Research Experience
2016 – present: Darwin and Galápagos Islands Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (Christ’s College)
2018 – present: Parliamentary Academic Fellow, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Houses of Parliament
2011 – 2012: Laboratory Technician, University of Southampton
2011: Project Placement Student, AWE Plc.
2010: Research Technician, University of Southampton
Education
2012 – 2016: Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Oxford (Worcester College)
‘The volatile history of past explosive eruptions’
Supervisors: Dr. M.C.S. Humphreys, Dr. V.C. Smith, Prof D.M. Pyle
2007 – 2011: Master of Science in Geology (MSci), School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
First Class Honours
Masters thesis: ‘Phenocryst zoning within cumulate xenoliths: an insight into magma evolution prior to a major Plinian eruption on Tenerife’
Awards and prizes
2015: Bob Hunter Prize, VMSG
Best student oral presentation at the VMSG Annual Meeting.
2011: Best Graduating Geology Student Prize, University of Southampton
Highest aggregate mark during the undergraduate four-year geology programme.
2009/10: Progression Scholarship, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science
Achieving one of the top ten 3rd year aggregate examination marks in the school.
2008/09: Progression Scholarship, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science
Achieving one of the top ten 2nd year aggregate examination marks in the school.
2009: D. E. Wisden Prize, University of Southampton
Highest aggregate mark obtained by a geology undergraduate in 2nd year examinations.
Grants and bursaries
As PI
Christ’s College Galápagos Islands Fund Grant – £2,500
‘Petrological and geochemical response to the 2018 eruption of Sierra Negra, Galapagos’
2017: ESRC Impact Acceleration Accounts Grant – £2,000
‘The impact of natural hazards on the UK: a probabilistic assessment of worst-case scenarios’
2017: University of Cambridge Sedgwick Prize – £5,000
‘Constraining the dynamics of magma-mush interaction in sub-volcanic systems’
2017: Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Fund Grant – £10,000
‘What triggers eruptions of Galápagos volcanoes?’
2017: Geological Society Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust Grant – £1000
‘What triggers eruptions of Galápagos volcanoes?’
2017: Mineralogical Society Senior Travel Bursary – £500
‘What triggers eruptions of Galápagos volcanoes?’
2014: NERC Ion Microprobe Facility Award (IMF519/0514) – £25,000 (FEC)
‘Assessing the use of apatite as a new magmatic volatile probe: applications for understanding the eruptive behaviour of Campi Flegrei’
2013: NERC Ion Microprobe Facility Award (IMF479/0513) – £10,000 (FEC)
‘Understanding electron beam-induced volatile migration in the apatite crystal lattice’
As Co-I/Project partner
2018: Co-I, Diamond Light Source Facility Award (SP21569) – £60,000 (FEC)
‘Tracking magmatic changes prior to large explosive and effusive eruptions’
2017: Co-I, NERC Ion Microprobe Facility Award (IMF622/0517) – £8,750 (FEC)
‘Constraining the volatile budget of the Galapagos mantle’
2017 – 2022: Named Collaborator, NERC Research Fellowship (NE/N014286/1) – M. Cassidy (Oxford)
‘Towards improved forecasting of volcanic explosivity: Investigating the role of magma mixing’
Travel
2018: Cities on Volcanoes Conference Bursary – €500
2016: University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences Burdett-Coutts Grant – £800
2015: University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences Burdett-Coutts Grant – £1,100
2015: VMSG Conference Travel Bursary – £300
2013: VMSG Workshop Travel Bursary – £300
2013: IAVCEI Summer School Attendance Grant – €100
2013: Worcester College Extraordinary Academic Expenses Grant – £300
Invited talks
Stock et al., coming summer 2017, ‘ Tracking pre-eruptive volatile behaviour at Campi Flegrei, Italy, through integrated analysis of apatite and glass‘. IAVCEI
Stock et al., 2016, ‘Apatite: A new tool for understanding the temporal variability of magmatic volatile contents‘. G3 Seminar, University of Southampton, UK.
