Staff and Postgraduate Students
Dr Jeroen van Hunen, MSc Geophysics, PhD
(email at jeroen.van-hunen@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
2006-present: 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
Conferences and workshops
1. 2005: Convenor of Special session at EGU. 'Mantle Plumes, intraplate magmatism and hotspot-ridge interaction: Geodynamical, Geophysical and Geochemical Aspects'
2. 2006: Convenor of Special session at EGU. 'Mantle Plumes, intraplate magmatism and hotspot-ridge interaction: Geodynamical, Geophysical and Geochemical Aspects'
3. 2007: Convenor of EGU special session: 'Geodynamics and Geochemistry of the Early Earth'
4. 2007: Co-organiser of the 'Tenth International Workshop on Modelling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics.' September 2007
Invited Keynotes
2007: Keynote speaker at 'Archaen Oceans' workshop, April 2007
Invited Speaker
Caltech, USA, Feb. 2003
Prague, Czech Republic, September 2004
Leeds Univ, March, 2007
Cambridge Univ, May 2008
Research Interests
- Subduction dynamics
- Dynamics of the early Earth
- Sub-lithospheric small-scale convection
- Plumes and intraplate volcanism
- Interaction between solid Earth and exosphere
Research Groups
Selected Publications
Books: sections
- van Hunen, J.,, van Keken, P.E.,, Hynes, A., & Davies, G.F. 2008. Tectonics of the early Earth: some geodynamic considerations. In Geological Society of America. 440: 157-171. (Additional information)
Journal papers: academic
- Halla, J., van Hunen, J., Heilimo, E. & Holtta, P. 2009. Geochemical and numerical constraints on Neoarchean plate tectonics. Precambrian Research 174: 155-162. (Additional information)
- 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. (Additional information)
- van Hunen, Jeroen & Cadek, Ondrej 2009. Reduced oceanic seismic anisotropy by small-scale convection. Earth and Planetay Science Letters 284(3-4): 622-629. (Additional information)
- Bianco, T.A, Ito, G., van Hunen, J, Ballmer, M.D. & Mahoney, J.J. 2008. Geochemical variation at the Hawaiian hotspot caused by upper mantle dynamics and melting of a heterogeneous plume. G-cubed 9(11): Q11003. (Additional information)
- Di Giuseppe, E., van Hunen, J.,, Funiciello, F.,, Faccenna, C., & Giardini, D. 2008. Plate Strength Controls Trench Motion: Insights from Numerical Models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9: Q02014. (Additional information)
- van Hunen, J., & van den Berg, A.P. 2008. Plate tectonics on the early Earth: limitations imposed by strength and buoyancy of subducted lithosphere. Lithos 103(1-2): 217-235. (Additional information)
- van Wijk, J., van Hunen, J. & Goes, S. 2008. Small-scale convection during continental rifting: Evidence from the Rio Grande rift. Geology 36(7): 575-578.
- Ballmer, M.D., van Hunen, J., , Ito, G.,, Tackley, P.J., & Bianco, T. 2007. Non-hotspot volcano chains originating from small-scale sublithospheric convection. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L23310. (Additional information)
- van Hunen, J., & Zhong, S. 2006. Influence of rheology on realignment of mantle convective structure with plate motion after a plate reorganization. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7(8): Q08008. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- van Hunen, J.,, Zhong, S.,, Shapiro, N.M., & Ritzwoller, M.H. 2005. New evidence for dislocation creep from 3-D geodynamic modelling of the Pacific upper mantle structure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 238(1-2): 146-155. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- van Hunen, J.,, van den Berg, A.P., & Vlaar, N.J. 2004. Various mechanisms to induce present-day shallow flat subduction and implications for the younger Earth: a numerical parameter study. Physics Of The Earth And Planetary Interiors 146(1-2): 179-194. (Additional information)
- van Hunen, J., & Zhong, S. 2003. New insight in the Hawaiian plume swell dynamics from scaling laws. Geophysical Research Letters 30(15): 1785-1788. (Additional information) (View publication online)