Emplacement of volcanic flows (including field, experimental and computational studies related to emplacement of debris avalanches, pyroclastic flows and debris flows).
Eruption column dynamics (including eruption column modeling and tephrochronology)
Phreatomagmatic eruptions (including surface and subsurface effects of magma-water explosions and fundamental physics of magma-water interaction)
Basaltic volcanism (including conduit processes, magmatic plumbing, magma recharge, mid-ocean ridge volcanism, lava-flow emplacement and basaltic field volcanism). Extraterrestrial volcanism (including mapping of volcanic landforms and modeling volcanic processes on the Moon, Mars and Venus).
Coupling between volcanism and tectonism ( including volcanism in extensional environments, and volcanism in the Andes)
Subduction dynamics (including slab-driven mantle flow dynamics, dynamic feedbacks between the subducting and overriding plates, lithosphere-asthenosphere coupling in subduction zones, 3D numerical modeling of natural subduction systems)
computational fluid dynamics of non-linear flow systems (including large-scale numerical simulations of non-linear mantle dynamics, computational challenges of modeling non-linear Earth systems, software for complex model design, leveraging 3D virtual reality for complex systems)
lithosphere deformation (including tectonic deformation at convergent and divergent plate boundaries, coupling of multi-plate systems in regions of oblique convergence, long-term mechanisms for mountain building, plate boundary tectonics)