Kate Scholz is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oregon. As a member of Prof. Meredith Townsend‘s lab group, her work involves studying the role that volatiles play in the thermal and mechanical evolution of shallow subvolcanic magma reservoirs. More broadly, her interests revolve around how we can combine petrological and geophysical constraints to improve physics based models for magma storage and transport.
Before coming to UO in the Fall of 2020, Kate completed a BS in Geophysics from Brown University (Class of 2020.) Her undergraduate work on magma chamber modeling with Prof. Chris Huber sparked her interests in all things magma chamber related. Outside of work you can probably find Kate out hiking and on a rainy day knitting or doing a puzzle.
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