I run a very small group but the problems on which I work are varied. Current questions in which I am interested include (please also see publications):
1) Why do the largest volcanic eruptions in the geological record have an equivocal expression in Earth’s record of climate change? How did the eruption dynamics governing the injection of a SO2-rich plume into the stratosphere during the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo ensure a large effect on global climate change? Why did the more powerful 2020 Hunga Tonga eruption through a shallow ocean produce virtually no effect? What if the climate effects of a massive Yellowstone-style eruption simply do not matter very much?
2) Can the particle-scale microphysics governing the injection, spread and residence times of volcanic clouds provide critical clues to the ecological consequences of dissolving metal-particle-rich plumes produced during imminent deep-sea mining operations? Can we use the sensitive dependence of the dynamics, structure and longevity of volcanic clouds on vent source conditions to optimize the engineering of deep-sea mining operations to minimize ecological risks and impacts?
3) To what extent can we use the structure, planform and morphometry of valley systems inferred from satellite and ground-based remote sensing data to constrain rigorously the history and cadence of glacial-interglacial cycles on Earth? What about the history of water and ice on ancient Mars?
4) What are the “frequency response properties” of high-Arctic landscapes? How are their evolving and varied responses in space and time to global warming and to unprecedented intensified summertime temperature variability manifest in the structure and evolution of landscapes, in the delivery of surface water, sediment, nutrients and pathogens into watersheds, and through consequence for at-risk Indigenous populations? How do we best characterize this response with satellite- and ground-based remote sensing studies? How do we incorporate Indigenous “Local Ecological Knowledge” (LEK) into this analysis and into the development of optimally-useful risk-assessment tools like “Apps”?
5) How does the intermittent assembly and breakup of supercontinents modulate Earth’s climate through transient effects on mantle convection, volcanism, mountain building, sea level change, weathering and the diversity of the biosphere? What are consequences for Earth's atmosphere, ocean and biosphere and how are these effects expressed in proxy data?
Student Opportunities:
I look for graduate students with strong backgrounds in geology/volcanology/petrology/planetary science (with additional substantial coursework in math, physics and/or chemistry), astrophysics, physics or engineering, who love the challenge of independent research and who are fired up about working on problems in Earth and planetary science. I select for openly thoughtful, creative and challenging students who ask lots of questions and who like to play by their own rules.
I have no plans to accept new students for the fall of 2023. However, if you would like to argue your case, please email me. Please include some discussion of the sorts of scientific questions/problems that you find interesting and why. I want to hear what you think. I want to hear also about what inspires you. If you have written papers or theses I would be keen to see them. If you have other interests in addition to science I would like to hear about these as well. What is the most recent book you have read? What is your favorite book of all time? If you have practical experience from working in a lab, a machine shop, a woodworking shop, on a construction site etc. or you just like to build things then please let me know.
Postdoctoral Opportunities:
Please email me. The tricky issue is always funding. Virtually all North American funding deadlines for proposals for postdoctoral fellowships in Canada are in September and October.
Effective teaching is very important to me. My goal in the classroom is to create an environment in which knowledge is constructed by students more than it is presented by me. Said differently, I have found that an effective way €œto teach science€ is simply to do science in the classroom, with my role being mostly a coach. As an example of what I mean, think of how coffee in an insulated mug without a lid cools to the overlying air. To explain this problem in a class it is easy to envisage a series of lectures that would break the issue of how hot coffee cools down into the main components of the science of thermal convection. However, no matter how brilliant my explanations might be, it is infinitely more engaging and inspiring to simply place a drop of cream in the coffee and study how the motions driven by the surface cooling disperse the cream, and hence distribute the cooling over the full depth of the coffee. To illustrate my approach more formally, in the classroom we (the students and me) begin an analysis of the cup of coffee as a team. The first step is to describe in detail everything we can observe about the cup, the coffee, and the drop of cream. Next, we formulate questions aimed at deciphering the driving dynamics of the cooling problem. These questions lead, in turn, to further inquiries about the physics of the problem that could take us first to textbooks and then to research articles. Following a careful study of the physics of the problem we would formulate hypotheses designed to unravel in a clear way precisely how the coffee cools. To test these hypotheses we would develop a list of good experiments to do and then we would do them. At the end of this study the students would have learned the significance of the scientific method, how to formulate and solve problems and, ultimately, how to construct knowledge in small and careful increments—i.e. learn.
