To see out the academic year, we took a lab trip to the Exploratorium in SF. While simulated fog didn’t hold much appeal, shadow images, kaleidoscopes, geysers, heat sensors and cow eyeballs provided wholesome scientific diversion from pressing questions about mantle processes.
Suzanne Birner’s AGU presentation received an AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award and a honorable mention in the GeoPRISMS Student Presentation Competition. Congrats Suzanne! Birner, S., J.M. Warren, E. Cottrell, O.G. Lopez, F.A. Davis and T. Falloon, 2013. Variations in Oxygen Fugacity among Forearc Peridotites from the Tonga Trench, AGU Fall Meeting, V13I-02.
On the night before Halloween, we took a trip to the USS Hornet for Nerd Nite at Sea – part of the Bay Area Science Festival. Highlight of the evening: Drones!
Over beer and reubens, Bob Coleman explained the geology of Californian peridotite massifs, including the Cedars and Burro Mountain. He also explained how New Idria got him started on the whole peridotite business to begin with.
Postdoc Lars Hansen packed his bags for the sunny spires of Oxford University, to begin a faculty position in the Department of Earth Sciences and a fellowship at University College.
September saw the addition of new members to the Warren Research Lab at Stanford University, seen below with current members after 2 weeks in the field.
Thanks to funding from the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Megan and Jessica spent a few weeks France, working on a project with Margot Godard and Benoit Ildefonse at Geosciences Montpellier.