Erik Klemetti

Erik Klemetti is an assistant professor of Geosciences at Denison University. He has always been fascinated by volcanoes since he was a child visiting his relatives near Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. He's worked on volcanoes in New Zealand, Chile, Oregon and California and is fascinated by timescales of magmatic processes such as magma generation, crystallization and magma mixing. His research uses high precision dating of minerals like zircon and plagioclase feldspar through radioactive chronometers such as U, Th, Ra and Pb. He grew up outside of Boston (not exactly volcano central), but he did pick up his other passion there (the Red Sox). He can be contacted on Twitter (@eruptionsblog) or by email (eruptionsblog@gmail.com).