Sentences with phrase «university volcanologist»

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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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Thursday, experimental volcanologist Donald Dingwell of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich will become the new secretary general of the European Research Council (ERC).

«We knew it was a large - scale eruption, approximately equivalent to the biggest eruption we've seen on land in the 20th Century,» said Rebecca Carey, a volcanologist at University of Tasmania and Co-Chief Scientist on the expedition.

The study provides the most realistic model of Etna's internal dynamics, comments volcanologist Maurizio Bonafede of the University of Bologna, Italy.

Volcanologists at the University have discovered that a process called frictional melting plays a role in determining how a volcano will erupt, by dictating how fast magma can ascend to the surface, and how much resistance it faces en - route.

Meanwhile, volcanologist Scott Bryan of Kingston University in London was gunning for a research expedition to the island before it disappeared.

Volcanologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany and Uppsala University in Sweden have discovered that the temperature and water content of magmas varies through the lifecycle of a volcano, and that these variations occur in cycles in relation to the fresh input of new magma from below.

Steve Ruff (planetary geologist, Arizona State University), Jim Rice (geomorphology of Mars and expression of water shaping the planet's surface, Planetary Science Institute), Hanna Nekvasil (volcanologist and planetary geologist, New York State University at Stonybrook), Martin Van Kranendonk (Archean geology and astrobiology, University of New South Wales), Bruce Damer (prebiotic chemist, University of California at Santa Cruz), Alex Longo (Columbia Hills enthusiast, high school student).

«The identification of these groups of victims is key for improving safety and reducing deaths and injuries in these groups, said lead author and volcanologist Sarah Brown of the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences, in a press release.

Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., whose work involves looking at how eruptions shape ancient environments, commented on the study.

Students will be inspired by real space, STEM and education experts including Sue Horne and Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency Exploration team, volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather, Mars weather expert Professor Stephen Lewis, Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Education at the University of Cambridge and robotics expert Professor Peter McOwan at Queen Mary University of London.

«Earthquakes are rare at Öræfajökull, so they may indicate a reawakening,» says Dave McGarvie, a volcanologist at the Open University.

Nelson is not the first to consider salt, says Matthew Watson, a volcanologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.