(he/him) |
University of Leeds |

Current Position | Associate Professor |
d.j.ferguson@leeds.ac.uk | |
Department(s) | School of Earth and Environment |
ECR | No |
YES.DTN Core Themes | Dynamic Earth, Natural Hazards & Earth Processes |
Profile(s) | David Ferguson (0000-0003-0612-6512) – ORCID |
Key Research Interests
- Volcanology
- Igneous petrology
- Geochemistry
Recent Key Papers
- Wong, K., Ferguson, D., Wieser, P., Morgan, D., Edmonds, M., Tadesse, A.Z., Yirgu, G., Harvey, J. and Hammond, S., 2023. Focused Mid‐Crustal Magma Intrusion During Continental Break‐Up in Ethiopia. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(11), p.e2023GL103257. DOI: 10.1029/2023gl103257
- Boschetty, F.O., Ferguson, D.J., Cortés, J.A., Morgado, E., Ebmeier, S.K., Morgan, D.J., Romero, J.E. and Silva Parejas, C., 2022. Insights into magma storage beneath a frequently erupting arc volcano (Villarrica, Chile) from unsupervised machine learning analysis of mineral compositions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(4), p.e2022GC010333. DOI: 10.1029/2022gc010333
- Pegler, S.S. and Ferguson, D.J., 2021. Rapid heat discharge during deep-sea eruptions generates megaplumes and disperses tephra. Nature Communications, 12(1), p.2292. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22439-y