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Dr. Hugh Tuffen NERC Research Fellow Email: h.tuffen at lancaster.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1524 594713 Fax: +44 (0)1524 593985 Hugh has recently started a three year NERC research fellowship at Lancaster and is investigating volatile degassing during explosive rhyolitic eruptions at Taupo (New Zealand) and Mono Craters (California). This work involves measurement of volatile concentrations in fragments of pumice and obsidian and modelling of how gas escapes from magma. Hugh runs the thermogravimetric analysis lab in ES and is supervising Jo Denton's PhD project, which addresses how glacial meltwater interacts with hot lava. He is also involved in the NERC-funded project "Fracture mechanics of high-temperature dome lava", based at UCL, which uses rock physics experiments on lava from the growing dome at Mt St Helens to determine how and when hot lava fractures and whether this triggers volcanic earthquakes. His other research interests include volcano-ice interactions, in particular during rhyolitic eruptions in Iceland, as well as social aspects of volcanic hazards in Ecuador and the provenance of Neolithic obsidian artefacts in eastern Turkey. Prior to his NERC fellowship Hugh held a Leverhulme Fellowship at Lancaster, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Munich a stint as a visiting researcher at the University of Iceland, all of which followed on from a PhD from the Open University. Hugh's research homepage |