Research Interests:

My research currently focuses on three primary themes:

1) Material cycling at convergent margins; sediment and altered oceanic crust inputs vs. arc volcanic outputs

2) Magmatic volatile budgets and the effects/importance of H₂O on mantle melting and crystallization of magmas

3) The oxidation state of magmas and of the earth's interior

Recent Activities:

• Synchrotron analyses of melt inclusions at APS (Argonne Natl. Lab) and NSLS (Brookhaven Natl. Lab)

• GSA Field Forum to V. Tatara-SanPedro, Chile, Feb. 2007

• Shinkai 6500 Subersible Dives in the Mariana trench, Sept. 2006

B.A. in Geology, 1997, Macalester College
Senior Thesis Advisor: Karl Wirth

Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, 2004, Boston University
Dissertation Advisor: Terry Plank

Postdoctoral Research at the
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism

Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
Narragansett Bay Campus
Narragansett, RI 02882
401.874.6838
401.874.6811 (fax)
kelley_at_gso.uri.edu