Modelling the dispersion of volcanic ash in the atmosphere

Dr Benjamin Devenish (Met Office).

Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography .

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

The curious incident of the cristobalite in the Mount St Helens dome

Professor Claire Horwell (Durham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography .

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Volcanoes, Rhinoceros and Cabbage

Professor Matthew Watson (University of Bristol).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Tracking the behaviour of sulfur in oxidised magmas using sulfur isotopes

Zoltán Taracsák (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

The formation of co-genetic silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated igneous rocks: pressure, fractional crystallisation and crustal assimilation

Carrie Soderman (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Exploring changes in exposure to glaciovolcanic hazard

Max Van Wyk De Vries (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Building global resilience to volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

How can social sciences be used to explore how communities think and feel about volcanic risk and to better inform disaster risk management?

Blaise Mafuko Myandwi (University of Goma, DRC) and Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

A Peculiar Haze, a Sulphuric Smell, and Bloodred Sunsets: The Effects of the 1783-1784 Laki Eruption on Europe

Dr Katrin Kleemann, German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Storms, surf, & swells: Bedrock breakdown and the geodynamic demise of volcanic ocean islands

Kim Huppert - GFZ Postdam.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Crystallisation temperatures as a proxy for mantle temperature; and the 2021 eruption in Reykjanes

Simon Matthews - University of Iceland.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

2018 Eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano – Use of Social Media and the U.S. Department of Interior Strategic Sciences Group

Aleeza Wilkins and Alice Pennaz (USGS).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Refined eruptive history of Mount Pelée volcano and implications for tephra fallout hazard in Martinique

Dr Audrey Michaud-Dubuy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Looking Through the Sunda Arc: An Overview of Java’s Magmatism

Dr Esti Handini, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Exploring volcanoes in Central Iceland as Analogs for Planetary Environments

Jacob Richardson, NASA/GSFC.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

A Caribbean Vacay: Sun, Sand, Sea and Volcanoes?! An introduction into volcanic outreach in the Eastern Caribbean

Alia Juman, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Modeling volcano-tectonic interactions in a youthful continental rift: the East African Rift System

Joshua Jones (Virginia Tech).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Integrating social and institutional vulnerabilities into volcanic risk scenarios: A case study at Nevado Cayambe, Ecuador

Dr Julie Morin, Department of Geography.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Snapshot of a magmatic system immediately prior to an explosive eruption: Tenerife 289 ka

Emma Horn, University of Southampton.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Exploring controls on the distribution of sulfur-loving elements in Icelandic magmas

Callum Reekie, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Volcanic activity along the enigmatic South Sandwich arc

Dr Emma Liu, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Assessing hazards in distributed volcanic fields

Lis Gallant (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Initiation of a composite volcano: The complex beginnings of the long-lived Dunedin Volcano, New Zealand

Rachael Baxter, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 09:00-10:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Experimental insights on volcanic ash as a reactive agent in the environment

Dr Elena Maters (University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Implications of Holocene cryptotephra records in North America

Lauren Davies, University of Alberta.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Daly Lecture Preview

Marie Edmonds.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Monday 02 December 2019, 12:30-13:00

Tracking sulfur and its chalcophile allies at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: A story of sulfide saturation, sulfide resorption and magmatic degassing

Cambridge University.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Monday 02 December 2019, 12:00-12:30

Unusual techniques for an unusual volcano: monitoring at Ol Doinyo Lengai

Kate Laxton, University College London.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

The magmatic and eruptive evolution of the 1883 explosive, caldera-forming eruption of Krakatau, Indonesia

Amber Madden-Nadeau, University of Oxford.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Unravelling the Echo Canyon deposit: Explosive-effusive transitional volcanism, Ascension Island, South Atlantic - Insights from the field and the lab

Bridie Davies, University of East Anglia.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

How volcanism controls the interiors of lava-worlds

Dan Spencer, University of Oxford.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

New PhD students introductions - Cambridge Volcanology

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Tracking chalcophile elements from source to vent at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

Penny Wieser, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 12:10-13:00

Masterclass: An introduction to distal tephrochronology and cryptotephra methods

Professor Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise.

Thomas J. Aubry, University of British Columbia.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 12:00-13:00

Lithium, rhyolites, and the green revolution

Ben Ellis, ETH Zurich.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Measuring gas emissions at the 2018 Leilani Estates eruption, Kilauea

Penny Wieser, Emily Mason; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Phosphorous pathways in Deep Time / Atmospheric Fingerprints of Volcanism

Craig Walton, Pip Liggins; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

tbc // Sulfur isotopes as tracers for stratospheric volcanic sulfur loading

Nick Barber, Johnny Staunton-Sykes; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Globally Significant CO2 Emissions From Katla, a Subglacial Volcano in Iceland

Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Leeds.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Volcanic applications for understanding the evolution of human behavior in East Africa

Nick Blegen, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

An unusual patient: quantifying 3D deformation around analogue magma intrusions by using X-ray Computed Tomography

Sam Poppe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 12:00-13:00