GI doctoral student wins award for AGU presentation

Sarah Henton, a doctoral candidate with the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute and the Alaska Volcano Observatory, received a Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section award for her oral presentation at the Fall 2010 American Geophysical Union meeting.

Henton’s presentation was titled “Experimental constraints on the P/T conditions of high silica andesite storage preceding the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska.” She was one of only three students within her discipline recognized for an oral-presentation award.

Henton’s research focuses on the development of methods to evaluate the pressure-temperature conditions and eruptive history of magmas during explosive volcanic eruptions. Currently she is using a combination of experimental petrology and amphibole geochemistry in order to decipher magma dynamics in the crust below arc volcanic systems. Her advisor is Associate Professor Jessica Larsen of the GI and the Department of Geology and Geophysics.