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

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Members of the  Department of Earth Sciences represented the department at two major geoscience conferences in Southern California in April, presenting research on volcanic systems and subduction zone hazards.  The first stop was the Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual Meeting, held April 14-18 in Pasadena, California, which brought together seismologists from across the United…

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…