Larsen, Jessica
Jessica is a Research Associate Professor with the Geophysical Institute. Research involvement includes volatiles in magmas, vesiculation kinetics, and magma mixing and mingling. Research sites include Okmok, Augustine, Westdahl, and Vesuvius volcanoes in Alaska and Italy.
Discipline(s): Geology, Petrology
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Does the Lost Jim lava flow (Alaska) really preserve evidence of interaction with permafrost?, 2025
Orr, T., Coombs, W.M., Rader, E., and Larsen, J.F., 2025, Does the Lost Jim lava flow (Alaska) really preserve evidence of interaction with permafrost?: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research v. 464, 108347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108347Makushin Volcano ash hazards, 2025
Dietterich, H.R., Schaefer, J.R., Larsen, J.F., Vallance, J.W., Van Eaton, A.R., and Wallace, K.L., 2025, Makushin Volcano ash hazards: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Information Circular 86 v. 2, 2 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31684
Full-text PDF 2 MB Previously unpublished whole-rock major- and trace-element compositions of volcanic samples from the Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian arc, Alaska, 2025
Coombs, M.L., Cameron, C.E., Gardner, C.A., Larsen, J.F., Fierstein, J.E., Loewen, M.W., Izbekov, P.E., and Dietterich, H.R., 2025, Previously unpublished whole-rock major- and trace-element compositions of volcanic samples from the Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian arc, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2025-2, 9 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31455
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Vent-specific unrest at Pavlof Volcano, Alaska - Insights from multidisciplinary data, 2025
Tan, D., Fee, D., Izbekov, P., Lopez, T., Girona, T., Burgos, V., McNutt, S., Haney, M., Wasser, V., Larsen, J., Grapenthin, R., Angarita, M., Saunders-Shultz, P., Shreve, T., and Moshrefzadeh, J., 2025, Vent-specific unrest at Pavlof Volcano, Alaska - Insights from multidisciplinary data: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research v. 468, 108465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108465
Full-text PDF 7 MB A new multi-method assessment of stratospheric sulfur load from the Okmok II caldera-forming eruption of 43 BCE, 2023
Peccia, A., Moussallam, Y., Plank, T., DallaSanta, K., Polvani, L., Burgisser, A., Larsen, J., and Schaefer, J., 2023, A new multi-method assessment of stratospheric sulfur load from the Okmok II caldera-forming eruption of 43 BCE: Geophysical Research Letters v. 50, no. 21, e2023GL103334. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103334.Dating individual zones in phenocrysts from the 2016–2017 eruption of Bogoslof volcano provides constraints on timescales of magmatic processes, 2023
Moshrefzadeh, J., Izbekov, P., Loewen, M., Larsen, J., and Regan, S., 2023, Dating individual zones in phenocrysts from the 2016–2017 eruption of Bogoslof volcano provides constraints on timescales of magmatic processes: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research v. 435, article no. 107741, 16 p. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107741.Geologic map of Okmok Volcano, 2023
Larsen, J.F., Neal, C.A., Schaefer, J.R., and Nye, C.J., 2023, Geologic map of Okmok Volcano: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2023-1, 63 p., 4 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/31015Electron probe microanalytical data of minerals and glass from rock samples from Okmok volcano, Alaska, 2022
Larsen, J.F., Schaefer, J.R., and Cameron, C.E., 2022, Electron probe microanalytical data of minerals and glass from rock samples from Okmok volcano, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2022-6, 13 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30853.Electron probe microanalytical data of minerals and glass from rock samples from Pavlof Volcano, Alaska, 2022
Larsen, J.F., Schaefer, J.R., Cameron, C.E., and Montayne, Simone, 2022, Electron probe microanalytical data of minerals and glass from rock samples from Pavlof Volcano, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2022-7, 18 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30854.Multiple magma sources beneath the Okmok Caldera as inferred from local earthquake tomography, 2022
Kasatkina, E., Koulakov, I., Grapenthin, R., Izbekov, P., Larsen, J. F., Al Arifi, N., and Saleh Ismail Qaysi, 2022, Multiple magma sources beneath the Okmok caldera as inferred from local earthquake tomography: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 127. doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024656.
