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Madison is a third-year Ph.D. student in Geosciences, completing a graduate minor in Planetary Sciences. She is advised by Associate Professor Christopher Hamilton. Madison is interested in the active eruptions in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland, and how these eruptions can be used for hazard mitigation and planetary analogs.

Madison recently won four awards from the Dept. of Geosciences:

• Montgomery Associated Best Overall Talk: Observing the effects of complex topography on fissure-fed facies in the 2021-2023 Fagradalsfjall (Iceland) eruption series
• Bert S. Butler Scholarship
• Spencer R. Titley Graduate Scholarship
• John and Nancy Sumner Scholarship which Madison will use to travel to Italy to participate in a workshop focused on observing active volcanism at Mt. Etna and Stromboli and then to Geneva, Switzerland, to present her work at the IAVCEI (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior) General Assembly.