Ben Ireland

COMET InSAR Training Workshop 2025 Resources Now Available!

📹 Full video recordings are live on the COMET YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0tb...

📊 Presentation slides and practical materials are available on GitHub: comet-licsar.github.io/ciw.html#com...

Following the #HayliGubbi eruption, our paper on the Erta Ale dike of Jun-Jul is finally out. InSAR, optical data and seismicity showed the temporal evolution of the intrusion and the interaction of magmatic sources, including a sill inflation in Hayli Gubbi. @earth-science.bsky.social #geoscience

Event Response Reports - COMET 25th November 2025: COMET Event Response Report 2.4 – Erta Ale/Hayli Gubbi Purpose/Caveats: This event response report was produced to assist situational awarenessand rapid response efforts. It repres...

Our preliminary analysis of the satellite observations of the #hayligubbi #eruption is now available online: comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon.... Details of the eruption onset, SO2 emissions and precursory deformation.

Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8

Thanks Tim. @planet.com imagery from Nov 24 show some subsidence in the southern half of the Erta Ale caldera after the #HayliGubbi eruption (plus widespread ash deposits).

Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano

An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESAC site in Spain.

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESRIN site in Frascati, Italy.

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESEC site in Belgium.

Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESOC site in Darmstadt, Germany.

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈

ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.

The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.

#SpaceForAll

GeoTenerife VolcanoStories La Palma news article archive

As ever, all of our sources can be found in our open-access archive here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

And all our previous reconstruction updates can be read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

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YouTube video by RESiSTE LA PALMA 📍 RECONSTRUCCIÓN DEL POLÍGONO INDUSTRIAL “CALLEJÓN DE LA GATA” – JULIO 2025

Other updates:

- Court appeal approved in case for making pre-eruption meeting recordings publicly available

- Cabildo urges changes to Spain's contracts law to streamline reconstruction projects

Video of the latest reconstruction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UP...

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YouTube video by El Time Constatan la “asombrosa” recuperación marina en las fajanas del Tajogaite

Science:

- EU-Modex project hosted in Tenerife, including practice eruption simulation exercises

- First results of ISVOLCAN studying health impacts of the eruption have been published

- Further marine recovery on the lava flows shown by the DELTA project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPpQ...

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Aid:

- Reconstruction commissioner has maintained the 60% income tax reduction, to revive the economy, will be reapplied by the end of 2025

- €6.5 million in aid for farmers available for 9 months, but yet to be distributed

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Reconstruction:

- Citizen-led 'Volcano Law' to guarantee full compensation for those affected by future eruptions, was approved

- 120 reconstruction licenses granted for homes or farms in Tazacorte

- LP-2 road recovery has overcome a significant delay in its plans

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La Palma Reconstruction – September 2025 - GeoTenerife Volcanic emergency drill takes place in Tenerife - New internal 'map' of Tajogaite - Marine recovery continues - Results published on health impacts of the eruption - Progress of National Volcanology ...

September was a big month for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption; 4th anniversary, new laws, research papers, and an eruption drill

Here are some snippets from my @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories update, available in full here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

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Very much appreciated the end of this dedication in a PhD thesis I came across this morning!

Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Anatomy of a Caldera: Integrated Mapping of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Anatomy of a Caldera: Integrated Mapping of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

Another exciting PhD opportunity with @isobelyeo.bsky.social, me and others on Mapping Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes…

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!

The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).

Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.

Video source: @_yagha_

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

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 👍