Johan (Yoshi) Gilchrist was born and raised in New Jersey, USA, and moved to Vancouver, BC to study Geophysics at UBC in 2008. Since then, he has carved a niche for himself in the field of volcanology by studying the rise and fall of volcanic rocks, pumice, ash and gas in the atmosphere and oceans during explosive eruptions by using laboratory, field and computer based methods. Outside of academia, Yoshi loves to play basketball, however, he stays close to the volcanic mountains he studies by mountain biking, rock climbing, mountaineering and backcountry snowboarding in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
