About

The primary objective of this site is to provide early graduate and advanced undergraduate students with resources related to recent and current research on mantle plumes. The motivation behind the project originates from when one of the designers (Harpp) realized that her graduate students would benefit from opportunities to hear about recent developments in the field than they could obtain within our own institution. We proposed to offer senior-level seminars with invited video presentations from researchers in the field of mantle plumes, record those presentations, then curate them in an online repository, which is this site.

The course was a senior-level geology class at Colgate University, exclusively focused on mantle plumes, taught by Karen Harpp both semesters and team-taught with Dr. Aubreya Adams in the first iteration. The course was offered during the Spring 2017 and Fall 2018 semesters; we will add more videos once the course can be offered again.

Our intent is to build this site into a digital repository of recent work on mantle plumes, to be used as a resource for early career geoscience students. Please contact us for further information about how to contribute materials to this site.

Funding to support the original seminar speakers' contributions and the establishment of this site comes from a grant awarded to Karen Harpp by the National Science Foundation (The Evolution of the Galapagos Hotspot, OCE-1347731).