Hugh Tuffen

TiVonne Howe

Blog from Dr TiVonne Howe, recent #volcanology #PhD alumnus from @lancasteruni.bsky.social, on her research into magmatic volatiles at #Montserrat #SHV30, via @iavcei.bsky.social vipscommission.org/new-insights...

A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction The long read: The Guardian journalist and the Brazilian activist were killed while investigating the destruction of the Amazon. In this extract from the book Phillips was writing at the time of his d...

Extract from the book #DomPhillips was writing at the time of his death: "How to Save the Amazon: A journalist's deadly quest for answers". A must-read for us all: out soon in the UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m.... The Dom Phillips institute: institutodomphillips.org.br/en/

Map of UK with shaded areas showing principal aquifers. map annotated with notes from the UK Hydrological Outlook

UK Hydrological Outlook for May-July ☀️🌈

River flows likely to be below normal across most of UK, with potential for current low to exceptionally low flows persisting in some catchments.

Flows in western Scotland and Northern Ireland are likely to be in normal range.

🔗 hydoutuk.net

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YouTube video by Paul Ferguson Eleven Time Kopatchka Land

Eleven-time. I made the music with Ableton, a fiddle & my friend @htuffen.bsky.social on cello. The images are incidental, the tune is the main thing. It's the second section of a Serbian tune called Kopatchka. Cello and fiddle took ten mins to record, the rest took ten days!

youtu.be/sx97_V4QLJI

Hugely proud of TiVonne Howe for passing her PhD viva today! TiVonne's thesis tackled deep CO2 and volatile degassing at Lesser Antilles volcanoes, supported by a Government of Montserrat scholarship. Super independent and original work reveals new volcanic insights.. @lancasteruni.bsky.social

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... Super interesting article! The peperitic lobes are quite something...

I've long marvelled a similar post-industrial rocks forming at Gorrondatxe on the Basque Coast: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

These cards show how I've been at Lancaster University for a little while.....starting last century as a postgraduate student!

Super proud of my son Alec (no. 11, right) for being part of the Dallam School boys U16 football team that won the Cumbria County Cup today ⚽👏🏼💥

‘The ground keeps breaking and deforming’: life in Italy’s volcanic Phlegraean Fields In the Phlegraean Fields in southern Italy a record 6,740 earthquakes were recorded in 2024, and the seismic swarm has continued in 2025

Excellent photo essay from Alessandro Gandolfi in today's @theguardian.com from Italy's Phlegraean Fields (Campi Flegrei), where ground movements, seismic swarms, and fumaroles are a part of life at a restless, active #volcano www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Fun and sunny field day looking at the Falls Foot #landslide in North Yorkshire, as our students prepare to write a technical report on its characteristics and likely triggers. Another great field site close to #Lancaster university!

Congratulations to Montserratian @lancasteruni.bsky.social PhD student TiVonne Howe for publishing her first paper, on magmatic CO2 and storage depths at her volcano: Soufriere Hills, Montserrat. New insights into the depth of magma storage and CO2 systematics: www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

The #LancasterUniversity educational philosophy states that "Education is at the heart of global change for the better".

I'm proud of our graduating students brave enough to unfurl banners calling for an end to genocide, and to question ongoing University association with BAE systems, who arm it 👏🏼

So good to see some of our graduating #volcanology #masters students at today's #LancasterUniversity graduation ceremony. Exciting plans for the future and a proud director of studies in the picture 👏🏼

So great to see some of our graduating #volcanology #Masters students at today's #Lancaster University graduation ceremony. We'll keep in touch, and there are many exciting plans for the future!

are rocks going to be squashed?

Beautiful thin sections of Icelandic pumice and lava!

Excited to get a sneak preview of the spectacular textures in samples of lava and pumice from the ~877AD Hrafntinnuhraun eruption, #Iceland, from David Zhang (LEC PhD student). Rhyolite-basalt magma mixing, sintering, fracture and healing, and more...

Great atmosphere in the Gregson Centre last night... here's a snippet of bluegrass from Mr Saturday Night. Thanks to everyone who played and who came...we raised loads of money for charity!

We had Toba volcano on trial today as part of an atmospheric science module, accused of almost wiping out our species.

Prosecution: Rampino & Ambrose 2000 tinyurl.com/rampinoambrose

Defence: Lane et al 2013 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301474110

Students inspired to see established thinking challenged!

(the photo shows Nick Graham of @lec-reefs.bsky.social doing the introduction!)

Great audience in the Lancaster Environment Centre for Joe Roman (joeroman.com) explaining role of birds and seals in fertilizing the new volcanic island of Surtsey, and plugging his book Eat Poop Die. @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Thanks James and greetings from up north!

How could we forget?

YouTube video by hugh tuffen MSc Volcanology and the Environment

We're proud to offer the UK's first & only taught #Volcanology Master's here at Lancaster University. Our alumni go on to great things in academia & industry: look at @mikevolc.bsky.social & @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social!

Applications open via tinyurl.com/lancsvolc & video here: youtu.be/I40_31sLLiI

YouTube video by Lancaster University MA Political Ecology - A conversation with Dr John Childs

Here in the #Lancaster Environment Centre we're proud to offer the only UK Master's degree in #politicalecology, taught by @kaiheron.bsky.social & colleagues. For more info watch this video: youtu.be/jKsEQCKTjRg?...
and check out our MA Political Ecology page:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Others are proud of you too, and congratulations!

New study from @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social and team examines how crystal-rich magmas deform: a combination of viscous flow and fracture on different spatial scales. Especially relevant to lava dome emplacement. Bravo!

Martin MacInnes interview: ‘An SF novel can be as high-brow as any other genre’ | The Booker Prizes With In Ascension longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Martin MacInnes about the inspiration behind the novel and why he wrote it

Just finished In Ascension by Martin MacInnes: tinyurl.com/inascension. What a remarkable piece of writing...weaving together #ecology, #technology, #climate catastrophe, and the (dis)connect between humans and #nature, and humans and each other. A must-read for all social and physical scientists!

BGS Geohazards and climate change research briefing

As COP29 draws to close, our research briefing highlights the breadth of BGS research and datasets available to support building resilience to geohazards under future climate change scenarios.

www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/se...

Magnus, Hannah, and I catching up in 2019

A pleasure to read the classic Magnús Tumí Gudmundsson paper on volcano-ice interaction in the 1996 Gjálp eruption (www.nature.com/articles/40122) with our #glaciology students. Head twister: warm meltwater drained uphill beneath Vatnajökull! Pic: Magnús, me, Hannah Reynolds (ex-LEC Volcanology MSc)

Rejoice! It's a good one Sal 😁