Ayla Pamukcu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University. As a volcanic petrologist, she is a wide array of tools to investigate how, when, where, and why volcanic eruptions occur with particular interest in supereruptions. You can read more about her research here. I study volcanoes, but I haven’t seen too many live ones. […]
Author: Christopher Spencer
Hunting for REE-bearing fluids in Namibia with Sam Broom-Fendley
Sam is a regular contributor to TravelingGeologist. He recently completed his PhD at the Camborne School of Mines and is currently postdoc-ing with the same in Cornwall. Rare earth elements (REE) are essential in high-strength permanent magnets for green and digital technologies, yet we know little about how REE ore deposits form. However, driven by […]
Archaean lower crust exposed in the Kapuskasing uplift, Ontario, Canada with Batzi Fischer
Sebastian “Batzi” Fischer is a hard rock geologist with a particular interest in metamorphic petrology. Currently a PhD student at the University of St Andrews, he is looking at the mineral zircon in mafic metamorphic rocks, with a focus on the influence that partial melting has on the zircons’ isotopic composition. For my PhD project […]
Lopu Range, Tibet with Andrew Laskowski
Andrew K Laskowski is a PhD Candidate, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona working with Prof. Paul Kapp. You can read more about his research here. I moved to Tucson, AZ in fall, 2010 to begin my graduate study in Geology at the University of Arizona. I had always been fascinated with Himalayan-Tibetan tectonics, and I […]
A shocking discovery in Scotland with Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson is a metamorphic petrologist and Lecturer at Curtin University, Western Australia. He is currently working on rocks from a range of places, including northwest and northeast Scotland, Norway, southern and eastern India, southwestern Australia and outer space. He is particularly interested in early Earth geodynamics and in the metamorphism of stony meteorites. You […]