Tinted detail of a photo: Polarised-light micrograph of a large bright blue crystal with a dark rim and cracks, surrounded by a dense mesh of small needle-shaped crystals in pink, yellow and blue.
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Explosive Inside, Effusive Outside: What is it that makes volcanoes erupt the way that they do, and how does that relate to how all ECRs feel inside?

Explosive Inside, Effusive Outside: What is it that makes volcanoes erupt the way that they do, and how does that relate to how all ECRs feel inside?

Let’s get the joke out of the way first, because I made it to myself more than once while finishing this piece: “explosive inside, effusive outside” is a fairly accurate description of the average Early Career Researcher trying to hold it together inside the current state of academia. Calm, composed, professionally cheerful on the surface; …[Read More]

La Soufrière de Guadeloupe: Past Eruptions and Ongoing Activity

La Soufrière de Guadeloupe: Past Eruptions and Ongoing Activity

La Soufrière de Guadeloupe is an andesitic stratovolcano located in the southern part of Basse-Terre, within the Guadeloupe archipelago (Eastern Caribbean). It towers over the towns of Sainte-Claude and Basse-Terre. Nearly 50 years ago, this region faced severe consequences from a phreatomagmatic eruption, forcing the evacuation of 80,000 people. Since then, the volcano has been …[Read More]

Tambora 1815: From eruptive dynamics to the global impact of the eruption – with Jessica Kandlbauer

Panorama Mount Tambora caldera

reading time: 10 minutes The Tambora 1815 eruption: a brief introduction On April 10th, 1815, the Tambora volcano, located on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, was responsible for one of the largest eruptions in the last millennium (Stothers, 1984; Sigurdsson and Carey, 1989; Oppenheimer, 2003; Self et al., 2004; Kandlbauer et al., 2013a; Kandlbauer …[Read More]