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A primary focus of my research is understanding volatile cycling and heterogeneity in the deep mantle by analyzing the B-isotope composition of basaltic magmas at endmember ocean islands. This work is a continuation of my postdoctoral research funded by the NERC consortium titled ‘Mantle volatiles: processes, reservoirs, and fluxes.’

Another primary focus of my research is related to understanding the storage, evolution, ascent, and explosivity of cinder cone magmas in the southern Cascades. This work has dominantly been done by Middlebury senior research students who have been utilizing geochemical tools such as clinopyroxene-liquid barometry and the trace element composition of mafic phases in addition to physical volcanologic techniques such as textural and grain size analyses.

As a continuation of my work on cinder cone volcanism in the southern Cascades, my colleague, Dr. Megan Newcombe (University of Maryland) and I have received NSF funding for our proposed work titled, “How variable is magma decompression rate during a single eruption?” This funded project will allow us to explore the connections between ascent rate and explosivity of mafic arc magmas through a case study of the eruption of Cinder Cone. 

I am also excited to initiate another research project recently funded by NSF with my colleague, Alison Koleszar (Colgate University), to explore the connections between subsurface and eruptive processes at intermediate arc volcanoes in the Aleutians. This project is titled, “Testing the controls on eruption size and style at intermediate arc volcanoes: Evidence from the Holocene record at Augustine Volcano.”