Biography
I received my B.Sc, M.Res and Ph.D from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. After graduating I relocated from Australia to the UK, taking up a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester. In 2023, I took up my second Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of Cambridge with Olivier Shorttle looking at mantle carbon reservoirs.
Research
I am an igneous petrologist with a focus on analytical geochemistry, high-pressure experiments, and programming (Python, R). My interests lie in mantle processes under both sub- and super-solidus conditions and their influence on generating various compositions of mantle-derived melts. Currently I am working on mantle carbon reservoirs by studying olivine hosted melt inclusions.
Publications
Manassero MC, Özaydin S, Afonso JC, Shea JJ, Kirkby A, Ezad IS, Fomin I, Czarnota K. 2024. Lithospheric structure and melting processes in southeast Australia: new constraints from joint probabilistic inversions of 3D magnetotelluric and seismic data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,129, e2023JB028257.
Shea JJ, Ezad IS, Lanati, AW, Foley SF. 2022. The Eastern Australian Volcanic Province, its primitive melts, constraints on melt sources and the influence of mantle metasomatism. Earth-Science Reviews; 233, 104168
Shea JJ, Foley SF. 2019. Evidence for a Carbonatite-Influenced Source Assemblage for Intraplate Basalts from the Buckland Volcanic Province, Queensland, Australia. Minerals; 9(9):546
Shea JJ, Foley SF, Dalton H, Lanati, AW, Phillips D. 2024. Mid-Jurassic intraplate volcanism at Bokhara River, and insight into metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle of the Thompson Oregon, eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences; 71
Ezad IS, Shcheka SS, Buhre S, Gorojovsky LR, Shea JJ, Förster MW, Foley SF. 2023. Rapid quench piston-cylinder apparatus: an improved design for the recovery of volatile-rich geological glasses from experiments at 0.5 − 2.5 GPa. Review of Scientific Instruments; 94, 055107.
Liu Z, Shea JJ, Foley SF, Bussweiler Y, Rohrbach A, Klemme S, Berndt J. 2020. Clarifying source assemblages and metasomatic agents for basaltic rocks in eastern Australia using olivine phenocryst compositions. Lithos; 390–391
