**Announcing the 2008 Kleinman Grants for Volcano Research**

The following students have been awarded 2008 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 in general. During the past 14 years, the program
has helped dozens of aspiring volcanologists who seek to learn more
about volcanoes and how they work.

***Dan Ruscitto, Isolde Belien, Nick Deardorff, Daniele McKay, and
Natalia Deligne*** are Ph. D. students in the Department of Geological
Sciences, University of Oregon. Their joint research proposal is titled
"A collaborative approach to understanding effusive and explosive
volcanism of intermediate composition in the Central Oregon Cascades."
Together with their research advisor, Dr. Katharine Cashman, they will
undertake an intensive field study of Collier Cone and Four-in-One Cone
at the Three Sisters volcanic center in the central Oregon Cascade
Range. The goals of the research are to study: (1) lava-channel
formation, surface morphology, and geomorphic characteristics that might
derive from the interaction of lava with surface water; and (2) tephra
deposits from both cones to tie together the physical aspects of the
eruption with the chemical nature of the erupted material.

***Alison Koleszar*** is a Ph.D. student in the Department of
Geosciences at Oregon State University. Her project is "Volatile (H~2~O,
CO~2~, S, Cl, F) concentrations in calc-alkaline andesites from Mount
Hood Volcano, Oregon." She will analyze silicate melt inclusions within
olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, and plagioclase phenocrysts to determine
whether low volatile contents are consistent with low explosivity of
Mount Hood lavas, and to study the influence of volatile concentrations
on the eruption and emplacement of Mount Hood lava flows and domes.
Alison's adviser at OSU is Dr. Adam Kent.

***Colleen Donegan*** is enrolled in the Master's degree program in the
Department of Geology at Northern Arizona University. Her thesis topic
is "Dendrochronological responses to the eruption of Mount St Helens,
Washington." With her adviser, Dr. Michael Ort, Colleen will attempt to
identify and understand certain chemical changes that are expressed in
tree rings affected by the 1980 eruption at Mount St. Helens. Such
changes have been documented at basaltic cinder cones elsewhere, but
their cause is poorly understood. Coleen will collect and analyze both
cores and soil samples from tress that survived the 1980 eruption.

***Marco Bagnardi*** is a Masters degree student in the Department of
Earth Sciences at the University of Rome. His thesis project is "Mass
intrusion beneath Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, constraints from geodetic and
gravity measurements." Marco, who is working under the supervision of
Prof. Maurizio Battaglia, will make microgravity measurements at Kilauea
and analyze the results together with ground-deformation data acquired
by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The goal of the project is to
constrain the depth, shape, and material properties of magma storage
areas beneath the Kilauea's summit area.

Congratulations to this year's Kleinman Grant recipients! We look
forward to hearing about your results at scientific meetings and reading
about them in the research literature.