{"id":49147,"date":"2016-08-24T13:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T23:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=49147"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T20:05:01","slug":"geology-professor-has-studied-kilauea-volcano-for-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/24\/geology-professor-has-studied-kilauea-volcano-for-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Geology professor has studied K\u012blauea volcano for 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hGuG1qmLzew?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Michael Garcia, a University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa geology professor, featured on <abbr title=\"Public Broadcasting Station\">PBS<\/abbr> NewsHour<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island&#8217;s volcano has been erupting for more than 30 years, making it the one of longest-flowing volcano on Earth. Because of its remarkable and frequent activity, K&#299;lauea is one of the best studied volcanoes on Earth. University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/GG\/\">Geology<\/a> Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/gg\/people\/gg_profile_garcia_m.html\"><strong>Michael Garcia<\/strong><\/a> has been leading studies of the chemistry of lavas from this volcano for 40 years, adding to the extensive knowledge base on this volcano. Garcia was recently featured on <em>PBS NewsHour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;K&#299;lauea is the ideal place to study volcanoes,&rdquo; said Garcia. &ldquo;I have been extremely fortunate to be at <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ M&#257;noa<\/a> at the right time to witness and help document one of K&#299;lauea most amazing historical eruptions. It is a shock that 33 years after I predicted that this eruption might last longer than the previous ones that it is still continuing with no end it sight. So much has been learned from this eruption about how molten rock is generated in the mantle and the changes that occur as it travels over 60 miles to the surface.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Geology graduate student Kendra Lynn analyzes the mineral olivine&#8212;the first mineral to crystallize out of magma&#8212;to understand more about the history of the magma, especially how long these minerals are stored within the volcano. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;m excited about the research we are doing with olivine crystals because they inform us about the history of a magma before it erupts,&rdquo; said Lynn. &ldquo;This type of investigation helps us to understand the long-term history of K&#299;lauea, building on what we know from modern day eruptions. There is still much to learn about K&#299;lauea and Hawaiian volcanoes, and studying olivine is a fundamental approach to expand our knowledge about these systems.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The study of volcanoes in general and K&#299;lauea in particular, allows researchers to answer basic questions about how volcanoes work and to hopefully predict their future behavior.  <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Marcie Grabowski<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49149\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/manoa-soest-garcia-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/manoa-soest-garcia-m.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/manoa-soest-garcia-m-260x179.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Garcia at K&#299;lauea summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Garcia, a ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ M&#257;noa geology professor, was featured on <em>PBS NewsHour<\/em> for his research on K&#299;lauea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[252,378,92,9,56,108],"class_list":["post-49147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-geology","tag-geology-and-geophysics","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","tag-volcano","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49147"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123612,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147\/revisions\/123612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}