distraction

  • Reading fatigue: Some long reading sessions have lower focus scores, especially when I am exhausted or in a distracting environment

  • People can help or hurt: Quiet company seems compatible with high focus; distracting conversations are more problematic

    • the degree to which they engage your attention may be more important

      • Kristy and Madison i focus well with, Larger social groups seem less ideal for reading

  • Obelts and reading take most of my time

  • Add new sections: Energy, progress, Main obstacle

• Report questions:

  • how does pothole fault zone influence magma ascent?

  • why does oxidation dissolve sulfur? For McCurry

  • Metalum?

  • Anatexias?

  • MRR connection with Huckleberry Ridge tuff?

• For next week:

  • I want to go through GSA notes I took (I haven't had time)

  • Study up on isotope ratio meanings and values- quiz self

For 10/22:

• Read/summarize:

  •  external report (think about two things that vary a lot)

  • Honjo thesis

• GSA:

  • Identify several talks/posters related to thesis

  • Go to talks/posters and take notes

    • economic geology

    • petrology

    • shield volcanoes, evolved volcanoes

  • Look up the ISU crew presentations and support them

• Keep tracking

For 10/8:

• Keep going with tracking

• {SKN: read/review summaries}

• Finish kriging

• Start reading external report

  • two things that vary a lot

Rylie discussion:

• after I read and summarize most of the information leaves my brain!

• Individual/Group Travel Form Completed? for GSA

• Two different types of FeOT and Al2O3 in attribute table?

• What ratio of elements should I look at?

Tasks for 10/1:

• Fillout Homework / Focus Tracker

• Kriging:

  • Do Ordinary Kriging and Empirical Bayesian Kriging (to all major and trace elements)

    • standard scale 

    • Check previous kriging: are there really points with K2O/MgO > 90?

• Read/summarize (see calendar invitation, 9/30):

  • Chadwick et al.

  • Miller and Hughes 

• Continue skimming through (small annotations!- mark key points), go back summarize each section, go back to areas I was confused, then summarize whole thing 

  • one to two sentence summary

Rylie discussion points for 9/24 meeting:

• My own goals/ expectations for myself

  • putting to high of expectations for myself (Anxiety- discussions, etx)

• How to critically think? - tips and skills

• Needing either 2 meetings or a check points before sometime before our meeting where I send you what I have done so far, so I don't procrastinate

Tasks for 9/24:

• Have fun on seminar!

• Kriging: look at ratios of elements -- what is changing in unexpected ways? Look at both SROT-only and with the non-rhyolites

• Continue skimming through (small annotations!- mark key points), go back summarize each section, go back to areas I was confused, then summarize whole thing 

  • one to two sentence summary

For 9/18: 

• • Read/summarize:

    • McCurry et al. (1999)

    • Holmes et al. (2008)

  • Discuss with Chloe on which paper we will lead

Rylie discussion points for 9/9 meeting:

• Expense form for DVF workshop

• Talk about how reading has been going

• GIS objective?

Tasks for 9/9:

• Try different kriging methods (see Emma)

• For gradient maps: use surface SROT values to look at Si, Mg, Sr, Zr

• Try skim through (small annotations!- mark key points), go back summarize each section, go back to areas I was confused, then summarize whole thing 

Rylie discussion points for 9/3 meeting:

• DVF experience

• confidence with discussions

• Getting behind on readings and burning out

• Finals week

Tasks for 9/3:

• Make gradient maps for *just* SROT/basalt

• Current maps: 

  • Check whether drop-outs in Sr and Zr are associated with data gaps

  • look into unexpectedly high values of Si on margins -- are they associated with specific types of deposits?

Tasks for 8/26:

• Get key (when available)

  • Get desk set up and settled

• Redo driver authorization form

• DVF workshop food payment

• Finish this week's readings for discussion on Friday

• Download ESRP map/data files and poke around (load into GIS!)

  • What sorts of patterns or trends do you see?

• Read/summarize:

  • Volcanology misconceptions (2026)

  • PVHA Ch5 (2024)

• Find a time Chloe and Shannon can meet weekly, for reading group

Tasks for 8/19:

• Populate upper part of website: photo, interests, long-term goals, etc.

• Driver authorization form

• Download Zotero

• Read/summarize:

  • Kuntz (1992) 

  • Kuntz et al. (1992)

  • Hughes et al. (1999)

  • Gallant et al. (2018)

  • PVHA (2024) Ch4 (you can skim Ch1-3 if you are really struggling to sleep)

• Emburse travel system

• Find time for reading group (coordinate schedules with Chloe)

• Download Box files about ESRP, poke around (load into GIS?)