Gilles Seropian

I am currently a Newton International Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, on the picturesque Cornwall campus. I love two things at work: being outside and tinkering! Hence I enjoy fieldwork and lab experiments the most! In particular, I am keen on technical fieldwork that requires rope access, so I can make use of my passions for rigging highlines and rock climbing. For experiments, I am a fierce believer in simplicity! I am especially fond of colourful fluid experiments. I also love sharing my passions and am always excited by fun outreach activities!

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Fieldwork in Cordón-Caulle, Chile. Photo courtesy of Ben Kennedy.

Confined Rayleigh-Taylor experiment.

• Seropian, G., Higginbotham, K, Kennedy, B.M., Schaefer, L.N., Walter, T.R., & Soldati, A. (2023) The effect of mechanical shaking on the rising velocity of bubbles in high-viscosity shear-thinning fluids, Journal of Geophysical Research, 128, e2022JB025741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025741
• Patton, N.R., Shulmeister, J., Ellerton, D., & Seropian, G. (2022) Measuring landscape evolution from inception to maturity: insights from a coastal dune system, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584, 117448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117448
• Seropian, G., Kennedy, B.M., Kendrick, J.E., Lavallée, Y., Nichols, A.R.L., von Aulock, F.W., Dingwell, D.B., Hess, K.U., Lamur, A., Schauroth, J., Vasseur, J., & Wadsworth, F.B. (2022) Vesiculation of rhyolitic melts under oscillatory pressure, Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 812311. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.812311
• Seropian, G., Schipper, C.I., Smithies, S.L., Harmon, L.J., Kennedy, B.M., Castro, J.M., Alloway, B.V., & Forte, P. (2021) A century of ongoing silicic volcanism at Cordón Caulle, Chile: New constraints on the magmatic system involved in the 1921–1922, 1960 and 2011–2012 eruptions, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 420, 107406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107406
• Seropian, G., Kennedy, B.M., Walter, T.R., Ichihara, M., & Jolly, A.D. (2021) A review framework of how earthquakes trigger volcanic eruptions, Nature Communications, 12, 1004. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21166-8
• Schipper, C.I., Castro, J.M., Kennedy, B.M., Tuffen, H., Whattam, J., Wadsworth, F.B., Paisley, R., Fitzgerald, R., Rhodes, E., Schaefer, L., Ashwell, P., Forte, P., Seropian, G., & Alloway, B. (2021) Silicic conduits as supersized tuffisites: Clastogenic influences on shifting eruption styles at Cordón Caulle volcano (Chile), Bulletin of Volcanology, 83(11). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-020-01432-1
• Schipper, C.I., Castro, J., Kennedy, B.M., Christenson, B., Aiuppa, A., Alloway, B.V., Forte, P.B.,​ Seropian, G.​, & Tuffen, H. (2019) Halogen (Cl, F) release during explosive, effusive, and intrusive phases of the 2011 rhyolitic eruption at Cordón Caulle volcano (Chile), Volcanica, 2(1), 73-90. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.02.01.7390
• Wadsworth, F., et al. (2018) Trashcano: Developing a quantitative teaching tool to understand ballistics accelerated by explosive volcanic eruptions, Volcanica, 1(2), 107-126. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.01.02.107126
• Seropian, G., Rust, A.C., Sparks, R.S.J. (2018) The gravitational stability of lenses in magma mushes: Confined Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123, 3593–3607. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015523
• Seropian, G., Stix, J. (2018) Monitoring and forecasting fault development at actively forming calderas: An experimental study, Geology, 46(1), 23-26. https: //doi.org/10.1130/G39551.1