Courses I Teach
Graduate Students
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PhD Geophysics
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Postdoctoral Fellow Geophysics
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MSc
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PhD Geophysics
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PhD Geophysics
2016
Lenardic A., Jellinek A.M, Foley B., O'Neill C., Moore W.B. 2016. Climate-tectonic coupling: Variations in the mean, variations about the mean, and variations in mode. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS. 121:1831-1864.
Jessop D.E, Gilchrist J., Jellinek A.M, Roche O.. 2016. Are eruptions from linear fissures and caldera ring dykes more likely to produce pyroclastic flows? EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 454:142-153.
Unglert K., Radic V., Jellinek A.M. 2016. Principal component analysis vs. self-organizing maps combined with hierarchical clustering for pattern recognition in volcano seismic spectra. JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH. 320:58-74.
Lenardic A., Crowley J.W, Jellinek A.M, Weller M.. 2016. The Solar System of Forking Paths: Bifurcations in Planetary Evolution and the Search for Life-Bearing Planets in Our Galaxy. ASTROBIOLOGY. 16:551-559.
Kennedy BM, Wadsworth FB, Vasseur J, C. Schipper I, Jellinek A.M, von Aulock FW, Hess K-U, J. Russell K, Lavallee Y, Nichols ARL et al.. 2016. Surface tension driven processes densify and retain permeability in magma and lava. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 433:116-124.
Wiebe RA, Jellinek A.M, Hodge KF. 2016. New insights into the origin of ladder dikes: Implications for punctuated growth and crystal accumulation in the Cathedral Peak granodiorite. Lithos.
2015
Unglert K., Jellinek A.M. 2015. Volcanic tremor and frequency gliding during dike intrusions at Kilauea-A tale of three eruptions. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 120:1142-1158.
Jellinek A.M, Jackson M.G. 2015. Connections between the bulk composition, geodynamics and habitability of Earth. NATURE GEOSCIENCE. 8:587-593.
2014
Jessop D.E, Jellinek A.M. 2014. Effects of particle mixtures and nozzle geometry on entrainment into volcanic jets. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 41:3858-3863.
2013
Monteux J., Jellinek A.M, Johnson C.L. 2013. Dynamics of core merging after a mega-impact with applications to Mars' early dynamo. ICARUS. 226:20-32.
Carazzo G., Jellinek A.M, Turchyn A.V. 2013. The remarkable longevity of submarine plumes: Implications for the hydrothermal input of iron to the deep-ocean. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 382:66-76.
Bercovici D, Jellinek A.M, Michaut C, Roman DC, Morse R. 2013. Volcanic tremors and magma wagging: gas flux interactions and forcing mechanism. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 195:1001-1022.
Bain A.A, Jellinek A.M, Wiebe R.A. 2013. Quantitative field constraints on the dynamics of silicic magma chamber rejuvenation and overturn. CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY. 165:1275-1294.
Hoeink T, Lenardic A, Jellinek A.M. 2013. Earth's thermal evolution with multiple convection modes: A Monte-Carlo approach. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS. 221:22-26.
Jackson MG, Jellinek A.M. 2013. Major and trace element composition of the high He-3/He-4 mantle: Implications for the composition of a nonchonditic Earth. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS. 14:2954-2976.
Carazzo G., Jellinek A.M. 2013. Particle sedimentation and diffusive convection in volcanic ash-clouds. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 118:1420-1437.
2012
Hodge K.F, Jellinek A.M. 2012. Linking enclave formation to magma rheology. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 117
Sreenivasan B, Jellinek A.M. 2012. Did the Tharsis plume terminate the Martian dynamo? EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 349:209-217.