Teaching
Research supervision
2018 – present: Supervisor, Part III research project, University of Cambridge
Helen Gildersleeves: ‘The mechanisms of crystal-melt segregation and magma chamber assembly in large silicic volcanoes’
2017 – 2018: Supervisor, Part III research project, University of Cambridge
William de Falbe: ‘Constructing a temporal record of magmatic sulphur behaviour before major explosive eruptions’
2015 – 2016: Co-supervisor, MSci research project (main supervisor D. Pyle), University of Oxford
Matthew Gleeson: ‘Using apatite to probe pre-eruptive magmatic conditions’
2013 – 2014: Co-supervisor, MSci research project (main supervisor M. Humphreys), University of Oxford
Victoria Honour: ‘Possible controls on Fe-Ti-P mineralisation in the Upper Zone of the Bushveld Complex’
Undergraduate teaching
2016 – present: Supervisor in Volcanology at the University of Cambridge
2016 – present: Fieldwork lecturer in Volcanology (Southeast Spain) at University of Cambridge
2016 – 2017: Laboratory Demonstrator in: Part IB Earth Sciences B (igneous and metamorphic petrology, volcanology, mineralogy and geochemistry) at the University of Cambridge.
2012 – 2016: Postgraduate Tutor in: Volcanoes and the Environment, Igneous Petrogenesis, Igneous Petrology, and Fundamentals of Geology at the University of Oxford.
2013: Fieldwork Demonstrator in Physical Volcanology (Santorini) at the University of Oxford.
2011 – 2012: Laboratory Demonstrator in: Volcanic and Mantle Processes, Igneous Petrology, and Structural Geology at the University of Southampton.
2010 – 2011: Fieldwork Demonstrator in Physical Volcanology (Tenerife) at the University of Southampton.
Fieldwork
2017: Volcan Wof, Volcan Sierra Negra, Isla Floreana, Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), Led international team, 25 days sampling lava flows, scoria cones and plutonic nodules.
2013 – 2014: Campi Flegrei and Ischia volcanoes, Naples (Italy), Two weeks sampling and logging volcanic deposits.
2009 – 2011: Las Cañadas volcano, Tenerife (Spain), Three weeks sampling plutonic nodules in pyroclastic deposits.
2011: Malatya (Turkey), Two weeks geological mapping of epithermal gold deposits, funded by Stratex International Plc.
2009: Santorini volcano, Aegean (Greece), Six weeks geological mapping and logging of volcanic deposits.
2007 – 2011: British Carboniferous deposits (Tenby, Wales; Ingleton, Yorkshire), granitic pegmatite mineralisation (Brittany, France), Betic Cordilleras (Spain), Bristol Channel and Wessex Basin (S. England).
Workshops and Summer Schools
2018: Communicating Uncertainty Workshop, Winton Centre for Risk Communication, University of Cambridge
2016: LA-ICM-MS mapping, VMSG Workshop, Trinity College Dublin
2014: Fundamentals of EPMA, NERC Advanced Skills Course, University of Bristol
2014: Microanalysis, VMSG Workshop, University of Edinburgh
2014: Geo-materials Sample Preparation for Microscopy, RMS Workshop, University of Oxford
2013: Explosive Volcanism of Alkaline-Mafic Magmas, AIV International Summer School, Rome
Academic Service
Journal reviewer: Nature Communications, Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Chemical Geology, National Science Foundation
Seminar organizer: Oxford Volcanology Group (2013 – 2014), Christ’s College Darwin Lecture Series
Committee and Administrative Positions
2016 – present: Member of the Governing Body, Christ’s College, Cambridge
2016 – present: Member of the Christ’s College JCR-SCR liaison committee
2015 – 2016: Member of the University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences Teaching Committee
2014 – 2016: Member of the University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences Joint Consultative Committee for Graduates
2013 – 2014: MCR Environment Representative, Worcester College, Oxford
2010 – 2011: President, University of Southampton Geological Society
2009 – 2010: Social Secretary, University of Southampton Geological Society
2009 – 2010: Vice-president, University of Southampton AAPG Chapter Committee
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (since 2016)
Fellow of the Geological Society of London (since 2015)
International Association of Volcanology and the Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (since 2015)
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (since 2012)
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