@echambersgeo.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at DIAS, Dublin. Seismologist, Geophysicist, Gardener and Cook. Particular interests in magma, joint inversion and geothermal energy.
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Today is the LAST CHANCE to nominate for our 2026 RAS Awards🏅🏆
Among them is the prestigious Gold Medal – the Society’s highest honour – which dates back more than 200 years and has previously been won by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and the new Astronomer Royal, Michele Dougherty.
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It was great to talk to @siliconrepublic.bsky.social about my work on geothermal energy. Thanks for the opportunity!
17.07.2025 19:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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To Home a tissue box cover that is 3-D printed with the tissue coming out of the top that changes colors very very quickly from layer to layer to make it look like rainbowINSAR. There is a script “Tahoma“ with Mount Rainier underneath in the style of Forest service signs.
Detail of the 3-D printed Mount Rainier topography in rainbow color gradient
Mount Saint Helens 3-D printed tissue box cover top that is printed in purple and gold so it looks purple in One Direction and gold in the other direction
Black and green Mount Saint Helens volcano tissue box top cover. It looks green from One Direction and black from the other.
Heads-up! I just posted a new batch of Lawetlat’la (Mt St Helens), Tahoma (Mt Rainier) and Erebus (Antarctica) scale model 3D-printed volcano tissue box covers in my shop. This is the first time Tahoma has been offered in InSAR colors.
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If you want to know more about my latest paper on the Afar plume (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) I'm presenting it as a poster today at the IAVCEI conference.
Come chat in the poster session (#147) or just come say hello if you see me about! #iavcei2025
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Something is ‘pulsing’ beneath the Earth, scientists say – and could tear a continent apart
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Schematic illustrations of the spatially heterogeneous nature of the mantle upwelling beneath Afar
⚒️ Article: Mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social @derekkeir.bsky.social @gernon.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @swanseavolctephra.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
for a nice summary of the work on the pulsing Afar plume by @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social see this article in @newsweek.com
www.newsweek.com/geology-plat...
@gernon.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social
And it's also featured in The Times! www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
25.06.2025 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely fantastic work by Emma Watts @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social , Tom Gernon @gernon.bsky.social Derek Keir @derekkeir.bsky.social and others on the Afar plume combing geochemistry, geophysics and mathematical modelling!
25.06.2025 13:04 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Nominations are now open for the 2026 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Agnes Mary Clerke Medal for Historical Research in astronomy or geophysics! Deadline 31 July 2025 #histsci
Details and link to the nomination form are here:
ras.ac.uk/awards-and-g.... Let me know if you have questions or need support
It has been a pleasure to work with @statesofprecarity.bsky.social on posters looking at the impact of fixed term contracts (FTC) in Geography (and beyond).
🔵Poster 1 - the challenges of FTC
🔵Poster 2 - How to support colleagues on FTC
🔵Poster 3 - Identity and difference and the impact of FTC
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The Royal Astronomical Society and German Astronomical Society are now welcoming nominations for the prestigious Caroline Herschel Medal!🎖️
Nominate by 2 December 2024 at: https://buff.ly/405KEQm
Just ordered one! Excellent design. Definitely recommend ordering one ASAP
17.09.2024 12:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An image of a solar panel in a field in front of a stone wall. Grass has grown over the buried seismometer in the foreground
An image of a solar panel in an open field with clear blue skies. The wheat has been cut a few months before.
An image of a fence surrounding a solar panel, with Eoghan Totten installing a new panel for the fence to keep cows away from the solar panel and seismometer. It's in the corner of a field with a tree in the very corner.
Excellent 2 days of fieldwork for the GRANNUS and MOD3LTHERM projects. 100% data recovery in Northern Ireland and we installed a fence to protect the equipment from cows. Thanks to Eoghan Totten @dias_geophysics
and Rob Raine @GeoSurveyNI for making this possible #Diasdiscovers.
Look out for our next paper which will show the full subsurface temperature maps of Ireland using this method Thanks to @SEAI_ie and @GeolSurvIE for funding the research as part of the DIG project dig-geothermal.ie 4/4
@dias_geophysics @DIAS_Dublin #DIASDiscovers
A map of the thermal conductivity of Ireland
The main controls on the temperature gradient were lithospheric and crustal thickness, however, thermal properties also significantly influence temperature with warmer geotherms found in granites and muds.
04.01.2024 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A series of 6 plots showing the direct temperature measurement and the calculated temperature using our new model. We also plot 2 previous studies results at the same locations.
New surface-wave measurements across Ireland were used with thermal property, surface heat flow, Elevation and Moho depth data in the inversion procedure. We compared to direct temperature measurements in Ireland and found the model reproduced temperatures within error
04.01.2024 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0📢New paper alert! Here we present a new approach to calculate subsurface temperature in areas with limited direct borehole measurements. We use Ireland as a case study to test the workflow.
doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
If you are at #AGU23 and you like (analogue modelling of rifting), make sure to pass by our invited poster on the evolution of the East African Rift!
Look for session T11B - poster 165 😃
The poster is based on Zwaan & Schreurs (2023) in Solid Earth: doi.org/10.5194/se-1...
Thanks @benmather.info! Great team effort and we should have the full temperature maps out next year
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