Education
Education
Concentrations: Volcanology, Igneous Geochemistry, Petrology
Thesis: Constraining Internal Eruption Trigger Mechanisms for Flows at Brokeoff Volcano, Lassen Volcanic Center, California
Thesis Advisor: Keith Putirka
Concentrations: Volcanology, Igneous Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: A Reconstruction of Paleo-Positions of Basin and Range Volcanic Rocks, and Implications for Tectonic Controls on Volcanism
Undergraduate Advisor: Keith Putirka
2022-Present
2019 - 2022
2018-2019
2015-2018
2016-2017
2014-2015
2014
2013
2009-2011
2009
2007
Geologist
Engineering Geologist
Staff Geologist
Teaching Associate
Natural Resources Management Trainee
Geologist
GIS Specialist
Hydrologic Technician
Hydrologic Technician
GSA GeoCorp America Intern
Undergraduate Research Assistant
U.S. Geological Survey
California Department of Water Resources
BSK Associates
California State University, Fresno
Sierra National Forest
U.S. Geological Survey
Malheur County, Oregon
Malheur National Forest
Sierra National Forest
Geological Society of America
U.C. Merced - Sierra Nevada Research Institute
2015-2018
Graduate Teaching Associate for the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, California State University, Fresno. Natural Disasters and Earth Resources (EES1), Natural Disasters and Earth Resources - Hybrid Virtual Lab (EES1V), and Introduction to Earth Sciences for Educators (EES9).
DeGraff, J.V., Pluhar, C.J., Gallegos, A.J., Takenaka, K., Platt, B. (2018) Monitoring Thermal Springs to Improve Land Management Decision-Making, Sierra Nevada, California, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. 24, n. 2, p. 165-185.
Putirka, K., and Platt, B. (2012) Basin-and-Range Volcanism as a Passive Response to Extensional Tectonics, Geosphere, v.8, p. 1274-1285.
Platt, B. (2020), Constraining Internal Eruption Trigger Mechanisms for Flows at Brokeoff Volcano, Lassen Volcanic Center, California [M.S. Thesis]: Fresno, California State University, 95 p.
Workman Ford, K., Pluhar, C., Platt, B., Trayler, R., and Brady, R., (2018) EES 1 Lab: Natural Disasters and Earth Resources. Kennel Bookstore, Fresno, California.
Platt, B., Putirka, K. (2020) Does the Arrival of Recharge Magma Control the Timing of Volcanic Eruptions? Insights from Feldspar, Olivine, and Pyroxene Thermobarometry from Brokeoff Volcano, Lassen Volcanic Center, California: Abstract V020-0024 presented at 2020 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, Dec. 10.
Platt, B., Putirka, K. (2019) Does the Arrival of Mafic Recharge Trigger Volcanic Eruptions? Evidence for Post-Recharge Cooling in Andesite Flows from Brokeoff Volcano, Lassen Volcanic Center: Abstract V13A-06 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, Dec. 7.
Pluhar, C., Pacheco, M., Mitchell, S., Platt, B., Shields, J., Gledhill, T., Valov, G., Ables, K., Mata, F., Teter, F., Andersen, B., Rodriguez, N., Riley, M., Wu, Q., and Byrd, J. (2019) GPR Investigation of Fault-Deformed Historic and Late Holocene Paleo-Shorelines of Owens Lake, CA: a Course-Based Research Experience: Abstract NS43D-0869 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, Dec. 7.
Platt, B., Putirka, K. (2018) Is Mafic Recharge Necessary to Trigger Andesitic Volcanic Eruptions? New Insights from Feldspar and Pyroxene Thermometry: Paper 276-6 presented at 2018 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, Nov. 7.
Platt, B., Putirka, K. (2017) Does the Arrival of Mafic Recharge Trigger Volcanic Eruptions? New Insights from Feldspar Thermometry: Paper 296-13 presented at 2017 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington, Oct. 25.
Platt, B., Putirka, K. (2011) A Reconstruction of Paleo-Positions of Basin and Range Volcanic Rocks, and Implications for Tectonic Controls on Volcanism: Abstract V31F-2587 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, Dec. 5-9.
Oliver, N., Takanaka, K., Gallegos, A., and Platt, B. (2010) Occurrence of Asbestos on National Forest System Roads, Stanislaus National Forest, California: Paper 139-7 presented at 2010 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, Oct. 31- Nov. 3.
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
Mineralogical Society of America
Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists (AEG)
2018
2018
2017
2017
2016
2010
2010
Geological Society of America - Lipman Research Award
Faculty Sponsored Research Award
Faculty Sponsored Research Award
Fresno Gem and Mineral Society Graduate Research Scholarship
Graduate Research Fellowship
College of Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Grant
Fresno Gem and Mineral Society Undergraduate Research Scholarship
2020-2022
2020
2019
2017
Secretary - AEG San Joaquin Valley Chapter
Participant in Goldschmidt Virtual Diffusion Workshop
Participant in AGU Magma Chamber Simulator Workshop
Conference Oral Session Co-Chair – “Magma to Volcano,” Geological Society of Ameri-ca 2017 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.