Publications

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2023

• Cassidy, M., Sandberg, A., Mani, L., 'The Ethics of Volcano Geoengineering'. Earth's Future (Accepted - in press)

• Brookfield, A., Cassidy, M., Weber, G., Popa, R., Stock, M., Bachmann, O. 'Magmatic volatile content and the overpressure ‘sweet spot’: implications for volcanic eruption triggering and style'. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research  (Accepted - in press)

• N Wilson, V Valler, M Cassidy, M Boyd, L Mani, S Brönnimann. 'Impact of the Tambora volcanic eruption of 1815 on islands and relevance to future sunlight-blocking catastrophes' Scientific Reports 13 (1), 3649 (2023)

• C Satow, S Watt, M Cassidy, D Pyle, YN Deng. 'The Contributions of Marine Sediment Cores to Volcanic Hazard Assessments: Present Examples and Future Perspectives. Geosciences 13 (4), 124 (2023)

2022

• Cassidy M., and Man, L., Huge volcanic eruptions: time to prepare. Nature 608 (7923), 469-471 (2022)

• A Voigt, M Cassidy, JM Castro, DM Pyle, TA Mather, C Helo, M Abdurrachman, IA Kurniawan “Experimental Investigation of Trachydacite Magma Storage prior to the 1257 Eruption of Mt Samalas” Journal of Petrology, (2022)

• Cassidy, M., Iveson, A., Humphreys, M.C.S., Mather, T.A., Helo, C., Castro, J.M., Ruprecht, P, Pyle, D.M., EIMF  “Experimentally-derived F, Cl and Br fluid/melt partitioning of intermediate to silicic melts in magmatic systems” American Mineralogist (2022)

• Cutler, Watt, Cassidy, Madden-Nadeau, Engwell, Abdurrachman, Nurshal, Tappin, Carey, Novellino, Hayer, Hunt, Day, Grilli, Kurniawan ‘Downward-propagating eruption following vent unloading implies no direct magmatic trigger for the 2018 lateral collapse of Anak Krakatau’ Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2022)

2021

• ST Grilli, C Zhang, JT Kirby, AR Grilli, DR Tappin, SFL Watt, JE Hunt, A Novellino, S Engwell, MEM Nurshal, M Abdurrachman, M Cassidy, AL Madden-Nadeau, S Day (2021) “Modeling of the Dec. 22nd 2018 Anak Krakatau volcano lateral collapse and tsunami based on recent field surveys: Comparison with observed tsunami impact” Marine Geology 440

• JE Hunt, DR Tappin, SFL Watt, S Susilohadi, A Novellino, SK Ebmeier, M Cassidy, SL Engwell, ST Grilli, M Hanif, WS Priyanto, MA Clare, M Abdurrachman, U Udrekh, (2021) “Submarine landslide megablocks show half of Anak Krakatau island failed on December 22nd, 2018” Nature Communications, 12, 1-5

• Madden-Nadeau, A.L., Cassidy, M., Pyle, D.M., Mather, T.A., Watt, S.F.L., Engwell, S.L., Abdurrachman, M., Nurshal, MNM, Tappin, T., Ismail, T. 2021 ‘The magmatic and eruptive evolution of the 1883 caldera-forming eruption of Krakatau: Integrating field-to crystal-scale observation. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 107176

2020

• Priyanto, Hunt, Hanif, Tappin, Permana, Cassidy, Yulianto 'Bathymetry and Shallow Seismic Imaging of the 2018 Flank Collapse of Anak Krakatau' Frontiers in Earth Science

• Dobson, Allabar, Bretagne, Coumans, Cassidy, Cimarelli, Coats, Connolley,  Courtois, Dingwell,  Di Genova, Fernando, Fife, Fyfe, Gehne, Jones, Kendrick, Kinvig, Kolzenburg, Lavallée, Liu, Llewellin,  Madden-Nadeau, Madi,  Marone, Morgan, Oppenheimer, Ploszajski, Reid,  Schauroth,  Schlepütz, Sellick, Vasseur, von Aulock, Wadsworth, Wiesmaier, Wanelik 'Quantifying microstructural evolution in moving magma' Frontiers in Earth Science

