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 […]
“Brooke received his BSc in Geology from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2015 after collecting rocks and fossils for most of his life. He is currently a PhD student at Hertford College, University of Oxford where he is studying the co-evolution of early eukaryotes and the earth surface environment with Dr’s Nick Tosca, Stuart […]
Marissa Betts is a post-doctoral scholar focused on understanding the evolution of early-Cambrian fauna around the world. Marissa splits her time between the University of New England in Queensland, Australia and Northwest University in Xi’an, China. You can follow Marissa’s adventures on Instagram @200micron. Click here for the Chinese translation. The Flinders Ranges in outback […]
Scott Hassler works for the common good at The Wilderness Society, focusing renewable energy, climate adaptation, and wild land protection and restoration, primarily in the Western United States. He continues to research the environmental effects of extremely large meteorite impacts and teaches a bit at UC Berkeley. Possibly too many of his travels, geologic and […]
