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.
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.
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
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.
