Dr Jennie Gilbert, FGS, ARSM
Photograph by Dave McGarvie |
Dr Jennie Gilbert, FGS, ARSM
Dr Jennie Gilbert |
Degrees
- 1989 PhD Geochemistry and Volcanology, University of Cambridge
- 1985 BSc Geology, Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London
Academic posts
- 2002 Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University
- 1994-2002 Lecturer, Lancaster University
- 1994 NERC (ODA) research fellow, University of Bristol
- 1991-1993 NERC research fellow, University of Bristol
- 1989-1990 BP Venture Research International research fellow, University of Bristol
Research interests
Jennie Gilbert’s research interests are:
(1) subglacial volcanism: processes, products and hazards;
(2) volcanic facies as indicators of climate change;
(3) physical and chemical effects of volcanic ash on vegetation and soil, and
(4) volcanic pollutant dispersal in the atmosphere.
Jennie carried out the first field measurements of electrostatic charge on ash
falling from plumes of one of the world's most actively erupting volcanoes,
Sakurajima in Japan, and pioneered measurements of electric fields associated
with the plumes at Sakurajima. Using both field observations and novel laboratory
experiments she has advanced our understanding of the mechanisms of ash aggregation
in volcanic plumes. She is currently studying the interaction of volcanoes and glaciers,
in order to derive information on past climates. Her work involves geological
mapping, rock sampling, geochemically analysing and interpreting data from volcanoes,
mainly in Chile and Iceland, that are either currently ice-capped or have been in
the last few hundred thousand years. The research drivers for this research are:
(1) the need to compile the climate change data base;
(2) the need to understand hazards at ice-capped volcanoes and
(3) the urgency to monitor ice-capped volcanoes because this is critical in the
current global-warming scenario.
Jennie has extensive fieldwork skills, as well
as expertise in laboratory based volcanology experiments and analytical geochemistry.
She is a co-author on the only research text on volcanic plumes and has published many
papers in peer reviewed journals in addition to book chapters and technical reports.
Recent papers
- Mee K, Gilbert JS, McGarvie DW, Naranjo JA, Pringle M (2009) Palaeoenvironment reconstruction, volcanic evolution and geochronology of the Cerro Blanco subcomplex, Nevados de Chillán Volcanic Complex, central Chile. Bull Volcanol.
- Denton, JS, Tuffen H, Gilbert JS, Odling N (2009) The hydration and alteration of perlite and rhyolite. J Geol Soc Lond.
- Stevenson JA, Smellie JL, McGarvie DW, Gilbert JS, Cameron BI (2009) Subglacial intermediate volcanism at Kerlingafjöll, Iceland: magma-water interactions beneath thick ice. J Volcanol Geotherm Res.
- Gilbert JS, Lane SJ (2008) The consequences of fluid motion in volcanic conduits. In: Lane, S. J. & Gilbert, J. S. (eds) Fluid Motions in Volcanic Conduits: A Source of Seismic and Acoustic Signals. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 307, 1-10, doi: 10.1144/SP307.1.
- Lane SJ, Gilbert JS (eds) (2008) Fluid motions in volcanic conduits: a source of seismic and acoustic signals. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 307.
- James MR, Wilson L, Lane SJ, Gilbert JS, Mather TA, Harrison RG, Martin RS (2008) Electrical charging of volcanic plumes. Space Science Reviews 137: 399-418, DOI 10.1007/s11214-008-9362-z.
- Naranjo JA, Sparks RSJ, Gilbert JS (2008) Geología del Complejo Volcánico Nevados de Chillán, Región del Biobío. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No.114, 28 p., 1 mapa escala 1:50.000. Santiago.
- Tuffen H, McGarvie DW, Pinkerton H, Gilbert JS, Brooker R (2008) An explosive-intrusive subglacial rhyolite eruption at Dalakvísl, Torfajökull, Iceland. Bull Volcanol. 70(7), 841-860, 10.1007/s00445-007-0174-x.
- Tuffen H, McGarvie DW, Gilbert JS (2007) Will subglacial rhyolite eruptions be explosive or intrusive? Some insights from analytical models. Annals of Glaciology 45, 87-94.
- Lane SJ, Gilbert JS (2007) The physics of fluid oscillations in volcanic systems. EOS, 88, 3, 29-30.
- Stevenson JA, McGarvie DW, Smellie JL, Gilbert JS (2006) Subglacial and ice-contact volcanism at Vatnafjöll, Öraefajökull, Iceland. Bull Volcanol 68, 737-752, doi: 10.1007/s00445-005-0047-0.
- Mee K, Tuffen H, Gilbert JS (2006) Snow-contact volcanic facies at Nevados de Chillán volcano, Chile and implications for determining past eruptive environments. Bull Volcanol 68, 363-376, doi: 10.1007/s00445-005-0017-6.
Teaching
- ENV101 Global Climate Change
- ENV102 Geological Processes
- ENV203 Earth Science Field Skills
- ENV204 Geological Mapping
Recent activities
- Scientific committee of 2008 IAVCEI General Assembly, on Understanding Volcanoes, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Convener of 2006 Workshop on the Physics of Fluid Oscillations in Volcanic Systems, Lancaster, UK
- Associate Editor of 2006 Special volume of Annals of Glaciology
- Associate Editor of Bulletin of Volcanology, 2000-2005
- Fellow of the Geological Society of London
- Member of the IAVCEI Commission on Explosive Volcanism
- Member of the American Geophysical Union
- Member of the Royal School of Mines Association
- Member of the IAVCEI/IACS Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions
- Member of the International Glaciological Society
Current PhD students
- Michelle Tyson, 'caldera formation resulting from interactions between magmatic heat and cryospheric ice'
- Angela Walker, 'rhyolite glaciovolcanism at the Öraefajökull stratovolcano, southeast Iceland: a window on Quaternary climate change'
- Joanna Denton, 'the physical and chemical alteration of volcanic glass'