• Novellino, A., Engwell, S., Grebby, S., Day, S., Cassidy, M., Madden-Nadeau, A., Watt, S., Pyle, D., Abdurrachman, M., Nurshal, Tappin, D.T., Kurniawan, I.A., Hunt, J.A. ‘Mapping Recent Shoreline Changes Spanning the Lateral Collapse of Anak Krakatau Volcano, Indonesia’ Applied Sciences, (2020)

2019

• Cassidy, M., S. Ebmeier, C, Helo, S.F.L. Watt, C. Caudron, A. Odell, K, Spaans, P. Kristianto, H, Triastuty, H, Gunawan, J.M. Castro. 'Explosive eruptions with little warning: Experimental petrology and monitoring observations from the 2014 eruption of Kelud, Indonesia'. G Cubed https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008161  

• Le Friant, A; Lebas, E, Brunet, M, Lafuerza, S, Hornbach, M., Coussens, M., Watt, S., Cassidy, M., Talling, P., ‘Submarine landslides around volcanic islands: A review of what can be learnt from the Lesser Antilles Arc’ Submarine landslides AGU Book chapter (2019)

2018

• Cassidy, M., Manga, M., Cashman, K., Bachmann, O. 'Controls on explosive-effusive volcanic eruption styles'. Nature Communications, 9,  2839

• Hunt, J.E., Cassidy, M., Talling, P.J. 'Multi-stage volcanic island flank collapses with coeval explosive caldera-forming eruptions' Scientific Reports 8 (1), 1146

2017

• Coussens, M., Cassidy., M, Watt, S.F.L., Jutzeler, M., Talling, P.J., Barfod, D., Gernon, T., Taylor, R.N., Hatter, S.J., Palmer, M.R., Montserrat Volcano Observatory 'Long-term changes in explosive and effusive behaviour at andesitic arc volcanoes: Chronostratigraphy of the Centre Hills Volcano, Montserrat' Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. vol 333–334, 15–35 pp

• Jutzeler, M., M. Manga, J.D.L. White, P.J. Talling, A.A. Proussevitch, S.F.L. Watt, M. Cassidy, R.N. Taylor, A. Le Friant, and O. Ishizuka, 'Submarine deposits from pumice-rich pyroclastic density currents dispersing over water: an outstanding example from offshore Montserrat (IODP 340)' GSA Bulletin, B31448  DOI: 10.1130/B31448.1 [OPEN ACCESS] 

2016

• Cassidy, M., Castro, J.C., Helo, C., Troll, V., Deegan, F., Muir, D. Neave, D.A., Meuller, S.P. ‘Volatile dilution during magma injections and implications for volcano explosivity‘ Geology 

• 12. 1027-1030 DOI:10.1130/G38411.1 44 no. [OPEN ACCESS]

• Coussens, M., Wall-Palmer, D., Talling, P.J. Watt, S.F.L., Cassidy, M., Jutzeler, M., Gernon, T., Clare, M., Palmer, M.R., Hatter, S., Boudon, G., Endo, D, Fujinawa, A., Hatfield, R., Hornbach, M,, Ishizuka, O., Kataoka, K., Le Friant, A., Maeno, F., Manga, M., McCanta, M., Stinton, A. 'On the relationship between eruptive activity, flank collapse and sea-level at volcanic islands: a long-term (>1 Ma) record offshore Montserrat, Lesser Antilles' Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. Doi: 10.1002/2015GC006053

• Edmonds, M., Kohn, S.C., Hauri, E.C., Humphreys, M.C., Cassidy, M. 'Extensive, water-rich magma reservoir beneath southern Montserrat' Lithos 252, 216-233

