Hayden Dalton

Dr Hayden Dalton is a researcher at The University of Melbourne within the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is currently a Lecturer in Geoscience.

His research has focused on the origin and timing of volcanic eruptions across our planet. For his PhD, he focused on kimberlites, the deepest derived magmas on Earth and the volcanoes responsible for transporting diamonds from the deep Earth to the surface. He uses these rocks as a means to probe the geochemical evolution of the physically inaccessible parts of the planet. More recently, he has been investigating hundreds of past volcanic events in east Africa to understand when these eruptions occurred, where they came from, and the insights these can yield into the timing of human evolution.