UGA Volcanologist to serve as Geological Society of America Distinguished Lecturer

photo of man with volcanic mountain in background
By:
Alan Flurry
Mattia Pistone, assistant professor of Petrology and Volcanology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of geology will serve as the 2024-2025 Distinguished Lecturer of the Continental Scientific Drilling Division of the Geological Society of America.
Director of the MAGMA MIA Laboratory, Pistone is one of the seven PIs leading the ICDP DIVE (Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE) project, and an enthusiastic researcher investigating the mechanics of multiphase magmas, eruption dynamics, and volatile cycles in the Earth’s interior using a combination of experimental, analytical, and field-based approaches.  
Pistone has been invited to 13 institutions to give the lecture on the "Moho Mission to the Foundation of Continents: The ICDP DIVE Drilling Project", which tightly relates to the international drilling project, aimed to explore the interface between Earth's crust and mantle, a frontier that remains a significant challenge. Here is his current schedule includes:
 
Fall 2024:
October 7, 2024: Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
October 17, 2024: West Chester University (West Chester, Pa)
October 31, 2024: University of Florida (Gainesville, FI)
November 7, 2024: University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada)
December 2, 2024: Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
Spring 2025:
January 9, 2025: University of Nevada in Reno (Reno, NV)
February 7, 2025: University of Texas in San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)
February 21, 2025: University of Missouri, Columbia (Columbia, MO)
March 27, 2025: University of Utah (Salt Lake, UT)
April 17, 2025: University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
April 25, 2025: University of Alaska Fairbanks (Faibanks, AK) 
April 29, 2025: Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
May 26, 2025: Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
 
"It is a great honour to be the new Distinguished Lecturer for the Continental Scientific Drilling Division (CSD) of the Geological Society of America, and have an exciting opportunity to share the thrill to drill and the science of the international DIVE project," Pistone said. "Diving into the inaccessible solid Earth is a terrific mission that allows to understand the architecture, geochemistry, and deep biosphere at the foundations of our continents." 
 
The University of Georgia is the lead U.S. institution in the DIVE project. " I am honored to be the "UGA Ambassador" of the CSD to deliver lectures across North America and show how the exploration of the Earth's interior a few miles below our feet is both challenging and amazing," he said.
 
Image: Mattia Pistone at Mt Etna (Sicily, Italy) where he conducted the field mission related to an NSF grant in summer 2023.
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