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Deepest Undersea Vents Discovered
Black Smoker in the Cayman Trough (http://www.thesearethevoyages.net/jc44/images/smoker4.jpg) by Brendan Last night I came across a BBC article showing that a team of UK scientists have discovered a...
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Plosky Tolbachik: Pictures of fire and ice
By Claire I absolutely love images of erupting volcanoes, especially when they occur in ice covered mountains. Any lucky for me, today’s blog post includes both of these things! The Plosky Tolbachik...
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Pavlof’s Volcano will erupt when bell is rung
By Nick, Unfortunately its Pavlov’s Dog, and Pavlof Volcano, but it would have been such a good joke. Over sixty volcanoes erupt on earth every year, but most of these are underwater, or in countries...
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Volcano Tourism – Mt. Aso
Aso Caldera By Evan As mentioned in my last post, I currently am spending some time in Japan, in Kumamoto, Kyushu (i.e. southern Japan). The major attraction of Kumamoto, besides the ubiquitous...
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Pavlof’s Volcano definitely erupting confirms ISS.
By Nick Last week there was an amusing situation where some data was suggesting Pavlof’s volcano was about to erupt (seismometers), and then was erupting (thermal imaging), but people on the ground...
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Volcanic vent pops up at Rome’s airport
By Chops Thanks to the wonders of social media, I just noticed a small volcanic vent (a fumarole) has popped up right near Rome’s airport. Footage of the little vent in action is shown here:...
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Lab Lava: The hottest geology experiment around
By Nick Oh my this is so cool, and by cool I mean 1600 degrees hot! A project at Syracuse University in the states is melting basalts and then pouring them down slopes, creating man-made lava flows....
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Not quite News yet – Part I
In this series we present fictive “News Articles” which some of us wrote when participating in a Science Communication Workshop at ANU. If you want to know more about the Why and How, please see this...
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Aloha, Mahalo and Goodnight!
By Jo Ward I was lucky enough to go on the recent Geological Society of America’s Hawaiian volcanoes field trip with a fabulous bunch of students from Australia, New Zealand and the United States. It...
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Making volcanoes in the lab
By Eleanor Early on in my PhD I started telling people I do “experimental petrology”, which was true, but most people had no idea what I was talking about. I liked the term because it sounded clever...
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