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Team MODEsT

(Multi-disciplinary Observations of Degassing and Extensional Tectonics) measuring CO2 emissions at a vent on the East African Rift border fault in Tanzania. From left to right: Syracuse University researcher Dr. James Muirhead (now lecturer at University of Auckland), University of New Mexico Earth and Planetary Science Professor Tobias Fischer, Graduate student Amani Laizer from University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Tulane University graduate student Sarah Oliva (now post doc at UBC).

Team installing

Team installing

seismic station near Oldoinyio Lengai Volcano, Tanzania

University of Dar Es Salaam M.Sc. student

University of Dar Es Salaam M.Sc. student

Amani Laizer (left) measuring CO2 flux at a spring in Manyara, Tanzania.

Sampling CO2

for isotopes. Lengai and team in the background.

UNM Earth and Planetary Sciences

UNM Earth and Planetary Sciences

Professor Tobias Fischer (left) and Dr. James Muirhead (University of Auckland) measuring CO2 flux in an earth crack that opened about 10 years ago near Oldoinyo Lengai Volcano.

The East African Rift from Oldoinyo Lengai.

The East African Rift from Oldoinyo Lengai.

Lake Natron to the North and Serengeti Plain to the East.

Scientists decipher the role of carbon and the break-up of continents

UNM researcher Tobias Fischer part of international collaboration

By Steve Carr June 03, 2020

Categories: Front Page College of Arts & Sciences Earth & Planetary Sciences Research

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