GI doctoral student wins award for AGU presentation
March 14, 2011
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.