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Alumnus profile #6 – Dr Sam Engwell

DSC_0500Dr Sam Engwell

Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, INGV

PhD title “Dynamics and Deposits of Large Explosive Eruptions”

 

 


1) The Twitter Challenge: Describe your PhD in 140 characters

Investigation of eruption processes during supereruptions by analysis of deposits in deep-sea sediments.

Deep sea core

Deposits from the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption can be found over 1000km away from the eruption source in deep sea cores. Photo credit: Sam Engwell

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