Mike Cassidy

Over the last six weeks, SEES scientists Mengwen, Patrick, Helen & Andrea jointed the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, which aims to analyse the oldest ice on Earth – up to 1.5 million years old, beyond the 800,000 years previously covered – to understand more about Earth's climate 🧊🧪🥼 @bas.ac.uk

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So, no more Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report until the government reopens ...

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.

Missives - London A crisis unravelling in letters. Many enquiries have tried to ‘learn lessons’ from crises provoked by natural hazards. Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-mak...

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Volcanic crises! Archives! The ‘real story’ between the lines.

We’re performing a ‘staged reading’ and exploring two crises on #montserrat - with two wonderful playwrights as part of #beinghumanfestival. Come see us in London and also 1/2

New paper alert. Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo. Great work led by Marius and Jens, thanks all for working on that together! It can be found in today’s issue of Nature.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes indeed!

We are advertising for a 3-year "Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology and Stratigraphy". Part of a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary research grant "Volcanic Histories", focused on research in the Eastern Caribbean.

Closing: October 15th
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PAGES September newsletter is out!
Find out what the 2k Network, CRIAS, Human Traces, PO2, SISAL and VICS working groups are up to, and much more on the paleoscience calendar!

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I shared this earlier, but this is *exactly* the point I try to make whenever I get the question about "which volcano will be the next to have a big eruption?" It is rarely the ones that are in the headlines at the time.

Many thanks Cin-Ty!

Thanks David, true on both counts!

Thanks for the kind words Ben!

Thanks Vicky!

Thanks Brendan! Indeed - there's still life in those Aussie volcanoes!

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We’ve founded the Global Volcano Risk Alliance (@gvra.bsky.social) to prepare for the eruptions that could reshape our world.
If you’d like to support our work: www.globalvolcanoriskalliance.com

Famous names—Yellowstone, Etna, Kīlauea—draw the cameras. But the most dangerous volcanoes may be the “quiet” ones, hidden in jungles or beneath the sea, biding their time.

Yet volcanology is chronically underfunded + uneven.
📊 More papers on Mt St Helens alone (1,437) than all 123 volcanoes in Indonesia combined.
Only ~600 of Earth’s 1,302 active volcanoes have any monitoring instruments.

It’s not that rare:

75% of VEI-5 eruptions (like El Chichón or Mt St Helens) followed 100+ yrs of silence.

90% of VEI-6 eruptions (10x bigger) too.
And in regions like Indonesia or the Pacific, a volcano with no known history erupts every 7–10 yrs.

Take El Chichón in Mexico. For centuries it looked like a harmless hill. Then in 1982 it erupted, killing thousands, displacing tens of thousands more… and helping trigger famine in Ethiopia, half a world away.

🌋 Excited to share my new essay in Aeon: one of the most underappreciated global risks isn’t an asteroid or supervolcano—it’s the eruptions we don’t see coming:

We think applying to grad school should be free. App fees create barriers to equity in academia—especially in the US, where students can pay $1,000+ just to be considered. Even waivers don’t fix this. We make the case in our Nature piece: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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If anyone's going to the @undrr.bsky.social Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva next week, please reach out. Several of us from the charity @gvra.bsky.social will be there and would be keen to chat about it!

Ah nice! We should be celebrating these successes

The St Vincent eruption shows that preparedness and early anticipatory action can avert a volcanic disaster!

Now that it's thought the sesimic activity around Santorini is caused by magma, authorities plan an emergency port. Important to note that the vast proportion of magmatic unrest on volcanoes doesn't lead to eruptions, but preparation is key in cases where they might.

It does look like the Washington VAAC (Volcanic Ash Advisory Center) is still up and issuing alerts, but if that stops ... ho boy, that could get messy. The VAAC is a NOAA operation.

Call for nominations for the 2025 IAVCEI awards The call for nominations for the following 2025 IAVCEI medals and awards is now open: Nominations must be submitted by 7 March 2025 (midnight Central European Time) and sent to the IAVCEI secretariat…

Did you know that several @iavcei.bsky.social AWARDS are open for nominations at the moment! Re-vamped instructions can be found here www.iavceivolcano.org/call-for-nom...

Each nomination needs 1 lead and 3 supporters. LEAD must be IAVCEI member. Awards support different career stages! 🧵

This effectively ends all nsf-funded disaster research.