2024 Earth Sciences Department Newsletter

Earth professor Aaron Pietruszka and colleagues recently published research of Kīlauea and Maunaloa magma sources in the Journal of Petrology: “Awakening of Maunaloa Linked to Melt Shared from Kīlauea’s Mantle Source”. Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, this research revealed that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes share a source of…

Jasper Konter, former professor of Earth Sciences, is recognized globally for his research in using isotope geochemistry and mantle seismology to confirm the deep origin of mantle plumes, to show that materials that were once subducted in the ancient geologic past are returned again to the surface by rising mantle plumes, and for establishing the…

Geophysics graduate students assist with seismometer experiment to image magma within Mauna Loa.