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Dorsey Wanless Students

Current Graduate Students

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Darin Schwartz (PhD)

Project 1: Growth and demise of Galapagos seamounts

Project 2: Volatile, major, and trace element contents in melt inclusions from Coaxial Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge

 Publications:

Schwartz, D., Wanless, V.D., Berg, R., Jones, M., Fornari, D., Soule, S.A., Lytle, M., and Carey, S., Petrogenesis of Alkalic Seamounts in the Galápagos Islands, Deep Sea Research II, in press (2017).

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Sylvana Bendana (PhD)

Project 1: Melting systematics along the “Popping Rock” segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Molly Anderson (MS)

Project: Petrogenesis of lavas erupted along the 8°20’N seamount chain, East Pacific Rise

Current Undergraduate Students

Jordan Engstrom
     Project: Composition of Villarrica volcano cinder cones

Abstracts:

Engstrom, Jordan, “Petrogenesis of Cinder Cones on Villarrica Volcano, Southern Chile” (2017). 2017 Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Conference.
http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/as_17/13

Past Undergraduate Students

Val Strasser (Undergraduate – graduated fall 2017)
     Project: Volatile, major and trace element content of Gorda Ridge melt inclusions

Abstracts:

V. Strasser, V. D. Wanless, D. Clague (2016), Depths of crystallization along the Gorda Ridge based on olivine-hosted melt inclusion compositions, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting Supplemental Abstract, V53B-3086.

Strasser, Valerie, “Depths of Crystallization Along the Gorda Ridge Based on Olivine-hosted Melt Inclusion Compositions” (2017). 2017 Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Conference. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/as_17/12

Molly Anderson (Undergraduate – graduated fall 2016)
Project: Large deep water lava flows in the Galapagos

Abstracts:

Anderson, M., (2016) Origin for deep marine lava flows along the western flanks of the Galapagos; Boise State Undergraduate Research Conference.  http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/as_16/73/

Anderson. M. ; V. D Wanless; D. Fornari; S. A. Soule; M. Jones (2016) Origin of deep lava flows at the base of the Galápagos Platform; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Supplement, V53A-3079.

Rebecca Berg (Undergraduate – graduated spring 2016)
     Project: Twin seamounts off the coast of Santiago Island

Abstracts:

Berg, R., (2016) Analyses of Twin Seamounts and Their Correlation to Proximal Lavas; Boise State Undergraduate Research Conference.  http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/as_16/72/

Andrea Duran (Undergraduate – graduated spring 2015)
     Project: Mid-Cayman Rise Basalts

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