Many GES students take jobs working in labs in the departments of Chemistry, Oceanography, Biology, and Geology and Geophysics.
Students have opportunities for field work as well as lab work.
Setting up instrumentation for sampling lava fumes. The active lava flows on the big island of Hawaii are an area of intensive research. Taking sample of flowing lava. Mike and students are studying trace metal fluxes in the Ala Wai watershed under the direction of Eric DeCarlo. Students take streamflow measurements.