Jaime Vincent
Jaime teaches algebra, environmental science, and physics at the Squaw Valley Academy in Olympic Valley, California, near Lake Tahoe.
Project: Characteristics of the Lyle Spring Tuff: recycling of earlier Yellowstone eruptions?
Presentations: 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2016 IsoAstro Workshop; Boise, ID; 2016 Rocky Mountain GSA, Moscow, ID; 2016 Undergraduate Research Fair, Westminster College, UT
Jaime graduated in May 2017.
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America
Jaime teaches algebra, environmental science, and physics at the Squaw Valley Academy in Olympic Valley, California, near Lake Tahoe.
Project: Characteristics of the Lyle Spring Tuff: recycling of earlier Yellowstone eruptions?
Presentations: 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2016 IsoAstro Workshop; Boise, ID; 2016 Rocky Mountain GSA, Moscow, ID; 2016 Undergraduate Research Fair, Westminster College, UT
Jaime graduated in May 2017.
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America
Stephanie Gardiner
Stephanie is currently exploring opportunities for graduate school, with an emphasis on atmospheric chemistry.
Project: The Green Canyon Flow and its relationship to the Mesa Falls Tuff caldera-forming eruption
Presentations: 2017 GSA annual meeting, Seattle, WA (Link to abstract) 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2015 AGU Virtual Poster Showcase [2nd place winner] Watch here!
Collaborators: Mark Schmitz (Boise State University); Brian Jicha (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America;
Stephanie is currently exploring opportunities for graduate school, with an emphasis on atmospheric chemistry.
Project: The Green Canyon Flow and its relationship to the Mesa Falls Tuff caldera-forming eruption
Presentations: 2017 GSA annual meeting, Seattle, WA (Link to abstract) 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2015 AGU Virtual Poster Showcase [2nd place winner] Watch here!
Collaborators: Mark Schmitz (Boise State University); Brian Jicha (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America;
Ryan Furlong
Project: Petrochronology of small-volume rhyolitic eruptions and contributions to a Yellowstone supereruption
Presentations: 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2016 Rocky Mountain GSA, Moscow, ID; 2016 Undergraduate Research Fair, Westminster College, UT; 2015 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT
Ryan graduated in May 2017.
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America
Project: Petrochronology of small-volume rhyolitic eruptions and contributions to a Yellowstone supereruption
Presentations: 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2016 Rocky Mountain GSA, Moscow, ID; 2016 Undergraduate Research Fair, Westminster College, UT; 2015 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT
Ryan graduated in May 2017.
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America
Rachel Darata
Rachel was a GeoCorps America Geology Interpretive Guide at the Hudson-Meng Education Research Center, Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, U.S. Forest Service, in Harrison, Nebraska during the summer of 2018. (link)
Project: Paleomagnetism and high-precision 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dating of post-supereruption rhyolites in the Yellowstone Volcanic Field
Presentations: 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2016 Rocky Mountain GSA, Moscow, ID; 2016 Undergraduate Research Fair, Westminster College, UT
Collaborators: Peter Lippert (Utah Paleomagnetic Center, University of Utah); Brian Jicha (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Mark Schmitz (Boise State University)
Publications: The duration of a Yellowstone super-eruption cycle and implications for the age of the Olduvai subchron download
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America
Rachel was a GeoCorps America Geology Interpretive Guide at the Hudson-Meng Education Research Center, Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, U.S. Forest Service, in Harrison, Nebraska during the summer of 2018. (link)
Project: Paleomagnetism and high-precision 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dating of post-supereruption rhyolites in the Yellowstone Volcanic Field
Presentations: 2016 GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO; 2016 GeekFest, Westminster College, UT; 2016 Rocky Mountain GSA, Moscow, ID; 2016 Undergraduate Research Fair, Westminster College, UT
Collaborators: Peter Lippert (Utah Paleomagnetic Center, University of Utah); Brian Jicha (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Mark Schmitz (Boise State University)
Publications: The duration of a Yellowstone super-eruption cycle and implications for the age of the Olduvai subchron download
Funding sources: The Geological Society of America
