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Prof. Dr. Colin Devey

  Forschungsbereich 4: Dynamik des Ozeanbodens
  FE Magmatische und hydrothermale Systeme

  Büro:
  Raum: 8/D-203
  Telefon: +49 431 600-2257
  Fax: +49 431 600-2924
  E-Mail: cdevey(at)geomar.de

  Adresse:
  Wischhofstrasse 1-3
  D-24148 Kiel

Ausbildung und Werdegang

Auszeichnungen

1986 - 1988    Royal Society European Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Tätigkeit in Gremien und gutachterliche Tätigkeit

International

National

  • seit 2001 Mitglied der "Senatskommission für Ozeanographie", Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe "Verantwortungsvolle Meeresforschung"

Wissenschaftliches Interesse

Magmengenese an Mittelozeanischen Rücken

Wärmebudget von Spreizungsachsen

Die Alteration der ozeanischen Kruste

Intraplattenvulkanismus

Ridge-Hotspot Wechselwirkungen

Publikationen (seit 2000)

  • Stroncik, N. A., and C. W. Devey (2011). Recycled gabbro signature in hotspot magmas unveiled by plume-ridge interactions, Nature Geosci, 4(6), 393-397.
  • Speckbacher, R., Behrmann, J.H., Nagel, T.J., Sipp, M., Devey, C.W. (2011). Splitting a continent: Insights from submarine high-resolution mapping of the Moresby Seamount detachment, offshore Papua New Guinea. Geology 39 (7), 651-654, doi: :10.1130/G31931.1
  • Ngwa, C.N., Suh, C.E., Devey, C.W. (2009). Tephra sequences at Debunscha Maar (Mt Cameroon volcano): field characterization and stratigraphic reconstruction. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 192: 201-211.
  • Devey, C.W., German, C.R., Haase, K.M., Lackschewitz, K.S., Melchert, B., Connelly, D.P. (2009). The relationships between volcanism, tectonism and hydrothermal activity on the southern equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In press for " Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow-spreading Ocean Ridges" Ed. Rona et al., AGU Monograph.
  • Haase, K.M., Koschinsky, A., Petersen, S., Devey, C.W., German, C., Lackschewitz, K.S., Melchert, B., Seifert, R., Stecher, J., Giere, O., Paulick, H., and the M64/1, M68/1 and M78/2 Scientific Parties (2009). Diking, young volcanism and diffuse hydrothermal activity on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: the Lilliput field at 9°33’S. Marine Geology 266: 52-64.
  • Melchert, B., Devey, C.W., German, C.R., Lackschewitz, K.S., Seifert, R., Walter, M., Mertens, C., Yoerger, D.R., Baker, E.T., Paulick, H., Nakamura, K. (2008). First evidence for high-temperature off-axis venting of deep crustal/mantle heat: The Nibelungen hydrothermal field, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Earth. Planet. Sci. Letts. 275, 61-69.
  • Augustin, N., Lackschewitz, K. and Devey, C.W. (2008). Mineralogical and chemical mass changes in mafic and ultramafic rocks from the Logatchev hydrothermal field (MAR 15°N). Marine Geology, 256 (1/4), 18-29. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.09.004
  • Almeev, R, Holtz, F., Koepke, J., Haase, K.M., and Devey, C.W. (2008). Depths of Partial Crystallization of H2O-bearing MORB: Phase Equilibria Simulations of Basalts at the MAR near Ascension Island (7-11°S). J. Petrol., 49, 25-45. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egm068
  • K.M. Haase, S. Petersen, A. Koschinsky, R. Seifert, C. W. Devey, R. Keir, K. S. Lackschewitz, B. Melchert, M. Perner, O. Schmale, J. Süling, N. Dubilier, F. Zielinski, S. Fretzdorff, C.-D. Garbe-Schönberg, U. Westernströer, C. R. German, T. M. Shank, D. Yoerger, O. Giere, J. Kuever, H. Marbler, J. Mawick, C. Mertens, U. Stöber, M. Walter, C. Ostertag-Henning, H. Paulick, M. Peters, H. Strauss, S. Sander, J. Stecher, M. Warmuth and S. Weber (2007). Young volcanism and related hydrothermal activity at 5°S on the slow-spreading southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 8, 11, doi:10.1029/2006GC001509.
