April, 2010 - Sheve Shaw received the $1000 Kleinman fellowship from the US Geological Survey and the Cascades Volcano Observatory. Only five were awarded.

Announcing the recipients of the 2010 Kleinman Grants for Volcano Research
From: Dan Dzurisin kleinmangrants@COMCAST.NET

The Community Foundation for Southwest Washington announces that the following students have been awarded 2010 Kleinman Grants for Volcano Research. Jack Kleinman was a USGS employee at the David. A. Johnston Cascades Volcano Observatory who died in a kayaking accident in 1994. By supporting field-oriented research projects in volcanology, the Kleinman Grants memorialize Jack’s exuberance for fieldwork, volcanoes, and the natural world. During the past 16 years, the program has helped dozens of aspiring volcanologists who seek to learn more about volcanoes and how they work.

Steven Shaw is an M.S. candidate in the Geology Department at Western Washington University who is working under the direction of Prof. Susan M. DeBari at WWU and Dr. Thomas W. Sison at USGS Regional Headquarters in Menlo Park, California As part of his thesis project entitled “H2O contents in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from primitive magmas in the Northern Cascade arc,” Steve will be measuring volatile contents and compositions of olivine-hosted melt inclusions in primitive basaltic lavas from Mount Baker and Glacier Peak, Washington. The primary objectives of his project are to: 1) measure initial magmatic volatile contents in order to support or potentially rule out decompression melting as the sole process of basalt magma generation in the northern Cascade arc; 2) help constrain the amount of compositional diversity due to thermal regime; 3) add to the growing dataset of primitive magma compositions along the Cascades arc; and 4) identify how much (if any) mixing between distinct reservoirs is occurring. Steve results should lead to better understanding of how basalt magma forms deep beneath the Cascade volcanic arc, which is at the “hottest” end of the worldwide arc spectrum in terms of subducting plate temperature. In addition, better understanding of initial magma composition at this hot end-member can be useful in understanding magma generation worldwide.