Dr Helen Innes

Dr Helen Innes

Research Fellow in Volcanology

Email
hi7@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Research areas

My research contributes to reconstructing records of past volcanic activity, primarily by identifying volcanic ash and volcanic sulfate deposits in polar ice core records. We combine high resolution sulfur isotope analysis of deposited volcanic aerosols with tephra geochemical analysis to better understand characteristics of past volcanic events including eruptive source, plume height and stratospheric SO2 injection. Fingerprinting previously unknown eruptions in this way is essential to aid our evaluation of the climate forcing associated with explosive volcanic events, the frequency at which they occur and the hazards posed by volcanic ash plumes.

Selected publications

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    Svensson, A., Vettoretti, G., Lin, J.-M., Sinnl, G., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P., Rasmussen, S. O., Vinther, B., Hvidberg, C., Kjær, H. A., Gkinis, V., Cook, E., Lohmann, J., Melcher, J. O., Halkjær, S., Kipfstuhl, S., Wilhelms, F., Adolphi, F., Fischer, H. & Bigler, M. & 17 others, Sigl, M., Landais, A., Bouchet, M., Klüssendorf, A., Parrenin, F., Mulvaney, R., Wolff, E., Burke, A., Innes, H., Severi, M., Buizert, C., McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N., Wensman, S., Beer, J., Oyabu, I. & Muscheler, R., 1 Mar 2026, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 375, 21 p., 109755.

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    Gabriel, I., Innes, H. M., Abbott, P. M., Franke, J., Behrens, M., Chellman, N. J., Hörhold, M., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Twarloh, B. & Sigl, M., 1 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 464, 13 p., 108346.

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    Innes, H., Hutchison, W., Sigl, M., Crick, L., Abbott, P. M., Bigler, M., Chellman, N. J., Davies, S. M., Kutterolf, S., McConnell, J. R., Severi, M., Sparks, R. S. J., Svensson, A., Wolff, E. W., Rae, J. W. B. & Burke, A., 22 Feb 2025, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 6, 11 p., 137.

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    Innes, H. M., Hutchison, W. & Burke, A., 1 Aug 2024, In: Quaternary Geochronology. 83, 14 p., 101553.

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    Hutchison, W., Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Burke, A., Sugden, P. J., Innes, H., Davies, S., Moreland, W. M., Krüger, K., Wilson, R., Vinther, B. M., Dahl-Jensen, D., Freitag, J., Oppenheimer, C., Chellman, N. J., Sigl, M. & McConnell, J. R., 28 Aug 2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 129, 16, 21 p., e2023JD040142.

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    Wolff, E., Burke, A., Crick, L., Doyle, E. A., Innes, H., Mahony, S. H., Rae, J. W. B., Severi, M. & Sparks, R. S. J., 6 Jan 2023, In: Climate of the Past. 19, p. 23–33 11 p.

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    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.

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    Pearson, C., Sigl, M., Burke, A., Davies, S., Kurbatov, A., Severi, M., Cole-Dai, J., Innes, H., Albert, P. G. & Helmick, M., May 2022, In: PNAS Nexus. 1, 2, 12 p., pgac048.

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    McConnell, J. R., Sigl, M., Plunkett, G., Burke, A., Kim, W. M., Raible, C. C., Wilson, A. I., Manning, J. G., Ludlow, F., Chellman, N. J., Innes, H. M., Yang, Z., Larsen, J. F., Schaefer, J. R., Kipfstuhl, S., Mojtabavi, S., Wilhelms, F., Opel, T., Meyer, H. & Steffensen, J. P., 22 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Latest Articles, 2002722117.

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