Jon Blundy

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Jon Blundy
Born
Jonathan David Blundy

(1961-08-07) 7 August 1961 (age 62)
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPetrology
Institutions
ThesisThe geology of the Southern Adamello Massif, Italy (1989)
Academic advisorsRobert Stephen John Sparks

Jonathan David Blundy FRS (born 7 August 1961) is Royal Society Research Professor at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford and honorary professor at the University of Bristol.[1][2][3][4][5]

Education

He is a graduate of University College, Oxford (B.A., 1983) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, (PhD, 1989) and a former Kennedy Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985).[6] He was educated at St Paul's School, Brazil, Giggleswick School and Leeds Grammar School,[citation needed] where petrologists Keith Cox and Lawrence Wager also studied.[citation needed]

Career

Blundy is most noted for advancing the understanding of how

igneous
minerals. The theory was based on high temperature and pressure experiments on molten rocks, and is now widely used to predict crystal-melt partition coefficients for use in modelling magmatic processes.

Blundy subsequently collaborated with

latent heat of fusion, magmas that crystallise by decompression can actually get hotter in the process.[citation needed
]

Awards and honours

Blundy is a recipient of the

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2008. His nomination reads:

Jon Blundy has made fundamental contributions to understanding the generation and movement of magma within the earth. The breadth of his work is impressive, ranging from field studies of the emplacement mechanisms of granites and volcanic rocks, through experimental petrology and thermodynamics applied to igneous systems, to study of the oxidation state of the mantle. His most recent programme has combined a wide range of field, analytical, and laboratory skills to quantifying the pressure-temperature paths followed by magmas as they ascend beneath volcanoes, and has cast important new light on the evolution of magmas immediately before major eruptions.[8]

Blundy was also awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2011.[9]

References

  1. ^ New Fellow of the Royal Society, Jon Blundy, Professor of Petrology, University of Bristol
  2. S2CID 129779696
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  3. S2CID 128420920
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  4. ^ Scientists move closer to predicting volcano hazard, planetearth.nerc.ac.uk
  5. ^ "Department of Earth Sciences » Jon Blundy". Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  6. ^ Bristol, University of. "People". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  7. ISSN 0012-821X
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  8. The Royal Society. Archived from the original
    on 19 October 2014.
  9. The Royal Society
    . 13 September 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

External links

  • Profile on the website of the School of Earth Sciences
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