| Instructors: | Peter Schiffman, Hubert Staudigel, and Robert Zierenberg |
| Texts: | "Volcanoes" by Francis and Oppenheimer (2003) (F); "Kilauea Volcano" by Richard Hazlett (H) |
| Grading: | GEL 138 grade is based on 60% final and 40% exercises; GEL 198 grade is based on quality of individual field notebooks as well as group project (all write-ups for both classes are due 9/17 at 5 PM) |
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| Date | Lecture topic (generally 8:30 ‑ 10:00) and lecturer, or other morning activity; chapter reading in Francis and Oppenheimer |
| 9/6 | Introduction to Hawaiian volcanism and Kilauea: PS (1‑2) |
| 9/7 | Magma genesis; chemistry and physics of volcanoes: RZ (3,5) |
| 9/8 | Classification of eruptions; pyroclastic eruptions: HS (4,6,16) |
| 9/9 | (Classroom time to draft Keanakako'i sections); hydrovolcanic eruptions:PS (8‑12) |
| 9/10 | (Classroom time to draft Steaming Bluff maps) |
| 9/11 | Early AM field excursion |
| 9/12 | Day off: trip to the beach at Punalu’u |
| 9/13 | Lava flows and littoral cones RZ (7,13) |
| 9/14 | (Classroom time to prepare histograms of Nanawale tephras); Mauna Loa PS |
| 9/15 | Volcanic gases and environmental geochemistry RZ |
| 9/16 | Other hazards: earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis in Hawaii (HS) |
| 9/17 | Office Morning: finish projects and study for final |
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| | Tentative afternoon excursion schedule (generally 10:30-5:00+) and reading in Hazlett |
| 9/6 | Kilauea Caldera; Exercise (5%): contouring 1924 ejecta blocks (pp. 32-33, 59-83) |
| 9/7 | Thurston Lava Tube and Kilauea‑Iki (pp. 89-93) |
| 9/8 | Exercise (10%): measured stratigraphic section of Keanakako'i Ash (pp. 83-88) |
| 9/9 | Exercise (5%): mapping temperatures at Steaming Bluffs (pp. 65-68) |
| 9/10 | East Rift Zone, Napau crater excursion (pp. 95-114) |
| 9/11 | Early AM Exercise: mapping active flows (5%); PM: time to work on exercises |
| 9/12 | Day off: trip to the beach at Punalu’u |
| 9/13 | Exercise (10%): tephra granulometry at Nanawale littoral cones (pp. 137-152) |
| 9/14 | Mauna Loa; Exercise: mapping Mauna Loa lava flows off air photos (5%) |
| 9/15 | Ka’u Desert and South Point: Footprints area, Pu’u Mahana tuff cone , Green Sand Beach (pp. 51-58) |
| 9/16 | Revisiting active lava flows |
| 9/17 | Final examination (60%; open notes, unopen book; includes field excursions and exercises) |
