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Overview

Colin W. Devey is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily addresses Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Geophysics, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Several recent papers feature their contributions. Notable publications include:

  • "13 million years of seafloor spreading throughout the Red Sea Basin," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Extensional tectonics and two-stage crustal accretion at oceanic transform faults," 2021, Nature
  • "Discovery of widely available abyssal rock patches reveals overlooked habitat type and prompts rethinking deep-sea biodiversity," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status," 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Hydrothermal Activity and Seismicity at Teahitia Seamount: Reactivation of the Society Islands Hotspot?," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent co-authors of Devey include Nico Augustin, Lars Rüpke, Arne Biastoch, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, and Dominik Pałgan. These collaborations have contributed to their research output significantly.

Their work appears often in several publication venues, such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • The role of sediment recycling in EM-1 inferred from Os, Pb, Hf, Nd, Sr isotope and trace element systematics of the Pitcairn hotspot

    Jürgen Eisele;Mukul Sharma;Mukul Sharma;Stephen J.G. Galer;Janne Blichert-Toft

  • Seafloor Mapping – the challenge of a truly global ocean bathymetry

    Anne-Cathrin Wölfl;Helen Snaith;Sam Amirebrahimi;Colin W. Devey

  • Source and Differentiation of Deccan Trap Lavas: Implications of Geochemical and Mineral Chemical Variations

    P.C. Lightfoot;C.J. Hawkesworth;Colin W. Devey;N.W. Rogers

  • Petrogenesis of the Back-arc East Scotia Ridge, South Atlantic Ocean

    S. Fretzdorff;R. A. Livermore;Colin W. Devey;P. T. Leat

  • Volcanological and tectonic control of stratigraphy and structure in the western Deccan traps

    Colin W. Devey;P. C. Lightfoot

  • Processes controlling trace element geochemistry of Arabian Sea sediments during the last 25,000 years

    Frank Sirocko;Dieter Garbe-Schönberg;Colin Devey

  • Geochemistry of the Pitcairn seamounts, I: source character and temporal trends

    Jon D. Woodhead;Colin W. Devey

  • Seawater cycled throughout Earth’s mantle in partially serpentinized lithosphere

    M. A. Kendrick;C. Hémond;V. S. Kamenetsky;L. Danyushevsky

  • Source compositions and melting processes in the Society and Austral plumes (South Pacific Ocean): Element and isotope (Sr, Nd, Pb, Th) geochemistry

    Christophe Hémond;Colin W. Devey;Catherine Chauvel;Catherine Chauvel

  • Relationships between crustal contamination and crystallisation in continental flood basalt magmas with special reference to the Deccan Traps of the Western Ghats, India

    Colin W. Devey;K.G. Cox

  • Young volcanism and related hydrothermal activity at 5°S on the slow‐spreading southern Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

    K. M. Haase;K. M. Haase;S. Petersen;A. Koschinsky;R. Seifert

  • Sr-Nd-Pb isotope evidence against plume-asthenosphere mixing north of Iceland

    Dieter F. Mertz;Colin W. Devey;Wolfgang Todt;Peter Stoffers

  • First evidence for high-temperature off-axis venting of deep crustal/mantle heat: The Nibelungen hydrothermal field, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    B. Melchert;Colin W. Devey;C. R. German;Klas Lackschewitz

  • Active submarine volcanism on the society hotspot swell (west Pacific): A geochemical study

    Colin W. Devey;F. Albarède;J.-L. Cheminee;A. Michard

  • Sulfur and lead isotopic evidence of relic Archean sediments in the Pitcairn mantle plume

    Hélène Delavault;Catherine Chauvel;Emilie Thomassot;Colin W. Devey

  • 13 million years of seafloor spreading throughout the Red Sea Basin.

    Nico Augustin;Froukje M. van der Zwan;Colin W. Devey;Bryndís Brandsdóttir

  • The rifting to spreading transition in the Red Sea

    Nico Augustin;Colin W. Devey;Froukje M. van der Zwan;Peter Feldens

  • Geochemical effects of dynamic melting beneath ridges: Reconciling major and trace element variations in Kolbeinsey (and global) mid‐ocean ridge basalt

    C. W. Devey;C.-D. Garbe-Schönberg;P. Stoffers;C. Chauvel

  • Hybrid shallow on-axis and deep off-axis hydrothermal circulation at fast-spreading ridges

    Jörg Hasenclever;Sonja Theissen-Krah;Lars H. Rüpke;Jason P. Morgan

  • Diversity of hydrothermal systems on slow spreading ocean ridges

    Peter A. Rona;Colin W. Devey;Jérôme Dyment;Bramley J. Murton

  • Tholeiitic dykes in the Seychelles and the original spatial extent of the Deccan

    Colin W. Devey;W.E. Stephens

  • Seawater cycled throughout Earth's mantle in partially serpentinised lithosphere

    Mark Kendrick;Christophe Hemond;Vadim S Kamenetsky;Leonid Danyushevsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Karsten M. Haase
Karsten M. Haase University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Sven Petersen
Sven Petersen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Peter Stoffers
Peter Stoffers Kiel University
Mark D. Hannington
Mark D. Hannington University of Ottawa
Mark Schmidt
Mark Schmidt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Folkmar Hauff
Folkmar Hauff GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Jan H. Behrmann
Jan H. Behrmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Christopher R. German
Christopher R. German Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Frank Sirocko
Frank Sirocko Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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