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Boise State Associate Professor Brittany Brand and her Ph.D. student, Aaron Marshall, spent five weeks collecting data at Llaima volcano in Chile in December 2016.
Brand's research explores the eruption dynamics of volcanoes. She is trying to determine what eruption factors control the extent and hazard potential of such flows, and apply what she learns to other volcanoes worldwide. Brand works with volcanologists internationally combining field data, experiments and computational modeling to better predict the risk associated with future eruptions.
Read more about Brand's work with the Geosciences Department in Focus Magazine.