Katherine Kelley

Katherine A. Kelley

Asst. Professor of Oceanography

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.

Teaching

I currently teach the following courses: •OCG 110: The Ocean Planet (w/ Kincaid); Fall 2009 •OCG 5XX: The Chemistry of the Earth (w/ Spivack); Fall 2009 •OCG 628: High-Temperature Geochemistry; Spring 2009

Students

Marion Lytle
Maryjo Brounce

Ph.D.
Ph.D.

in progress
in progress

Publications:

Kelley et al., Journal of Petrology (2010) Mantle Melting as a Function of Water Content beneath the Mariana Arc

Kelley & Cottrell, Science (2009) Water and the oxidation state of subduction zone magmas

Plank et al., G-Cubed (2007) Chemical composition of sediments subducting at the Izu-Bonin trench

Kelley et al., JGR (2006) Mantle melting as a function of water content beneath back-arc basins

Silver et al., EPSL (2006) Understanding cratonic flood basalts

Kelley et al., EPSL (2005) Subduction Cycling of U, Th, and Pb

Kelley et al., G-Cubed (2003) Composition of altered oceanic crust at ODP Sites 801 and 1149

Fisk & Kelley, EPSL (2002) Probing the Pacific's oldest MORB glass: mantle chemistry and melting conditions during the birth of the Pacific Plate

Presentations:

Kelley, K. A., and E. Cottrell (2008 [INVITED]), The Oxidation State of Global Subduction Zone Basalts and its Relationship to Volatiles, Magmatic Processes, and Source Composition, EOS Transactions AGU, Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract V33E-01.

Kelley, K. A., and E. H. Hauri (2007 [INVITED]), Distribution of water across the mantle wedge of subduction zones, paper presented at Gordon Conference: Interior of the Earth, Mt. Holyoke College.

Kelley, K. A., and E. H. Hauri (2007 [INVITED]), The Composition of Water-Rich Components in the Sources of Back Arc and Arc Magmas, EOS Transactions AGU, 88, Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract V52A-05.

Kelley, K. A. (2007 [INVITED]), Slab Inputs and Volcanic Outputs at the IBM Subduction Factory, paper presented at Subduction Factory Studies in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc System: Results and Future Plans, Honolulu, HI.