Personal Birthday: 7. July 1961 Born in: Holmfirth Nationality: english Family Status: married, 3 children   Work Address Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften IFM-GEOMAR Gebäude Ostufer, Wischhofstrasse 1-3 24148 Kiel Tel.: 0431-600-2256, Fax: 0431-600-2924 cdevey (a) ifm-geomar.de

• since 05.04 C4 Professor for "Dynamics of the Ocean Floor" at IFM-GEOMAR.
• 10.98 - 04.04 Professor for "Petrology of the Ocean Crust", Fachbereich 5, Universität Bremen.
• 08.94 - 09.98 Assistant Professor at the Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut, Universität Kiel.
• 01.93 - 07.94 Senior researcher at the Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut, Universität Kiel.
• 04.88 - 12.92 Researcher at the Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut, Universität Kiel.
• 04.86 - 03.88 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.
• 10.82 - 03.86 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)
• 10.79 - 06.82 Bachelors degree in geology at the University of London/Imperial College. Spezialisation: "Petrology/Structural Geology". BSc Hons. 2.1.

• 1986 - 1988 Royal Society European Postdoctoral Research Fellow

International

• 2004-2006 Chair of InterRidge
• 2001-2004 Member of (I)ODP Science Steering and Evaluation Panel
• since 2005 German representative at Scientific Committee for Ocean Research (SCOR)

 

National

• since 2001 Member of German "Senatskommission für Ozeanographie", lead of working group on "Freedom of research on the high seas"

• Magma genesis beneath mid-ocean ridges
• Thermal budget of spreading systems
• The alteration of the ocean crust
• Intraplate volcanism
• Ridge-hotspot interaction

