EARTH Researcher Explains Eruptive Conditions for Last Night’s Reticulite Lava Fountaining at Kīlauea

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Our Fall 2024 Newsletter, Nuhou Kānaka Puka, has arrived! Congrats to all on another inspirational year!

This October, students in ERTH 300-Physical Volcanology joined two field trips to explore the volcanic features that shape the Hawaiian Islands.

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…

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…