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Biography
Dr. Marie Edmonds is a geologist whose research focuses on the physics and chemistry of volcanic eruptions, with a concentration on understanding volatile cycling in the solid Earth. Dr. Edmonds has been a Fellow of Queen's College in the U.K. and a Lecturer, then Reader at the University of Cambridge since 2007.
Career
Edmonds attended the University of Cambridge, obtaining her BA in Natural Sciences in 2002. She went on to receive her PhD. in Earth Sciences at Cambridge in 2001, under the supervision of Professor David Pyle. After receiving her PhD. she served as a Volcanologist for the British Geological Survey at its Montserrat Volcano Observatory. From 2004 to 2006 Edmonds was a Mendenhall Fellow for the US Geological Survey at its Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Following these fellowships, Edmonds was appointed a reader in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 she has been a Fellow of Queen's College and a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge where she teaches igneous petrology, geochemistry, and volcanology.
Edmonds has held a number of leadership roles within the Natural Environment Research Council of the UK and the Geological Society of London. Edmonds serves on the Deep Carbon Observatory's (DCO) Executive Committee and chairs the Synthesis Group 2019 where she is charged with synthesizing and integrating DCO science in the lead-up to the finale of the decadal program in 2019. Edmonds is also the co-Chair of DCO's Reservoirs and Fluxes Directorate of DCO. Edmonds also serves as the secretary for science at the Geological Society of London and is the Volcanology, Petrology Secretary of the American Geophysical Union.
Research Initiatives
Dr. Edmonds is an active participant in the RiftVolv initiative, a 5-year-long project that began in 2014. The initiative focuses on rift volcanism: past, present, and future. Begun in 2014, project participants are researching past and current volcanism and volcanic hazards in the Main Ethiopian Rift.
Edmonds is also a member of the Centre for the Observation and Modeling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) project, which is a "collaborative centre for understanding tectonic and volcanic processes and hazards though the integrated application of Earth Observation (EO) data, ground-based measurements, and geophysical models." The Centre makes observations of volcanic eruptions from space to develop models to understand magma storage and ascent during eruptions while incorporating diverse observations and magma properties.