People

Tyrone o. rooney

Professor

Todd Lydic

ICPMS manager

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Andrew Bollinger

Ph.D. Student

Brennan Hill

M.S. Student

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Jack Piper

Strain Migration in the Turkana Depression

Shelbi Hughes

Laser ablation of the crystals of the Kalakol (Turkana, East Africa)

Libby Ashby

Isotopic analysis of Kenyan Rift basalts

Joey Owczarek

Geochemical Investigation of crystals in North Island lavas (Turkana)

GRADUATED GROUP MEMBERS

Ashlin Niemiec

Geochemistry of the basalts of the Southern Main Ethiopian Rift

Kathleen McCown

Fusing Lab Manager

Cole Wagner

Development of a new pressed powder method for XRF analysis

Jessica Ruhukya

Magmatic Stratigraphy of Peleketch (Turkana - East Africa)

Kirsten Fentzke

Laser ablation of the crystals of of Mt. Kenya (East African Rift)

Sahira Cancel

M.S. 

Alex Steiner

Ph.D. 

Julia Rudlaff

Geochemistry of basalts from the Southern Main Ethiopian Rift

Jayli Husband

Whole-rock geochemistry of Mt. Kenya (East African Rift)

Chris Svoboda

Ph.D.

Susan Krans (Beightol)

Ph.D. 

Julia Bassier

Depleted magmatism in Afar

Aditi Mahantesh

Dikes in the Marquette region associated with the Mid-Continent Rift


Chloe Mikelsons

Turkana and Mt. Kenya


Andrew LaVigne

M.S. 

Tanner Manvydas

Stratigraphy of Pelekech in Turkana

黄丰 (Feng Huang)

Visiting Scholar 

Terminal arc volcanism in Tibet

Erik Eikey

Dikes in the Marquette region associated with the Mid-Continent Rift

Trevor Baranski

Late Stage Volcanism in the Mid-Continent Rift

Madison Kortas

Pre-Arc magmatic activity in  Patagonia

Sydney Gable

Back-Arc magmatic activity in  Patagonia

Rayn Phillips

Omo River Project and Eocene volcanism in Turkana

Ray Davis

The Portage Lake Volcanics

Mary Grace Owens

Melt inclusions from Turkana, Kenya

Erika Miciuda

Using QGIS for collating laser and SEM micro data

Liam Peterson

The Makkonen Basalts of the Omo River Project

Mariah Burnett

Volcanic events in the Patagonia Back-Arc

Felix Ishimwe

Geochemical characterization of the Virunga magmatic province

Kellen Martella

Late Stage volcanism in the Mid-Continent Rift System

Halle Klockner 

Silicic Volcanism in the Mamainse Point Sequence 

Noah Vriese 

Seabrook Lake Alkaline complex 

Mitchell Collins 

Petrology of the Portage Lake Volcanics

Carly Francis 

 The Omo River Project - The Gombe Group 

Jacob Bonessi  

Silicic volcanism of the Porcupine Mountains. 

Taylor Kelly 

Lamprophyres at Seabrooke Lake, Ontario 

Brett Flessner 

Dikes in the Ethiopian LIP 

Kyle Noyce

Basaltic dikes in the Keewenaw LIP 

Bodaniel Bradley 

Stratigraphy of the Ethiopian LIP

Tyler Holmes 

Silicic Volcanism in the Ethiopian LIP

Nick Martin 

Variable magma batches in a monogenetic vent, Taupo Volcanic Zone , New Zealand

Alan Snell 

Variable magma batches in a monogenetic vent, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. 

Kaitlyn Trestrail, M.S.

 Peridotite as a probe of lithospheric deformation in Ethiopia

Adam Denny

Geochemical evidence of magmatic processes within the Galema Ridge 

Emily Movsesian

 Numerical solutions to melting equations 

Danielle Westphall 

Correlation of basaltic clasts in ignimbrite/ash flow sequences at Baru Volcano, Panama 

Justin Segal

The Lake Shore Traps – the last gasp of Keweenaw magmatism 

Thomas Hudgins 

 Geochemical correlations between dikes and flows in the Keweenawan flood basalt province 

Timothy Matthews

 Deducing rhyolite origins in Keweenawan magmas - geochemical correlations with flood basalts, Mamainse Point

Valerie Finlayson

 The geochemistry of aplite dikes at Elliot Lake, Ontario 

Allison Pluda 

Inferring a petrogenetic history of the Ethiopian lithospheric mantle using the geochemistry of olivine crystals in mantle xenoliths.  

Christian Briggs

Silicic Volcanics in the South Mountain Region: A volcanic center associated with the breakup of Rodinia.  

Ali Assiri, Ph.D.

Assessing the spatial distribution and geochemical variation of carbonatite magmas on the Arabian Plate 

Paulo Hidalgo, Ph.D. 

Geochemical evolution of the Panama Arc recorded at Baru Volcano, Panama