Hodge KF, Carazzo G, Montague X, Jellinek A.M. 2012. Magmatic structures in the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California: a new model for the formation and deformation of ladder dikes. CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY. 164:587-600.
Hodge KF, Carazzo G, Jellinek A.M. 2012. Experimental constraints on the deformation and breakup of injected magma. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 325:52-62.
Carazzo G, Jellinek A.M. 2012. A new view of the dynamics, stability and longevity of volcanic clouds. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 325:39-51.
Hodge KF, Jellinek A.M. 2012. A Simple Mechanical Recipe for Andesites. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1:2886.
2011
Hoeink T, Jellinek A.M, Lenardic A. 2011. Viscous coupling at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS. 12
Lenardic A., Moresi L., Jellinek A.M, O'Neill C.J, Cooper C.M, Lee C.T. 2011. Continents, supercontinents, mantle thermal mixing, and mantle thermal isolation: Theory, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS. 12
Monteux J., Jellinek A.M, Johnson C.L. 2011. Why might planets and moons have early dynamos? EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 310:349-359.
Gleeson T, Smith L, Moosdorf N, Hartmann J, Durr HH, Manning AH, van Beek LPH, Jellinek A.M. 2011. Mapping permeability over the surface of the Earth. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 38
Jellinek A.M, Bercovici D. 2011. Seismic tremors and magma wagging during explosive volcanism. NATURE. 470:522-U109.
Hodge KF, Carazzo G, Jellinek A.M. 2011. Experimental constraints on the formation of mafic enclaves vs. mafic layers: Why are some silicic plutons layered and others not?AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1:2580.
Wise S, Garcia MO, J Rhodes M, Jellinek A.M, Scoates JS. 2011. Role of the deep mantle in generating the compositional asymmetry of the Hawaiian mantle plume. Nature Geoscience. 4:831–838.
2010
Kennedy B.M, Jellinek A.M, Russell J.K, Nichols A.RL, Vigouroux N.. 2010. Time-and temperature-dependent conduit wall porosity: A key control on degassing and explosivity at Tarawera volcano, New Zealand. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 299:126-137.
Hernlund JW, Jellinek A.M. 2010. Dynamics and structure of a stirred partially molten ultralow-velocity zone. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 296:1-8.
Hodge KF, Carazzo G, Jellinek A.M. 2010. Field and experimental constraints on the deformation and break-up up of injected magma (Invited). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
2009
Jellinek A.M, Lenardic A.. 2009. Effects of spatially varying roof cooling on thermal convection at high Rayleigh number in a fluid with a strongly temperature-dependent viscosity. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS. 629:109-137.
O'Neill C., Lenardic A., Jellinek A.M, Moresi L.. 2009. Influence of supercontinents on deep mantle flow. GONDWANA RESEARCH. 15:276-287.
Lenardic A., Jellinek A.M. 2009. Tails of two plume types in one mantle. GEOLOGY. 37:127-130.
2008
Jellinek A.M, Johnson C.L, Schubert G.. 2008. Constraints on the elastic thickness, heat flow, and melt production at early Tharsis from topography and magnetic field observations. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS. 113
Kennedy BM, Jellinek A.M, Stix J. 2008. Coupled caldera subsidence and stirring inferred from analogue models. NATURE GEOSCIENCE. 1:385-389.
Lenardic A., Jellinek A.M, Moresi L.-N. 2008. A climate induced transition in the tectonic style of a terrestrial planet. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 271:34-42.
Sleep NH, Jellinek A.M. 2008. Scaling relationships for chemical lid convection with applications to cratonal lithosphere. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS. 9
Hodge KF, Jellinek A.M. 2008. Field And Experimental Constraints on the Rheology of Silicic Magma. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1:2215.
Hodge KF, Jellinek A.M. 2008. Linking a Magma's Microstructure to a Macroscopic Description of its Rheology. 2008 IAVCEI meeting, Iceland.
2007
O'Neill C., Jellinek A.M, Lenardic A.. 2007. Conditions for the onset of plate tectonics on terrestrial planets and moons. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 261:20-32.
