Marie Edmonds is Head of Department of Earth Sciences, holds a Chair in Volcanology and Petrology and Vice President and Ron Oxburgh Fellow in Earth Sciences at Queens’ College, Cambridge. She is part of the Cambridge Volcanology Group. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of volcanoes on our environment and on the habitability of our planet. Volcanoes are sources of pollutants and can impact our environment, society and economy in a range of ways. Volcanoes also provide us with nutrients critical for life, green sources of energy and sustainable resources. Edmonds’s research spans the boundaries between traditional disciplines, from deciphering the nature of the interior of the Earth, to magma transport and storage in the crust, to volcano monitoring, understanding ore deposits and the dynamic chemistry of volcanic gases in the atmosphere and climate. For more information on her research see her CV and publications list.
Current research areas:
- Volcanic and magmatic processes: outgassing, conduit flow, crystal growth, magma mixing, differentiation
- Volcano monitoring and eruption forecasting
- Transport of trace metals in magmatic-hydrothermal fluids, and ore deposits: porphyry copper deposits, lithium granites
- Long term carbon cycle, carbon reservoirs and fluxes and links to climate and tectonics
Three most recently published papers:
2025. Taracsak, Zoltan, M. E. Hartley, R. Burgess, Edmonds, Marie, M.-A. Longpr´e, B. D. Monteleone, R. Tartese, and A. V. Turchyn. The origin of sulfur in Canary Island magmas and its implications for Earth’s deep sulfur cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(12):e2416070122.
2024, Brown, Joshua R, I. Buisman, M. P. Castellanos Melendez, J. B. Dikaung, L. D. Steenssens, Edmonds, Marie, B. S. Ellis, M. E. Hartley, I. Itikarai, K. Mulina, et al. Petrographic and geochemical evidence for a complex magmatic plumbing system beneath Bagana volcano, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Petrology, page egae065.
2024, Marsh, Jennifer, Edmonds, M, B. Houghton, I. Buisman, and R. A. Herd. Magma mingling during the 1959 eruption of Kılauea Iki, Hawai'i. Bulletin of Volcanology 86(6):1-3.
