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Prof Tamsin Mather

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Professor of Earth Sciences

Department of Earth Sciences

 

Tamsin Mather is a volcanologist whose research focusses on volcanism as a key planetary-scale process, as a natural hazard, and as a source of natural resources. Her work draws on diverse data volcano-centred streams including ground-, drone- and satellite-based sensors

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Research area Volcanology
Role Principal investigator

Featured publications

I.A. Taylor, R.G. Grainger, A.T. Prata, S.R. Proud, T.A. Mather and D.M. Pyle, A satellite chronology of plumes from the April 2021 eruption of La Soufrière, St Vincent, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, 15209-15234, 2023. (doi:10.5194/acp-23-15209-2023)

M. Cassidy, A.A. Iveson, M.C.S. Humphreys, T.A. Mather, C. Helo, J.M. Castro, P. Ruprecht and D.M. Pyle, Experimentally-derived F, Cl and Br fluid/melt partitioning of intermediate to silicic melts in magmatic systems, American Mineralogist, 107, 1825-1839, 2022. (doi:10.2138/am-2022-8109)

E. Mason, P.E. Wieser, E.J. Liu, M. Edmonds, E. Ilyinskaya, R.C.W. Whitty, T.A. Mather, T. Elias, P.A. Nadeau, T.C Wilkes, A.J.S. McGonigle, T.D. Pering, F.M. Mims, C. Kern, D.J. Schneider and C. Oppenheimer, Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava-seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii, Communications Earth & Environment, 2, 79, 2021. (doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00145-3)

E. Ilyinskaya, E. Mason, P.E. Wieser, L. Holland, E. Liu, T.A. Mather, M. Edmonds, R.C.W. Whitty, T. Elias, P.A. Nadeau, D. Schneider, J.B. McQuaid, S.E. Allen, J. Harvey. C. Oppenheimer, C. Kern and D. Damby, Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai‘i, Communications Earth & Environment, 2, 78, 2021. (doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00146-2)

M. Edmonds, T.A. Mather and E.J. Liu, A distinct metal fingerprint in arc volcanic emissions, Nature Geoscience, 11, 790-794, 2018. (doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0214-5)

W. Hutchison, T.A. Mather, D.M. Pyle, A.J. Boyce, M.L.M. Gleeson, G. Yirgu, J.D. Blundy, D.J. Ferguson, C. Vye-Brown, I.L. Millar, K.W.W. Sims and A.A. Finch, The evolution of magma during continental rifting: new constraints from the isotopic and trace element signatures of silicic magmas from Ethiopian volcanoes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 489, 203-218, 2018. (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.027)

M. Edmonds and T.A. Mather, Volcanic sulfides and outgassing, Elements, 13, 105-110, 2017. (doi.org/10.2113/gselements.13.2.105)

W. Hutchison, J. Biggs, T.A. Mather, D.M. Pyle, E. Lewi, G. Yirgu, S. Caliro, G. Chiodini, L.E. Clor and T. Fischer, Causes of unrest at silicic calderas in the East African Rift: new constraints from InSAR and soil-gas chemistry at Aluto volcano, Ethiopia, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 17, 3008-3030, 2016. (doi:10.1002/2016GC006395)

T.A. Mather, Volcanoes and the environment: lessons for understanding Earth's past and future from studies of present-day volcanic emissions, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 304, 160-179, 2015. doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2015.08.016