Andrews, Benjamin | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Department / Division

Education

B.A., University of Oregon
M.S., University of Alaska
Ph.D., University of Texas Austin

Research Interests

Volcanic processes and hazards ranging from magmatic storage and recharge conditions, through eruption, to deposition; rates of mass, momentum, and energy transfer in different volcanic and geologic processes; analog modeling, optical flow velocimetry, turbulence analysis, sample grain size and component analysis, experimental petrology, electron microscopy, and crystal isotope stratigraphy.

Publications

Andrews, Benjamin J. and Befus, Kenneth S. 2020. "Supersaturation Nucleation and Growth of Plagioclase: a numerical model of decompression-induced crystallization." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 175 (3): Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-1660-9
Black, Benjamin A. and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2020. "Petrologic imaging of the architecture of magma reservoirs feeding caldera-forming eruptions." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 552: 116572– 116572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116572
Quane, Steven L. and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2020. "Breadcrust bubbles: Ash particles recording post-fragmentation brittle-ductile deformation." Geology 48 (12): 1205– 1209. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47811.1
Reath, K., Pritchard, M., Biggs, J., Andrews, Benjamin J., Ebmeier, S. K., Bagnardi, M., Girona, T., Lundgren, P., Lopez, T., and Poland, M. 2020. "Using Conceptual Models to Relate Multi-Parameter Satellite Data to Sub-Surface Volcanic Processes in Latin America." Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21 (1):https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008494
Andrews, Benjamin J. 2019. "Recognizing unsteadiness in the transport systems of dilute pyroclastic density currents." Bulletin of Volcanology 81 (5):https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-018-1266-5
Fiske, Richard S., Rose, Timothy R., Swanson, Donald A., Andrews, Benjamin J., and Nichols, Alexander R. L. 2019. "The Kulanaokuaiki-3 tephra, 900 CE: Products of a remarkably energetic pyroclastic eruption at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi, USA." GSA Bulletin 131 (9-10): 1537– 1554. https://doi.org/10.1130/B35063.1
Reath, K., Pritchard, M., Poland, M., Delgado, F., Carn, S., Coppola, D., Andrews, B., Ebmeier, S. K., Rumpf, E., Henderson, S., Baker, S., Lundgren, P., Wright, R., Biggs, J., Lopez, T., Wauthier, C., Moruzzi, S., Alcott, A., Wessels, R., Griswold, J., Ogburn, S., Loughlin, S., Meyer, F., Vaughan, G., and Bagnardi, M. 2019. "Thermal, Deformation, and Degassing Remote Sensing Time Series (CE 2000-2017) at the 47 most Active Volcanoes in Latin America: Implications for Volcanic Systems." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124 (1): 195– 218. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016199
Andrews, Benjamin J., Dufek, Josef, and Ponomareva, Vera. 2018. "Eruption dynamics and explosive-effusive transitions during the 1400 cal BP eruption of Opala volcano, Kamchatka, Russia." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 356: 316– 330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.02.019
Befus, Kenneth S. and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2018. "Crystal nucleation and growth produced by continuous decompression of Pinatubo magma." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 173 (11):https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-018-1519-5
Gardner, James E., Nazworth, Caroline, Helper, Mark A., and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2018. "Inferring the nature of pyroclastic density currents from tree damage: The 18 May 1980 blast surge of Mount St. Helens, USA." Geology 46 (9): 795– 798. https://doi.org/10.1130/G45353.1

Gardner, James E., Andrews, Benjamin J., and Dennen, Robert. 2017. "Liftoff of the 18 May 1980 surge of Mount St. Helens (USA) and the deposits left behind." Bulletin of Volcanology 79 (1): 8– 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-016-1095-3
Pistone, Mattia, Whittington, Alan G., Andrews, Benjamin, and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2017. "Crystal-rich lava dome extrusion during vesiculation: An experimental study." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 347: 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.06.018
Black, Benjamin A., Manga, Michael, and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2016. "Ash production and dispersal from sustained low-intensity Mono-Inyo eruptions." Bulletin of Volcanology 78 (8): 57– 57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-016-1053-0
Waters, Laura E. and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2016. "The role of superheating in the formation of Glass Mountain obsidians (Long Valley, CA) inferred through crystallization of sanidine." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 171 (10): 79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-016-1291-3
Zellmer, Georg F., Pistone, Mattia, Iizuka, Yoshiyuki, Andrews, Benjamin J., Gomez-Tuena, Arturo, Straub, Susanne M., and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2016. "Petrogenesis of antecryst-bearing arc basalts from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: Insights into along-arc variations in magma-mush ponding depths, H2O contents, and surface heat flux." American Mineralogist 101 (11): 2405– 2422. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2016-5701
Lavallée, Yan, Dingwell, Donald B., Johnson, Jeffrey B., Cimarelli, Corrado, Hornby, Adrian J., Kendrick, Jackie E., von Aulock, Felix W., Kennedy, Ben M., Andrews, Benjamin J., Wadsworth, Fabian B., Rhodes, Emma, and Chigna, Gustavo. 2015. "Thermal vesiculation during volcanic eruptions." Nature 528 (7583): 544– 547. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16153
McCormick, Brendan, Popp, Christoph, Andrews, Benjamin J., and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2015. "Ten years of satellite observations reveal highly variable sulphur dioxide emissions at Anatahan Volcano, Mariana Islands." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. Atmospheres 120 (14): 7258– 7282. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022856
Siebert, Lee, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Venzke, Edward A., and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2015. "Earth's Volcanoes and Their Eruptions: An Overview." in The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, edited by Sigurdsson, Haraldur., 2nd ed. 239– 255. Amsterdam: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385938-9.00012-2
Waters, Laura E., Andrews, Benjamin J., and Lange, Rebecca A. 2015. "Rapid Crystallization of Plagioclase Phenocrysts in Silicic Melts during Fluid-saturated Ascent: Phase Equilibrium and Decompression Experiments." Journal of Petrology 56 (5): 981– 1006. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egv025
Andrews, Benjamin J. 2014. "Dispersal and air entrainment in unconfined dilute pyroclastic density currents." Bulletin of Volcanology 76 (9): 852– 852. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-014-0852-4
Andrews, Benjamin J. 2014. "Magmatic storage conditions, decompression rate, and incipient caldera collapse of the 1902 eruption of Santa Maria Volcano, Guatemala." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 282: 103– 114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.06.009
Andrews, Benjamin J. and Manga, Michael. 2014. "Thermal and rheological controls on the formation of mafic enclaves or banded pumice." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 167 (1):https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-013-0961-7
Johnson, Jeffrey B., Lyons, J. J., Andrews, Benjamin J., and Lees, J. M. 2014. "Explosive dome eruptions modulated by periodic gas-driven inflation." Geophysical Research Letters 41 (19): 6689– 6697. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061310
Andrews, Benjamin J. and Manga, Michael. 2012. "Experimental study of turbulence, sedimentation, and coignimbrite mass partitioning in dilute pyroclastic density currents." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 225-226: 30– 44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.02.011
Cardenas, M. B., Lagmay, Alfredo Mahar F., Andrews, Benjamin J., Rodolfo, Raymond S., Cabria, Hillel B., Zamora, Peter B., and Lapus, Mark R. 2012. "Terrestrial smokers: Thermal springs due to hydrothermal convection of groundwater connected to surface water." Geophysical Research Letters 39:https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050475
Andrews, Benjamin J. and Manga, Michael. 2011. "Effects of topography on pyroclastic density current runout and formation of coignimbrites." Geology 39 (12): 1099– 1102. https://doi.org/10.1130/G32226.1

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