• Devey, C.W., German, C.R., Haase, K.M., Lackschewitz, K.S., Melchert, B., Connelly, D.P. (2009). The relationships between volcanism, tectonism and hydrothermal activity on the southern equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In press for " Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow-spreading Ocean Ridges" Ed. Rona et al., AGU Monograph.
• Haase, K.M., Koschinsky, A., Petersen, S., Devey, C.W., German, C., Lackschewitz, K.S., Melchert, B., Seifert, R., Stecher, J., Giere, O., Paulick, H., and the M64/1, M68/1 and M78/2 Scientific Parties (2009). Diking, young volcanism and diffuse hydrothermal activity on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: the Lilliput field at 9°33’S. Marine Geology 266: 52-64.
• Melchert, B., Devey, C.W., German, C.R., Lackschewitz, K.S., Seifert, R., Walter, M., Mertens, C., Yoerger, D.R., Baker, E.T., Paulick, H., Nakamura, K. (2008). First evidence for high-temperature off-axis venting of deep crustal/mantle heat: The Nibelungen hydrothermal field, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Earth. Planet. Sci. Letts. 275, 61-69.
• Augustin, N., Lackschewitz, K. and Devey, C.W. (2008). Mineralogical and chemical mass changes in mafic and ultramafic rocks from the Logatchev hydrothermal field (MAR 15°N). Marine Geology, 256 (1/4), 18-29. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.09.004
• Almeev, R, Holtz, F., Koepke, J., Haase, K.M., and Devey, C.W. (2008). Depths of Partial Crystallization of H2O-bearing MORB: Phase Equilibria Simulations of Basalts at the MAR near Ascension Island (7-11°S). J. Petrol., 49, 25-45. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egm068
• K.M. Haase, S. Petersen, A. Koschinsky, R. Seifert, C. W. Devey, R. Keir, K. S. Lackschewitz, B. Melchert, M. Perner, O. Schmale, J. Süling, N. Dubilier, F. Zielinski, S. Fretzdorff, C.-D. Garbe-Schönberg, U. Westernströer, C. R. German, T. M. Shank, D. Yoerger, O. Giere, J. Kuever, H. Marbler, J. Mawick, C. Mertens, U. Stöber, M. Walter, C. Ostertag-Henning, H. Paulick, M. Peters, H. Strauss, S. Sander, J. Stecher, M. Warmuth and S. Weber (2007). Young volcanism and related hydrothermal activity at 5°S on the slow-spreading southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 8, 11, doi:10.1029/2006GC001509.
• Devey, C.W., Lackschewitz, K.S. and E. Baker (2005). Hydrothermal and volcanic activity found on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Eos, 86(22), 209-212.
• Schramm, B., Devey, C.W., Gillis, K.M., and Lackschewitz, K. (2005) Low temperature alteration of basalts during the last 9 Ma at 14°15’S at the southern East Pacific Rise: Chemical Geology (doi: 10.1016/j. chemgeo.2005.01.011).
• Devey, C.W., Haase, K.M. (2004) The sources for hotspot volcanism in the South Pacific . In: Hekinian, R., Stoffers, P., Cheminee, J.-L., Oceanic Hotspots. Springer-Verlag Berlin, 253-280.
• Lackschewitz, K. S., Devey, C. W., Stoffers, P., Botz, R., Eisenhauer, A., Kummetz, M., Schmidt, M., and  Singer, A. (2004) Mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic characteristics of hydrothermal alteration processes in the active, submarine, felsic-hosted PACMANUS field, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 68, p. 4405-4427.
• Devey, C.W., Lackschewitz, K.S., Mertz, D.F., Bourdon, B., Cheminee, J.-L., Dubois, J., Guivel, C., Hekinian, R. and Stoffers, P. (2003): Giving birth to hotspot volcanoes: Distribution and composition of young seamounts from the seafloor near Tahiti and Pitcairn. Geology 31(5), 395-398.
• Devey, C.W., J.C. Alt, W. Bach, J. Erzinger, A.T. Fisher, K.M. Gillis, M. Kinoshita, P. Nehlig, and H. Staudigel (2003) Group Report: What is the nature of subseafloor fluid circulation and reaction processes., in Energy and mass transfer in marine hydrothermal systems, edited by P.E. Halbach, V. Tunnicliffe, and  J.R. Hein, Dahlem University Press, Berlin.
• Hekinian, R., Cheminée, J.L., Dubois, J., Stoffers, P., Scott, S., Guivel, C., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Devey, C.W., Bourdon, B., and Lackschewitz, K. (2003) The Pitcairn hotspot in the South Pacific: distribution and composition of submarine volcanic sequences: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 121, 219-245.
• Lackschewitz, K., Mertz, D.F., Devey, C.W., and Garbe-Schönberg, C.D. (2003) Late Cenozoic volcanism in the western Woodlark Basin area, SW Pacific: the sources of marine volcanic ash layers based on their elemental and Sr-Nd isotope compositions: Bulletin of Volcanology, 65, 182-200.
• Grevemeyer, I., Schramm, B., Devey, C.W., Jochum, B., Wilson, D.S., Hauschild, J., Aric, K., Villinger, H., and Weigel, W. (2002) A multibeam-sonar, magnetic and geochemical flow-line survey at 14°14’s on the southern East Pacific Rise - insights into the fourth dimension of ridge crest segmentation: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 199, p. 359-372.
• Eisele, J., Sharma, M.,. Galer, S.J.G, Blichert-Toft, J., Devey, C.W. and A.W. Hofmann (2002) The role of sediment recycling in EM-1 inferred from Os, Pb, Hf, Nd, Sr isotope and trace element systematics of the Pitcairn hotspot, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 196, 3-4, p. 197-212.
• Devey, C.W. and Klügel, A. (2001) Fenster in die Tiefe der Erde. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Dossier: Die unruhige Erde, Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg, 74-76.
• Sirocko, F., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Devey, C.W. (2000) Processes controlling trace element geochemistry of Arabian Sea sediments during the last 25,000 years. Global and Planetary Change 26, 217-303.
• Devey, C.W., Hemond, C. and Stoffers, P. (2000) Metasomatic reactions between carbonated plume melts and mantle harzburgite: The evidence from Friday and Domingo Seamounts (Juan Fernandez chain, SE Pacific). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 139: 68-84.

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