Sentences with phrase «usgs volcanologist»

Cambridge University Press, 2011 Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer of the University of Cambridge surveys the biggest eruptions of the past quarter of a billion years to illustrate how profoundly volcanoes have shaped our world and how we might apply the lessons of the past to managing disastrous eruptions in the future.

In 2013, Corrado Cimarelli, a volcanologist at the LMU University of Munich, re-created volcanic lightning in his lab by pushing dust into a small glass tube at extremely high pressure.

«This pioneering work opens up new perspectives for interdisciplinary studies about the coupling between the solid Earth and the fluid Earth, and — for example — involving volcanologists, geomorphologists and climatologists,» concludes Sternai.

«I see great potential in this observation: we may be able to use tree rings to reliably date minor flank eruptions,» says volcanologist Houlié.

These legitimate seismologists, volcanologists, physicists and engineers are being threatened with charges of manslaughter for failing to definitively predict an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 in the city of L'Aquila on April 6, 2009, which took more than 300 lives and injured an additional 1,600 area residents.

«In contrast to events like hurricanes or earthquakes, volcanic unrest can last for long periods of time, and that's one reason people stop paying attention to the hazards that are looming,» said volcanologist Greg Valentine, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of geology and director of the Center for GeoHazards Studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

The volcanologist explains that the lack of a major volcanic eruption does not necessarily indicate that magmatic activity has come to a complete halt.

It's as elongated and sharp as «the overturned keel of a large ship,» says volcanologist Dan Dzurisin of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington.

Liverpool volcanologist, Dr Janine Kavanagh, who heads up the University's specialist MAGMA laboratory, said «For the first time, using innovative laboratory experiments that combined our knowledge of volcanic plumbing systems with engineering expertise, we have managed to see how magma flows through Earth's crust to the surface through dykes.

The fragile edifice could tumble if it gets much taller, says USGS volcanologist Cynthia Gardner.

While it helps to specialize in a field, volcanologists need to be multidisciplinary, able, and willing to pick up knowledge and skills across boundaries.

Some volcanologists work at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which runs the Volcano Hazards Program.

Met volcanologist Claire Witham works to improve the capabilities of the Numerical Atmospheric - Dispersion Modeling Environment, the office's main modeling tool.

Volcanologists worry that the angular pile will collapse, unleashing a major ash cloud and a hazardous flow of hot rock and mud into surrounding valleys.

Wallace advises young volcanologists to volunteer and perform agency work during their Ph.D. s.

The two chambers appear to be connected, which could help explain the sequence of events in the 1980 eruption and guide volcanologists monitoring the mountain for signs of renewed activity.

Volcanologists use the remains of past eruptions and previous warning signs to predict when it might blow.

In the United Kingdom, volcanologists work at the Exeter - based Met (formerly meteorological) Office, modeling the drift of volcanic ash clouds in the atmosphere.

The idealized UW computer simulation could help volcanologists better understand how energy builds up inside a system like Mauna Loa, which is a focus of the UW group's research, to predict when it will erupt.

Volcanic ash advisory centers exist around the world and typically employ meteorologists, but volcanologists with experience in satellite data and dispersion modeling also work there.

Volcanologists with an interest in public safety can and often do work in academia.

When magma erupted from a crack in the ocean floor off El Hierro, the youngest, westernmost island, local volcanologist Vicente Soler headed out to sea, looking for answers.

Similar opportunities for volcanologists exist outside of academia.

You might say these volcanologists are like weather forecasters, but with volcanoes.

«We have some of the best geophysical surface features in the world,» notes Brad Scott, who has worked in the TVZ since 1974 as a volcanologist for GNS Science, a geoscience research service.

A Volcanologist's Vista, by Anne Forde, 8 April 2005.

But «what we found on the seafloor was almost entirely different from what we expected,» says Rebecca Carey, a volcanologist at the University of Tasmania in Australia.

Part of the job for many volcanologists is to keep the public and public authorities informed about potential risks from nearby volcanoes.

«That is a real eye - opener from this study,» says Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport, Ore. «What they found tells us a lot about how submarine eruptions behave differently than those on land.»

With Mount Agung on eruption watch in Bali, Carn notes that monitoring emissions from the volcano may aid volcanologists in determining whether or not an Agung eruption is imminent.

A volcanologist from the Smithsonian explains why this eruption could cause long - term disruption

Jeff Johnson, a volcanologist at Boise State University in Idaho, is using this method to help read activity at the Villarrica volcano in Chile.

«The field of volcanology is quite a long way behind fields like meteorology, in terms of developing forecasts,» says David Pyle, a volcanologist at the University of Oxford.

Volcanologist John Bailey of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks says Google Earth's views help scientists make the most of information on ash pathways.

Being able to predict how this element of the system changes could help volcanologists make better forecasts.

Traditionally, volcanologists have monitored the movement of active craters by timing how long a pulse from a laser on one side takes to return from a mirror on the other.

Jackson, a volcanologist by training who led an earlier study at the ALS on Roman seawater concrete, is the lead author of a paper describing this study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled «Mechanical Resilience and Cementitious Processes in Imperial Roman Architectural Mortar.»

U.S. - based volcanologist Janine B. Krippner has been closely following since the alert status was first raised to the highest in September, and uses Twitter to share official information and bust myths and hoaxes circulating online.

Dealing with recalcitrant software or a faulty device far away from your research centre is the most common tribulation that volcanologists encounter, far more common than a dramatic injury or grizzly death, provided sensible precautions are taken.

Still, the perception that volcanologists must take life - threatening risks continues to prevail, and Mather is critical of what she sees as media «sensationalism.»

The city of Tauranga, with more than 100,000 residents, lies about 50 kilometres west of the uplift.Elaine Smid, a volcanologist at the University of Auckland, notes that people in the area are already at risk from volcanic hazards, especially ashfall from the Taupo volcanoes.

David Pyle, a volcanologist at the University of Oxford, agrees.

Volcanologists say there have been more than 23 smaller eruptions at Yellowstone since the last major eruption approximately 640,000 years ago.

At an appeal last year, however, six of them — three seismologists, a volcanologist, and two seismic engineers — were acquitted.

We didn't have a single foreign volcanologist visit.

There have been six island - forming eruptions in recorded history at this site, says Brad Scott, a volcanologist with the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences in New Zealand, and the first researcher to glimpse the baby island, and all of those islands eroded away eventually.

To predict eruptions, volcanologists typically use distant ultraviolet spectrometers to measure SO2 released by active volcanoes.

Volcanologist Andrew McGonigle walks through clouds composed of mist, steam, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) on Vulcano, an active volcanic island off the coast of southern Italy.

Lazer says the notion that the victims of the eruption were a closely related group fits neatly with work reported in the mid-1980s by volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson of the University of Rhode Island in the US.

Based on scaling up smaller eruptions like the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, volcanologist Stephen Self of The Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., and paleobiologist Michael Rampino of New York University in New York City put the cooling at only 3 ˚ to 5 ˚C.