Shanshan Ding

About

Shanshan Ding is a lecturer and the Director of Data Science at Hinge, an online dating application. In her role, she leads a team of data scientists in applying machine learning and advanced analytics to various aspects of the product and business. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and is an alum of Columbia College, having completed her undergraduate studies there.

Research topics

• Geology
• Geochemistry
• Astrobiology
• Mineralogy
• Earth science

Selected publications

• Sulfur_X: A Model of Sulfur Degassing During Magma Ascent

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2023-04-01 · 58 citations

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  Abstract The degassing of CO 2 and S from arc volcanoes is fundamentally important to global climate, eruption forecasting, ore deposits, and the cycling of volatiles through subduction zones. However, all existing thermodynamic/empirical models have difficulties reproducing CO 2 ‐H 2 O‐S trends observed in melt inclusions and provide widely conflicting results regarding the relationships between pressure and CO 2 /SO 2 in the vapor. In this study, we develop an open‐source degassing model, Sulf…

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• Sulfur from the subducted slab dominates the sulfur budget of the mantle wedge under volcanic arcs

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2022-12-16 · 35 citations

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  Sulfur is of a crucial importance in the Earth system influencing biological, climate, ore-forming, and redox processes. Subduction zones play a key role in the global sulfur cycle. Arc magmas have higher sulfur contents and are more oxidised than mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs) due to either an oxidised mantle source or magma differentiation. Melt oxidation state and sulfur content may interrelate, as sulfur is a potential oxidising agent during slab-mantle interaction. Here, we use melt inclus…

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• <scp>ND70</scp> Series Basaltic Glass Reference Materials for Volatile Element (<scp>H₂O</scp>, <scp>CO₂</scp>, S, Cl, F) Measurement and the C Ionisation Efficiency Suppression Effect of Water in Silicate Glasses in <scp>SIMS</scp>

  Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research · 2024-07-25 · 7 citations

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  We present a new set of reference materials, the ND70‐series, for in situ measurement of volatile elements (H 2 O, CO 2 , S, Cl, F) in silicate glass of basaltic composition. The materials were synthesised in piston cylinders at pressures of 1 to 1.5 GPa under volatile‐undersaturated conditions. They span mass fractions from 0 to 6% m/m H 2 O, from 0 to 1.6% m/m CO 2 and from 0 to 1% m/m S, Cl and F. The materials were characterised by elastic recoil detection analysis for H 2 O, by nuclear reac…

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• Temperature of the Villarrica Lava Lake from 1963 to 2015 Constrained by Phase-Equilibrium and a New Glass Geothermometer for Basaltic Andesites

  Journal of Petrology · 2023-01-13 · 4 citations

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  Abstract Magma/lava temperature is one of the most basic and critical parameters in volcanology. Yet at many active volcanoes, including during eruptions, this parameter remains poorly constrained due to vent accessibility, with estimates from different geothermometers commonly varying by several tens to more than a hundred degrees. One such volcano is Villarrica, one of the most active and hazardous volcanoes in South America and whose crater hosts a persistent lava lake. Here, we use experimen…

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• Redox and magma recharge controls on excess sulfur build-up at Mount Samalas, 1257 CE

  Nature Communications · 2025-10-20 · 3 citations

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  The 1257 CE eruption of Mount Samalas (Indonesia) caused the largest stratospheric sulfur injection of the Common Era, as recorded by Greenland and Antarctic ice cores, and led to strong climate perturbations. About 80% of the eruption’s sulfur output likely came from vapor stored in the magma reservoir. However, the factors that controlled prodigious excess sulfur buildup at Samalas remain enigmatic. To address this problem, we analyzed sulfur and iron speciation, along with sulfur isotopes, in…

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Frequent coauthors

• Rajdeep Dasgupta

  Rice University

  21 shared

• Terry Plank

  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  14 shared

• H. Khodja

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  12 shared

• Hélène Bureau

  Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie

  12 shared

• Yves Moussallam

  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  11 shared

• Hyun Joo Lee

  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  8 shared

• Estelle F. Rose‐Koga

  Institut des Sciences de la Terre

  6 shared

• Sarah Shi

  Stryker (United States)

  5 shared

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