San Benedicto Island in the Mexican Pacific Ocean: Young phreatomagmatic tuffs and lavas in a volcanic beach paradise with Roberto H. Téllez-Vizcaíno

July 1, 2022February 9, 2024 Christopher Spencer

Roberto Téllez-Vizcaíno has a master’s degree in applied geosciences and is passionate about volcanoes. He will soon be a doctoral student at the Potosino Institute of Scientific and Technological Research. Born curious, his interest in volcanology dates back to his hometown Colima, the place of the Colima Volcano of Fire. He conducted research for his […]

The Volcanic Island of Isla Socorro with Pep Cabré

February 28, 2017 Christopher Spencer

Pep Cabré is a geologist from Barcelona, Spain who studied his final year of undergrad in Iceland. Afterwards, he was part of INVOGE, a master programme in volcanology between Michigan Technological University and Universitée Blaise Pascal in France. For his master thesis, he studied the textural characteristics of pyroclasts from different sizes. He also worked […]

Mineralization of Las Minas area, Mexico with Dorantes Castro

November 1, 2016November 1, 2016 Christopher Spencer

Clic aquí fortaleza y la versión española. My name is Cynthia Dorantes, I am Engineer Geologist, studying at the Center for Earth Sciences at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), when I came to fieldcamp in exploration and mining, I started to draw attention to the exploration of metal deposits and fell in love with exploration. Carrying […]

Mineralización de Las Minas, Mexico con Dorantes Castro

November 1, 2016November 1, 2016 Christopher Spencer

Click here for the English version. Mi nombre es Cynthia Dorantes, soy Ingeniera Geóloga, estudie en el Centro de Ciencias de la Tierra en el Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), cuando yo curse la materia de exploración y minería y sali a campo, me empezó a llamar la atención la exploración de yacimientos metalicos y fue […]

Guerrero Arc, Mexico with Lydian Boschman

January 15, 2015February 21, 2016 Christopher Spencer

Lydian is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University working with Douwe van Hinsbergen on the the Mesozoic (252-66 million years ago) plate tectonic evolution of the paleo-Pacific Ocean. You can read more about her research here.