• Man standing hands on hip in a yellow jacket, smiling in front of Peak of Volcan de Fuego, a volcano, in the background.

    Tech-to-Tech Partnership Brings MTU PhD Student Back to Volcanic Roots

    Gustavo Bejar-Lopez has been interested in volcanoes since he was a child. Now, the Michigan Technological University Ph.D. student is a budding volcanologist mentoring young geologists from his undergraduate alma mater. Gustavo Bejar-Lopez was just 30 days old when his parents brought him to visit Tungurahua, a volcano in his home country of Ecuador. He remembers watching Tungurahua erupting a few years later. His hometown, Guayaquil, was shielded from the direct hazards of volcanic eruptions, but larger eruptions from Tungurahua or nearby Sangay Volcano routinely led to ashfall across the city.

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