Marie Edmonds


Marie Edmonds is a volcanologist and geologist at the University of Cambridge whose research focuses on the physics and chemistry of volcanic eruptions, with a focus on understanding volatile cycling in the solid Earth. Prof. Edmonds is the Ron Oxburgh Fellow in Earth Sciences at Queens' College, Cambridge.

Career

Edmonds obtained her BA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1997. She went on to receive her PhD in Earth sciences at Cambridge in 2002, under the supervision of David Pyle and Clive Oppenheimer. 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 with the US Geological Survey at its Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. She is now a Fellow of Queens' College and a Proofessor at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches igneous petrology, geochemistry, and volcanology. Edmonds received the 2014 William Smith Fund of the Geological Society of London, the 2017 Wager Medal of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, the 2019 ThermoFisher VMSG annual award and the 2019 Daly Lecture of the American Geophysical Union.
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 Executive Committee, 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 served as secretary for science 2014–2018 at the Geological Society of London and was the Volcanology, Petrology Secretary of the American Geophysical Union 2016–2018.