O'Neill C., Lenardic A., Jellinek A.M, Kiefer W.S. 2007. Melt propagation and volcanism in mantle convection simulations, with applications for Martian volcanic and atmospheric evolution. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS. 112
Audet P, Jellinek A.M, Uno H. 2007. Mechanical controls on the deformation of continents at convergent margins. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 264:151-166.
Robin CMI, Jellinek A.M, Thayalan V, Lenardic A. 2007. Transient mantle convection on Venus: The paradoxical coexistence of highlands and coronae in the BAT region. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 256:100-119.
2006
Thayalan V., Jellinek A.M, Lenardic A.. 2006. Recycling the lid: Effects of subduction and stirring on boundary layer dynamics in bottom-heated planetary mantle convection. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 33
Jellinek A.M, Gordon RG, Zatman S. 2006. Experimental tests of simple models for the dynamics of diffuse oceanic plate boundaries. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 164:624-632.
2005
Jellinek A.M, Manga M. 2005. An explanation of the longevity and composition of hotspot volcanism in terms of the dynamics of mantle plume formation. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA. 69:A90.
Lenardic A, Moresi LN, Jellinek A.M, Manga M. 2005. Continental insulation, mantle cooling, and the surface area of oceans and continents. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 234:317-333.
2004
Gonnermann HM, Jellinek A.M, Richards MA, Manga M. 2004. Modulation of mantle plumes and heat flow at the core mantle boundary by plate-scale flow: results from laboratory experiments. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 226:53-67.
Jellinek A.M, Manga M, Saar MO. 2004. Did melting glaciers cause volcanic eruptions in eastern California? Probing the mechanics of dike formation JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 109
Jellinek A.M, Manga M. 2004. Links between long-lived hot spots, mantle plumes, D `', and plate tectonics. REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS. 42
Wenzel MJ, Manga M, Jellinek A.M. 2004. Tharsis as a consequence of Mars' dichotomy and layered mantle. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 31
2003
Jellinek A.M, DePaolo DJ. 2003. A model for the origin of large silicic magma chambers: precursors of caldera-forming eruptions. BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY. 65:363-381.
Stegman DR, Jellinek A.M, Zatman SA,, Richards MA. 2003. An early lunar core dynamo driven by thermochemical mantle convection. NATURE. 421:143-146.
Jellinek A.M, Gonnermann HM, Richards MA. 2003. Plume capture by divergent plate motions: implications for the distribution of hotspots, geochemistry of mid-ocean ridge basalts, and estimates of the heat flux at the core-mantle boundary. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 205:361-378.
2002
Gonnermann HM, Manga M, Jellinek A.M. 2002. Dynamics and longevity of an initially stratified mantle. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 29
Jellinek A.M, Lenardic A, Manga M. 2002. The influence of interior mantle temperature on the structure of plumes: Heads for Venus, tails for the Earth. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 29
Jellinek A.M, Manga M. 2002. The influence of a chemical boundary layer on the fixity, spacing and lifetime of mantle plumes. NATURE. 418:760-763.
2001
Jellinek A.M, Kerr RC. 2001. Magma dynamics, crystallization, and chemical differentiation of the 1959 Kilauea Iki lava lake, Hawaii, revisited. JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH. 110:235-263.
1999
Jellinek A.M, Kerr RC. 1999. Mixing and compositional stratification produced by natural convection 2. Applications to the differentiation of basaltic and silicic magma chambers and komatiite lava flows. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 104:7203-7218.
Jellinek A.M, Kerr RC, Griffiths RW. 1999. Mixing and compositional stratification produced by natural convection 1. Experiments and their application to Earth's core and mantle. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 104:7183-7201.
1994
Geist D, HOWARD KA, Jellinek A.M, RAYDER S. 1994. THE VOLCANIC HISTORY OF VOLCAN-ALCEDO, GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO - A CASE-STUDY OF RHYOLITIC OCEANIC VOLCANISM. BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY. 56:243-260.