Dr Tamsin A. Mather

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I am an Academic Fellow in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth and Environment in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford. I am currently funded by the RCUK under their Academic Fellowship scheme and the Royal Society under their Dorothy Hodgkin research fellowship scheme. The lava lake of Masaya volcano, Nicaragua as seen from the crater rim. Research Interests I am broadly interested in the role of volcanism in planetary scale processes throughout geological time. Specific interests include: The chemistry of volcanic plumes including the effects due to background air mixing into the hot gas mixture and volcanic lightning Quantifying and understanding the volcanic fluxes of chemical species of atmospheric importance over different temporal and spatial scales (gases and particles) and their roles in global geochemical cycles Volcanic degassing processes and the formation of volcanic aerosol The emission and chemistry of mercury in volcanic plumes The ultimate fate, atmospheric and environmental effects of volcanic emissions Using stable isotopes to understand volcanic processes The cycling of volatiles through subduction zones Patterns and forcing of volcanism on the arc scale These interests also lead me away from volcanoes at times and I have also studied the emissions from an oil depot fire (Buncefield 2005) and am generally interested in the global mercury cycle as well as other biogeochemical cycles.

Selected papers (for a full list click here)

• T.A. Mather (2008) Volcanoes and the atmosphere: the potential role of the atmosphere in unlocking the reactivity of volcanic emissions, Philosophical Transactions A, 366, 4581-4595.(doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0152)

• R.S. Martin, T.A. Mather and D.M. Pyle (2007) Volcanic Emissions and the Early Earth Atmosphere, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71, 3673-3685. (doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.04.035)

• T.A. Mather and R.G. Harrison (2006) Electrification of volcanic plumes, Surveys in Geophysics, 27, 387-432. (doi:10.1007/s10712-006-9007-2)

• T.A. Mather, D.M. Pyle and A.G. Allen (2004) Volcanic source for fixed nitrogen in the early Earth's atmosphere, Geology, 32(10), 905-908. (doi:10.1130/G20679.1)

• T.A. Mather, V.I. Tsanev, D.M. Pyle, A.J.S. McGonigle, C. Oppenheimer and A.G. Allen (2004) Characterization and evolution of tropospheric plumes from Lascar and Villarrica volcanoes, Chile, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 109, D21303. (doi:10.1029/2004JD004934)

• D.M. Pyle and T.A. Mather (2003) The importance of volcanic emissions in the global atmospheric mercury cycle, Atmospheric Environment, 37(36), 5115-5124. (doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.07.011)

• T.A. Mather, D.M. Pyle and C. Oppenheimer (2003) Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol, in Volcanism and the Earth's Atmosphere, Geophysical Monograph 139, A. Robock and C. Oppenheimer eds., Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C. 189-212.

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