Full Text PDF 11.1 mb Major-element oxide, trace element, and glass compositional analyses from Holocene to historical eruptions from Pavlof Volcano, Alaska, 2021
Larsen, J.F., Waythomas, C.F., Mulliken, K.M., Izbekov, Pavel, and Cameron, C.E., 2021, Major-element oxide, trace element, and glass compositional analyses from Holocene to historical eruptions from Pavlof Volcano, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2021-1, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.14509/30580.Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom, 2020
McConnell, J.R., Sigl, Michael, Plunkett, Gil, Burke, Andrea, Kim, W.M., Raible, C.C., Wilson, A.I., Manning, J.G., Ludlow, Francis, Chellman, N.J., Innes, H.M., Yang, Zhen, Larsen, J.F., Schaefer, J.R., Kipfstuhl, Sepp, Mojtabavi, Seyedhamidreza, Wilhelms, Frank, Opel, Thomas, Meyer, Hanno, and Steffensen, J.P., 2020, Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 7 p., www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2002722117.Geology and eruptive history of Bogoslof volcano, 2020
Waythomas, C.F., Loewen, M., Wallace, K.L., Cameron, C.E., and Larsen, J.F., 2020, Geology and eruptive history of Bogoslof volcano: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 82, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-019-1352-3.Major-oxide and trace-element geochemical data from rocks collected on Little Sitkin Island, from Little Sitkin Volcano, Alaska, 2020
Larsen, J.F., Neal, C.A., and Cameron, C.E., 2020, Major-oxide and trace-element geochemical data from rocks collected on Little Sitkin Island, from Little Sitkin Volcano, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2020-4, 4 p. http://doi.org/10.14509/30440Makushin Volcano ash hazards, 2020
Schaefer, J.R.G., Perreault, J.M., Larsen, J.F., and Vallance, J.W., 2020, Makushin Volcano ash hazards: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Information Circular 86, 2 p., http://doi.org/10.14509/30411.Petrology and geochemistry of three Early Holocene eruptions from Makushin Volcano, Alaska, 2020
Larsen, J.F., Schaefer, Janet, Vallance, J.W., and Neill, O.K., 2020, Petrology and geochemistry of three Early Holocene eruptions from Makushin Volcano, Alaska: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 82, n. 72, 17 p., doi:10.1007/s00445-020-01412-5.Phase equilibrium of a high SiO2 andesite at fO2=RRO - Implications for Augustine Volcano and other high fO2 arc andesites, 2020
De Angelis, S.H., Larsen, J.F., Coombs, M.L., Utley, J.E.P., and Dunn, Andrew, 2020, Phase equilibrium of a high SiO2 andesite at fO2=RRO - Implications for Augustine Volcano and other high fO2 arc andesites: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 175, no. 24, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-1663-6.Phase equlibrium of a high-SiO2 andesite at fO2=RRO: implications for Augustine Volcano and other high-fO2 arc andesites, 2020
De Angelis, S.H., Larsen, J.F., Coombs, M.L., Utley, J.E.P., and Dunn, Andrew, 2020, Phase equlibrium of a high-SiO2 andesite at fO2=RRO: implications for Augustine Volcano and other high-fO2 arc andesites: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 175, n. 24, 21 p., doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-1663-6.Petrology of the 2016-2017 eruption of Bogoslof Island, Alaska, 2019
Loewen, M.L., Izbekov, Pavel, Moshrefzadeh, Jamshid, Coombs, Michelle, Larsen, Jessica, Graham, Nathan, Harbin, Michelle, Waythomas, Christopher, and Wallace, Kristi, 2019, Petrology of the 2016-2017 eruption of Bogoslof Island, Alaska: Bulletin of Volcanology v. 81, n. 72, 20 p., doi:10.1007/s00445-019-1333-6.Postglacial eruptive history and geochemistry of Semisopochnoi volcano, western Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 2018
Coombs, M.L., Larsen, J.F., and Neal, C.A., 2018, Postglacial eruptive history and geochemistry of Semisopochnoi volcano, western Aleutian Islands, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5150, 32 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175150.Water-magma interaction and plume processes in the 2008 Okmok eruption, Alaska, 2016
Unema, J.A., Ort, M.H., Larsen, J.F., Neal, C.A., and Schaefer, J.R., 2016, Water-magma interaction and plume processes in the 2008 Okmok eruption, Alaska: GSA Bulletin, 15 p., doi:10.1130/B31360.1Amphibole reaction rims as a record of pre-eruptive magmatic heating: an experimental approach, 2015
