Sentences with phrase «good volcanologist»

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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.

«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.

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

«At Kima'Kho, we were able to map a passage zone in pyroclastic deposits left by the earliest explosive phase of eruption, allowing for more accurate forensic recovery of paleo - lake levels through time and better estimates of paleo - ice thicknesses,» says UBC volcanologist James K Russell, lead author on the paper published this week in Nature Communications.

Volcanologists are beginning to use satellite measurements and mathematical methods to forecast eruptions and to better understand how volcanoes work, shows a new article in Frontiers in Earth Science.

Readers will find geneticists, volcanologists, and primatologists, as well as mathematicians and chemists.

Volcanologists warn that the main hazards of a large eruption are hot and fast - moving avalanches of rocks, dust and gas that can not be outrun, known as pyroclastic flows, as well as mudflows and ashfall.

Satellites give volcanologists a good overall view of the volcano, but can't supply human - scale details.

[I've sent this question to some volcanologists, as well and will provide an update soon.]