Dr Jeremy Phillips

Research summary

I am a Physical Volcanologist with research interests in the fluid dynamics of geological and volcanic two-phase flows, and a particular focus on developing predictive models for volcanic hazard. I use laboratory experiments and theoretical models to investigate the dynamics of volcanic processes and flows, including explosive volcanic eruptions, volcanic plumes and ash dispersal, pyroclastic flows and lahars (volcanic mudflows), and volcanic degassing. I am interested in combining field observations and theory to develop new volcano monitoring tools, and also undertake fundamental research into granular flow and landslide dynamics.

My current major research projects include investigation of the dynamics of ...

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Biography

Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences

Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental and Geophysical Flows

Experimental Officer, Centre for Environmental and Geophysical Flows

PDRA ‘Experimental Simulation of High-speed Volcanic Flows (funded by the EU and NERC), ‘Laboratory Simulation of Sedimentation from Turbulent Gravity Currents’ (funded by B.P. Venture Research),

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Links

• NERC Icelandic Airborne Ash Consortium
• STREVA NERC Consortium Project
• NERC Understanding Volcanic Degassing

Recent publications

• Woodhouse, MJ, Hogg, AJ, Phillips, JC & Sparks, RSJ 2013, ‘Interaction between volcanic plumes and wind during the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, Iceland’. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol 118.
• Johnston, EN, Phillips, JC, Bonadonna, C & Watson, IM 2012, ‘Reconstructing the tephra dispersal pattern from the Bronze Age eruption of Santorini using an advection-diffusion model’. Bulletin of Volcanology, vol 74., pp. 1485-1507

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