VGRG Lancaster PSRG Lancaster

Lancaster University

Environmental Science Department



Dr. Jennie Gilbert


email: J.S.Gilbert@lancaster.ac.uk.
Tel: +44 (0)1524 593022
Fax: +44 (0)1524 593985


Senior Lecturer

Main research interests:

  1. Physical and chemical effects of volcanic ash on vegetation and soil
  2. Subglacial volcanism: processes, products and hazards
  3. Volcanic facies as indicators of climate change
  4. Volcanic pollutant dispersal in the atmosphere

Publications since 2000:

    James MR, Lane SJ, Chouet BA, Gilbert JS (2004) Pressure changes
    associated with the ascent and bursting of gas slugs in liquid-filled
    vertical and inclinded conduits. J Volcanol Geotherm Res. 129,
    61-82, doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00232-4.

    James MR, Lane SJ, Gilbert JS (2003) Density, construction and drag
    coefficient of electrostatic volcanic ash aggregates. J Geophys Res.
    Vol 108, 2435, (B9), doi: 10.1029/2002JB002011.

    Cataldo V, Wilson L, Lane SJ, Gilbert JS (2002) A model for
    large-scale volcanic plumes on Io: implications for eruption rates
    and interactions between magma and near-surface volatiles. J Geophys
    Res, 107 (E11), doi:10.1029/2001JE001513..

    James MR, Gilbert JS, Lane SJ (2002) Experimental investigation of
    volcanic particle aggregation in the absence of a liquid phase.
    J Geophys Res 107, 2191 (B9), doi: 10.1029/2001JB000950.

    Tuffen H, McGarvie DW, Gilbert JS, Pinkerton H, (2002) Physical
    volcanology of a subglacial-to-emergent rhyolitic tuya at
    Raudufossafjöll, Torfajökull, Iceland. Geol Soc, London, Special
    Publications 202, 213-236.

    Tuffen H, Pinkerton H, McGarvie DW, Gilbert JS (2002) Melting of
    the glacier base during a small-volume
    subglacial rhyolite eruption: evidence from Bláhnúkur, Iceland.
    Sedimentary Geology 149: 183-198.

    Tuffen H, Gilbert JS, McGarvie DW (2001) Products of an effusive
    subglacial rhyolite eruption: Bláhnúkur, Torfajökull, Iceland. Bull
    Volcanol 63, 179-190.

    James MR, Lane SJ, Gilbert JS (2000) Volcanic plume
    electrification: experimental investigation of a fracture-charging
    mechanism. J Geophys Res 105, 16641-16649.


Department of Environmental Science,
Institue of Environmental and Natural Sciences,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster. LA1 4YQ
U.K.


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