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Katherine A. Kelley

Asst. Research Professor

NSF ADVANCE Fellow

Horn 206 (remove GSO- prefix from email address)

GSO-kelley@gso.uri.edu

401-874-6838

http://gsosun1.gso.uri.edu/~kelley

Educational Background

Ph.D., Earth Sciences B.A., Geology

Boston University Macalester College

2004 1997

Areas of Specialization

Research

My research presently focuses on three primary themes: • Material cycling at convergent margins; sediment and altered oceanic crust inputs vs. arc volcanic outputs • Magmatic volatile budgets and the effects of H2O on mantle melting • Solid earth volatile cycles and the long-term evolution of the oxidation state of the earth's interior. A new, state-of-the-art laser-ablation ICP-MS lab has been installed at GSO, and is actively used for the analysis of trace elements and isotope ratios in silicate melt inclusions, minerals, and submarine glasses.

Students

Marion Lytle

Ph.D.

in progress

Publications:

Mantle melting as a function of water content beneath back-arc basins

Understanding cratonic flood basalts

Subduction Cycling of U, Th, and Pb

Composition of altered oceanic crust at ODP Sites 801 and 1149

Probing the Pacific's oldest MORB glass: mantle chemistry and melting conditions during the birth of the Pacific Plate

Presentations:

Kelley, K.A., Plank, T. (INVITED), Distribution of water in the mantle wedge of subduction zones. 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference (2005)

Kelley. K.A., Hauri, E.H., Sisson, T.W. (INVITED), Water, decompression, and mantle melting at Galunggung, Indonesia. 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference (2005)

The role of water during mantle melting ad mass transfer at subduction zones. Invited lecture, Princeton University (2005)

Kelley, K.A., Hauri, E.H., Grönvold, K., McKenzie, D., Carbon isotopic evidence for two-component mixing in the Iceland mantle source. 14th Annual Goldschmidt Conference (2004)

Kelley, K.A., Plank, T., Newman, S., Stolper, E., Grove, T.L., Parman, S., and Hauri, E., Mantle Melting as a Function of Water Content in Arcs. American Geophysical Union (2003)