Mike Clare

Was great to spend a day with INGV looking at lahar and debris avalanche deposits on the slopes of Mt Etna and discussing land to ocean transport processes. Really inspiring to see these deposits in the field with local experts!

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

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.

This year thousands of mysterious earthquakes hit Santorini. Scientists finally know why. During the quakes, researchers were able to track dangerous magma in real time.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... Interesting article on the 2025 Santorini seismic crisis in Nat Geographic w quotes from @isobelyeo.bsky.social and others discussing the excellent new Nature paper by Jens Karstens, Marius Isken & co

Get your abstracts in and get registered for VMSG 2026 in Southampton! It’s going to be a great event with some excellent workshops across a range of topics @vmsg.bsky.social

YouTube video by Seafloor Explorer Seminar Series 3.1 Mike Clare - Offshore hazards and sediment fluxes resulting from ocean-entering lahars

Seminar 3 recording: @mikeaclare.bsky.social (NOC, UK) on offshore hazards caused by lahars 🌋🌧️ entering the ocean.
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Awesome fieldwork in the UK Lake District seeing welded ignimbrites, subaqueous volcaniclastic density current deposits, autobreccias & lots of soft sediment deformation in and around ancient caldera fill sequences. Scoping future ideas with @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @vmsg.bsky.social

Amazing talk by @isobelyeo.bsky.social bringing together loads of collaborative research on volcanic hazards from the 2022 Hunga eruption and what we can tell from the deposits left behind at @iavcei.bsky.social @ukri.org

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.

Volcanic eruptions and the global subsea telecommunications network - Bulletin of Volcanology When the first transoceanic telegraph cables were laid in the mid-1800s, rapid communication between continents became possible. The advent of fibre-optic submarine cables in the 1990s catalyzed a glo...

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...

Excellent talk by @isobelyeo.bsky.social at SubOptic25 in Lisbon talking about how to enhance the resilience of small islands telecoms infrastructure to natural hazards, after she convened an interesting session on Marine Operations @noc.ac.uk

Really pleased to see our paper out assessing volcanic hazards for subsea cables and what we can learn from instances of damage dating back to the 1883 eruption of Krakatau that cut a critical telegraph cable and up to the present day

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.

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Naga Munchetty - Steffan Powell sits in - BBC Sounds Steffan Powell features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

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/...

Longsor bawah laut: Ancaman pemicu tsunami dalam senyap Longsor bawah laut bisa membesar hingga 13 kali lipat saat meluncur—dan data seismik refleksi memberi peluang untuk mengenali bahayanya sebelum berubah jadi bencana.

Nice discussion of our paper led by Harya Nugraha in The Conversation on large submarine landslides and how some can grow much larger due to erosion, and summarising the relevance for Indonesia theconversation.com/longsor-bawa... Original paper in GEOLOGY pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

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.

Naga Munchetty - 29/04/2025 - BBC Sounds Naga Munchetty features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

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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Micro‐Scale Characterization of Marine Sediment Structures: The Potential and Challenges of X‐Ray μCT Imaging Synchrotron X-ray μCT reveals small-scale heterogeneity in sediment structures that is missed by standard geotechnical tests Pore space distribution in natural marine sediments is highly spatiall...

New paper led by Ricarda Gatter of MARUM shows the value of micro-CT scanning, revealing surprisingly fine-scale porosity changes which has wide application to landslide & subsurface fluid flow assessments. Based on work started at @noc.ac.uk in 2020 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

YouTube video by National Oceanography Centre News Splash: Unlocking the Role of High-Temperature Fluids in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions

If you’re interested in knowing more about our work in Santorini here is me talking for two and a half minutes about what we’ve been doing and hope to achieve. Put together by our magnificent Comms Team and filmed by the brilliant Dan Bourne. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFc... @noc.ac.uk @ukri.org

Great to see this research covered by the BBC - looking forward to seeing what we discover from all the data that were collected last month! Nice work by @isobelyeo.bsky.social on radio and TV interviews!

Our new paper shows what happens when a major glacial lake outburst reaches the ocean, led by Lewis Bailey and supported by @ukri.org @noc.ac.uk

Keeping connected: submarine communications cables and ocean life - UNEP-WCMC A new UNEP-WCMC report examines the potential pressures, impacts and opportunities of submarine telecommunications cables on marine biodiversity  Submarine telecommunications cables (hereafter called ...

Pleased to have contributed to this new report published by UNEP-WCMC that looks at the interactions between subsea cables and the marine environment and opportunities for collaborations between industry and research www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/keep... @noc.ac.uk

Sediment flows from 2022 Hunga eruption travelled >100km to the west, entraining more sediment - revealed by ROV dives, sampling & detailed sediment analysis. New paper led by Marcus Chaknova at UninOregon w @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk & more agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Great to see this paper out based on data acquired by @ukri.org funded research, showing how turbidity currents transport and concentrate microplastics in the deep sea

Absolute pleasure - was amazing working with you and glad we got so much science done! Thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm

The @ukri.org HYDROMOX cruise has come to an end. What a mammoth project @isobelyeo.bsky.social pulled together, I am so grateful to be part of the team that has successfully explored the hydrothermal systems at Santorini and Kolumbo and I can't wait for the science that will come of it!

Absolutely remarkable work by the crew for making this happen! And orchestrated impeccably by @isobelyeo.bsky.social - a very complicated operation indeed

Saw my first hydrothermal chimney today at Kolumbo Submarine volcano as part of the @ukri.org HYDROMOX project led by @isobelyeo.bsky.social, loved seeing what I have been reading about for the last 2 years with my own eyes!!

Sampling hydrothermal mounds on the seafloor of the Santorini caldera as part of the @ukri.org HYDROMOX project to understand the fluid flow that feeds them @isobelyeo.bsky.social @sofiadellasala.bsky.social @gemmaportlock.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk

Remotely operated vehicle Isis about to deploy against the background of Santorini on a sunny day.

It’s a beautiful day for sampling the fluids that circulate through a volcano with the @noc.ac.uk ROV Isis. @ukri.org