We've had a lot of success with the Q&A series here on Eruptions, so why not keep it up. Earlier in the summer, I briefly mentioned an article that was picked on about the generation of magma and eruption mechanisms at Mt. Hood in Oregon. It just so happened that I am somewhat entangled in the study - first off, the first author of this study that appeared in
is friend and colleague of mine from my Ph.D. alma mater (Oregon State University), Dr. Adam Kent. Beyond that, one of the coauthors on the paper was a student in the volcanology class (Christina Darr) for which I was a TA and another coauthor was my postdoctoral advisor (Kari Cooper). Combine that with the fact that I was part of the field crew that collected some of the samples around Hood (I have real uses, see?), it only seemed ...
