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Garrett Apuzen-Ito

Garrett Apuzen-Ito is a professor who teaches and does research in geophysics. His research focuses on the large-scale processes that cause volcanism throughout the ocean basins. Much of this volcanism occurs along seafloor spreading centers, which stretch many tens of thousands of miles around the globe like threads on a baseball. Another major form of volcanism that Garrett studies occurs at oceanic hotspots, which are anomalous regions that form volcanic island chains such as the Hawaiian Islands. Both forms of volcanism occur by the convection in the very hot interior of the Earth. Garrett studies these processes by a combination of geophysical measurements of the internal density structure of the Earth, geochemical measurements that reflect upon how the magma was generated, numerical models that study the heat and mass transfer processes in the deep Earth.

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Presented by the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii, with financial support from the National Science Foundation.