Isabelle Rein

• Graduation: 2020
• Major: Geology
• Senior Honors Thesis: Apatite Geochemistry Across Neovolcanic Zones in Iceland
• Life After Lafayette:
  • Geoscientist-in-the-Park, Badlands National Park
• RUMBLE Conference Abstracts:
  • Carley TL, *Connors L, *Rein IMT, *Ruger ECV, Gross J, and Burger P:  Major and trace element geochemistry of Icelandic apatite: A case study at Torfajökull Volcano (Goldschmidt, 2020; withdrew from virtual conference in response to COVID-19 complications);
  • *Rein IMT, *Connors L, *Ruger ECV, and Carley, TL: Apatite geochemistry across the neovolcanic zones of Iceland: Establishing a baseline and searching for spatial significance: (NE-SE GSA, 2020; conference canceled due to COVID-19);
  • *Ruger ECV, *Rein IMT, *Connors L, and Carley TL: Using Icelandic apatites to investigate elevated contents of rare earth elements within Iceland (NE-SE GSA, 2020).

 

 

Ed Ruger

 

• Graduation: 2020
• Major: Geology
• Minor: Economics
• Independent Research: Investigating Elevated Contents of Rare Earth Elements in Icelandic Apatite
• Life After Lafayette:
  • Assistant Geoscientist at Princeton Geoscience, Inc.
• RUMBLE Conference Abstracts:
  • Carley TL, *Connors L, *Rein IMT, *Ruger ECV, Gross J, and Burger P:  Major and trace element geochemistry of Icelandic apatite: A case study at Torfajökull Volcano (Goldschmidt, 2020; withdrew from virtual conference in response to COVID-19 complications);
  • *Rein IMT, *Connors L, *Ruger ECV, and Carley, TL: Apatite geochemistry across the neovolcanic zones of Iceland: Establishing a baseline and searching for spatial significance: (NE-SE GSA, 2020; conference canceled due to COVID-19);
  • *Ruger ECV, *Rein IMT, *Connors L, and Carley TL: Using Icelandic apatites to investigate elevated contents of rare earth elements within Iceland (NE-SE GSA, 2020; conference canceled due to COVID-19);
  • *Shteynman L, *Pinke B, *Ruge  EC, *Wiley  K, Carley TL, and Ukstins XRD analysis of mafic sands from the Icelandic interior: An analogue study for the Bagnold Dune Field of Mars (NE GSA, 2019).

 

 

Leah Shteynman

 

• Graduation: 2020
• Major: Geology
• Senior Honors Thesis: Utility of Zircon Hosted Melt Inclusions for Characterizing Ordovician Explosive Volcanism
• Life After Lafayette:
  • Development Intern, Save the Music Foundation
• RUMBLE Conference Abstracts:
  • *Shteynman L, Carley T, and Jaret S, 2020, Utility of zircon-hosted melt inclusions for characterizing the Millbrig K-bentonite (NE-SE GSA, 2020; conference canceled due to COVID-19);
  • *Shteynman L, *Pinke B, *Ruge  EC, *Wiley  K, Carley TL, and Ukstins XRD analysis of mafic sands from the Icelandic interior: An analogue study for the Bagnold Dune Field of Mars (NE GSA, 2019).

 

Lissie Connors

• Graduation: 2018
• Major: Geology
• Minor: Environmental Science
• Senior Honors Thesis: Using Apatite to Understand the Volatile History of Torfajökull Volcanic Center, Iceland
• Life After Lafayette:
  • Master of Science in Earth Science at the University of Oregon (in progress)
  • Science Communication Intern, American Physical Society; Education and Diversity Intern, American Geophysical Union; Geoscientist-in-the-Park, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
• RUMBLE Journal Article:
  • *Connors, L., Carley, T.L., Fiege, A., 2020, Apatite as a monitor of dynamic magmatic evolution at Torfajökull Volcanic Center, Iceland, in Vetere, F. and Fiege, A. eds., Dynamic Magma Evolution (Geophysical Monograph 254), John Wiley & Sons, p. 61-88. In press. .
• RUMBLE Conference Abstracts:
  • Carley TL, *Connors L, *Rein IMT, *Ruger ECV, Gross J, and Burger P:  Major and trace element geochemistry of Icelandic apatite: A case study at Torfajökull Volcano (Goldschmidt, 2020; withdrew from virtual conference in response to COVID-19 complications);
  • *Rein IMT, *Connors L, *Ruger ECV, and Carley, TL: Apatite geochemistry across the neovolcanic zones of Iceland: Establishing a baseline and searching for spatial significance: (NE-SE GSA, 2020; conference canceled due to COVID-19);
  • *Ruger ECV, *Rein IMT, *Connors L, and Carley TL: Using Icelandic apatites to investigate elevated contents of rare earth elements within Iceland (NE-SE GSA, 2020; conference canceled due to COVID-19);
  • Connors L*, Carley TL, Fiege A:  Compositional evolution of Torfajökull central volcano, Iceland: Perspectives from the apatite record (NE GSA, 2019);
  • Connors L*, Fiege A, Carley TL: Apatite as a monitor of volatile and trace element evolution at Torfajökull central volcano, Iceland (AGU, 2018);
  • Connors L*, Fiege A, Carley TL:  Using apatite to investigate the volatile history of Torfajökull central volcano, Iceland (GSA, 2018).

