The Tuff of Skelton Lake: A Record of Triassic Caldera Volcanism in California’s Sierra Nevada with Derek Field

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, […]

Reconstructing paleoclimatic conditions using lacustrine sediments at Crater Lake, Colorado with Ethan Yackulic

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 […]

Studying the Timing and Patterns of Volcanoes in Central Turkey with Kirk Schleiffarth

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 […]

Visiting Backcountry Thermal Areas in the Yellowstone Wilderness with Jake Lowenstern

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 […]