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48
Citations
7672
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3847
National Ranking
30

Overview

Ben Kennedy is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics. Their research output spans over 107 publications in this field, addressing various topics related to geological processes and natural hazards.

Their primary subfields of study include Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Geography, Planning and Development, as well as Mechanics of Materials. The main topics that Kennedy investigates encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, seismology and earthquake studies, geography education and pedagogy, and landslides and related hazards.

Kennedy has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable co-authors include Lauren N. Schaefer, Alexander R.L. Nichols, Mathieu Sellier, Arthur D. Jolly, and Marlène Villeneuve.

The venues where Kennedy publishes most often reflect their focus on volcanology and geosciences. These include the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volcanica, Bulletin of Volcanology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.

Among Kennedy's recent papers are:

  • A review framework of how earthquakes trigger volcanic eruptions (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Pressure Controlled Permeability in a Conduit Filled with Fractured Hydrothermal Breccia Reconstructed from Ballistics from Whakaari (White Island), New Zealand (2020), published in Geosciences
  • The thermal properties of porous andesite (2020), published in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Whakaari/White Island: a review of New Zealand's most active volcano (2021), published in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • Ruapehu and Tongariro stratovolcanoes: a review of current understanding (2021), published in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Best Publications

  • Forest-killing diffuse CO2 emission at Mammoth Mountain as a sign of magmatic unrest

    C.D. Farrar;M.L. Sorey;William C. Evans;J.F. Howle

  • Mantle fluids in the San Andreas fault system, California

    B.M. Kennedy;Y.K. Kharaka;Y.K. Kharaka;William C. Evans;William C. Evans;A. Ellwood;A. Ellwood

  • The fragmentation threshold of pyroclastic rocks

    Oliver Spieler;Ben Kennedy;Ulrich Kueppers;Donald B. Dingwell

  • Carbon dioxide and helium emissions from a reservoir of magmatic gas beneath Mammoth Mountain, California

    M.L. Sorey;William C. Evans;B.M. Kennedy;C.D. Farrar

  • Mechanical and physical properties of hydrothermally altered rocks, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    L.D. Wyering;M.C. Villeneuve;I.C. Wallis;P.A. Siratovich

  • Exploring the scale-dependent permeability of fractured andesite

    Michael J. Heap;Ben M. Kennedy

  • Tracer applications of noble gas radionuclides in the geosciences

    Z.-T. Lu;Z.-T. Lu;P. Schlosser;W.M. Smethie;N.C. Sturchio

  • A multidisciplinary approach to quantify the permeability of the Whakaari/White Island volcanic hydrothermal system (Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand)

    Michael J. Heap;Ben M. Kennedy;Jamie I. Farquharson;James Ashworth

  • Saturated heating and quenching of three crustal rocks and implications for thermal stimulation of permeability in geothermal reservoirs

    Paul A. Siratovich;Marlène C. Villeneuve;James W. Cole;Ben M. Kennedy

  • Mechanical behaviour and failure modes in the Whakaari (White Island volcano) hydrothermal system, New Zealand

    Michael J. Heap;Ben M. Kennedy;Noémie Pernin;Laura Jacquemard

  • Conduit implosion during Vulcanian eruptions

    B. Kennedy;O. Spieler;B. Scheu;U. Kueppers

  • Helium isotope and gas discharge variations associated with crustal unrest in Long Valley Caldera, California, 1989–1992

    M. L. Sorey;B. M. Kennedy;W. C. Evans;C. D. Farrar

  • High CO2 emissions through porous media: transport mechanisms and implications for flux measurement and fractionation

    William C. Evans;M.L. Sorey;B.M. Kennedy;David A. Stonestrom

  • Controls on caldera structure: Results from analogue sandbox modeling

    Ben Kennedy;John Stix;James W. Vallance;Yan Lavallée

  • Air-Xe enrichments in Elk Hills oil field gases: role of water in migration and storage

    T. Torgersen;B.M. Kennedy

  • Caldera-forming processes and the origin of submarine volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits

    John Stix;Ben Kennedy;Mark Hannington;Harold Gibson

  • Tracing and quantifying magmatic carbon discharge in cold groundwaters: lessons learned from Mammoth Mountain, USA

    William C Evans;Michael L Sorey;Andrea C Cook;B.Mack Kennedy

  • Caldera resurgence during magma replenishment and rejuvenation at Valles and Lake City calderas

    Ben Kennedy;Jack Wilcock;John Stix

  • A review framework of how earthquakes trigger volcanic eruptions

    Gilles Seropian;Ben M. Kennedy;Thomas R. Walter;Mie Ichihara

  • Extraction, Storage and Eruption of Multiple Isolated Magma Batches in the Paired Mamaku and Ohakuri Eruption, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    F. Bégué;C. D. Deering;D. M. Gravley;B. M. Kennedy

  • Magma plumbing beneath collapse caldera volcanic systems

    B.M. Kennedy;E.P. Holohan;J. Stix;D.M. Gravley

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Lavallée
Yan Lavallée Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael J. Heap
Michael J. Heap University of Strasbourg
Fabian B. Wadsworth
Fabian B. Wadsworth Durham University
Donald B. Dingwell
Donald B. Dingwell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bettina Scheu
Bettina Scheu Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jim Cole
Jim Cole University of Canterbury
William C. Evans
William C. Evans United States Geological Survey
John Stix
John Stix McGill University
Hugh Tuffen
Hugh Tuffen Lancaster University
Shane J. Cronin
Shane J. Cronin University of Auckland

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