Professor Marie Edmonds

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:

Joshua Shea, J. Maclennan, M. Edmonds, E. Hughes, M. Hartley, S. Mikhail, M. Perfit, and O. Shorttle. A revised carbon isotope composition of the convecting upper mantle. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2026 in press

Matthew C. Morris, O. M. Weller, C. R. Soderman, M. Edmonds, C. D. Beard, and C. M. Yeomans. Melting of fluorine-rich biotite as a mechanism for generating lithium-rich granites. Communications Earth & Environment, 2026

Olivia R. Hogg, Edmonds M, Wieser PE, Gleeson M, Jenner FE, Blundy J. Copper-rich fluids arising from sulfide resorption by hydrous arc melts. Scientific Reports. Jan 10, 2026