Christy B. Till
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About Me

Dr. Christy Till is a geologist and Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) 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. Her research and that of the EPIC lab includes determining the timescales and  triggers for eruptions at active volcanoes in the US, including Yellowstone, growing minerals and magma in high pressure and temperature laboratory experiments, and studying likely compositions of magma and crusts on exoplanets. She received her BS & MS at UC Santa Barbara and PhD at MIT and was employed by the US Geological Survey prior to starting at ASU in 2014.

​Her work has been recognized with a variety of awards including a prestigious NSF CAREER grant and the 2019 Early Career Award from the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Volcanology & Petrology Division of the Geological Society of America. Research from the EPIC lab has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, USA Today, and Time and on programs from National Geographic, NPR, PBS, and AZ Channel 12. She also has been elected to a number of scientific leadership positions, including the Board of Directors, the Council and section leadership for the American Geophysical Union. Prior to her career as scientist, Dr. Till was employed full-time as a professional ballet dancer for five years in two world-renowned companies.

Dr. Till also has deep interests in working for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in academic science and improving science communication.  To this aim, she presently serves as the Associate Director for an Inclusive Community in SESE and works with a variety of communities at Arizona State University, including at the intersection of the arts and science, and currently serves as a the Volcanology, Geochemistry & Petrology Secretary for the American Geophysical Union, the largest professional organization of Earth and space scientists.

Notable Events

  • July 2020: Started position as Associate Director for an Inclusive Community in SESE
  • July 2020: Granted Tenure and promoted to Associate Professor
  • March 2020: Iacovino, Guild & Till paper on oxygen fugacity of subduction zone fluids published
  • December 2019: Invited Talk, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
  • November 2019: Colloquium Speaker, University of New Mexico
  • September 2019: 2019 MGVP Early Career Awardee & Invited talk, Geo. Society of America Meeting
  • September 2019: Grove & Till paper on composition of near solidus hydrous mantle melts in sub zones published at CMP.
  • August 2019: Meeting with AZ Congressmen Andrew Biggs & Gregory Stanton to discuss the impact of NSF at ASU
  • August 2019: Till et al. G-cubed paper on Yellowstone's post-caldera magmatic evolution available online
  • June 2019: CIDER 2019 Volcanoes Lecturer (link to my lecture - see Friday June 21 links to slides & video)
  • June 2019: new NSF grant to work in Colombia funded! 
  • 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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