Alec Yates

Leaving the Aeolien islands with a bang.

Didn't quite understand what I was getting when I ordered the Vulcano pizza 😅.

Think I've hit my pizza dough quota for awhile

Fieldwork finished, was a good one!

Now we patiently wait to see if the boats will resume; Aeolien islands living up to their name.

Cool location! Lived there for a year during my phd

Certainly one of the more pleasant field trips!

Just about finishing up on Panarea island, over two hundred short-term nodal deployments towards mapping hydrothermal alteration, with @jonaspaetzel.bsky.social and Adrian Thorn.

Having Stromboli as an 'office' view for the past few days has been quite something! A couple more days of fieldwork planned, then a cheeky trip to the volcano for a bit of tourism ;)

Definitely a bunch of fieldwork left unshared during the past year, but this can change ;)

Currently undertaking fieldwork in Panarea, Italy, with scientists from Brussels, Ghent, and Namur, to map zones of hydrothermal alteration. Worse places to be in October 😎.

This was not a planned shot ^^; almost surprisingly, first time visiting a UK institution.

Literally my reaction to a review request 30 minutes ago, after telling myself for sure no more reviews for a while 😄

Flying in for a 2 week visit to University of Helsinki 👌

I got there in the end too after they sent me a personalized submission link, so all good.

And yes, not so unexpected ^^. Trying to submit last minute abstracts on overloaded servers is one of my specialties 😆.

another similar msg suggesting email will be sufficient to confirm submission still possible (assuming their servers are loaded right now).

fyi, lots of people experiencing issues with waiting room infinite loop (myself included).

On Twitter (X), they are saying to email them with User ID and Session to ensure you can submit (i am assuming this will be after the deadline now, but email acting as proof of intention). Example below.

Very cool !

Cheers man !

Thanks Jean !

On the same day that i graduated from my first degree eleven years ago, i defended my PhD 🙂. Thanks to FB for letting me know of that little coincidence.

And thanks to this great team 👌👌 (sorry Co, there isnt one photo where at least one of us isnt looking the wrong way 😅).

On to 🇧🇪 for a Post-doc.

Great topic 👌

Eeyyy congratulations !!

New paper: Led by newly-awarded Dr, Anna Brookfield (& her first paper!): 'Magmatic volatile content and the overpressure ‘sweet spot’: implications for volcanic eruption triggering and style': authors.elsevier.com/a/1i2ys1LkU3...

Funny little coincidence. Said today I would make scones for the lab; would be the first time since my last ones were sent flying by the Kaikoura earthquake (having been left out on a tray).

Just realised it was the 7-year anniversary today of the EQ ^^. Stars are aligned to remake these scones.

Good to know !

Haven't seen this posted on here yet, but saw this in a twitter post (map.is), a nice free tool that can be used to view recent IMO earthquake locations. Here's the activity in the last 6 hours (for example).

Just bringing it here as I'm trying to avoid using twitter (X) if i can!

Grindavík evacuated and Level of Danger: LIVE - RÚV.is A magma corridor lies under the town of GrindavíkA fissure could open anywhere in that magma corridorThe town has been evacuated. The evacuation was announced at midnightCivil Defence declared a Leve...

Very informative update on the potential eruption in Iceland from official local organization🧪⚒️

“A magma corridor lies under the town of Grindavík
A fissure could open anywhere in that magma corridor
The town has been evacuated. The evacuation was announced at midnight”

www.ruv.is/english/2023...

Jersey in the news (the little island where I was born).

Looks like a tornado that formed in Jersey during Storm Ciaràn (last week) was perhaps the largest in the British Isles for around 70 years.

Certainly the only Jersey tornado in my lifetime!

jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2023/11...

Very nice 👌👌

First Bourget-du-Lac photo on bluesky 😎. Perhaps a few weeks more of reasonable swimming temperatures (depending who you ask 😄).

Yes, I had just read that the term originated in a BBC documentary in 2000 and a cutoff definition not assigned until 2008 or so? Definitely papers out there labeling it as a supervolcano/super-eruption in between.

Had no idea... well before my time in volcanology. Good to know!

Makes sense, but surprising then that so many papers label it as a supervolcano, or label the Campanian Ignimbrite as a supereruption. Just a big misconception not being picked up by peer review?