Staff
Prof. Dr. Colin Devey
Forschungsbereich 4: Dynamik des Ozeanbodens
FE Magmatische und hydrothermale Systeme
Program Speaker GEOMAR
Office:
Room: 8/D-203
Phone: +49 431 600-2257
Fax: +49 431 600-2924
Email: cdevey(at)geomar.de
Address:
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Education and career
- since 05.2004 Professor for "Dynamics of the Ocean Floor" at GEOMAR
- 10.1998 - 04.2004 Professor for "Petrology of the Ocean Crust", Fachbereich 5, Universität Bremen
- 08.1994 - 09.1998 Assistant Professor at the Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut, Universität Kiel
- 01.1993 - 07.1994 Senior researcher at the Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut, Universität Kiel
- 04.1988 - 12.1992 Researcher at the Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut, Universität Kiel
- 04.1986 - 03.1988 Royal Society European Exchange Fellow at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Nancy, France, Studies with Prof. F. Albarède on recent submarine volcanism in the Society Islands
- 10.1982 - 03.1986 Doctoral thesis (D. Phil.) at the University of Oxford with the title: "Stratigraphy and geochemistry of the Deccan Trap lava series, Western Ghats, India", Supervisor: Dr. K.G. Cox. Reporters: Dr. J.D. Bell (Oxford), Dr. R.S.J. Sparks (Cambridge)
- 10.1979 - 06.1982 Bachelors degree in geology at the University of London/Imperial College, Spezialisation: "Petrology/Structural Geology". BSc Hons. 2.1
Awards
1986 - 1988 Royal Society European Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2022 "Stein im Brett" prize from the German professional geologists association BDG
Committees and reviews
International
- Reviewer for Nature, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., Marine Geology etc.
- 2005-2015 German representative in the Scientific Committee for Ocean Research
- 2004-2006 Chair of InterRidge
- 2001-2004 Member of (I)ODP Science Steering and Evaluation Panel
National
- since 2024 Speaker of the program board "Changing Earth - sustaining our future" in the Helmholtz Research Field Earth and Environment
- since 2021 Member of the program board "Changing Earth - sustaining our future" in the Helmholtz Research Field Earth and Environment
- 2001-2012 Member of "Senatskommission für Ozeanographie", head of working group "Responsible marine science"
Scientific Interest
Magma genesis beneath mid-ocean ridges
Thermal budget of spreading systems
The alteration of the ocean crust
Intraplate volcanism
Ridge-hotspot interaction
Public communication of science
- "Unsere Kontinente: Asien" ZDF / Terra X first broadcast 17.09.2022, Presenter and scientific advisor (45 min.)
- "Expedition Deutschland - Das Vermächtnis der Steine. Der Süden" ZDF / Terra X first broadcast 03.10.2021, Presenter and scientific advisor (45 min.)
- "Expedition Deutschland - Das Vermächtnis der Steine. Der Norden" ZDF / Terra X first broadcast 19.09.2021, Presenter and scientific advisor (45 min.)
- "Expedition Europe 2 - the transformation of a continent" ZDF / Terra X first broadcast 13.01.2019, Presenter and scientific advisor (45 min.)
- "Expedition Europe 1 - Birth to a continent" ZDF / Terra X first broadcast 16.08.2018, Presenter and scientific advisor (45 min.)
- "Expedition Deutschland" ZDF / Terra X 2013, Presenter and scientific advisor (2x 45 min. programmes)
