August 2025 — UTSA Today article about the HAMsTER Lab: From volcanoes to asteroids, HAMsTER Lab advances planetary science and the origins of life.
March 2025 — Dr. Whittington elected to the 2024 class of AAAS Fellows.
August 2024 — Austin Patridge received NSTGRO 2024 Award: Apollo Regolith Thermally Constrained Landing Pad Bricks (ARTC Bricks). See NSTGRO 2024 awardees.
May 2024 — HAMsTER Lab mentioned in UTSA Today: Membership in USRA highlights UTSA's capabilities in space sciences.
May 2022 — Welcome new lab members Daniela Bartels and Austin Patridge, both working on BS degrees in Geosciences and doing research internships in summer 2022.
May 2022 — Postdoc Anis Parsapoor virtually presented results on melting lunar regolith simulants at the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium Spring Meeting and at the 10th European Lunar Symposium.
March 2022 — Daniela Bartels, Ashley Emerson, Brenna Halverson, and Lauren Schwartz looked at volcanoes all over New Mexico on the Spring Break Volcanology class field trip, led by Alan Whittington.
March 2022 — Postdocs Aaron Morrison and Anis Parsapoor virtually presented results at the 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
December 2021 — Students Brenna Halverson and Lauren Schwartz presented results in person at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans, LA.
August 2021 — Welcome new lab member Ashley Emerson, working on an MS degree in Geosciences.
August 2021 — Postdoc Anis Parsapoor presented experimental results on melting lunar regolith simulants at the Lunar Surface Science Workshop.
August 2021 — "Spontaneous reheating of crystallizing lava" paper published! With Dr. Alex Sehlke of NASA Ames / Bay Area Environmental Research Institute.
July 2021 — "Faster geospeedometry: A Monte Carlo approach to relaxational geospeedometry for determining cooling rates of volcanic glasses" paper published. Lead author Stuart Kenderes defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Missouri in July - congratulations, Stuart!
March 2021 — "Thermal properties of carbonatite and anorthosite from the Superior Province, Ontario, and implications for non-magmatic local thermal effects of these intrusions" paper published. Lead author Derick Roy conducted this research for his senior thesis at the University of Missouri.
March 2021 — PhD student Aaron Morrison presented experimental results and models of cryolava flows at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
March 2021 — Justice Lira presented her MS research on lava flows at Kilauea, 2018 at the joint NC-SC GSA section meeting.
January 2021 — "The fold illusion: The origins and implications of ogives on silicic lavas" paper published.
