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What can we expect Australia’s next volcanic eruption to be like? That depends where and when it happens, and it could be sooner than you think.
Scientists have found a way to narrow down the best signs that a specific volcano is about to blow.
Thirty five years after the devastating eruption of Mount St Helens, a volcanologist looks back on how it unfolded – and how it forever changed our understanding of how volcanoes work.
A British volcanologist has won one of the most prestigious awards in science – the Vetlesen Prize, which is considered to be the earth sciences equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Stephen Sparks of the University…
Mount Ontake, Japan’s second-highest volcano, erupted killing at least 31 people on September 27. Since then, there has been feverish speculation about why tourists were on an active volcano and why the…
In September 2014, the Natural Environment Research Council will launch a major five-year programme to study the volcanoes of Ethiopia’s Great Rift Valley. The project team contains core investigators…
You can learn a lot about volcanoes by studying explosions. The more we can learn about their explosive behaviour, the more chance we have of saving lives when they suddenly erupt. There are many volcanoes…
Most have heard of the Battle of Waterloo, but who has heard of the volcano called Tambora? No school textbook I’ve seen mentions that only two months before Napoleon’s final defeat in Belgium on June…
The magnitude of the Mount Gambier volcano eruption, 5000 years ago, has been calculated for the first time. Monash University…
A volcano in Indonesia may be the location of a massive “mystery eruption” that has perplexed volcanologists for decades, according to a new study. The eruption occurred in 1257, and it could also be one…
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Senior Curator of Geosciences, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Monash University
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Igneous Petrology/Volcanology, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Volcanology, University of Hull
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Professor of Geology, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Volcanologist, Lancaster University
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Emeritus professor in geology, Australian National University
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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
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Assistant Lecturer in Volcanology, Monash University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Professor, University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Geology, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Professor of Volcanology, University of Leicester