Marie Edmonds

Marie Edmonds (born 14 September 1975) is a Professor of volcanology and Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge whose research focuses on the physics and chemistry of volcanic eruptions and magmatism and understanding volatile cycling in the solid Earth as mediated by plate tectonics. She is interested in the social and economic impacts of natural hazards; and the sustainable use of Earth's mineral and energy resources. Professor Edmonds is the Vice President and Ron Oxburgh Fellow in Earth Sciences at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 2024 she became Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, having previously been Deputy Head of Department and Director of Research for that Department.

Marie Edmonds
Born	(1975-09-14) 14 September 1975 Devon, England
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Geology, Volcanology
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Thesis	'Sulfur and chlorine emissions from the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat'
Doctoral advisors	Professor David Pyle Professor Clive Oppenheimer
Website	https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/marie-edmonds

Education

Edmonds was born in Plymouth, Devon on 14 September 1975. She was educated at Plymouth High School for Girls, Plymouth, Devon (1987-1994). She obtained a first class BA Honours degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge in 1997, specialising in Geological Sciences. She began her PhD studies the same year at Cambridge, under Professors David Pyle and Clive Oppenheimer. Her thesis was entitled 'Sulfur and chlorine emissions from the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat' and she graduated with the PhD degree in 2002.

Career

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 (since 2007) and a Professor at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches igneous petrology, geochemistry, and volcanology.

Edmonds is currently President-Elect of the Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology Section of the American Geophysical Union. She has held a number of leadership roles within the Natural Environment Research Council of the UK and the Geological Society of London. Edmonds served on the Deep Carbon Observatory's (DCO) executive committee. Edmonds was Secretary for Science 2014–2018 at the Geological Society of London and was the Volcanology, Petrology Secretary of the American Geophysical Union 2016–2018. Edmonds is a principal editor of the AGU journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed). In 2023, Edmonds became Executive Editor of Bulletin of Volcanology.

Honours and awards

In 2022 Edmonds was elected Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry; and in 2021 a Member of the Academia Europaea. She was an AGU College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturer in 2021–2022. In 2021 she received the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London 'for eminent services in the field of geology'. In 2020 Edmonds was one of three recipients of the Joanne Simpson Medal of the American Geophysical Union, its premier mid-career award, which comes with conferred Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union. Edmonds received the ThermoFisher VMSG annual Award in 2019. In 2019 she gave Daly Lecture of the American Geophysical Union. In 2017 she received the Wager Medal of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior. In 2014, Edmonds received the William Smith Fund of the Geological Society of London.

Selected publications

• M. Edmonds; R. A. Herd; B. Galle; C. M. Oppenheimer (1 November 2003). "Automated, high time-resolution measurements of SO2 flux at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat". Bulletin of Volcanology. 65 (8): 578–586. Bibcode:2003BVol...65..578E. doi:10.1007/S00445-003-0286-X. ISSN 0258-8900. Wikidata Q57827555.
• Marie Edmonds (1 December 2008). "New geochemical insights into volcanic degassing". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 366 (1885): 4559–4579. Bibcode:2008RSPTA.366.4559E. doi:10.1098/RSTA.2008.0185. ISSN 1364-503X. PMID 18826919. Wikidata Q37282957.
• M. Edmonds; C. Oppenheimer; D.M. Pyle; R.A. Herd; G. Thompson (May 2003). "SO2 emissions from Soufrière Hills Volcano and their relationship to conduit permeability, hydrothermal interaction and degassing regime". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 124 (1–2): 23–43. Bibcode:2003JVGR..124...23E. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00041-6. ISSN 0377-0273. Wikidata Q57677192.