School Year '17-'18 Wrap Up

It's been a great year with lots to celebrate as the school year comes to a close, some highlights include:

• EPIC grad student H. Shamloo received a GSA grad student grant to continue her work on Mg diffusion in feldspar, which she will present on at Goldschmidt this summer, as well as an ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Fellowship to support her research overall 
• EPIC grad student M. Guild won the '17-'18 Outstanding TA award for her work TA'ing Petrology this year and presented her work on water-undersaturated mantle melts at the American Geophysical Union meeting
• EPIC grad student K. Brugman was an early career participant in the AGU Chapman Conference on silicic magma at Laguna del Maule in Chile this January and helped co-author a Nature Geoscience News and Views article on the conference, in addition to presenting her new cpx-liquid geothermometer at the American Geophysical Union meeting
• EPIC grad student M. Phillips attended the Tenerife International Volcano Monitoring workshop this March & presented his exoplanet research at the American Geophysical Union meeting
• EPIC postdoc K. Iacovino was invited to give a keynote talk on her research on the oxygen fugacity of subduction zone fluids at the Goldschmidt conference, as well as appearing on the local news to help explain the on-going eruption in Hawaii
• New York Time piece and subsequent media coverage of H. Shamloo and C. Till's work what lead to  Yellowstone's Lava Creek eruption this Fall (see Yellowstone page)