Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

Resume_Johan_Gilchrist_Spring_2024.pdf

Peer-reviewed publications

Rowell, C. R., Jellinek, A. M., & Gilchrist, J. T. (2023). Tracking Eruption Column Thermal Evolution and Source Unsteadiness in Ground‐Based Thermal Imagery Using Spectral‐Clustering. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24(11), e2022GC010845. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010845

Gilchrist, J. T., Jellinek, A. M., Hooft, E. E. E., and Wanket, S. (2023). Submarine terraced deposits linked to periodic collapse of caldera-forming eruption columns. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01160-z

Poppe, S., Gilchrist, J. T., Breard, E. C. P., Graettinger, A., Pansino S. (2022). Analog experiments in volcanology: towards multimethod, upscaled and integrated models. Bulletin of Volcanology, 84(5), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-022-01543-x

Gilchrist, J. T., & Jellinek, A. M. (2021). Sediment waves and the gravitational stability of volcanic jets. Bulletin of Volcanology, 83(10), 1-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01472-1

Freret-Lorgeril, V., Gilchrist, J., Donnadieu, F., Jellinek, A. M., Delanoë, J., Latchimy, T., ... & Valade, S. (2020). Ash sedimentation by fingering and sediment thermals from wind-affected volcanic plumes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 534, 116072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116072

Jessop, D. E., Gilchrist, J., Jellinek, A. M., & Roche, O. (2016). Are eruptions from linear fissures and caldera ring dykes more likely to produce pyroclastic flows?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 454, 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.005

Conference Presentations


Gilchrist, J. T., Jellinek, A. M., Hooft, E. E. E., & Wanket, S. (2022). Submarine terraced deposits linked to periodic column collapse during explosive caldera-forming eruptions. IAVCEI 2023, international conference.



Gilchrist, J., Mergny, C., Rowell, C. R. R., Donnadieu, F., Jellinek, M., Peyrin, F., ... & Delanoë, J. (2020). Characterization of source unsteadiness and entrainment into explosive eruptions using laboratory-and field-based methods. AGU Fall Meeting, international conference. 

 

Gilchrist, J. T.*, Jellinek, M., & Hooft, E. E. E. (2020). Modeling the formation of axisymmetric terraces in submarine explosive eruption deposits with analog experiments. AGU Fall Meeting, international conference. 

 

Gilchrist, J. T.*, Jellinek, A. M. (2019) Sediment Waves in analog experiments simulating

explosive eruption columns, AGU 2019 Fall Meeting, international conference.

Oral Presentation.

 

Gilchrist, J. T.*, Jellinek, A. M. (2017) Sediment waves in analog experiments simulating

explosive eruption columns, Convective and Volcanic Clouds training school, international workshop. Poster. 

 

Gilchrist, J. T.*, Jellinek, A. M. (2017) Sediment waves in analog experiments simulating

explosive eruption columns, IAVCEI 2017 Scientific Assembly, international conference.

Poster. 

Ph.D. Thesis

Gilchrist, J. (2021). Sediment waves and the gravitational stability of explosive eruption columns and ash clouds: towards a new classification of explosive eruptions (Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia). http://hdl.handle.net/2429/79805

Awards

Most Cited Early Career Researcher (2021). For the paper Sediment waves and the gravitational stability of volcanic jets published in Bulletin of Volcanology (IAVCEI).

Governor General's Gold Medal Nomination (2021).

Brock Lecture Award for most outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in the Dept. of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, UBC.

W. H. Matthews Graduate Award (2017). Dept. of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences award supporting research on volcano-ice interactions. 

Education


2008  - 2014

B.Sc. Geophysics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

APEGBC Undergraduate Achievement Award in Geophysics


2015  - 2021 (Transferred to Ph.D. from M.Sc. in 2017)

Ph.D. Geophysics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

W. H. Matthews Graduate Award (2017)

EOAS Brock Lecture Award for best Ph.D. thesis in the department (2021)

Nominated for Governor General's Gold medal (Canada, 2022)

Work experience


Apr  2024 - Present

Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Oregon

NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellow



Aug  2022 - Mar 2024

Newcrest Mining Ltd.

Glaciologist



Jun  -  Sep,  2014   &   Jun  -  Aug,  2019 

ERM Canada

Geophysical Consultant


2014  -  2016 

Dept. EOAS, University of British Columbia

Writer for Earth Matters magazine

2010  -  2015

Dept. EOAS, University of British Columbia

Undergraduate Research Assistant