volcanologist at University of Bristol
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15 May 2024
Exercise bikes in a seminar room @VolcanoLMV! How many students would be more engaged if they could cycle along during lectures? @UoBEarthScience
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"The most staggering, terrifying & beautiful imagery of nature ever recorded." @Variety.
Join Volcanologist and next Head of School for @UoBEarthScience Professor @AlisonRust for a special intro to the extraordinary Fire of Love Wed 3 Aug 18:00. Tickets: wshd.to/fireoflove
ALT A man and a woman, wearing thick insulated blue coats, gloves and colourful hats stand before a smoking volcano. Their faces are illuminated.
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24 Jul 2022
This fun project took us to the workshop of Bristol Blue Glass @BristolGlass. Was fascinated to see that they make bubbly glass by adding a POTATO to the molten glass in the furnace!
22 Jul 2022
Prince Rupert’s Drops are glass beads with unusual (and explosive!) material properties. We show that heterogeneous internal stresses control the size and shape distribution of fragments & discuss implications for magma fragmentation during hydrovolcanism pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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24 Jul 2022
@BristolGlass made us large Prince Rupert's drops by dripping molten glass into water. We then commissioned bubbly ones but the melt always formed fragments rather than quenching into a drop. Bubbles matter! Important for magma-water interactions given the ubiquity of bubbles.
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22 Jul 2022
Prince Rupert’s Drops are glass beads with unusual (and explosive!) material properties. We show that heterogeneous internal stresses control the size and shape distribution of fragments & discuss implications for magma fragmentation during hydrovolcanism pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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7 Jul 2022
It is remarkable how variable 20 years of lichen growth is on the volcanic rocks used to build this stylized volcano building at the heart of 'Vulcania', a volcano... theme park in central France.
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7 Jul 2022
You can go inside. I've been on the conseil scientifique since 2011 but today was struck by the view looking up. (Of course not a realistic volcanic vent shape and not what I was meant to be considering.)
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20 Jun 2022
I am sure I am biased but I somehow find these scars on the landscape from geothermal energy extraction attractive. It's been an interesting week at a summer school on geothermal and magmatic systems near Krafla, Iceland.
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14 May 2022
I'm reflecting on our constructive @UoBEarthScience in-person(!) away day. As incoming Head of School I have pages of notes of ideas. All the outgoing Head @rpancost next to me wrote is: HAPPY HOUR & CREAM TEA IS COMING BACK.
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12 Apr 2022
Delayed 2020 graduation today! Thinking of field work at Laguna del Maule in Chile with graduating PhD student Claudio Contreras. Amazing scenery and geology. So thoughtful of Univ. of Chile undergrad Marcel Cortes to both take this photo and share it with me.
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12 Apr 2022
It is humbling to see the soil (with pottery) the Minoans lived on and think about the subsequent devastating events recorded in the volcanic deposits above. Turn around to see the beauty of the resulting caldera. It's been a joy to share Santorini with our eager MSci students.
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10 Apr 2022
I'm really glad we decided to run our Santorini field class in April this year. It is so much cooler and quieter than September when we usually go. This makes it much less draining for students and staff. Bonus: so many flowers!
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9 Apr 2022
It's great we can use public buses for transport on the field trip. But wow do I have a load of receipts for my expense claim.
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9 Apr 2022
Did you know smartphones have magnetometers? Had fun today looking at change of magnetic field near some lavas and (hidden) dykes.
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8 Apr 2022
Great to be back with students in the field learning about eruptions...and the challenge of engineering solutions to reduce risk to people on Red Beach. Ironically if managed to stop rocks falling and sliding onto the beach you'd soon lose the beach to sea erosion.
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3 Apr 2022
The new packing for field teaching: How many FFP2 masks can I fit in a hat hat?
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8 Feb 2022
Congrats to Dr. @DamarisButters who, after years of relentless zircon-hosted melt inclusion polishing, today sliced into a zircon PhD viva cake to reveal the hidden Smartie inclusions. (Thanks for yet another tasty bake @Ocean_sands21)
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17 Dec 2021
No! Steve Sparks is a very active emeritus professor. He’s more into magma plumbing than electrical contracts but we're working on fascinating granite fluid electrical conductivity data.
A bonus of becoming Head of School is an office close to Steve!
17 Dec 2021
Given that there has long been a van in Clifton with the legend on the side "Steve Sparks Electrical Contractor" would it be correct to assume that this position has arisen because the former Chair of Volcanology has finally decided to go all-in on the alternative career path?
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17 Dec 2021
The AXA Chair was held by Kathy Cashman, who just retired from Bristol, but will definitely be coming back for visits.
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16 Dec 2021
Want to be my colleague at Bristol via the AXA Chair in Volcanology (quite broadly defined)? I'll also be your Head of School...
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…
We welcome diverse applications, from subvolcanic crustal processes to emissions into the atmosphere, and encompassing interdisciplinary connections with fields such as tectonics, geophysics, hazards, remote-sensing, petrology, mineral resources, geothermal energy and risk.
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