David Bell |
- Mantle xenoliths
- Volatiles in magmas and minerals
- Kimberlite petrology and volcanology
- Stable isotopes in petrology and volcanology
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Amanda Clarke |
- Physics of explosive volcanism
-Numerical modeling
-Scaled laboratory experiments
-Field-based comparisons
to models
-Monitoring active volcanoes
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Jon Fink |
- Physical volcanology
-Effusive volcanism
-Instrusive mechanisms
-Volatile distributions in magmas
-Remote sensing
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Ron Greeley |
- Basaltic volcanism on Earth as analog for extraterrestrial volcanism
-“Plains” volcanism:
Eastern Snake River Plain, ID
-Sentinel Volcanic Field, Arizona
-Erosion by flowing lava: Hawaii,
Mt St Helens
-Pseudocraters & table mountains: Iceland
- Volcanic evolution
of Mars
-Viking, MGS-MOC, MO-Themis, MEx-HRSC image analysis
Geologic mapping
- Formation & evolution of lava tubes
-Lava tube database
- Mapping abundance of tube-fed flows on shields & caldera
floors
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Rick Hervig |
- Magma chamber processes as reflected by chemistry of erupted products,
including
-Fractional crystallization in shallow level chambers
-Accumulation
of different melts derived from greater depths
-Role of gas phases
in chamber processes (as reflected by isotope ratios of -volatile
elements as well as total hydrogen and carbon contents)
-The effect
of eruption on creating strongly zoned crystal edges.
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John Holloway |
- Experimental igneous petrology
- Solubility of volatiles in magmas
- Mechanisms of explosive degassing
- Compositions of volatiles as a function of redox conditions
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Kurt Roggensack |
- Magmatic volatiles and crystallization
- Eruptive mechanisms
- Melt inclusions
- Solubility of volatiles in magmas
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Gordon Moore |
- Experimental igneous petrology
- Phase equilibria in hydrous magmas
- Volatile solubilities, fluid-melt partitioning
- Linking field observations and novel P-T experimental techniques
to place new constraints on volcanic and magmatic behavior
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David Williams |
- Lava flows: Lunar basalts, komatiites, sulfur flows, lava tubes
-Field
studies
-Physical-geochemical computer modeling
-Petrographic-geochemical
analyses
- Volcanism on Mars and Jupiter’s moon Io
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Stan Williams |
- Monitoring active eruptions
- Remote sensing
- Gas geochemistry
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Mikhail Zolotov |
- Theoretical Geochemistry of Planetary Volcanic Gases
-Models of speciation & chemistry of planetary volcanic gases (Io, Venus, Mars)
-Bulk composition of planetary volcanic emanations
-Potential for organic synthesis in cooling volcanic gases
-Chemistry of volcanic hydrothermal systems
-Chemical weathering by acid volcanic gases, aerosols, and solutions
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