AVO is a very extended family. Some people work full time for the observatory, others well under half time.
Others perform essential work, but only draw operating expenses. Several agencies contribute personnel at several
locations. A wide variety of disciplines are represented, including geophysics, geology, glaciology, hydrology,
geochemistry, remote sensing, computing, electronics, and administration. The following people are the paid staff,
and share among themselves about 22 Full Time Equivalent positions.
[List staff by discipline]
[List staff alphabetically]
[List staff by office location]
* When listing staff by discipline, some individuals may be listed more than once.
Kasatkina, E., Koulakov, I., Grapenthin, R., Izbekov, P., Larsen, J. F., Al Arifi, N., and Saleh Ismail Qaysi, 2022, Multiple magma sources beneath the Okmok
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Grapenthin, Ronni, Cheng, Yitian, Angarita, Mario, Tan, Darren, Meyer, F.J., Fee, David, and Wech, Aaron, 2022, Return from dormancy: Reapid inflation and seismic unrest driven by transcrustal magma transfer at Mt. Edgecumbe (L'ux Shaa) Volcano, Alaska: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 49, 10p., 10.1029/2022GL099464. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099464
Grapenthin, Ronni, Freymueller, J.T., and Kaufman, A.M., 2013, Geodetic observations during the 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 259, p. 115-132, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.04.021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.04.021