• Coussens, M.F., D. Wall-Palmer, P.J. Talling, S.F.L. Watt, S.J. Hatter, M. Cassidy, M. Clare, M. Jutzeler, R. Hatfield, M. McCanta, K.S. Kataoka, D. Endo, M.R. Palmer, A. Stinton,A. Fujinawa, G. Boudon, A. Le Friant, O. Ishizuka, T. Gernon, T. Adachi, M. Aljahdali,C. Breitkreuz, A. J. Frass, M.J. Hornbach, E. Lebas, S. Lafuerza, F. Maeno, M. Manga,M. Martinez-Colon, J. McManus, S. Morgan, T. Saito, A. Slagle, K.S.V. Subramanyam, Y. Tamura, J. Trofimovs, B. Villemant, F. Wang, and the Expedition 340 scientists 'Synthesis: stratigraphy and age control for IODP Sites U1394, U1395, and U1396 offshore Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles' Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Volume 340 doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.340.204.2016

2015

• Palmer, M.R., Hatter, S.J., Gernon, T.M., Taylor, R.N., Cassidy, M., Johnson, P., Le Friant, A., Ishizuka 'Discovery of a large 2.4. Ma Plinian eruption of Basse-Taerre, Guadeloupe from the marine sediment record'. Geology [OPEN ACCESS] Doi: 10.1130/G37193.1

• Cassidy, M., Watt, S.F.L., Talling, P.J., Palmer, M.R., Edmonds M., Jutzeler, M., Wall-Palmer, D., Coussens, M., Gernon, T., Manga, M., Taylor, R.N., Michalik, A.,  Inglis, E., Breitkreuz, C.,  Boudon, G., McCanta, M.C., Adachi, T., Hornbach, M.J., Colas, S.L., Endo, D., Fujinawa, A., Kataoka, K.S., Maeno, F., Tamura, Y., Wang, F., Ishizuka, O., Le Friant, A., and Shipboard Science Party ' Rapid onset of mafic magmatism facilitated by volcanic edifice collapse' Geophysical Research Letters Doi:10.1002/2015GL064519  [OPEN ACCESS]

• Cassidy, M., Cole, P.D., Hicks, K.E., Varley, N.R., Peters, N., Lerner, A. ‘Rapid and slow: Varying ascent rates as a mechanism for Vulcanian explosions’ Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 420: 73-84. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.025 [OPEN ACCESS]

• Cassidy, M., Edmonds, M., Watt, S.F.L., Palmer, M.R., Gernon, T., ‘Arc basalt origin by hybridisation in andesite-dominated arcs’. Journal of Petrology. 

• 56 (2): 325-346. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egv002

2014

• Cassidy, M., Watt, S.F.L., Palmer, M.R., Trofimovs, J., Symons, W., Maclaren, S., Stinton, A. (2014) ‘Construction of volcanic records from marine sediment cores: A review and case study (Montserrat, West Indies)’. Earth Science Reviews. 138, 137-155 pp DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.08.008

• Wall-Palmer, D., Coussens, M., Talling, P., Jutzeler, M., Cassidy, M., Marchant , I., Palmer M., Watt, S.F.L., Smart, C., Fisher. J., Hart, M., Fraas, A., Trofimovs, J., Le Friant, A., Ishizuka, O., Adachi, T., Aljahdali, M., Boudon, G., Breitkreuz, C., Endo, D., Fujinawa, A., Hatfield, R., Kataoka, K., Lafuerza, S, Maneo, M., Martinez-Colon, M., McCanta, M., Morgan, S., Saito, T., Slagle, A., Stinton, A., Konduri, S., Tamura, Y., Villemant, B., Wang, F., 'Late Pleistocene stratigraphy of IODP Site U1396 and compiled chronology offshore of south and south west Montserrat, Lesser Antilles'. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. DOI:10.1002/2014GC005402

