Volcanic Clouds Study Group at Michigan Tech:
Our group is dedicated to understanding of eruptions and especially resulting volcanic clouds and the communication and mitigation of associated volcanic hazards.
Geological Engineering and Sciences Faculty and Staff:
Gregg J S Bluth, Associate Professor email
Michael T Dolan, Computer Coordinator email
John S. Gierke, Associate Professor email
William I Rose, Professor email
I MatthewWatson, Assistant Research Professor email
PhD students at Michigan Tech:
Song Guo, Computational Science and Engineering, email
Nancy Hoft, Rhetoric and Technical Communications, email
Colleen M Riley, Geology, NASA Fellow, email
Jeremy Shannon, Geological Engineering, NSF GANN Fellow, email
MS Students:
Yingxin Gu, Geological Engineering, email
Keith MacPhail, Geology, email
Owen P Mills; Geology, email
Undergrads:
Katie Keranen, Geophysics, email
Tsun Ip, Physics, email
Associated Faculty from other Michigan Tech Depts:
Raymond Shaw, (Physics), email
A B Kostinski (Physics); email
Richard Honrath, (Environmental Engineering)email
Alumni from our group:
David J Schneider, USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, AK, email
Gari C Mayberry, Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program/ USGS, Washington DC, email
Paul Kimberly, Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program, Washington DC, email
Carlos Pullinger, Finca manager, El Salvador, email
Darrell Sofield, GeoEngineers, Tacoma, WA, email
David J Delene, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Univ Colorado/NOAA, email
Barry Green, Prince William Sound - Regional Citizens' Advisory Council (PWS RCAC) email
Emily Constantine, GeoInsight International, Ojai, CA, email
Rick Holasek, Innovative Technical Services, Honolulu, HI email
Robert J Andres, Space Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks,ND, email
Robert B Symonds, Geological Survey of Japan email
Heather L Shocker, Scientific Applications International Corporation, (SAIC), McLean, VA, email
R J Adams, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Tech University
Visiting Scholars, 2000-2001:
Demetrio Escobar, Centro de Investigaciones Geotecnicas, San Salvador, El Salvador
Otoniel Matías, INSIVUMEH, Guatemala City
Noe Piedad Sanchez, UNAM, Mexico City, email
Christiane Textor, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, email
Other Off Campus collaborators:
Ken Dean, Univ Alaska-Fairbanks/Alaska Volcano Observatory, email
Gary Ellrod, NOAA NESDIS, Washington DC (Washington VAAC), email
Gerald.J. Ernst, Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK, email
Luke Flynn, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, email
Hans Graf, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, email
Andrew Harris, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, email
Nikolay Krotkov, Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Raytheon ITSS, Lanham MD, email
Arlin J Krueger, TOMS SO2 Group, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, email
Clive Oppenheimer, Geography Department, Cambridge University, email
Fred Prata, Atmospheric Processes Program, CSIRO, Aspendale, Vic, Australia, email
Vincent J Realmuto, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, email
Rene Servranckx, Canadian Meteorological Centre, Environment Canada (Montreal VAAC), email
Andrew Tupper, Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, NT Australia (Darwin VAAC), email
Sarah Watkin, The Met Office, Aviation Applications Research, Bracknell, UK (London VAAC), email
Recent published work of the group
Michigan Tech Remote Sensing Institute
For those who might like to join our group:
We need undergraduates to work--apply with your resume if interested! email
We're looking for good graduate students! see statements by Rose Bluth