Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at Lehigh University, views are my own
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
15 Oct 2024
Our latest paper is out! We use the Southern Volcanic Zone as a natural laboratory to assess the impact of loading and unloading of ~2 km thick Patagonian ice sheet on magma plumbing systems. As G.R.R. Martin would say: Ice and Fire!!🌋🗻🧊 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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11 Oct 2024
I'm recruiting a graduate student to work in the magma processes lab @LehighU For more details on the project and how to apply, see the position advertisement here: meredithtownsend.com/opportu…
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Lava flowing from new vent system in this ongoing eruption on #Kilauea's middle East Rift Zone. Lava flowing downslope to brink of Nāpau Crater in channel more than 50 m (about 164 ft) wide, pouring over western cliffs to create lava falls. #HVO overflight video from Sep 19.
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
7 Jun 2024
🌋🚨Volcano paper alert @GSAPublications! Our new 40Ar/39Ar 3He ages and magma compositions on Mocho-Choshuenco show an interesting behavior of the volcanic complex before, during, and following the Last Glacial Maximum. See here pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa…
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
26 Mar 2024
New research article: Modeling the timing of Patagonian Ice Sheet retreat in the Chilean Lake District from 22–10 ka doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1381-2…
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27 Dec 2023
Interested in the effect (or lack thereof) of CO2 on magma chamber dynamics? PhD candidate Kate Scholz just published her work about this here: doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011151 Congrats, Kate!
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28 Jan 2023
Throwing the towel in on trying to make it to New Zealand and hereby declaring myself (and my poor husband and 9-month-old baby who I dragged with me) officially #IAVCEIstranded in a hotel airport at SFO
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
16 Jan 2023
Last week we wrapped up the Volcano-Ice Summer Program (VISP) at Volcán Llaima, Chile with students from Universidad de la Frontera!
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7 Jan 2023
Thanks @ErinScott_geo for the highlight!
New Research Highlight!
An article by @townsendmr & Mong-Han Huang found that Kīlauea’s destructive volcanic flank eruption in 2018 was likely fed by multiple magma chambers
nature.com/articles/s43017-0…
ALT An aerial drone image of a fissure eruption during Kīlauea’s volcanic flank eruption in 2018 at the Lower East Rift Zone.
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16 Dec 2022
Dynamic magma transport models suggest that rupture of the shallow East Rift Zone reservoir fed the 2018 dike intrusion at Kīlauea and buffered pressure at the summit. My paper with @Mongulator in JGR Solid Earth is out now! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
11 Dec 2022
If you are at #AGU2022, feel free to stop by my talk on Monday at 11:10 AM CT (Session V13A-02). I will be showing how magma storage evolution is potentially influenced by ice loading/unloading on a continental arc volcano (Mocho-Choshuenco)
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2 Oct 2022
Hey, that's my advisee!! 🤩🌋💪
Meet Gui Aksit She/They, @guiologist a Ph.D. student at University of Oregon. Her research focuses on silicic dike propagation at the eroded Summer Coon volcano in Colorado. She studies the physical properties preserved in chilled dike margins
ALT Meet Gui Aksit She/They, @guiologist a Ph.D. student at University of Oregon. Her research focuses on silicic dike propagation at the eroded Summer Coon volcano in Colorado. She studies the physical properties preserved in chilled dike margins
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
3 Aug 2022
Lava with a helicopter for scale! Amazing photo straight from the field by Sveinbjörn Steinþórsson, a technician at Institute of Earth sciences @Haskoli_Islands
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
21 Jul 2022
Going to #AGU22 ? Consider submitting your abstract to the session @IAVCEI_official is sponsoring - Chemistry, Mechanics, Geophysics, and Timescales of Magmatic Processes🤓! Abstracts are due soon 👀Aug 3rd 👀
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
19 Jul 2022
It’s 2022, and 157 House Republicans just voted against marriage equality.
That’s where they come down on this issue.
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Meredith Townsend retweeted
16 Jul 2022
Hard data show as said by @seis_matters “Being smart isn’t enough,” Straight, white men without disabilities received at least an extra US$32,000 each year in a study of 32 intersecting identities, 25,300 researchers by Dr @CechErin
#privilege quantified
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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