Dr William Hutchison
Principal Research Fellow
Research Fellow
Research areas
I am a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (University of St Andrews).
My research is focused on active and ancient magmatic systems. I am passionate about integrating geophysical, geochemical and geological data sets to understand the fundamental processes that drive magmatic systems, and how we can safely and sustainably develop the resources they offer.
Current reserach topics include rift volcanism, volcano monitoring, geothermal exploration and mineral resources.
My UKRI fellowship will establish new ice core geochemical techniques to understand the frequency and impacts of volcanism on Earth. I hope to foster new interdisciplinary collaborations between volcanologists, historians and paleoclimatologists to better understand the environmental and societal upheaval caused by large magnitude volcanic events.
I am always interested in recruiting postgraduate students to work on volcanism and magmatic processes. For more information just email me or take a look at our School website for current positions.
Personal webpage: https://willhutchgeo.wordpress.com/
PhD supervision
- Helen Innes
- Florian Brouillet
- Emily Madoff
- Celeste Smith
- Curtis Rooks
- Fawn Holland
- Abate Melaku
Selected publications
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Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period
Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Abbott, P. M., Behrens, M., Burke, A., Chellman, N., Cook, E., Fleitmann, D., Hörhold, M., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Óladóttir, B. A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sliwinski, J. T., Sugden, P., Twarloh, B. & Sigl, M., 10 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 194.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mid-to Late Holocene East Antarctic ice-core tephrochronology: implications for reconstructing volcanic eruptions and assessing their climatic impacts over the last 5,500 years
Abbott, P. M., McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N. J., Kipfstuhl, S., Hörhold, M., Freitag, J., Cook, E., Hutchison, W. & Sigl, M., 1 Apr 2024, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 329, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Alkaline-silicate REE-HFSE systems
Beard, C. D., Goodenough, K. M., Borst, A. M., Wall, F., Siegfried, P. R., Deady, E. A., Pohl, C., Hutchison, W., Finch, A. A., Walter, B. F., Elliott, H. A. L. & Brauch, K., 1 Feb 2023, In: Economic Geology. 118, 1, p. 177-208 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gas emissions and subsurface architecture of fault-controlled geothermal systems: a case study of the North Abaya geothermal area
Hutchison, W., Ogilvie, E., Birhane, Y. G., Barry, P., Fischer, T. P., Ballentine, C. J., Hillegonds, D. J., Biggs, J., Albino, F., Cervantes, C. & Gübrandsson, S., 1 Apr 2023, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 24, 4, 26 p., e2022GC010822.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High sensitivity of summer temperatures to stratospheric sulfur loading from volcanoes in the Northern Hemisphere
Burke, A., Crick, L., Anchukaitis, K. J., Innes, H., Byrne, M. P., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Moore, K. A., Rae, J. W. B., Sigl, M. & Wilson, R., 21 Nov 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 47, 8 p., e2221810120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa
Vidal, C. M., Lane, C. S., Asrat, A., Barfod, D. N., Mark, D. F., Tomlinson, E. L., Tadesse, A. Z., Yirgu, G., Deino, A., Hutchison, W., Mounier, A. & Oppenheimer, C., 27 Jan 2022, In: Nature. 601, p. 579-585 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Geochronology and glass geochemistry of major pleistocene eruptions in the Main Ethiopian Rift: towards a regional tephrostratigraphy
Vidal, C. M., Fontijn, K., Lane, C. S., Asrat, A., Barfod, D., Tomlinson, E. L., Piermattei, A., Hutchison, W., Tadesse, A. Z., Yirgu, G., Deino, A., Moussallam, Y., Mohr, P., Williams, F., Mather, T. A., Pyle, D. M. & Oppenheimer, C., 15 Aug 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 290, 17 p., 107601.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quantifying metasomatic high-field-strength and rare-earth element transport from alkaline magmas
Sokół, K., Finch, A. A., Hutchison, W., Cloutier, J., Borst, A. M. & Humphreys, M. C. S., 1 Mar 2022, In: Geology. 50, 3, p. 305-310 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mantle sources and magma evolution in Europe's largest rare earth element belt (Gardar Province, SW Greenland): new insights from sulfur isotopes
Hutchison, W., Finch, A. A., Borst, A. M., Marks, M. A. W., Upton, B. G. J., Zerkle, A. L., Stüeken, E. E. & Boyce, A. J., 15 Aug 2021, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 568, 16 p., 117034.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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New insights into the ~74 ka Toba eruption from sulfur isotopes of polar ice cores
Crick, L., Burke, A., Hutchison, W., Kohno, M., Moore, K. A., Savarino, J., Doyle, E. A., Mahony, S., Kipfstuhl, S., Rae, J. W. B., Steele, R. C. J., Sparks, R. S. J. & Wolff, E. W., 18 Oct 2021, In: Climate of the Past. 17, 5, p. 2119–2137Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review