Ben Ireland

You can see all of our previous reconstruction updates here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

And you can see our open-access archive of news articles (3.2k articles and counting!) in both 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇸 here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Military personnel in red uniform watch on as a glowing red lava flow passes by them on La Palma

Science and other updates:

- Military personnel involved in the eruption request health monitoring

- Scientists from La Palma and Korean volcanic island Jeju share groundwater management knowledge

- Tierra Bonita submits a legal appeal for access to PEVOLCA recordings

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An excavator bulldozing its way through cooled, black lava flows

Reconstruction and aid:

- €6 million transferred from Spain for infrastructure recovery

- Gas emissions control centre moves so Puerto Naos school can reopen

- Reconstruction of La Laguna school agreed

- Canarian Govt completes aid payments for primary homes

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Scientists in high visibility jackets standing in front of a cooling lava flow

The August news roundup for reconstruction on La Palma for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories programme is out and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

Here's a summary of the months updates 🌋🇮🇨⬇️

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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...

Take-home message from my favourite browser extension:

My tab management remains pretty poor; much better than before!

(yes the Y axis scale hurts my eyes too)

Great to have you back! 🌋

My latest piece for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories asks one of the key questions locals on La Palma raise with us:

“Why haven’t Spain paid the annual €100 million for reconstruction they promised?”

Read here:
🇬🇧 geotenerife.com/spanishgovpr...

🇪🇸 geotenerife.com/cuatro-anos-...

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
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The VMSG Annual Meeting will be hosted by @noc.ac.uk and @unisouthampton.bsky.social at their waterfront campus, 5th - 7th January 2026. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please see the meeting website for info on travel, programme, registration & our buddy scheme here: noc-events.co.uk/VMSG-volcani...

You’re welcome! We’ve found it very difficult to track the different reconstruction projects just from the Cabildo’s press releases but this is a lot more useful 👍

Illustrated volcano erupting orange-red lava under a starry night sky, with text reading “How We Monitor Volcanic Hazards” and “Geophysics and Volcanoes.”

🌋 How do scientists monitor volcanoes that we can’t see inside? Volcanoes are powerful and unpredictable, but geophysics gives us a window into the hidden processes deep underground.

📽️Learn more about how we use geophysics to monitor volcanic hazards in this new video!
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https://loom.ly/d6Hpq7U

This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...

As always, please consider checking out @GeoTenerife's #VolcanoStories for anything La Palma related at: geotenerife.com/volcanostori... 🌋🇮🇨

And you can check out our open-access database of sources (>3000) here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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An author standing in front of a poster promoting her book about La Palma.

Other updates:

- 'Volcano Law' to protect those affected by eruptions in the Canary Islands is 'almost ready to be approved'

- Funds to increase air connections in La Palma, after many were lost post-eruption

- New local book about the social impacts of the eruption

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A screenshot of a map of the lava flows overlain with different projects in different colours representing their stage of completion.

Reconstruction:

- Temporary modular homes dismantled - will re-used and the plots used for permanent housing

- New website to monitor reconstruction project progress

- Cabildo hopes Puerto Naos school will reopen in September, being closed for 4 years

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A picture of two large excavators breaking apart lava flows in La Palma, with blue skies behind.

Aid:

- Cabildo de La Palma demand Spanish Govt. make concrete commitments to La Palma's reconstruction

- Canary Islands Govt. commits €50 million a year for La Palma's reconstruction until at least 2027

- €700k in aid for renewable energy solutions for those affected

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A group of researchers standing around surveying equipment in a clearing from a forest of La Palma.

Science:
- New underwater images published of recovery of life around the lava deltas for a new scientific project

- @geotenerife.bsky.social Hydrocamp students explore nature-based solutions for groundwater for @genesisnbs project

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A group of researchers in hi-vis jackets standing in a rocky gorge below a waterfall, in a lush green forest on La Palma.

Our July update for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption for @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories is online and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

Here's a quick summary of last months update🇮🇨🌋
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Cities near volcanoes: which cities are most exposed to volcanic hazards? Abstract. Cities near volcanoes expose dense concentrations of people, buildings, and infrastructure to volcanic hazards. Identifying cities globally that are exposed to volcanic hazards helps guide l...

This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

In light of recent volcanic activity in Russia, here is the link to KVERT - Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team.

Information available in English. kvert.febras.net

A graphic of a book. The cover is a deep red and had a good line illustration of an erupting volcano.

It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!

'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist

GeoTenerife VolcanoStories La Palma news article archive

As ever, all of our sources are archived in the @geotenerife.bsky.social open-access La Palma News Article Archive, now with >3000 searchable reconstruction articles: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

And you can read all of our previous updates here: geotenerife.com/volcanostori...

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Other updates:

- Ministry of Defense psychologists brought in to support affected people

- Volcano victims again demand for PEVOLCA meeting recordings to be released

- New insights on communication during crises from a keynote talk by the eruption's spokesperson

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Science:

- New coastal recovery project on the lava flows beneath the sea

- Two new publications on road-building across the lava flows in construction journals

- More areas in Puerto Naos have authorised access due to persistent lowered CO2 concentrations

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Aid:

- €65 million owed to La Palma for reconstruction from the Spanish state + Canarian Govt

- 'Volcano Law' to guarantee protections from volcanic eruptions still being debated in parliament

- Calls for transparency in agricultural aid due to slow progress

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Reconstruction:

- 53 new homes purchased for those still in temporary modular homes

- Office set up to monitor reconstruction and give advice to citizens

- Spanish King and Queen tour reconstruction projects

- €5.2 million for La Laguna school reconstruction

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The June 2025 update for the reconstruction in La Palma for @geotenerife.bsky.social 's #VolcanoStories project is up and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec... 🌋🇮🇨

Here's a quick update of the main stories from this month

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COMET is delighted to announce the registration of the InSAR Training Workshop 2025 is now open!

It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025.

Registration link:
comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...

Scientific response to the 2024–2025 dyke intrusions in the Fentale-Dofen Region, Ethiopia: geophysical monitoring, surface manifestations, and hazard mapping - Bulletin of Volcanology In continental rifts, tectonic deformation, magmatic processes, and earthquakes interact dynamically reflecting the crust’s complex response to extensional stress and evolving subsurface and surface c...

If you are interested in the Fentale diking episode then have a read of Prof. Elias Lewi's new paper in Bull. Volc. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @alarosa.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social