First Author Publications

Illsley-Kemp, F. and Mestel, E. R. H., 2025. A new consistent and high-precision earthquake catalogue for the Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Seismica, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v4i1.1490

Illsley-Kemp, F., Herath, P., Chamberlain, C.J., Michailos, K. and Wilson, C.J.N., 2022. A decade of earthquake activity at Taupō Volcano, New Zealand. Volcanica, 5(2), pp.335-348, https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.02.335348.

Illsley‐Kemp, F., Barker, S.J., Wilson, C.J.N., Chamberlain, C.J., Hreinsdóttir, S., Ellis, S., Hamling, I.J., Savage, M.K., Mestel, E.R. and Wadsworth, F.B., 2021. Volcanic unrest at Taupō volcano in 2019: Causes, mechanisms and implications. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, p.e2021GC009803, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009803.

Illsley-Kemp, F., Barker, S.J., Smith, B., Wilson, C.J.N., 2020. Implications of a supervolcano’s seismicity, Eos 101,https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EO140955.

Illsley‐Kemp, F., Savage, M.K., Wilson, C.J.N., Bannister, S., 2019. Mapping Stress and Structure From Subducting Slab to Magmatic Rift: Crustal Seismic Anisotropy of the North Island, New Zealand. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2019GC008529. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008529

Illsley‐Kemp, F., Bull, J.M., Keir, D., Gerya, T.V., Pagli, C., Gernon, T., Ayele, A., Goitom, B., Hammond, J., Kendall, J.M., 2018. Initiation of a Proto‐Transform Fault Prior to Seafloor Spreading. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2018GC007947. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007947

Illsley-Kemp, F., 2018. Crustal Processes Associated with the Final Stages of Continental Rifting in Northern Afar (PhD Thesis). University of Southampton.

Illsley-Kemp, F., Keir, D., Bull, J.M., Gernon, T.M., Ebinger, C., Ayele, A., Hammond, J.O.S., Kendall, J.-M., Goitom, B., Belachew, M., 2018. Seismicity During Continental Breakup in the Red Sea Rift of Northern Afar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123, 2345–2362. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014902

Illsley-Kemp, F., Greenfield, T., Keir, D., 2018. Seismic Anisotropy Reveals a Dynamic Link Between Adjacent Magmatic Segments Prior to Dyke Intrusion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123, 9800–9816. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016420

Illsley-Kemp, F., Savage, M.K., Keir, D., Hirschberg, H.P., Bull, J.M., Gernon, T.M., Hammond, J.O.S., Kendall, J.-M., Ayele, A., Goitom, B., 2017. Extension and stress during continental breakup: Seismic anisotropy of the crust in Northern Afar. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 477, 41–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.014

Illsley‐Kemp, F., Keir, D., Bull, J.M., Ayele, A., Hammond, J.O.S., Kendall, J. ‐Michael, Gallacher, R.J., Gernon, T., Goitom, B., 2017. Local Earthquake Magnitude Scale and b ‐Value for the Danakil Region of Northern Afar. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107, 521–531. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120150253

Research Group Publications

Bramwell, L.A., Illsley-Kemp, F., Hughes, E.C., Butcher, S., Lamb, O.D. and Behr, Y., 2025. Source dynamics of Ruapehu’s 2022 volcanic unrest: insights from drumbeat seismicity, tremor, and crater lake signals. Bulletin of Volcanology, 87(6), pp.1-21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-025-01823-2

Mestel, E.R.H., Smith, B., Tapuke, K., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Kaiser, L., Connon, I., Johnston, D., Wilson, C.J., Leonard, G., Clive, M.A.T. and Savage, M.K., 2025. Mahi Tahi‐Rū Whenua: Tangata Whenua & Kairangahau Pūtaiao. Reflective Learnings on Partnering With Indigenous Māori Communities in Field‐Based Scientific Research. Community Science, 4(2), p.e2023CSJ000066, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023CSJ000066

Hansen, K., Barker, S., Illsley-Kemp, F., Anslow, C., Mueller, C. and Leonard, G., 2025. VolcanoVR: A virtual reality environment for volcanic data visualisation and communication. Volcanica, 8(1), pp.175-187, https://doi.org/10.30909/vol/vccy3095

Hughes, B., Illsley-Kemp, F., Mestel, E., Townend, J., Chandrakumar, C. and Prasanna, R., 2025. Using citizen science Raspberry Shake seismometers to enhance earthquake location and characterization: a case study from Wellington, New Zealand. Seismica, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v4i1.1430

