A crazy and busy year has come and gone since I last updated the website and the EPIC lab news page!
Amidst weathering the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as racial, economic, and climate crises in the US, we've managed to find some solace in doing some science. Perhaps the biggest news is that EPIC graduate students Meghan Guild (PhD), Kara Brugman (PhD), Hannah Shamloo (PhD) and Mitch Phillips (MS) have all graduated this past year!!! Definitely a heroic effort in these times! We're going to miss them desperately but are so excited for all the wonderful things they are off to next and the bright futures that await them! You can also read a nice profile on Meghan, Hannah and Kara when they graduated from ASU here: https://asunow.asu.edu/20200428-‘epic’-team-scientists-graduates-asu. Also a big congrats to a number of EPIC second project students who had big wins this year as well; Alicia Johnson and Chad Ostrander for defending their PhD's, and Srinidhi Ravi, Mara Karageozian, and Samantha Jacobs for passing their qualifying exams! We've had a slew of new papers come out too, covering topics from Yellowstone to arc magmas and more which you can check out here. Current EPIC PhD students Felix Ishimwe and Jessie Bersson have been hard at work learning about the history of volcanism in Colombia and the frequency of magma recharge at Mt. St. Helens, respectively. Both of them will be presenting their new work at the virtual AGU 2020, so look for their presentations there. And EPIC undergraduate researcher Jax Webb is busy working on querying characteristics of past dome-forming eruptions in an effort to improve eruption forecasting. Impressive all while working from home! Other good news is that I secured tenure at ASU this summer and also stepped into the role of Associate Director for an Inclusive Community with the School of Earth & Space Exploration, to work on promoting equity within our unit's systems and processes. As part of this I am leading SESE's SESE Justice-Equity-Diversity-Inclusion (JEDI) Task Force and a graduate class on the same subject. In addition, I contributed to this ASU Now piece answering your "burning questions about volcanoes," which may be a fun read for those less familiar with volcano science. Sending our best to everyone out there as we take this unprecedented time, one day at a time, Christy Till, EPIC Head Magma Maker (mostly from home these days) |
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September 2020
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