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

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.

Summer of 2005 was full with exciting fieldwork. First, I visited Iceland, where Olgeir Sigmarsson and myself collected important rocks for single crystal isotopic studies here at Oregon and at Clermont Ferrand. Then, I went to Kamchatka, where graduate student Sara Auer and myself worked on collecting a complete section of stratigraphic tefra layers of Klyuchevskoy volcano, while talking to scientists at the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology in the city of Petropavlovsk. Together with Vladimir Leonov and Vera Ponomareva, I have also examined the caldera record of this exciting area and its thick continental crust. We’ll soon be selecting major ignimbrites for Ar-Ar dating and oxygen isotope examination in the framework of my newly funded NSF proposal.