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Personal Details:

Benewan Matthew Kennedy                    E-mail: Ben@eps.mcgill.ca

Earth and Planetary Sciences                    Phone: (514) 398 5391

3450 University                                        Status: Single

Montreal, Quebec                                  Nationality: British

H2V 4G9, Canada                                    Age: 28.

Languages: Read, write and speak English, and reasonable French and Spanish

Education:

2002-2003 Munich University: EU Volcano Dynamics Training Network and the International Quality Network. “Fragmentation mechanisms during vulcanian eruptions” (supervisors Don Dingwell and Oliver Spieler)              

2000-2005 McGill University: Ph.D. Volcanology (supervisor Prof. John Stix)

Thesis: “Calderas, from the magma chamber to the surface”

Courses: Felsic Petrology Grade A- Degassing of magmatic systems Grade A

1998- 2000 McGill University: M.Sc. Volcanology (supervisor Prof. John Stix)

Thesis: “The Nature and Origin of Caldera Structure and Morphology, Using Results from Analogue Modeling” Courses: Physical Volcanology Grade A , Experimental modelling independent study Grade A, Structural Analysis Grade B-, Modeling environmental systems Grade A-. Result : M.Sc. Dean's Honours List

            1994-1997 Leicester University, England: B.Sc. Geology

Result : Upper second class honours

Recent Publications:

             Kennedy, B., Stix, J., Vallance, J.,W.,  Lavallée, Y., and M-A Longpré; Controls on caldera structure: Results from analogue sandbox modeling, GSA Bulletin, v. 116, 2004.

            Kennedy, B., and J. Stix, Styles and Mechanisms of caldera collapse, Geoscience Canada, v.30, 2, p. 59-72, 2003.

            Kennedy, B., and J. Stix, Stages in the temporal evolution of calderas, Geoscience Canada, v.30, 3, p. 129-140, 2003.

            Stix J., Kennedy B., Hannington M., Fiske R., Mueller W., Franklin J., and H. Gibson, Caldera-forming processes and the origin of submarine massive sulphide deposits, Geology, v., 31, p. 375-378, 2003.

Lavallée, Y., Stix, J., Kennedy, B., Richer, M., and Longpré, M-A. Caldera subsidence in areas of variable topographic relief: results from analogue modeling, in press, Journal of Volcanological and Geothermal Research, 2004.

Conferences:

2003: Have proposed a session for the AGU 2004 meeting in Montreal about conduit processes. Presented a poster about fragmentation mechanisms at the AGU/EGU meeting in Nice, France. Gave an oral presentation on fragmentation at the explosive volcanism workshop in the Azores. Gave an oral presentation on magmatic processes during caldera collapse and a poster presentation about vulcanian explosions on Montserrat at the IUGG conference in Sapporo, Japan.

2002: Gave oral presentation about ring dykes at the Laccoliths Dykes and Sills conference in Frieberg, Germany.  Attended the Geological Society, Volcanic and Magmatic Study Group Meeting in London.

2001: Presented a poster at the caldera unrest workshop in Napoli, Italy. Gave an oral presentation at the annual conference for Centre de Reserche en Geochimie Isotopique et en Geochronologie (GEOTOP).

2000: Co-chair of one of the Physical Volcanology Sessions and gave an oral presentation at the IAVCEI General Assembly, Bali, Indonesia. Invited speaker at one-day mini-symposium at McGill University entitled, "VMS Mineralization Associated with Submarine Calderas".

1999/8: Attended American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 1998, and presented a poster in 1999.

Recent Awards, Grants and Scholarships

2003:   I received $10,000 McGregor Scholarship from McGill to contribute towards my overseas student fees.

2002:   I received a $2000 from the Geological Society of America and $1000 from the Colorado Scientific Society for fieldwork at Lake City caldera, Colorado

2001:   I received the Léopold Gélinas medal from the Geological Association of Canada for the best Masters thesis in the field of Volcanology and Petrology.

2001:   I received a 1 year $5000 "Bourse" for my Ph.D.degree from Centre de Reserche en Geochimie Isotopique et en Geochronologie (GEOTOP). I also received it in 1999and 2004.

2000:   Deans Honours List in Recognition of M.Sc. thesis.

2000:   I wrote a successful U.S. NSF grant proposal for my Ph.D. research:  "Experimental simulations of caldera development" (US$ 50,000) (J.W. Vallance, J. Stix, PI's).

Recent Experience:

2003:   I spent 3 weeks in Japan, participating in fieldtrips as part of the IUGG meeting. I was accepted as pre-doctoral young researcher for the E.U. Volcanological Training Network, I spent 7 months working for Don. Dingwell developing fragmentation models and measuring fragmentation properties of Montserrat pumices. I also spent 2 months working at Guadeloupe volcano observatory as a young researcher.     

2002:   I spent 2 months mapping Lake City caldera, Colorado for my PhD thesis. I also worked with the U.S.G.S on hazard assessments around Atitlan caldera, Guatemala.

2001/03: In these 2 years I spent 4 months detailed mapping of Ossippee ring complex, New Hampshire, looking at magma mixing and fragmentation textures in the ring dyke.

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