• Cassidy, M., Trofimovs, J., Watt, S.F.L., Palmer, M.R., Taylor, R.N., Gernon, T.M., Talling, P.J. and Le Friant, A. (2014) 'Multi-stage collapse events in the South Soufrière Hills, Montserrat, as recorded in marine sediment cores'. In Wadge, G., Robertson, R. E. A. & Voight, B. (eds) The Eruption of Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat from 2000 to 2010. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 39, 381–395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/M39.20 

2013

• Achterberg, E.P., Moore, M.C., Henson, S.A., Steigenberger, S., Stohl, A., Eckhardt. S., Cassidy, M., Hembury D., Klar, J., Lucas, M.I., Marsay, C.M., Ryan-Keogh, T.J., (2013) Natural iron fertilisation by the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption. Geophysical Research Letters 40, 1–6, doi:10.1002/grl.50221

• Trofimovs, J., Talling, P.J., Fisher, J.K., Hart, M.B., Sparks, R.S.J., Watt, S.F.L., Cassidy, M., Le Friant, A., Moreton, S.G., Leng, M.J., Smart, C., (2013) ‘Timing, origin, and emplacement dynamics of mass flows offshore SE Montserrat in the last 110 ka: implications for landslide and tsunami hazards,eruption history, and volcanic island evolution.’ Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. doi: 10.1002/ggge.20052

• Cassidy, M., Trofimovs, J., Palmer, M.R., Talling, P.J., Watt, S.F.L., Moreton, S., Taylor, R.N.  (2013) ‘Timing and emplacement dynamics of newly recognised mass flow deposits at ~8-12 ka offshore Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat: how submarine stratigraphy can complement subaerial eruption histories’ Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 1-14 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.12.002

2012

• Stevenson, J. A., C. Rae, J. S. Gilbert, S. Harangi, R. Lukács B. Højgaard, U. Árting, S. Pyne-O’Donnell, A. MacLeod, S. Loughlin, A.E. Milodowski and M. Cassidy. (2012) ‘Distal Tephra From the Eyjafjallajökull 2010 Summit Eruption’. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JB008904

• Cassidy, M., Taylor, R.N., Palmer, M.R, Cooper, R., Stenlake C., Trofimovs, J., (2012) 'Tracking the magmatic evolution of an island arc volcano: Insights from a high-precision Pb isotope record of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles'. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 13, Q05003 doi:10.1029/2012GC004064

• Stevenson, J. A., Mitchell, N. C., Cassidy M., Pinkerton H., (2012), 'Widespread inflation and drainage of a pāhoehoe flow field: the Nesjahraun,Þingvellir, Iceland'. Bulletin of Volcanology. 74 (1),15-31, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0482-z

• Stevenson, J. A., Mitchell, N. C., Mochrie, F., Cassidy M., Pinkerton H., (2012), 'Lava penetrating water: the different behaviours of pāhoehoe and ‘a‘ā at the Nesjahraun, Þingvellir,Iceland'. Bulletin of Volcanology. 74 (1), 33-46, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0480-1

Pre-2012

• Rouwet, D., S. Bellomo, L. Brusca, S. Inguaggiato, M. Jutzeler, R. Mora, A. Mazot, R. Bernard, M. Cassidy and Y. Taran (2009),  'Major and trace element geochemistry of El Chichón volcano–hydrothermal system (Chiapas, México) in 2006–2007: implications for future geochemical monitoring' Geofisica International.  48 (1), 55-72 (2009)

Doctoral Thesis (2012):

• Cassidy, M. (2012) The Evolution of Volcanism on Montserrat. PhD Thesis, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. eprints.soton.ac.uk/351278/

Conference abstracts (not updated for a while): 

• Cassidy, M., J Castro, C Helo, S Ebmeier, S Watt 'Combining experimental petrology with InSAR deformation constraints on the magmatic system prior to eruptions at Kelud volcano, Indonesia' IAVCEI Portland 2017

• Cassidy, M., J Castro, C Helo, S Ebmeier, S Watt 'Combining experimental petrology with InSAR deformation constraints on the magmatic system prior to recent eruptions at Kelud volcano, Indonesia' EGU 2017 19, 9156

