Christy B. Till

About Me

I am a geologist and Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University who leads a multidisciplinary research program that studies the role of magma in the formation and evolution of planets, known as the EPIC lab.

I also have deep interests in improving science communication, and broadening the participation of underrepresented communities in the sciences. To this aim I work on projects with a variety of communities at Arizona State University, including at the intersection of the arts and science, and currently serve as a the Volcanology, Geochemistry & Petrology Secretary for the American Geophysical Union, the largest professional organization of Earth and space scientists.

Recent & Upcoming Events

June 2019: CIDER 2019 Volcanoes Lecturer (link to my lecture)
April 2019: Univ. of Wisconsin Weeks Colloquium Speaker
April 2019: Shamloo & Till paper on the lead up to the Yellowstone's Lava Creek Tuff eruption published
March 2019: Brugman & Till preprint on a new clinopyroxene-liquid geothermometer for silicic magmas available
March 2019: Till et al, Nature Communications (Open Access) paper on causes of diversity in intra-arc volcanic behavior published
Feb. 2019; Iacovino and Till paper on a new code for calculating magma density published in Volcanica.
Feb. 2019: Edwards et al. paper on heterogeneous Sr isotope compositions in plagioclase published in EPSL.
Jan, 2019: Field work in Colombia and Invited Talk at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, EGEO
Dec. 2018: Awarded Geological Society of America's 2019 Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology & Volcanology Early Career Award
Dec. 2018: Invited Talk, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
November 2018: ASU KEDTalk Released (ASU's in-house version of a TED talk about my research & path to science)
October 2018: Elected Secretary for American Geophysical Union's Volcanology, Geochemistry & Petrology section
October 2018: Colloquium Speaker, Univ. Nevada, Reno
September 2018: Colloquium Speaker, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
May 8, 2018: Colloquium Speaker, Stanford University
Jan 22-26, 2018: Colloquium Speaker, Oregon State University
Jan 6-17, 2018: Keynote talk at the Chapman Conference on Large Silicic Igneous Systems & field excursion to Laguna del Maule Chile
Dec. 9-15, 2017: EPIC lab members and I gave a range of presentations at the AGU Fall Meeting, as well as a keynote talk at the CIDER pre-AGU workshop
October 2017: Our work on Yellowstone is featured in the New York Times and range of other media outlets (e.g., Time, USA Today, AZ PBS, Snopes)
late July, 2017: Field work at Mt. Shasta & Medicine Lake volcanoes, CA
Co-organizer for CIDER 2017: Subduction Zones June 26 -July 21, 2017, UC Berkeley
June 15, 2017: Our paper "Rapid cooling and cold storage in a silicic magma reservoir recorded in individual crystals" published featuring our work on Li in zircon diffusion chronometry using the ASU NanoSIMS published in the journal Science. ASU Press Release available here.
May 22-26, 2017: ENKI Workshop Participant, San Juan Island, WA
May 12-14, 2017: Performed in Beneath, a theater production about the science of the inside of the Earth
May 1, 2017: Invited Centennial American Mineralogist paper "A Review & Update of Mantle Thermobarometry for Primitive Arc Magmas" published
May 1, 2017: Colloquium Speaker, Univ. Wyoming
April 4, 2017: Colloquium Speaker, US Geological Survey, Denver
Dec. 12-16, 2016: Look for me & EPIC lab members at the AGU Fall Meeting
Dec. 2, 2016: American Mineralogist paper "A Review & Update of Mantle Thermobarometry for Primitive Arc Magmas" accepted and available online here
Nov. 2016: NSF CAREER grant funded!
Nov 17, 2016: ASU Proposal Insights Series talk, "Tips on Getting NSF Funding"
Nov. 10, 2016: Colloquium Speaker, University of Washington
Nov 9, 2016: Colloquium Speaker, University of Oregon
Nov. 2, 2016: Nature Commentary on interdiscplinary collaboration in science published
Oct 14-16, 2016: NAS Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Irvine CA
Sept 29-Oct 1, 2016: Subduction Zone Observatory Planning Mtg, Boise ID
August 2016: It's back to school! Check out details of summer adventures on the lab webpage (epic.asu.edu)
June 2016: Invited Talk, "Review of Mantle Thermobarometry" @ Goldschmidt Conference, Japan
June 2016: Field work in Japan
April 11, 2016: Alan Alda School for Science Communication Training Workshop
February 17-19, 2016: Co-organizer NSF/NASA Workshop Without Walls: "Upstairs Downstairs: Consequences of Internal Planet Evolution for the Habitability and Detectability of Life on Extrasolar Planets”, Arizona State University

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