Kyle is using gradients of water in nominally anhydrous minerals to work out how magma decompression rates vary during transitions in eruptive style. Kyle's field areas include Iceland and Cinder Cone in Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Funded by NSF

Cosmo is working on a project involving the remote sensing of a unique lunar deposit located on the central nearside of the moon. Remote sensing techniques, such as spectral and spatial mapping, will hopefully provide insight into the petrologic origin of this deposit along with the processes producing early lunar volcanism.

Funded by NASA FINESST

Sumedha is a NASA FINESST recipient, working on constraining the volatile budget of ordinary chondrites. Sumedha is also experimentally studying water diffusivity in plagioclase.

Funded by NASA FINESST

Kathy is measuring H2O in garnet by FTIR (using the linear array detector in my lab) and nanoSIMS (at Carnegie) in conjunction with other tracers of fluid flow (O isotopes, Li isotopes, trace element concentrations in garnet). Kathy is co-advised by Sarah Penniston-Dorland.

Funded by NSF

Kate is measuring H2O in garnet from skarn deposits (hopefully in Tasmania!). Kate is co-advised by Sarah Penniston-Dorland.

Maddy will be joining us in July! Maddy intends to work on water partitioning in plagioclase and volatiles in R chondrites.

Funded by NSF

Pakora is always available for belly rubs when experiments fail and instruments break. You can follow Pakora's adventures on Twitter @tiwarylab

During his PhD, Liam studied water delivery to the inner solar system. He measured volatile concentrations in achondrite meteorites and experimentally determined the partition coefficient of water in olivine. Liam's work is published in EPSL, GCA and Nature (Google Scholar). Liam is now a postdoc at WHOI.

Robert measured water in plagioclase crystals from the 2009 eruption of Redoubt volcano. He has accepted a very cool job in the mining industry that will send him (via helicopter) to spodumene deposits in Canada!

Silvia studied magma storage and ascent prior to three plinian eruptions of Cerro Machín. Silvia successfully defended her Master's thesis and is now working towards her PhD at University of Toronto. 

Ayomide used gradients of water in quartz crystals to estimate magma decompression rates during the 3600 yr. BP eruption of Cerro Machín volcano, Colombia. Ayomide is now a graduate student at University of Minnesota in Duluth! (Picture credit: Liz Cottrell)

MaKayla used bubble textures in pumice to estimate magma decompression rates during the 3600 yr. BP eruption of Cerro Machín volcano, Colombia. MaKayla's thesis can be downloaded here. MaKayla is now a graduate student at the University of Oregon!

Euan obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and is an expert in diffusion chronometry. His work paves the way towards reconciling geochemical and geophysical signals of volcanic unrest. Following his time at UMD, Euan became a Lamont-Doherty Postdoctoral Fellow. He recently moved to Singapore to begin an assistant professor position at Earth Observatory of Singapore / NTU. Congratulations Euan! Find Euan on Twitter @euanjfmutch

Nick studied magma ascent at Pavlof volcano. Following graduation, he became a Geo-Environmental Technician with HPTech. He is now a hydrogeologist with the State of North Carolina! He says it's not my fault, but I did give him melt inclusions to polish.