Current Projects (Genevieve Robert)

NSF RUI: Melt viscosities in silica-undersaturated systems

• Effect of fluorine on viscosity or mixed Na-K  and Mg-K aluminosilicate melts.
• Effect of Na-K mixing in aluminosilicate melts
• Configurational entropy modeling of viscosity

Effect of water on the viscosity and heat capacity of calc-alkaline magmas

• Building an empirical model of the effect of water on the viscosity of magmas in subduction zones
• Configurational entropy modeling of viscosity