Lee Wei Jie Daniel

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2023-present Ph.D. in Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, USA
Advisor: Prof. Terry Plank

2023-2025 M.A. in Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, USA

2019-2023 B.S. (Hons) in Environmental Earth Systems Science, Geoscience, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Thesis: Sensitivity analysis of current continuous GPS networks to monitor volcanic unrest
Advisor: Prof. Benoit Taisne

Honors, Prizes and Research Fellowships

2025 American Geophysical Union Lawrence A. Taylor Research Fund ($5000)

Workshops

2026 SZ4D 2026 Science Community Meeting, Long Beach

2025 SZ4D Mini-Workshop Research Prioritization in the Alaska-Aleutian Arc, New Orleans

2025 NSF Research Prioritization for Volcanoes Across the Alaska-Aleutian Arc, Anchorage

2025 AVERT Field Workshop, Costa Rica

2024 Diffusion Workshop, Ruhr-University, Bochum

2024 SZ4D Experimental Petrology in Subduction Zones, Washington D.C.

Outreach, Academic Service and Community Efforts

2026 Journal Reviewer: Volcanica

2023-present Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House

2023-present Community Rehomogenization Project

Lab & Analytical Experience

Publications

(Google Scholar)

* Student mentored

+ Community Rehomogenization (see)

Lee, D. W., Plank, T., Ding, S., Mutch, E. J., Moussallam, Y., Moshrefzadeh, J., Graham, N., & Larsen, J. (2026). Steady or sudden: the 2008 eruption of Okmok, Alaska. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 686, 120051. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120051

Benet, D., Costa, F., Migadel, K., Lee, D. W., D’Oriano, C., Pompilio, M., Nurfiani, D., & Rifai, H. (2025). A repository-hosted dataset of volcanic ash particle images and features. Scientific data, 12(1), 681. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04942-9

Szymanowski D., Forni F., Phua M., Jicha B., Lee W. J. D., Hsu Y., Rifai H., Schoene B., Bouvet de Maisonneuve C. (2023) A shifty Toba magma reservoir: Improved eruption chronology and petrochronological evidence for lateral growth of a giant magma body. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 622 (2023): 118408 doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118408

Rahman, N., Smith, S., Lam, W. Y., Kwek, Y. C., Chua, M. S. E., Teo, P. Y., Lee, W. J. D., Phua S. Y., Aw, C. Y., Fatimah, Y. A., Lee, J. S. H., Wardle, D. A. (2023). Leaf decomposition and flammability are largely decoupled across species in a tropical swamp forest despite some shared predictive leaf functional traits New Phytologist, 238(2): 598-611. doi: 10.1111/nph.18742

Williams, G., Jenkins, S., Lee, W. J. D., & Wee, S. (2021). How rainfall influences tephra fall loading — an experimental approach. Bulletin Of Volcanology, 83(6), 42 doi: 10.1007/s00445-021-01465-0

Working Papers (Out for submission in weeks to months)

Lee W. J. D., Ding, S., Plank, T. (in prep). An evaluation of olivine-hosted melt inclusions as a magmatic barometer. To be submitted to Journal of Petrology

Lee W. J. D., Plank, T., Kelley, K. A., Langmuir, C. H., Haase, K., Kamenetsky, V., & Arculus, R. J. (in prep). Hydrous Mineral Stability in a Subducting Slab Dictates Magmatic Water.

Conference Abstracts

+Carozza, A., Wallace, P., Lee, D., Plank, T., Moussallam, Y. (2026). Insights into the Magmatic Plumbing Systems of Augustine and Pakushin Through the Lens of Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions. Goldschmidt 2026

Shi, S. C., Wieser, P., Gleeson, G., Mutch, J. F. E., Lee, D., Plank, T., Lynn, K., Ruth, D., Mourey, A., Towbin, W. H., Martin, C., Moore, L. R., Rezeau, H., Kennedy, S. A., Tepley, F., Petrone, C. M. & von der Handt, A. (2026). Probe the Probe, Test the Clock: A Round Robin Assessment of EPMA Variability and Olivine Diffusion Timescales. Goldschmidt 2026

+Hughes, E. C., Smid, E., Lee, D., Kilgour, G., Monteleone, B. D., Shea, J. J., Rowe, M., Hilton, T., Flemming, L., Turnbull, J., Mazot, A. & Moussallam, Y. (2026). Could CO 2 be used for volcano monitoring in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aoteaora New Zealand? Goldschmidt 2026

*Marostica, M., Lee, W. J. D., Peccia, A., Plank, T. A., de Moor, M. J., & Avard, G. (2025). First Insights into Volatiles and Magma Storage Beneath Poás Volcano: A Shallow Phreatomagmatic System. American Geophysical Union 2025

Lee, W. J. D., Plank, T. A., Kelley, K. A., Langmuir, C. H., Haase, K., Kamenetsky, V., & Arculus, R. J. (2025). Mapping Water and Trace Elements across the Tonga-Lau System: Effects of Cold Slab Subduction. American Geophysical Union 2025

Moss, M., Madison, M., Mark, H. F., Yang, X., Cheng, Y., Grapenthin, R., Lizik, L., Portner, D. E., Lee, W. J. D., Wu, S., Larsen, J. F., Coombs, M. L. & Freymueller, J. T. (2025). Petrologic and Geophysical Synthesis of the Magmatic System at Akutan Volcano. American Geophysical Union 2025

Lee, W. J. D., Plank, T. A., Ding, S., Mutch, E., Moshrefzadeh, J. A., Graham, N. A., & Larsen, J. F. (2024). Short (5 hr) Precursory Seismic Swarm Driven by Deep Magma Injection: the 2008 Eruption of Okmok, Alaska. American Geophysical Union 2024

Lee W. J. D., Hsu Y., Forni F., Bouvet de Maisonneuve C., Phua M., Rifai H., Redfern S. A. T. (2022). Improved volatile quantification in unexposed quartz-hosted melt inclusions by FTIR spectroscopy and an application to the Toba Caldera Complex, Sumatra (Indonesia). Goldschmidt 2022

Teaching

Teaching Assistant. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Module: ES2001 Computational Earth Systems Science, Fall 2021, 39UG

Module: ES2002 Earth Materials, Spring 2022 & 2023, 11UG & 12UG