Hindeleh, H.B., Savage, M., Illsley-Kemp, F. and Mestel, E.R.H., 2024. How a non harmonic-like tremor at a volcanic lake could be caused by sustained wind: A case of study of Taupō volcano. Volcanica, 7(2), pp.749-764, https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.07.02.749764

Mark, O.K., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Townend, J. and Barker, S.J., 2024. Evidence From Intermediate‐Depth Earthquakes of Slab‐Derived Fluids Beneath the Taupō Volcanic Zone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(5), p.e2023JB028586, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028586

Schuler, J., Hreinsdóttir, S., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Holden, C., Townend, J. and Villamor, P., 2024. The Response of Taupō Volcano to the M7. 8 Kaikōura Earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(5), p.e2023JB028585, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028585

McGregor, R.F.D., Illsley-Kemp, F. and Townend, J., 2022. The 2001 Taupō Fault Belt seismicity as evidence of magma-tectonic interaction at Taupō volcano. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, p.e2022GC010625, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010625.

Benson, T.W., Illsley-Kemp, F., Elms, H.C., Hamling, I.J., Savage, M.K., Wilson, C.J.N., Mestel, E.R. and Barker, S.J., 2021. Earthquake analysis suggests dyke intrusion in 2019 near Tarawera volcano, New Zealand. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, p.604. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.606992

Eyles, J.H.W., Illsley-Kemp, F., Keir, D., Ruch, J., Jónsson, S., 2018. Seismicity Associated With the Formation of a New Island in the Southern Red Sea. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 6, 141. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00141

Hodgson, I., Illsley-Kemp, F., Gallacher, R.J., Keir, D., Ebinger, C.J., Mtelela, K., 2017. Crustal Structure at a Young Continental Rift: A Receiver Function Study From the Tanganyika Rift. Tectonics 36, 2806–2822. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004477

Co-Authored Publications

Aber, S., Ebinger, C.J., Gase, A.C., Kalugana, C., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Hamling, I., Sabir, S., Savage, M.K., Eccles, J., Hreinsdottir, S. and Ristau, J., 2025. Cascading Earthquake Swarms in the Northern Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26(4), p.e2024GC012079, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC012079

Steinke, B., Jolly, A.D., Girona, T., Caudron, C., Bramwell, L.A., Cronin, S.J., Illsley‐Kemp, F. and Hughes, E.C., 2024. Dynamics and detection of pulsed tremor at Whakaari (white island), Aotearoa New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(20), p.e2024GL110447, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110447

Lamb, O., Bannister, S., Ristau, J., Miller, C., Sherburn, S., Jacobs, K., Hanson, J., D'Anastasio, E., Hreinsdóttir, S., Snee, E., Ross, M., Mestel, E.R.H., and Illsley-Kemp, F., 2024. Seismic characteristics of the 2022-2023 unrest episode at Taupō volcano, Aotearoa New Zealand. Seismica, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i2.1125

Bayrakci, G., Bull, J.M., Minshull, T.A., Robinson, A.H., Lavayssiere, A., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Henstock, T.J., Macdonald, C. and Chapman, M., 2024. Short‐Duration Events Associated With Active Seabed Methane Venting: Scanner Pockmark, North Sea. Noisy Oceans: Monitoring Seismic and Acoustic Signals in the Marine Environment, pp.143-159, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119750925.ch9

Otway, P.M., Illsley-Kemp, F. and Mestel, E.R., 2024. Taupō volcano’s restless nature revealed by 42 years of deformation surveys, 1979–2021. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 67(1), pp.3-19, https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2089170

Ellis, S., Barker, S.J., Wilson, C.J., Hamling, I., Hreinsdottir, S., Illsley-Kemp, F., Mestel, E.R., Muirhead, J.D., Smith, B., Leonard, G. and Savage, M.K., 2023. Taupōinflate: illustrating detection limits of magmatic inflation below Lake Taupō. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 66(4), pp.571-588, https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2076700

Chin, S.J., Sutherland, R., Savage, M.K., Townend, J., Collot, J., Pelletier, B., Monge, O. and Illsley‐Kemp, F., 2022. Earthquakes and seismic hazard in southern New Caledonia, southwest Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(12), p.e2022JB024207, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024207

