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Areas of Expertise: Volcanoes

Brendan McCormick Kilbride is a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Brendan uses satellite-, field-, and lab-based methods to study volcanic gas emissions and the volatile content of magmas. Since becoming a member of COMET as a PhD student in 2009, he has been a COMET Associate and is now a COMET Scientist.

Brendan completed his PhD in ultraviolet remote sensing of global volcanic sulfur dioxide emissions at the University of Cambridge in 2012. He held postdoctoral research positions at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the University of Cambridge, before joining the University of Manchester as a Presidential Fellow in 2019. Since 2023, he has been a Lecturer in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Email: [email protected]

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1647-6447