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 – Paper published on how lava can spontaneously heat up while crystallizing! With Dr. Alex Sehlke of NASA Ames / Bay Area Environmental Research Institute.
July 2021 – Paper published on how to determine the cooling rate of lava samples, using laboratory measurements of heat capacity. Lead author Stuart Kenderes defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Missouri in July - congratulations, Stuart!
March 2021 – Paper published on how igneous intrusions can distort temperature gradients in the crust long after they have cooled down, if they have different thermal properties to the surrounding country rock. 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 – Paper published reinterpreting ridges on silicic lava flows as resulting from brittle extensional fracturing, not ductile compressional folding.
