The Lipman Research Fund promotes and supports student research grants in volcanology and petrology.

2025 Recipients

Josephine Dankwa | Missouri State University | Project Title: Reassessing Magma Plumbing at Fogo Volcano: Insights from Syenite Xenoliths

Oceana Apollo | University of Missouri | Project Title:  Explosive Eruptions at Mount St. Helens: The Influence of Volatile Content on Eruptive Styles.

Payal Banerjee | University of New Mexico | Project Title: Constraining Paleoclimate Conditions of Quaternary Lake Chalco, Mexico Using Triple Oxygen Isotopes.

Madeline Bartels | University of Calgary | Project Title:  Investigating Mechanisms and Rates of Carbon Mineralization in Peridotite for Durable Carbon Storage.

Daven Cheu, New Mexico State University | Project Title:  Isotopic and geochemical analysis of lavas from Hunga Tonga and GVP 243030 in the Tonga Arc.

Juliana Curtis | Colorado State University | Project Title: Why does Ko’olau Volcano, Hawai’i lack a postshield volcanic stage?

Alexandra Daniels | Boise State University | Project Title: Investigating volcanic flow hazard at Mt Hood, Oregon.

Josephine Dankwa | Missouri State University | Project Title: Reassessing Magma Plumbing at Fogo Volcano: Insights from Syenite Xenoliths.

Bezali Kwame Danso | Missouri State University | Project Title: Reassessing Magma Residence and Storage Conditions at Large Silicic Domes Using Sr and Mg Diffusion Andean Central Volcanic Zone, Chile.

Logan Erichsen | Kansas State University | Project Title: Trace element & fluid inclusion constraints on Be-rich mineralization from Mt. Antero, CO (USA).

Erica Fancher | University of South Florida | Project Title: Textural investigations of pyroclastic products from the June 3rd 2018 eruption of Fuego volcano.

Gaetano Ferrante | William Marsh Rice University | Project Title: Why did the 2018 eruption at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii suddenly end?

Hannah Franke | University of Texas San Antonio | Project Title: Assessing the Utility of HyTES for Mapping Vesicularity and Crystallinity Variations in Lava Flows.

Gary (Sze Yui) Fung | University of British Columbia | Project Title: Gondwana Rifting: Insights from Amazonia’s and West Africa’s Diamonds.

Scott Furlong | University of Kentucky | Project Title: Nitrate Dynamics in Water Systems Under Storm and Climate Variability.

Lauren Gasior | University of Utah, Salt Lake City | Project Title: Quantifying the Reaction Rates of Low-T Serpentinization Using Silicon Isotope Doping Technique.

David Giovannetti-Nazario | University of New Mexico, | Project Title: The role and dynamics of glendonite pseudomorphs after ikaite in Miers Valley, Antarctica.

Claudia Guillot-Wallace | University of New Hampshire | Project Title: Influence of Permafrost Thaw on Hydrological Connectivity of a Sub-Arctic Peatland.

Riley Havel |  Brown University, Providence | Project Title: Inferring iron oxide formation conditions on Mars from triple oxygen isotopes.

Xinkai He | University of Washington, Seattle | Project Title: Sulfur isotope constraints on volatile degassing and redox changes in arc magmas.

Dominic Hildebrandt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Project Title: The smectite-illite transition and its role for carbon mobility in the lithosphere.

Andrew “Drew” Hindall | Kansas State University | Project Title: Link between melt inclusions in lower crustal xenoliths and silicic magmatism of the Chiricahua Mtns.

Ammar Hussain | University of Houston | Project Title: Geochemical & Multiscale Remote Sensing study of critical mineral hosting Pegmatites in Skardu Region, Karakoram Range.

Megan Koch | Syracuse University | Project Title: Determining intrusion depths of peraluminous granites through elastic thermobarometry.

Bezali Kwame Danso | Missouri State University | Project Title: Magma Residence and Storage Conditions at Large Silicic Domes Using Sr and Mg Diffusion – ACVZ.

Brice Liedtke | Northern Arizona University | Project Title:  Investigating magmatic flux during the incubation phase of a continental ignimbrite flare-up.

Ying Dan Lin | Binghamton University | Project Title: Testing a New Deep-Time Paleothermometer on Fluid Inclusions in Halite.

Juliet Liscomb | Montana State University | Project Title: Investigating the Magmatic Evolution of the Elkhorn Mountain Volcanics: Insights from Geochemistry and Geochronology.

Fan Liu | University of California, Santa Barbara | Project Title: Radiocarbon constraints on organic carbon burial in tropical oceans offshore Papua New Guinea.

Alexis Lopez | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Project Title: Advancing geo-thermo-chronological techniques to assess timing of mineralization for two deposits.

Teagan Maher | Western Washington University | Project Title: Characterizing eruption triggers and storage conditions at the high-threat Kolumbo volcano, Greece.

Baylee McDade | Western Washington University | Project Title: Examining crystal mush systems beneath the high-threat Mount Baker volcano, northern Cascade arc.

Megan Melgren | Kansas State University | Project Title: Geochemistry of Off-Axis Snake River Plain Basalts and Implications for the Footprint of Yellowstone.

Maria Clara Parreira Murta | University at Buffalo | Project Title: Volcanism on the Edge: Basaltic volcanism from source to surface in the Southwest Utah volcanic field.

Mohammed Rifkhan Mohammed Nayeem | Dalhousie University | Project Title: Potential for Rare Earth Element Extraction from Diamond Mine Tailings (Processed Kimberlite).

Aiden Nixon | North Carolina State University | Project Title: The Inclusion of Analogue Crystals in PEG Flows: Implications for Lava Flow Modeling.

Sam Randall | Western Washington University | Project Title: Reconstructing the Magmatic and Eruptive History of the 6.7 ka BA Tephra, Mount Baker, Washington.

Mary (Mae) Roach | Louisiana State University | Project Title: Enhanced tourmaline provenance determination using machine learning.

Caroline Rogers | The University of Missouri – Columbia | Project Title: Tracing Mantle Variability Using Quaternary Basalts in Utah.

Joseph Scrivner | California State University | Project Title: Lode Gold in Nevada County, California: Ore Fluid Source and Timing from In-Situ Pb-isotopes.

Serhat Sevgen | University of Calgary | Project Title: Examining the kinetics of Fe-brucite silicification and hydrogen generation.

Alyssa Smith | Portland State University | Project Title: Regional-scale investigation of widespread basaltic andesites of the central Oregon High Cascades.

Elly Thistlethwaite| The University of British Columbia | Project Title: The Trace Element Composition of Deep Mantle Heterogeneities in the Hawaiian Plume Source.

Diana Valencia | Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada | Project Title: Depth of fluid circulation and hydrothermal alteration at the Los Húmeros geothermal reservoir, Puebla, Mexico.

Liv Wheeler | Montana State University | Project Title: Tuff Love: The Relationship Between Yellowstone’s Mount Jackson Rhyolite Series and Lava Creek Tuff.

Tung Yuen (Daphne) Wong | University at Buffalo, Buffalo | Project Title: Characterizing lava channel morphologies to constrain emplacement dynamics.

Frank Wroblewski | University of Idaho | Project Title: Testing Probabilistic Crystallinity Predictions from in-situ to Space Using Machine Learning.