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Prof Jonathan Blundy

Prof Jon Blundy

Royal Society Research Professor

Department of Earth Sciences

Programme Director

Jon Blundy FRS (lead PI) is a geologist who has worked on volcanoes around the world including in the Eastern Caribbean, Bolivia, Mexico, Kamchatka, Vanuatu, Turkey and Ethiopia. He holds a Royal Society Research Professorship with a project entitled “From Volcanoes to Green Mining”

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Research area Volcanology
Role Principal investigator

Featured publications

Jenkins, A., Rust, A., Blundy, J., Biggs, J. 2023. Magnetotelluric investigations at Andean volcanoes: Partial melt or saline magmatic fluids? Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 440, 107852

Gauntlett, M., Hudson, T., Kendall, J.M., Rawlinson, N., Blundy, J.D., Lapins, S., Goitom, B., Hammond, J.O.S., Oppenheimer, C., Ogubazghi, G. 2023. Seismic tomography of Nabro caldera, Eritrea: insights into the magmatic and hydrothermal systems of a recently erupted volcano. Journal of Geophysical Research 128, e2022JB025742 doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025742

Morrison-Evans, B., Melekhova, E., Blundy, J., 2022. Experimental insight into basaltic andesite lava dome oxidation textures at La Soufrière, St Vincent. Geological Society of London Special Publication Geological Society of London Special Publication 539 doi.org/10.1144/SP539-2022-298

Hogg, O.R., Edmonds, M., Blundy., J. Water-rich magmas optimise volcanic chalcophile element outgassing fluxes. 2023 Earth and Planetary Science Letters 611, 118153 doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118153

Weber, G., Blundy, J., Barclay, J., Pyle, D.M., Cole, P., Frey, H., Manon, M., Davies, B.V., Cashman, K., 2023. Petrology of the 2020-2021 effusive to explosive eruption of La Soufriere volcano St Vincent: Insights into plumbing system architecture and magma assembly mechanism. Geological Society of London Special Publication 539 doi.org/10.1144/SP539-2022-177

Hudson, T.S., Kendall, J.M, Blundy, J.D., Pritchard, M.E., MacQueen, P., Wei, S., Gottsmann, J., Lapins, S., 2023. Hydrothermal fluids and where to find them: Using seismic attenuation and anisotropy to map fluids beneath Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia. Geophysical Research Letters e2022GL100974 doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100974