Dynamics of Volcanic Processes

• Main Authors: James E. Gardner, William Carlson, John Lassiter, Todd Housh, Jose Luis Macias, David Mohrig Recharge
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Gardner; Tait; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.428.2821; http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/7824/andrewsb83390.pdf

Many individuals and organizations contributed invaluable assistance to the research and writing of this dissertation. My advisor and co-author, Jim Gardner, is foremost among them. I first met Jim seven years ago when he picked me up at the Fairbanks Airport after midnight for a visit to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Several months later, as a UAF graduate student, I went with Jim, Pavel Izbekov, and Steve Tait to Kamchatka to study Ksudach Volcano. That trip introduced me to physical volcanology field methods (techniques that often resemble hole-digging), and started me thinking about the simultaneous eruption of buoyant plumes and pyroclastic flows. Through my entire graduate career, Jim has provided insightful comments and helped me focus my research on new and exciting projects. I have found that we do not always see research questions in the same way and that Jim is not afraid to shoot down the print versions of my more speculative ideas. As a result, although my papers usually emerge from Jim’s office hemorrhaging red ink, my writing has improved and I am able to explain my research to critical audiences. I am grateful to Dr. Jim Gardner for giving me field, laboratory, and teaching opportunities over the past years to become a better