Deborah S. Kelley, Ph.D. (Dalhousie Univ.), Research Assistant Professor. kelley@ocean.washington.edu. Links between geological and microbiological processes at submarine hot springs, evolution and growth of black smokers, exchange processes and flux of volatiles from the mantle to the hydrosphere, isotopic and chemical composition of fluids in magma hydrothermal systems, and mapping and sampling of seafloor hydrothermal systems and ophiolites.
Kelley, D.S. (in press) Black smokers: Incubators on the seafloor. In Mathez, E. (ed.) Scientists on the Earth. American Museum of Natural History.
Kelley, D.S. and G. Frueh-Green (in press) The role of volatiles in crustal accretionary processes. In Basu, A. (ed.) Geological Society of America Special Memoir.
Kelley, D.S. and G. Frueh-Green (1999) Abiogenic methane in deep-seated mid-ocean ridge environments: Insights from stable isotope analyses. Journal of Geophysical Research 104: 10,439-10,460.
Kelley, D.S., M.D. Lilley, et al. (1998) Enriched H2, CH4, and 3He concentrations in hydrothermal plumes associated with the 1996 Gorda Ridge eruptive event. Deep-Sea Research II 45: 2665-2682.
Delaney, J.R., D.S. Kelley, M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, J.A. Baross, W.S.D. Wilcock, R.W. Embley and M. Summit (1998) The quantum event of oceanic crustal accretion: Impacts of diking at mid-ocean ridges. Science 281: 222–230.
Kelley, D.S. (1997) Fluid evolution in slow-spreading environments. In Karson, J.K., et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 153: 399-415.
Delaney, J.R., D.S. Kelley, M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, R.E. McDuff, J.A. Baross, J.W. Deming, H.P. Johnson and V. Robigou (1997) The Endeavour Hydrothermal System I: Cellular circulation above an active cracking front yields large sulfide structures, "fresh" vent water, and hyperthermophilic archaea. RIDGE Events 8: 11–19.
Dilek, Y., P.D. Kempton, P. Thy, S.D. Hurst, D. Whitney and D.S. Kelley (1997) Structure and petrology of hydrothermal veins in gabbroic rocks from Sites 921-924, MARK area (Leg 153): Alteration history of slow-spread lower oceanic crust. In Karson, J.K., et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 153: 155-178.