  • Devey, C.W., Lackschewitz, K.S. and E. Baker (2005). Hydrothermal and volcanic activity found on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Eos, 86(22), 209-212.
  • Schramm, B., Devey, C.W., Gillis, K.M., and Lackschewitz, K. (2005) Low temperature alteration of basalts during the last 9 Ma at 14°15’S at the southern East Pacific Rise: Chemical Geology (doi: 10.1016/j. chemgeo.2005.01.011).
  • Devey, C.W., Haase, K.M. (2004) The sources for hotspot volcanism in the South Pacific . In: Hekinian, R., Stoffers, P., Cheminee, J.-L., Oceanic Hotspots. Springer-Verlag Berlin, 253-280.
  • Lackschewitz, K. S., Devey, C. W., Stoffers, P., Botz, R., Eisenhauer, A., Kummetz, M., Schmidt, M., and  Singer, A. (2004) Mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic characteristics of hydrothermal alteration processes in the active, submarine, felsic-hosted PACMANUS field, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 68, p. 4405-4427.
  • Devey, C.W., Lackschewitz, K.S., Mertz, D.F., Bourdon, B., Cheminee, J.-L., Dubois, J., Guivel, C., Hekinian, R. and Stoffers, P. (2003): Giving birth to hotspot volcanoes: Distribution and composition of young seamounts from the seafloor near Tahiti and Pitcairn. Geology 31(5), 395-398.
  • Devey, C.W., J.C. Alt, W. Bach, J. Erzinger, A.T. Fisher, K.M. Gillis, M. Kinoshita, P. Nehlig, and H. Staudigel (2003) Group Report: What is the nature of Subseafloor fluid circulation and reaction processes., in Energy and mass transfer in marine hydrothermal systems, edited by P.E. Halbach, V. Tunnicliffe, and  J.R. Hein, Dahlem University Press, Berlin.
  • Hekinian, R., Cheminée, J.L., Dubois, J., Stoffers, P., Scott, S., Guivel, C., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Devey, C.W., Bourdon, B., and Lackschewitz, K. (2003) The Pitcairn hotspot in the South Pacific: distribution and composition of submarine volcanic sequences: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 121, 219-245.
  • Lackschewitz, K., Mertz, D.F., Devey, C.W., and Garbe-Schönberg, C.D. (2003) Late Cenozoic volcanism in the western Woodlark Basin area, SW Pacific: the sources of marine volcanic ash layers based on their elemental and Sr-Nd isotope compositions: Bulletin of Volcanology, 65, 182-200.
  • Grevemeyer, I., Schramm, B., Devey, C.W., Jochum, B., Wilson, D.S., Hauschild, J., Aric, K., Villinger, H., and Weigel, W. (2002) A multibeam-sonar, magnetic and geochemical flow-line survey at 14°14’s on the southern East Pacific Rise - insights into the fourth dimension of ridge crest segmentation: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 199, p. 359-372.
  • Eisele, J., Sharma, M.,. Galer, S.J.G, Blichert-Toft, J., Devey, C.W. and A.W. Hofmann (2002) The role of sediment recycling in EM-1 inferred from Os, Pb, Hf, Nd, Sr isotope and trace element systematics of the Pitcairn hotspot, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 196, 3-4, p. 197-212.
  • Devey, C.W. and Klügel, A. (2001) Fenster in die Tiefe der Erde. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Dossier: Die unruhige Erde, Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg, 74-76.
  • Sirocko, F., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Devey, C.W. (2000) Processes controlling trace element geochemistry of Arabian Sea sediments during the last 25,000 years. Global and Planetary Change 26, 217-303.
  • Devey, C.W., Hemond, C. and Stoffers, P. (2000) Metasomatic reactions between carbonated plume melts and mantle harzburgite: The evidence from Friday and Domingo Seamounts (Juan Fernandez chain, SE Pacific). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 139: 68-84.