Professor Heidy Mader

Research summary

My research interests cover a broad range of multiphase phenomena in the environmental sciences, specifically problems in volcanology and glaciology. Research on both topics is generally a mixture of laboratory experiments and analytical and numerical modelling.

Volcanological research has focused on multiphase flow and fragmentation processes during explosive volcanic eruptions, multiphase rheology, and the propagation of pyroclastic flows and turbidites.

Glaciological research centres on the microscopic water content in glacial ice and where impurities (soluble, insoluble, and microbial) are located with respect to that water. These problems affect the viability of microbial life in the ice, the record of past ...

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Links

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Selected publications

• Burton, M, Mader, H & Polacci, M 2007, ‘The role of gas percolation in quiescent degassing of peristently active basaltic volcanoes’. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol 264., pp. 46 - 60
• Doyle, E, Huppert, H, Lube, G, Mader, H & Sparks, R 2007, ‘Static and flowing region in granular collapses down channels: Insights from a sedimenting shallow water model’. Physics of Fluids, vol 19 (10) (106601)., pp. 1 - 16

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Recent publications

• Dani, KS, Mader, HM, Wolff, EW & Wadham, JL 2012, ‘Modelling the liquid-water vein system within polar ice sheets as a potential microbial habitat.’. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol 333., pp. 238-249
• Barletta, RE, Priscu, JC, Mader, HM, Jones, W & Jones, C 2012, ‘Chemical analysis of ice vein microenvironments: II. Analysis of glacial samples from Greenland and Antarctica.’. Journal of Glaciology, vol 58., pp. 1109-1118

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