Current Group Members

  • Meredith Townsend

    Assistant Professor
    met423 - at - lehigh.edu
    Curriculum Vitae
    Magma storage and transport, geomechanics, fractures and fluids

  • Franziska Keller

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Magmatic petrology, volcano-tectonic interactions

  • Kathryn Scholz

    PhD Candidate
    Magma chamber dynamics, volcano seismology

  • Gui Aksit

    PhD Candidate & Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitman College
    Magma transport, silicic volcanoes

Former students:

Rebecca Bussard (co-advised with Josef Dufek), PhD 2024, Insights from Mapping Distributed and Focused Volcanism, now a postdoctoral researcher at Penn State

Ana Mercedes Colón Umpierre, MS 2021, Characterizing ice-magma features in the central Oregon Cascades

Catherine O’Hara, Undergraduate Honors Thesis 2021, Constraining magma storage and recharge beneath South Sister Volcano using numerical modeling, now a PhD student at University of Iceland