Associate professor of geology. How do planets' insides connect to their outsides? He/Him
New York, NY
Joined February 2014
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It’s a beautiful day to learn about lava with @C2C_proj at the Watershed Festival. Made possible, like so many good things, by @NSF !
Back on the bird place to say: if you’re in Oregon today, stop by the C2C booth at Watershed Festival, where we explore how ancient volcanic eruptions shaped climate and life.
Volcanoes, Lava, and Life—words to live by!
Feat. @VolcanoListener, @laurenrockdoc & Pedro Monarrez
Really exciting synthesis of high temporal resolution tephra geochemistry and seismic data to understand how to relate seismic data to what is actually happening in magmatic systems beneath active eruptions
Check out our paper just out in @NatureGeosci on petrological monitoring of the 2021 eruption on La Palma and the link between melt composition and volcanic tremor rdcu.be/d5Q6w
Nice piece on our @Naturegeosci paper on cryptic degassing—aka a CO2 leak from deep in ancient LIP plumbing systems
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TT faculty job: @RutgersEPS welcomes candidates in all areas of Earth and planetary sciences with emphasis in #Geophysics/#Geodynamics. App review begins Dec 1. Apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/23…
@RutgersU @Rutgers_Enigma @geosociety @theAGU @AGeophysics @nasa @CIDER_DeepEarth
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The first of hopefully many papers from our @NSF funded @c2c_proj, suggesting that cryptic degassing driven by a rheologic phase transition in the crust (shutting off LIP eruptions) drives prolonged warming periods in Earth History. @magmatist @tamsinmather @bjwmills and others.
Article: Cryptic degassing, whereby mantle-derived CO2 fluxes continue after surface eruptions slow, can explain prolonged warming that followed some large igneous province events
@magmatist @bjwmills @tamsinmather @VolcanoListener @C2C_proj
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
ALT Plots and a schematic illustration of thermomechanical calculations and the geodynamical evolution of large igneous provinces
Our new @C2C_proj paper is out (and OA) in @NatureGeosci!
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
tldr: We recognize prolonged climate warming intervals after multiple LIPs. We suggest CO2 release can continue from deep LIP plumbing systems long after surface volcanism wanes, driving warming
One neat aspect of this work: we suggest that climate records could actually be a way of placing top-down constraints on what is happening deep in magmatic systems.
Always a treat to work with @bjwmills @VolcanoListener @tamsinmather and many others!
Check out these humongous dikes lurking beneath the Columbia River Basalts (and meet the friendly horses who helped us haul our gear up to explore them)!
Great field work with @VolcanoListener and the C2C team
Has anyone made or come across a compilation of mid-career fellowships/programs for scientists (ie things it might be fun to participate in during a sabbatical year)?
Considering a change in life? What about a spell on this fragment of a stack of flood basalt lavas in the North Atlantic…
🇫🇴Koltur island will soon welcome 2 new superintendents. Picture yourself living & working solo on this 2.30 sq km remote island, surrounded only by nature. Your tasks would include research, preserving historic sites & welcoming visitors.
Would you ever consider it?🐑 #Koltur
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Well! The Volcano Listening Project record is now finished, and I'm doing a kickstarter to cover costs of making vinyl (everyone needs volcano music on vinyl!). I'm really proud of this. Check out the video for a preview! It will be streaming this summer. kickstarter.com/projects/vol…
I grew up a block from a splay of the Hayward fault. I remember the Loma Prieta earthquake—I thought my parents had hired workers to move our house.
Even though I knew about the 2011 VA quake, how unexpected to feel this kind of shaking in my office in New Jersey!
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📢2 #PhD positions to investigate how magma shaped climate during key moments of Earth's history
More information below 👇
We have two openings for PhD students @RutgersEPS to work with me (+great collaborators!) on how magmas have shaped climate during key moments in Earth’s past
Details here: rutgersvolcano.weebly.com/op…
I’ll be at GSA Sunday and I’d be excited to chat with interested students
We have two openings for PhD students @RutgersEPS to work with me (+great collaborators!) on how magmas have shaped climate during key moments in Earth’s past
Details here: rutgersvolcano.weebly.com/op…
I’ll be at GSA Sunday and I’d be excited to chat with interested students
Deadline Oct 16 for Rutgers presidential postdocs, which are designed to lead into tenure track faculty positions at Rutgers.
academicaffairs.rutgers.edu/…
We also have a broad TT faculty opening @RutgersEPS
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/21…
Drop me a line if you’d like to discuss!
