Graduate Students

Current Students

Lissie Connors

Ph.D. student

Lissie is working on Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira Volcanoes in the East African Rift, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Lissie's Homepage

Christina Cauley

Ph.D. student

Christina is using EBSD to investigate deformation textures in Kilauea olivine, to understand the formation and re-entrainment of olivine cumulates beneath the volcano. In a separate project, she is using SO2 emissions from explosive eruptions to better understand gas build-up in magma bodies before eruption.

Former Students

Michelle Muth

Ph.D. 2021

Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Michelle investigated sulfur recycling in subduction zones and the oxygen fugacities of basaltic arc magmas using melt inclusions in olivine.
Michelle's Homepage

Allan Lerner

Ph.D. 2020

USGS - Cascades Volcano Observatory.

Madison Myers

Ph.D. 2017

Assistant Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. Madison investigated ascent and eruption processes in caldera-forming rhyolitic eruptions using quartz-hosted melt inclusions and melt-filled embayments.

Robin Tuohy

M.S. 2013

Robin's research focused on the 1959 Kilauea Iki eruption and the 1960 Kapoho eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i.

Lucy Walsh

M.S. 2012

Now at Oregon Hazards Lab (OHAZ), University of Oregon.

Kristina Walowski

Ph.D. 2015

Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, Belingham, WA. Kristina worked on melt inclusions from primitive magmas in the Cascade Arc. Her work focused on cross-arc variations in volatile and trace elements in olivine-hosted melt inclusions (acquired using FTIR, EPMA, and LA-ICP-MS) from cinder cones in the Lassen region of Northern California to understand the influence of subducting warm oceanic lithosphere on dehydration reactions in the slab and melt production in the mantle wedge. She also used melt inclusion data to inspect the plumbing systems of individual monogenetic cones, such as Cinder Cone (which erupted ~1666 CE).

Stephanie Weaver

Ph.D., 2012

Now at ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston, TX.

Stan Mordensky

M.S., 2012

Now at USGS, Geothermal Machine Learning Task - Portland, OR

Dan Ruscitto

Ph.D., 2011

GE Global Research, NY

Rachel Weber

M.S., 2010

Emily Johnson

Ph.D., 2008

USGS - Cascades Volcano Observatory

Nathalie Vigouroux

M.S, 2006

Douglas College, BC, Canada

Julie Roberge

Ph.D., 2005

Professor, Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico, D.F.

Collaborators


Terry Plank

Lamont - Columbia University

Colin Wilson

Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Ken Sims

University of Wyoming

Bob Bodnar

Virginia Tech

Tom Shea

University of Hawaii

Michael Clynne

USGS

Adam Kent

Oregon State University

Undergraduate students

Dan Rasmussen

Honors Thesis, 2012
Cascade Arc Magma Genesis: Volatile and Major Element Indicators in Primitive Basalts from the Lassen Region

Now at Peregrine Advisors, Bend, OR. Dan studied magma generation processes in the Cascades utilizing olivine-hosted melt inclusions. His research involved obtaining volatile (H2O, CO2, S, Cl, F) and major element compositions of a calc-alkaline basalt and a low-K tholeittic basalt erupted from monogenetic vents in the Lassen Region of Northern CA.