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Sponsor: Università di Padova
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Email: rex@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 2007
Dr Rex N Taylor is a volcanic geochemist affiliated to the School of Ocean and Earth Science. He is actively researching the chemical and isotopic changes in volcanoes and volcanic systems in a range of different tectonic settings: mantle plumes, island arcs and mid-ocean ridges. In particular, his research uses high-resolution studies of Pb isotopes to investigate the evolution of magmas and the causes of catastrophic volcanic eruptions. Research has taken him on fieldwork and research cruises across the globe – and in May 2019 to dive in a submersible to a depth of 5700m in the Philippine Sea to explore the earliest volcanoes of the Western Pacific.
During the last 20 years he has developed undergraduate and postgraduate courses in geology and environmental geoscience, educating students in volcanology, igneous systems and analytical geochemistry. Rex has also designed and created a Virtual Fieldwork portal that provides a visualisation of field localities on a range of scales: from satellite image, through field exposure, to microscopic view.