I was recently lucky enough to spend some time in Japan as part of a scientific conference in the southern-most tip of Kyushu along with my colleague Sebastian Watt. The conference was called IAVCEI, and is the ‘world cup’ of volcanology meetings, as these international gatherings only occur every 4 years. This was my first… Read More A particularly volcanic volcano conference, Japan – by Mike Cassidy
During June and July 2012, Dr Charlie Thompson and Mr Hachem Kassem, from the Geology and Geophysics Research Group, participated in the Hydralab IV, EU funded Barrier Dynamics Experiment (BARDEX II), at the Delta Flume Facility in the Netherlands. The overall aim of the project was to collect prototype data set on sandy beaches to improve… Read More The Barrier Dynamics Experiments 2
A recent paper in Nature, Dr Derek Keir, from Geology and Geophysics research group at Ocean and Earth Science, has recently been involved in a study on the Afar Rift Valley. The Nature paper by Ferguson and coauthors used geochemical data from lavas erupted along the the Afar rift valley to constrain the origin of magmatism… Read More Hot and Deep: Melting during late-stage rifting in Afar