Muirhead, J.D., Illsley-Kemp, F., Barker, S.J., Villamor, P., Wilson, C.J., Otway, P., Mestel, E.R., Leonard, G.S., Ellis, S., Savage, M.K. and Bannister, S., 2022. Stretching, Shaking, Inflating: Volcanic-Tectonic Interactions at a Rifting Silicic Caldera. Frontiers in Earth Science, p.233. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.835841

Wilson, C.J.N., Cooper, G.F., Chamberlain, K.J., Barker, S.J., Myers, M.L., Illsley-Kemp, F. and Farrell, J., 2021. No single model for supersized eruptions and their magma bodies. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, pp.1-18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00191-7

Johnston, D., Kaiser, L., Mestel, E., Illsley-Kemp, F., Tapuke, K., Smith, B., Leonard, G., Prasanna, R., Tan, M., Alger, B. and Becker, J., 2021. Improving earthquake resilience in the Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ) using school-based seismometers and connected education programmes. Proceedings of the 2021 New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Annual Technical Conference.

Barker, S.J., Wilson, C.J.N., Illsley-Kemp, F., Leonard, G.S., Mestel, E.R.H., Mauriohooho, K., Charlier, B.L.A., 2020. Taupō: an overview of New Zealand’s youngest supervolcano. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 0, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2020.1792515

Barker, S.J., Rowe, M.C., Wilson, C.J.N., Gamble, J.A., Rooyakkers, S.M., Wysoczanski, R.J., Illsley-Kemp, F., Kenworthy, C.C., 2020. What lies beneath? Reconstructing the primitive magmas fueling voluminous silicic volcanism using olivine-hosted melt inclusions. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47422.1

Muluneh, A.A., Brune, S., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Corti, G., Keir, D., Glerum, A., Kidane, T., Mori, J., 2020. Mechanism for Deep Crustal Seismicity: Insight From Modeling of Deformation Processes at the Main Ethiopian Rift. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC008935

Zwaan, F., Corti, G., Sani, F., Keir, D., Muluneh, A.A., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Papini, M., 2020. Structural Analysis of the Western Afar Margin, East Africa: Evidence for Multiphase Rotational Rifting. Tectonics 39. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC006043

Corti, G., Cioni, R., Franceschini, Z., Sani, F., Scaillet, S., Molin, P., Isola, I., Mazzarini, F., Brune, S., Keir, D., Erbello, A., Muluneh, A., Illsley-Kemp, F., Glerum, A., 2019. Aborted propagation of the Ethiopian rift caused by linkage with the Kenyan rift. Nature Communications 10, 1309. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09335-2

Possee, D., Keir, D., Harmon, N., Rychert, C., Rolandone, F., Leroy, S., Corbeau, J., Stuart, G., Calais, E., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Boisson, D., Momplaisir, R., Prépetit, C., 2019. The Tectonics and Active Faulting of Haiti from Seismicity and Tomography. Tectonics 38, 1138–1155. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005364

Lavayssière, A., Drooff, C., Ebinger, C., Gallacher, R., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Oliva, S.J., Keir, D., 2019. Depth Extent and Kinematics of Faulting in the Southern Tanganyika Rift, Africa. Tectonics 38, 842–862. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005379

Ebinger, C.J., Oliva, S.J., Pham, T., Peterson, K., Chindandali, P., Illsley‐Kemp, F., Drooff, C., Shillington, D.J., Accardo, N.J., Gallacher, R.J., Gaherty, J., Nyblade, A.A., Mulibo, G., 2019. Kinematics of Active Deformation in the Malawi Rift and Rungwe Volcanic Province, Africa. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2019GC008354. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008354

Weinstein, A., Oliva, S.J., Ebinger, C.J., Roecker, S., Tiberi, C., Aman, M., Lambert, C., Witkin, E., Albaric, J., Gautier, S., Peyrat, S., Muirhead, J.D., Muzuka, A.N.N., Mulibo, G., Kianji, G., Ferdinand-Wambura, R., Msabi, M., Rodzianko, A., Hadfield, R., Illsley-Kemp, F., Fischer, T.P., 2017. Fault-magma interactions during early continental rifting: Seismicity of the Magadi-Natron-Manyara basins, Africa. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 18, 3662–3686. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007027

Goitom, B., Werner, M.J., Goda, K., Kendall, J. ‐Michael, Hammond, J.O.S., Ogubazghi, G., Oppenheimer, C., Helmstetter, A., Keir, D., Illsley‐Kemp, F., 2017. Probabilistic Seismic‐Hazard Assessment for Eritrea. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107, 1478–1494. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120160210