 

 

Emma Sosa

• Graduation: 2017
• Major: Geology
• Senior Honors Thesis: A Detrital Zircon Investigation into the Magmatic History of the Öræfajökull Volcano in Southeastern Iceland
• Excel Research: Using Zircon to Investigate Alaskan Ash Beds of Unknown Origin
• Life After Lafayette: Ph.D. in Geology, Cal Tech (in progress)
• RUMBLE Conference Abstracts:
  • Carley TL, Sosa ES, Banik TJ, Coble MA, Fisher CM, Miller CF: Combined insight from tephra and glacially-derived sediments: A zircon-based study of Öræfajökull, SE Iceland (Cordilleran GSA, 2017);
  • Carley TL, Banik TJ, Sosa ES, Coble MA: Altered, eroded, obscured by ice: A detrital zircon perspective into Iceland’s rhyolitic history (IAVCEI Volcano Mapping Workshop, 2017;
  • DeBarba WP, CarleyTL, Pamukcu AS, Banik TJ, Sosa ES, Tintle LR: Geothermobarometry of glacial outwash sediment from Öræfajökull, Iceland (NE GSA, 2017);
  • Sosa ES, Carley TL, Banik TJ, Claiborne LL, Miller CF: A detrital zircon investigation into the magmatic history of the Öræfajökull volcano in Southeastern Iceland (NE GSA, 2017);
  • Sosa ES, Carley TL, Jensen BJL, Coble MA: A zircon-based investigation into the tephras of uncertain origins: A case study with the Old Crow Tephra in Central Alaska (GSA, 2016).

Cullen Scheland

• Graduation: 2017
• Majors: Geology and German
• Senior Honors Thesis: Explosive Silicic Volcanism Preceding the Peach Spring Tuff Supereruption, Western Arizona: Magmatic Histories of Systems in the Northern Colorado River Extensional Corridor and Colorado Plateau Transition Zone
• Life After Lafayette:
  • PhD in Earth Sciences at USC (in progress)
  • Master of Science in Geological Sciences at Cal State Fullerton (2019)
• RUMBLE Conference Abstracts:
  • Scheland CL, Miller CF, Carley TL, Foley ML, Claiborne LL, Crib JW, Wood EM Constraining eruptive events preceding the Peach Spring Tuff supereruption (Miocene, AZ): Petrology and petrogenesis of ash fall tuffs (NE GSA, 2017);
  •  Scheland CL, Wood EM, Miller CF, Claiborne LL, Foley ML, Cribb JW, Carley TL  Explosive silicic volcanism preceding the Peach Spring Tuff supereruption, Part 2: Magmatic processes recorded by petrochemistry (GSA, 2016);
  • Scheland CL, Perry SE, Miller CF, Claiborne LL, Cribb JW, Varga RJ, Carley TL, Investigating the extent of the Early Miocene Cook Canyon Tuff, a major Pre-Peach Spring Tuff ignimbrite, SW USA, using geochemistry and petrography (GSA, 2015).

William DeBarba

• Graduation: 2017
• Major: Geology
• Minor: Mathematics
• Independent Research: Geothermobarometry of Glacial Outwash Sediment near Öræfajökull, Iceland
• Excel Research: Using Icelandic Xenoliths to Understand Continental Nucleation
• Life After Lafayette: Professional Master of Science in Applied Geosciences at University of Pennsylvania
• RUMBLE Conference Abstract:
  • DeBarba WP, CarleyTL, Pamukcu AS, Banik TJ, Sosa ES, Tintle LR, Geothermobarometry of glacial outwash sediment from Öræfajökull, Iceland (NE GSA, 2017).

Leslie Tintle

• Graduation: 2016
• Majors: Environmental Studies and Art
• Minor: Geology
• Independent Research: A Detrital Investigation of Subglacial Volcanic Systems, Northern Vatnajökull, Iceland
• Life After Lafayette: Master of Science in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lehigh University (2019)
• RUMBLE Conference Abstracts:
  • DeBarba WP, CarleyTL, Pamukcu AS, Banik TJ, Sosa ES, Tintle LR:  Geothermobarometry of glacial outwash sediment from Öræfajökull, Iceland (NE GSA, 2017);
  • Carley T, Banik T, Nagurney A, Tintle L, Catino J: A detrital investigation of enigmatic subglacial magmatic systems: Vatnajökull, SE Iceland (IAVCEI Volcano Mapping Workshop, 2016).

Allie Nagurney

• Graduation: 2016
• Major: Geology
• Minor: Environmental Science
• Senior Honors Thesis: Petrogenesis and Magmatic Evolution of Subglacial Volcanic Systems, Southeastern Iceland
• Life After Lafayette: Ph.D. in Geosciences at Virginia Tech (in progress)
• RUMBLE Conference Abstract:
  •  Carley T, Banik T, *Nagurney A, Tintle L, Catino J: A detrital investigation of enigmatic subglacial magmatic systems: Vatnajökull, SE Iceland (IAVCEI Volcano Mapping Workshop, 2016).

Amanda Leaman

• Graduation: 2015
• Major: Geology
• Senior Honors Thesis: Silicic Origins in Iceland: Examining the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Torfajökull’s Oldest Rhyolites
• Excel Research: Thermal Expansion of Apatite and Pyroxene (mentored by Dr. Guy Hovis)
• Life After Lafayette:
  • Survey Technician, Bureau of Land Management (current); GIS Technician, Great Basin Institute / Bureau of Land Mangement; Interpretation Intern, Student Conservation Association / National Park Service
  • Master of Science in Geology at Utah State University (in progress)