Check out this really great insight into work on board a research vessel and why you should care about hydrothermal systems in volcanoes by @sofiadellasala.bsky.social onboard the @ukri.org vessel RRS Discovery for the NERC funded HYRDOMOX project led by @noc.ac.uk
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Very happy to share our latest paper on Kolumbo volcano! 🌋This research was only possible thanks to IODP, which has allowed for new insights into this highly hazardous volcano!
It was fantastic to host more than 160 delegates to the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) Annual meeting at our Southampton site last week! 🌋🌊
Really enjoyed the @ukiodp.bsky.social Magellan workshop on zero-age crust held @noc.ac.uk. Excellent group with fascinating discussions, expertly led by Michelle Harris and Aled Evans. Very excited for the proposals to come.
People sit at desks in a meeting room watching a presentation. There are large posters showing cliff sections through PDC deposits on the wall.
An excellent final @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting Workshop today led by @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social @drnatashadowey.bsky.social on pyroclastic stratigraphies. I learned a lot and there were some great conversations. Thanks to all involved!
Huge congratulations to Jacob Nash from @noc.ac.uk on winning the Bob Hunter Prize for Best Student Oral Presentation at the @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting. Very well deserved and stay tuned for his soon to be published paper on the marine deposits of the Hunga Volcano eruption.
The end of a great @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting hosted by @noc.ac.uk. Two and a half days of high quality science and still one more workshop to look forwards to tomorrow on pyroclastic stratigraphies led by @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social @drnatashadowey.bsky.social
A selection of photos of people talking at the Vmsg conference at the core workshop and posters across sessions. Also a photo of the sediment deposit left by many flows in the flume at the ice breaker.
What a cracking first day of science presentations at the @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting at @noc.ac.uk Fascinating talks and posters across the sessions. Back today covering magma, eruptive processes and volcanic monitoring among other topics. Photos taken by Dan Bourne.
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We at @noc.ac.uk are very excited to be hosting the VMSG Annual Meeting which kicks off today with a session on marine volcanism following a morning of fantastic workshops.
It was a huge privilege to contribute to this plan for the future of marine science infrastructure and the final report is a huge community effort. The UK have long been world leaders in marine hazards research and long may it continue!
The best thing about this job is that you get to keep learning. Absolutely incredible day looking at landslide and lahar deposits off Etna with amazing INGV scientists and @mikeaclare.bsky.social (who always teaches me things I don’t know about sediments).
Great to see @mikeaclare.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk quoted in this piece in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se... about the Hunga Volcano eruption and the subsequent telecommunications outage in 2022.
Check out both a really exciting paper on the Santorini seismic swarm earlier this year from some of my excellent colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s41... AND a really good write up in National Geographic by @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
The Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) Annual Meeting will be hosted by NOC and the University of Southampton, at our waterfront campus 5th - 7th January 2026.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please see the meeting website for details and to register here:
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Most people I know got their grants on second submission. This new policy is bonkers and helps no one.
Really enjoying the “surveying oceanic volcanism & volcanic island geohazards” session at @iavcei.bsky.social 2025. Great talks and lots of fascinating work on volcanic tsunamis. Looking forward to the second half this afternoon.
Ahead of the @iavcei.bsky.social 'Challenges and opportunities for women scientists in volcanology Workshop' Thursday evening, I invite people to read our work "Volcanologists—who are we and where are we going?" #IAVCEI2025
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A really great end to this lahars focussed mini session at @iavcei.bsky.social by @mikeaclare.bsky.social from @noc.ac.uk presenting work on lahars offshore and their huge sediment loads funded by the Sustainable Blue Economies Program.
Jeremy Phillips @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social with a fascinating presentation on how important erosion is when modelling lahar related hazards @iavcei.bsky.social So much work still to do to understand the behaviours of lahars on and offshore.
Great talk by @sofiadellasala.bsky.social looking at hydrothermal records at Santorini in the @iavceisubmarine.bsky.social session. Convincing evidence of vigorous hydrothermal activity in the past preceding eruptions and a great demonstration of why we should look at hydrothermal records.
Our new paper on volcanoes and the subsea cable network, led by @mikeaclare.bsky.social, is out today in Bulletin of Volcanology. Get it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A great second day at SubOptic 2025, including a fascinating talk by @mikeaclare.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk on the challenges of cable fault attribution and how hazards are not always coincident with events.
Having a lovely time at SubOptic 2025 in Lisbon this week. Really enjoyed today’s masterclass on fibre sensing - some great reasons to be hopeful for the future of deep ocean measurements.
We’re hiring! Come and work wit @mikeaclare.bsky.social and me at @noc.ac.uk. We’re recruiting for an open-ended position in marine geohazards.
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Check out an excellent interview with @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk on BBC Radio 5 discussing recent eruptions at Axial Seamount, how new crust forms at mid ocean ridges, and a need to monitor submarine volcanoes -from 02:49 onwards www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Ocean Open Day 2025
Tickets are now LIVE for our #OceanOpenDay on #WorldOceanDay (Sunday 8th June)! 🎟️
This free event is perfect for families and learners of any age interested in knowing more about our ocean.
Get your FREE tickets here ⏩ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-o...
Hydrothermal vents
Scientists investigated hydrothermal venting, from seeps that form underwater lakes of carbon dioxide, to bubbly venting at temperatures up to and exceeding 200ºC.
NOC leads expedition to forecast and understand hazards posed by volcanic eruptions 👉 noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...
Listen to the much more fun than me @sofiadellasala.bsky.social from @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social talking about our Santorini expedition and her packing challenges here.
Really enjoyed being interviewed on @bbc5live.bsky.social this afternoon about @noc.ac.uk led @ukri.org funded work on submarine volcanic eruptions. If you want to hear more about underwater robots and my secret lair then give it a listen from about 2hrs 13 minutes in.
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