Congratulations to Emily Gates who successfully defended her M.S. thesis research! Emily combined structural mapping, microstructural analysis, and Raman thermometry to demonstrate strain localization along unit boundaries in the Easton metamorphic suite. Her work supports models for progressive acretion of separate regional blueschist units during prolonged subduction. As part of her research, Emily also helped to establish an RSCM thermometry thermometry analytical routine on our insturment at WWU and collaborated with a number of other researchers working in subduction accretion complexes throughout the western Cordillera.

• Gates, E.R., 2024, Strain localization during subduction and accretion of regional blueschist facies units in the Easton metamorphic suite, NW Cascades Washington, WWU Graduate School Collection, 1263, https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/1263.