Winter seminar series “Origins of silicic magmas in arc and not arc environments” in which we invited leading specialists in the field to give Departmental seminars and a lecture for participating students – was a great success. See: http://pages.uoregon.edu/dogsci/news/seminar/seminarw13

New graduate student Dylan Colon joint our group. Dylan worked at the University of Wisconsin as an undergraduate.

Kathryn Watts is now a Mendelhall postdoctoral fellow at USGS, her PhD thesis was made of for excellent papers. Erwan Martin, a postdoctoral fellow for 2.5 years is now in Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe. He wrote two papers, one on mass independent isotopic signature of supereruptions (Martin and Bindeman 2009) and the other on the unusual high-d18O signature of Mt Shasta and Medicine Lake volcanoes in California (Martin, Bindeman, Grove 2010). We are also involved in fruiteful collaborations with scientists in Germany, Russia, France, Iceland, Australia, and the UK. I spent my sabbatical in Switzerland and Caltech and established new collaborations there. I will run a 2week-long fieldtrip to Yellowstone for Swiss profs and grad students in Sept 2013.

We are very successful with hydrogen isotope research currently which range from D/H and total water in submarine glasses to volcanic degassing and to microanalytical investigation of experimental charges.

We are successfully collaborating with Prof. Alexander Simakin (Inst Physics of the Earth) on numerical modeling of magma genesis processes which we are dealing with