Staff and Postgraduate Students

Dr Jeroen van Hunen, MSc Geophysics, PhD

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences

Director of Postgraduate Studies, Department of Earth Sciences

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 42293

Room number: Rm 325

(email at jeroen.van-hunen@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

2011-present: Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University
2006-2011: Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University
2004-2006: Oberassistent, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
2002-2004: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
1997-2001: PhD, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
1990-1996: MSc, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Two PhD opportunities

Funding is available for two PhD students to work on 'Modelling of Archean subduction and crust formation'., with approximate start date: Summer 2013. For more information, see here.

Application deadline: 31st March 2013. To apply online, click here.

Research interests

Subduction dynamics
Dynamics of the early Earth
Sub-lithospheric small-scale convection
Plumes and intraplate volcanism
Interaction between solid Earth and exosphere
Carbon Capture and Storage

Possible mode of Archaean subduction (after van Hunen and van den Berg, 2008):

Conferences and workshops

EGU 2005+2006, Convenor of 'Mantle Plumes, intraplate magmatism and hotspot-ridge interaction: Geodynamical, Geophysical and Geochemical Aspects'
EGU 2007: Convenor of 'Geodynamics and Geochemistry of the Early Earth'
Co-organiser of the '10th International Workshop on Modelling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics.' September, 2007, Carry-le-Rouet, France.
Main organizer of 'Water on Earth and Beyond', 22+23 Sept. 2009, Durham, UK.
EGU 2010+2011: Convenor of 'Early Earth: from deep dynamics to surface life'
EGU 2010: co-convenor of Union Session 'Early Earth and early biosphere'
AGU 2010 co-convenor of 'The Formation and Deformation of the Mediterranean Basins, Continental Margins, and Arcs'
EGU 2011: co-convenor of 'Subduction zone dynamics from the surface to the lower mantle'

Invited Keynotes

British Geophysical Association, Leeds, UK (2012)
12th European mantle convection workshop, Potsdam, Germany (2011)
Crust-to-core conference, Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic (2010)
Archaean Environment, ESF workshop, Mekrijärvi, Finland (2009)
33rd International Geological Conference, Oslo, Norway (2008)
Archaean Oceans, ESF workshop, Rio Tinto, Spain (2007)

Invited Speaker

Cambridge University, February, 2012
St Etienne & Clermond Ferrand, France, November, 2011
University of Liverpool, May, 2011
EGU, Vienna, 2011
BGI Bayreuth, Germany, November, 2010
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, April, 2010
University College London, March 2010
Cambridge University, May 2008
Leeds University, March, 2007
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2004
Caltech, USA, Feb. 2003

Research Groups

Geophysics Research Group

Selected Publications

Journal papers: academic

Magni, V., Faccenna, C., van Hunen, J. & Funiciello, F. (2013). Delamination vs. break-off: the fate of continental collision. Geophysical Research Letters 40(2): 285.
Bianco, T.A., Ito, G., van Hunen, J., Mahoney, J.J. & Ballmer, M.D. (2013). Geochemical variations at ridge-centered hotspots caused by variable melting of a veined mantle plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
van Hunen, Jeroen & Moyen, Jean-François (2012). Archean Subduction: Fact or Fiction?. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 40(1): 195.
Watson, FE , Mathias, SA , van Hunen, J, Daniels, SE & Jones, RR (2012). Dissolution of CO2 from leaking fractures in saline formations. Transport in Porous Media 94: 729-745.
Bottrill, Andrew D, van Hunen, Jeroen & Allen, Mark B (2012). Insight into collision zone dynamics from topography: numerical modelling results and observations. Solid Earth 3(2): 387.
Magni, V., van Hunen, J., Funiciello, F. & Faccenna, C. (2012). Numerical models of slab migration in continental collision zones. Solid Earth 3(2): 293-306.
Moyen, Jean-François & van Hunen, Jeroen (2012). Short-term episodicity of Archaean plate tectonics. Geology 40(5): 451-454.
Holt, PJ, van Hunen, J. & Allen, MB. (2012). Subsidence of the West Siberian Basin: Effects of a mantle plume impact. Geology 40(8): 703-706.
Laurie, L., Stevens, G. & van Hunen, J. (2012). The end of continental growth by TTG magmatism. Terra Nova 25(2): 130.
van Hunen, J. & Allen, M.B. (2011). Continental collision and slab break-off: a comparison of 3-D numerical models with observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 302(1-2): 27-37.
Bianco, TA, Ito, G, van Hunen, J, Ballmer, MD & Mahoney JJ (2011). Geochemical variations at intraplate hot spots caused by variable melting of a veined mantle plume. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 12(7).
Mittelstaedt, E., Ito, G. & van Hunen, J. (2011). Repeat ridge jumps associated with plume‐ridge interaction, melt transport, and ridge migration. Journal of Geophysical Research 116: B01102.
Ballmer, M.D., Ito, G., van Hunen, J. & Tackley, P.J. (2011). Spatial and temporal variability in Hawaiian hotspot volcanism induced by small-scale convection. Nature Geoscience 4(7): 457-460.
Holt, P. J., Allen, M. B., van Hunen, J. & Bjørnseth, H. M. (2010). Lithospheric cooling and thickening as a basin forming mechanism. Tectonophysics 495(3-4): 184-194.
van Wijk, J.W., Baldridge, W.S., van Hunen, J., Goes, S., Aster, R., Coblentz, D.D., Grand, S.P. & and Ni, J. (2010). Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for topography, magmatism, and evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere. Geology 38(7): 611-614.
Ballmer MD, Ito G, van Hunen J & Tackley PJ (2010). Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of 'Superplume' volcanism in the western and south Pacific. Earth and planetary science letters 290(1-2): 224-232.
Faccenna C, Di Giuseppe E, Funiciello F, Lallemand S & van Hunen J (2009). Control of seafloor aging on the migration of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana trench. Earth and planetary science letters 288(3-4): 386-398.
Halla, J., van Hunen, J., Heilimo, E. & Holtta, P. (2009). Geochemical and numerical constraints on Neoarchean plate tectonics. Precambrian Research 174: 155-162.
Ballmer, Maxim D., van Hunen, Jeroen, Ito, Garrett, Bianco, Todd A. & Tackley, Paul J. (2009). Intraplate volcanism with complex age-distance patterns: A case for small-scale sublithospheric convection. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 10: Q06015.
Gröcke, D. R., Rimmer, S. M. Yoksoulian, L. E., Cairncross, B., Tsikos, H. & van Hunen, J. (2009). No evidence for thermogenic methane release in coal from the Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 277(1-2): 204-212.
Di Giuseppe, E., Faccenna, C., Funiciello, F., van Hunen, J. & Giardini, D. (2009). On the relation between trench migration, seafloor age, and the strength of the subducting lithosphere. Lithosphere 1: 121-128.
van Hunen, Jeroen & Cadek, Ondrej (2009). Reduced oceanic seismic anisotropy by small-scale convection. Earth and Planetay Science Letters 284(3-4): 622-629.

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