De Angelis, S.H., Larsen, J., Coombs, M., Dunn, A., and Hayden, L., 2015, Amphibole reaction rims as a record of pre-eruptive magmatic heating: an experimental approach: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 426, p. 235-245, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.051Pre-eruptive magma mixing and crystal transfer revealed by phenocryst and microlite compositions in basaltic andesite from the 2008 eruption of Kasatochi Island volcano, 2015
Neill, O.K., Larsen, J.F., Izbekov, P.E., and Nye, C.J., 2015, Pre-eruptive magma mixing and crystal transfer revealed by phenocryst and microlite compositions in basaltic andesite from the 2008 eruption of Kasatochi Island volcano: American Mineralogist, v. 100, n. 4, p. 722-737, doi: 10.2138/am-2015-4967The 2008 phreatomagmatic eruption of Okmok Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Chronology, deposits, and landform changes, 2015
Larsen, J.F., Neal, C.A., Schaefer, J.R., Kaufman, A.M., and Lu, Zhong, 2015, The 2008 phreatomagmatic eruption of Okmok Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Chronology, deposits, and landform changes: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2015-2, 53 p. doi:10.14509/29405Andesites of the 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska, 2013
Coombs, M.L., Sisson, T.W., Bleick, H.A., Henton, S.M., Nye, C.J., Payne, A.L., Cameron, C.E., Larsen, J.F., Wallace, K.L., and Bull, K.F., 2013, Andesites of the 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 259, p. 349-372, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.01.002Pre-eruptive magmatic conditions at Augustine Volcano, Alaska, 2006: evidence from amphibole geochemistry and textures, 2013
De Angelis, S.H., Larsen, Jessica, and Coombs, Michelle, 2013, Pre-eruptive magmatic conditions at Augustine Volcano, Alaska, 2006: evidence from amphibole geochemistry and textures: Journal of Petrology, v. 54, n. 9, p. 1939-1961, doi:10.1093/petrology/egt037The 2008 eruption of Okmok Volcano, Alaska: Petrological and geochemical constraints on the subsurface magma plumbing system, 2013
Larsen, J.F., Sliwinski, M.G., Nye, Christopher, Cameron, Cheryl, and Schaefer, J.R., 2013, The 2008 eruption of Okmok Volcano, Alaska: Petrological and geochemical constraints on the subsurface magma plumbing system: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 264, p. 85-106, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2013.07.003 .Digital elevation model (DEM) and shaded relief image of Okmok Caldera, 2010, 2011
Schaefer, J.R., Larsen, J.F., and Unema, J.A., 2011, Digital elevation model (DEM) and shaded relief image of Okmok Caldera, 2010: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2011-6, 1 DVD, available online at http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/id/23223 .Petrology and geochemistry of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, 2010
Larsen, J.F., Nye, C.J., Coombs, M.L., Tilman, Mariah, Izbekov, Pavel, and Cameron, Cheryl, 2010, Petrology and geochemistry of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, chapter 15 of Power, J.A., Coombs, M.L., and Freymueller, J.T., eds., The 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1769, p. 335-382 and spreadsheets [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1769/chapters/p1769_chapter15].The Middle Scoria sequence: A Holocene violent strombolian, subplinian, and phreatomagmatic eruption of Okmok volcano, Alaska, 2010
Wong, L.J., and Larsen, J.F., 2010, The Middle Scoria sequence: A Holocene violent strombolian, subplinian, and phreatomagmatic eruption of Okmok volcano, Alaska: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 72, p. 17-31.The role of water in generating the calc-alkaline trend: new volatile data for Aleutian magmas and a new tholeiitic index, 2010
Zimmer, M.M., Plank, Terry, Hauri, E.H., Yogodzinski, G.M., Stelling, Peter, Larsen, Jessica, Singer, Brad, Jicha, Brian, Mandeville, Charles, and Nye, C.J., 2010, The role of water in generating the calc-alkaline trend: new volatile data for Aleutian magmas and a new tholeiitic index: Journal of Petrology, v. 5, n. 12, p. 2411, 2444, doi:10.1093/petrology/egq062 .Eruption of Alaska volcano breaks historic pattern, 2009
Larsen, J., Neal, C., Webley, P., Freymueller, J., Haney, M., McNutt, S., Schneider, D., Prejean, S., Schaefer, J., and Wessels, R., 2009, Eruption of Alaska volcano breaks historic pattern: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 90, n. 20, p. 173-174.The July-August 2008 hydrovolcanic eruption of Okmok Volcano, Umnak Island, Alaska, 2009
