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 elite research organization 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.