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6 May 2013
End of semester update
…and I finally, finally have a chance to breathe. It’s been a really busy couple of months for me – not just because I was teaching a lecture class for the first time, but because I was also getting ready for my technical thesis defense.
20 May 2008
Accretionary Wedge #9: Cenozoic magmatism and the subduction of the Farallon slab
My significant geological event is a pretty long one – actually, something like 40 million years long, and probably still ongoing somewhere down in the mantle. The subduction of the Farallon plate actually means a great deal to me, because without it, my senior thesis research would never have happened. (Okay, probably a lot of other things, including me being born, wouldn’t have happened, but my research is pretty dependent …
5 May 2008
Oh, all right…
Because every person in the known geoblogosphere is doing this, I suppose I’ll have to as well. Voila! My thesis: 39ar 40ar al area ash biotite caldera composition contains continental creek deposits diagram eruption et feldspar fiamme field figure fish flow formed indicates lake magma matrix melt monroe osiris peak phenocrysts plagioclase plateau probably range results rims samples sanidine section subduction surface thick thin trachyte unit utah values volcanic welded …
Jessica Ball is a volcanologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, researching volcanic hydrothermal systems and stability, and doing science communication for the California Volcano Observatory. She previously worked at the Geological Society of America's Washington DC Policy Office, learning about the intersection of Earth science and legislative affairs. Her Mendenhall postdoc and PhD focused on how water affects the stability of volcanoes, and involved both field investigations and numerical modeling applications. Her blogging covers a range of topics, from her experiences in academic geosciences to science outreach and communication to her field and lab work in volcanology.