A  PhD candidate Kathryn Watts has written two papers on her exciting research on the Snake River calderas. We visited Yellowstone and the eastern Snake River Plain with her in 2006, 2008, and 2009. We have also run a GSA Penrose Conference there in September 2009. We have employed four summer undergraduarte students in summers on 2008 and 2009 and have an undergraduate student working throughout the year.   We are also very happy to have Dr Jim Palandri as a half-time lab manager. Jim also works as a Research Associate with Mark Reed on hydrothermal ore deposits. Jim attended  continuous flow training sessions in Ottawa, Canada and visited Zach Sharp’s lab. Graduate student  Niccole Shipley spent 2.5 months in Kamchtatka last summer and now she is continuing her research on Karymshina silicic volcano, largest in Kamchatka; Graduate student  Gary Nolan is pursuing his research hydrogen isotope in obsidian and rare CO2 projects.