Neal, C.A., Larsen, J.F., and Schaefer, Janet, 2009, The July-August 2008 hydrovolcanic eruption of Okmok Volcano, Umnak Island, Alaska: Alaska Geological Society Newsletter, v. 39, n. 5, p. 1-3.Augustine Volcano: Mg, Cr, and Ni-rich: LILE, REE, and HFSE-poor, 2008
Nye, C.J., Coombs, M.L., Larsen, J., Izbekov, P., Tilman, M., and Cameron, C., 2008, Augustine Volcano: Mg, Cr, and Ni-rich: LILE, REE, and HFSE-poor [abs.]: in Abstracts of the 18th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 72, n. 12S, p. A692.Magmatic differentiation at an island-arc caldera: Okmok Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 2008
Finney, Benjamin, Turner, Simon, Hawkesworth, Chris, Larsen, Jessica, Nye, Chris, George, Rhiannon, Bindeman, Ilya, and Eichelberger, John, 2008, Magmatic differentiation at an island-arc caldera: Okmok Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egn008 .Water under-saturated phase equilibria of basaltic andesites from Westdahl Volcano, Alaska, 2008
Rader, E.L., and Larsen, J., 2008, Water under-saturated phase equilibria of basaltic andesites from Westdahl Volcano, Alaska [abs.]: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 89, n. 53, 1 p.Late Pleistocene and Holocene caldera-forming eruptions of Okmok Caldera, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 2007
Larsen, J. F., Neal, Christina, Schaefer, Janet, Beget, Jim, and Nye, Chris, 2007, Late Pleistocene and Holocene caldera-forming eruptions of Okmok Caldera, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in Eichelberger, John, Gordeev, Evgenii, Izbekov, Pavel, Kasahara, Minoru, and Lees, Jonathan, eds., Volcanism and Subduction: The Kamchatka Region: Geophysical Monograph 172, American Geophysical Union, p. 343-364.Rhyodacite magma storage conditions prior to the 3430 yBP caldera-forming eruption of Aniakchak volcano, Alaska, 2006
Larsen, J.F., 2006, Rhyodacite magma storage conditions prior to the 3430 yBP caldera-forming eruption of Aniakchak volcano, Alaska: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 152, n. 4, p. 523-540, doi: 10.1007/s00410-006-0121-4.Variations of glass composition at the start of the 2006 eruption, Augustine volcano, Alaska, 2006
Izbekov, Pavel, Wallace, Kristi, Larsen, Jessica, Nye, Chris, and Eichelberger, John, 2006, Variations of glass composition at the start of the 2006 eruption, Augustine volcano, Alaska [abs.]: Geological Society of America - Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, n. 5, p. 76-77.Experimental study of plagioclase rim growth around anorthite seed crystals in rhyodacitic melt, 2005
Larsen, J. F., 2005, Experimental study of plagioclase rim growth around anorthite seed crystals in rhyodacitic melt: American Mineralogist, v. 90, p. 417-427.Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Okmok Volcano, Umnak Island, Alaska, 2005
Beget, J.E., Larsen, J.F., Neal, C.A., Nye, C.J., and Schaefer, J.R., 2005, Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Okmok Volcano, Umnak Island, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2004-3, 32 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:150,000.
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map sheet 53.2 MB The petrology and geochemistry of the Aniakchak caldera-forming ignimbrite, Aleutian Arc, Alaska, 2005
Dreher, S.T., Eichelberger, J.C., and Larsen, J.F., 2005, The petrology and geochemistry of the Aniakchak caldera-forming ignimbrite, Aleutian Arc, Alaska: Journal of Petrology, v. 46, n. 9, p. 1747-1768, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egi032.Analysis of composition and chronology of dome emplacement at Black Peak, Alaska utilizing ASTER remote sensing data and field-based studies, 2004
Adleman, J.N., Larsen, J.F., Ramsey, M.S., McGimsey, R.G., and Neal, C.A., 2004, Analysis of composition and chronology of dome emplacement at Black Peak, Alaska utilizing ASTER remote sensing data and field-based studies [abs.]: in Abstract Volume, IAVCEI General Assembly, November 2004, Pucon, Chile, s08c_pf_165.
full-text PDF 60 KB Analysis of composition and chronology of dome emplacement at Black Peak, Alaska utilizing ASTER remote sensing data and field-based studies, 2004
Adleman, J.N., Larsen, J.F., Ramsey, M.S., McGimsey, R.G., and Neal, C.A., 2004, Analysis of composition and chronology of dome emplacement at Black Peak, Alaska utilizing ASTER remote sensing data and field-based studies [abs.]: in Abstract Volume, IV International Biennial Workshop on Subduction Processes emphasizing the Japan-Kurile-Aleutain Arcs, August 2004, unpaged.
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