Derek Field (M.Sc) is a geologist from Calgary, Canada. After getting his B.Sc in Geology from California Lutheran University and working as a volcanology intern for the University of Colima, Mexico, he migrated to Flagstaff, Arizona, to pursue Sierra Nevada research under Nancy Riggs at Northern Arizona University. Derek specializes in doing fieldwork in remote, […]
Introduction As I hiked up to the tallest point in my field area, I looked to the south in awe, observing thousands of feet of sedimentary rocks that make up the Swauk Formation. And as I turned to the north, I tilted my head up to see the very top of the even higher mountains, […]
Ethan Yackulic is currently a data scientist for the USGS in Flagstaff, AZ. He recently completed his master’s degree at Northern Arizona University with Dr. Nicholas McKay in environmental science. Introduction The wind howled and the clouds grew darker as the lake whipped the shoreline with increasingly violent whitecaps. I could sense the anxiety of […]
Kirk Schleiffarth is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Northern Arizona University (2014-present). He has experience studying a variety of volcano-tectonic provinces with a variety of techniques. In 2010, he spent several months monitoring and cataloging volcanic activity at Colima volcano in Mexico. From 2012-2014, he investigated the Eocene Challis Volcanic Field in central Idaho for […]
Jake Lowenstern is currently the Project Chief for the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program. From 2002-2017, he served as Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. To study the interaction of magmas and their overlying hydrothermal systems, he applies techniques ranging from gas and and isotope geochemistry to igneous petrology to U-Th-Pb geochronology. A 1986 graduate of Dartmouth […]
