Sentences with phrase «of volcanology»

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When I asked a prof of volcanology whether undersea volcanoes might produce a noticeable and sudden increase in the temperature of the Arctic Ocean (which was her specialty) she said «NO».
Never in the history of volcanology have so many volcanoes been monitored.
The Center of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) recommends for residents around Mount Agung as well as climbers and tourists to stop any activity near the Mount Agung crater area.
Kasbani, the head of the volcanology centre, told local media that if tremors continued, an eruption — the first in more than half a century — could be a «matter of hours» away.
«Even with all the signs and calculation we have today no one can tell when is the eruption will occur,» said Surono, an expert of volcanology and former head of Indonesia Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center.
A team of researchers in Russia - including scientists at St. Petersburg State University, the Institute of Volcanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the firm Mechanobr - Analit in St.
Old workhorses of volcanology — seismometers and GPS sensors, which detect movement of the ground — first picked up Eyjafjallajökull's stirrings in early January.
«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.

Not exact matches

«But some of these areas, in particular the Campi Flegrei, are densely populated and therefore even small eruptions, which are the most probable, fortunately, can pose risks for the population,» said De Natale, from the Vesuvius observatory at Italy's National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology.
Hutton's work became the basis of modern geology, inspired Charles Darwin and prefigured plate tectonics, volcanology, geobiology and the Gaia Hypothesis, a late - 20th - century view of the planet as a single self - regulating organism.
Some of our discussion topics have included marine science, medical research, climate change, and even volcanology!
The magnitude - 6.2 quake was not preceded by even one warning tremor, says Warner Marzocchi, head of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome.
Dr Tom Knott, Professor Mike Branney and Dr Marc Reichow, from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology's Volcanology Group, conducted the research with a team of international collaborators from the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Idaho State University, USA.
«It's really interesting to see the dynamic evolution that the model predicts, and how it explains what we observe on the surface,» says Simone Atzori, a geophysicist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, who was not involved with the study.
And the problem was also partly a breakdown of communication between researchers, policymakers, and the public regarding the possibility of a volcanic crisis, writes Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanology and remote sensing lecturer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, in a commentary published in The Geographical Journal.
Stefano Lorito of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome and colleagues assessed the amount of land movement during the magnitude 8.8 quake that hit Chile in February 2010, claiming over 500 lives.
Meanwhile, on the ground, earth scientists from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy are taking aim at the volcano with spectrometers, which measure the types and amounts of gases spewing from its mouth.
Scientists from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology study gases emitted from Iceland's 2010 eruption.
Syahbana, who studied volcanology in Brussels and Paris, said his team's main job was to «increase the preparedness of the communities here in the event of a major eruption».
The new plan specifies that the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the Italian Space Agency, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, and nine other institutes overseen by Profumo's ministry would be merged to form a single body with the same initials as that of the largest of the dozen, the National Research Council.
SELFOSS, Iceland — One of the biggest mysteries in volcanology may finally have a solution.
As for the idea that the smaller tremors reduce the risk by releasing energy, Bertolaso insisted that he had heard it from scientists at the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and that he had used the same phrase in the past without being corrected by any of his seismology consultants.
Similar sentiments were expressed in a 9 March note to government officials and parliamentarians from the presidents of several of the Italian research institutions that make regular use of air guns, including the National Research Council, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
ROME — Several months of uncertainty regarding the leadership of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) have come to an end with the appointment of University of Catania geophysicist Stefano Gresta as the institute's new president.
The legacy of the L'Aquila trial has complicated the problem, says Andrea Tertulliani, a geologist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome.
Controversy has erupted in Italy following the news that Domenico Giardini, who had announced late last year that he was to resign as president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), may now stay on in his job if a way can be found to supplement his income with that from a specially created professorship at the Sapienza University of Rome.
ROME — Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will face trial on charges of manslaughter with six other scientists and technicians for failing to alert the residents of L'Aquila ahead of the devastating earthquake that struck the central Italian town on 6 April 2009, killing 308 people.
Yesterday, Italian news agency ANSA quoted project coordinator Giuseppe De Natale of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology as saying that the office of Naples mayor Luigi de Magistris has approved the drilling of a pilot hole 500 meters deep.
Intriguingly, the part of the subduction zone that broke was not the part that had built up the most stress, according to a ground - motion study of northern Chile's seismic gap by Marianne Métois, a geophysicist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, and her colleagues (M. Métois et al.Geophys.
Other institutes facing cuts — although smaller than INFN — are the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, the National Institute for Astrophysics, and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
Jaggar's research in the late 19th and early 20th centuries forms the foundation of almost every aspect of modern volcanology, Dvorak says.
Enzo Boschi, the then - president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and now a defendant in the case, seemed to allude to this uncertainty in a March 31, 2009, meeting in L'Aquila, a medieval city in Abruzzo.
Analysis of lava collected from Mount St. Helens, USA and the Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat by volcanology researchers from the University's School of Environmental Sciences revealed remnants of pseudotachylyte, a cooled frictional melt.
The meeting's sessions cover a wide range of topics, including volcanology, planetary exploration, the Earth's internal structure and atmosphere, climate, energy, and resources.
The Dante mission is seeking not only to give volcanology a valuable new tool but also to prove the concept of robotic exploration of the Moon and Mars.
Scientists who study this are known as volcanologists and their field of science is known as volcanology.
Advancing tephrochronology as a global dating tool: Applications in volcanology, archaeology, and palaeoclimatic research Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located
These books — most of which were published in 2016 — represent a wide range of STEM fields, from marine biology to volcanology to math.
Mount Agung in Bali is experiencing unprecedented levels of seismic activity and could erupt in a «matter of hours» if tremors continue, Indonesia's volcanology centre has said.
«The activity of Mount Agung has entered the magmatic eruption phase,» Gede Suantika, an official at the volcanology and geological disaster mitigation agency, told Reuters.
Mount Agung in Bali could erupt in a «matter of hours», according to Indonesia's volcanology centre.
Indonesia's volcanology centre said there had not been an increase in the frequency of volcanic tremors and it was monitoring the situation.
Later, visit the volcanology office to meet with one of the researchers and learn about the geology of this beautiful area.
A reminder that the Bali volcanologists at the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM), and emergency officials at Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) should be the sole sources of information about Agung, as they have all the information and expertise.
The Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) has downgraded the alert level of Mount Agung from the highest level of four (warning), to the third level (watchful).
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry's Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center (PVMBG) said in a statement that the height of the smoke reached more than 700 meters from the peak of the mountain.
The activity of Mount Agung remains high but stable, said the Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation.
The Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation said there has been an increase in volcanic tremors, with a total of 564 recorded Monday.
But the head of Indonesia's volcanology center urged people to remain calm and said the mountain's alert level has not yet been raised.
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