• Cassidy, M., Castro, J., Helo, C., Troll, V., Muir, D., Deegan, F., 'The magmatic conditions, from storage to surface preceding effusive and explosive eruptions at Kelud Volcano' AGU 2015 V13B-3107

• Peter Talling, Anne Le Friant, Osamu Ishizuka, Sebastian Watt, Maya Coussens, Martin Jutzeler, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Martin Palmer, Michael Cassidy, Kyoko Kataoka, Daisuko Endo, Molly McCanta, Jessica Trofimovs, Robert Hatfield, Adam Stinton, Elodie Lebas, Georges Boudon, and IODP Expedition 340 Shipboard Science Party 'New insights from IODP Expedition 340 offshore Montserrat: First drilling of large volcanic island landslides' EGU 2015 -5420

• Watt, S.F.L., Talling, P.J., Coussens, M., Cassidy, M., Palmer, M.R., Jutzeler, M., Friant, A., Berndt, C.(2014) ‘The evolution of an island-arc volcanic system: records of volcanic processes at Montserrat, Lesser Antilles’ EGU2014-5931 

• Cassidy, M., Watt, S.F.L., Palmer, M.R., Trofimovs, J., Symons, W., Maclaren, S., Stinton, A. (2013) Cores for concern: The difficulty of recording tephra fallout deposits in marine sediments. Oral presentation. IAVCEI conference, Kagoshima, Japan

• Cassidy, M., Watt, S.F.L., Talling, P.J., Palmer, M.R. and shipboard scientists on-board IODP 340 (2013) Eruption of crystal-rich basalts following a large sector collapse: Evidence from IODP cores sampled offshore Montserrat. IAVCEI conference, Kagoshima, Japan

• Watt, S.L., Cassidy, M., Talling, P. ‘Edifice Collapse processes and the volcano-magmatic response to collapse’ IAVCEI conference, Kagoshima, Japan

• Talling, P., Watt, S.L., Cassidy, M. and shipboard scientists on-board IODP 340 'New insights into compositional and source, single or multi-stage emplacement, and relationship to eruption cycles from first drilling of volcanic island landslides, offshore Montserrat IAVCEI conference, Kagoshima, Japan

• Johnson P, Inglis E, Marchant I, Cassidy M, Palmer M, Talling P, Gernon T & Watt S (2013) Marine Sediments as an Archive of the Evolution of Volcanism on Montserrat. Mineralogical magazine, Volume 77, Number 5, pp. 1400. DOI:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.5.10

• Cassidy, M., Taylor, R.N., Palmer, M.R. Trofimovs, J., (2011) Co-existence of two distinct magma sources in an island arc volcano: evidence from Montserrat, Lesser Antilles Arc. AGU Fall Meeting. V53B-2625

• Cassidy, M., Taylor, R.N., Palmer, M.R. Trofimovs, J., (2011) Tracking the magmatic evolution of an island arc volcano: Insights from a high-precision Pb isotope record of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles. Mineralogical magazine, Volume 75, Number 3, June 2011, pp. 609-711(103).

• Cassidy, M., Taylor, R.N., Palmer, M.R. Trofimovs, J., (2010). The rise and demise of South Montserrat: Evolution of the South Soufrière Hills. Proceedings of the 18th International Sedimentological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina.

• Stevenson, J. A., Cassidy M., Mitchell, N. C., Pinkerton H., (2008), ‘Emplacement of the Nesjahraun flow, Thingvallavatn, Iceland: a reconstruction based on remotely-sensed data’ IAVCEI- 2008 General Assembly, Reykjavik-Iceland.

• Varley. N., Rouwet, D., Tarin, Y., Cassidy, M., Flynn, K., Jutzeler, M. (2007) ‘Post eruptive degassing processes of El Chichón, Mexico’ Proceedings of the Commemorative Conference “El Chichón volcano: Twenty-five years later”. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico