Experimental Volcanology at UB

Episode 8 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption at the summit of Kīlauea began last night, February 3, 2025, at 9:52 p.m. HST. Fountaining continues as of this morning. Livestream views available here: youtube.com/usgs/live

How does the viscosity of real lava vary spatially and with temperature across an active flow field? @UBGeology PhD student Martin Harris built the gear to find out and applied it to Icelandic lava: Real-time, in situ viscosity mapping of active lava pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/ar…

New experimental paper from our lab! We quantitatively show that most dome lavas are emplaced via a mixed viscous-brittle flow mechanism! Potentially transformative implications for our understanding of volcanic eruptions! Led by @WadsworthFabian doi.org/10.1016/j.jvol…

#ETNA - COMUNICATO DI ATTIVITA' VULCANICA del 2024-07-15 19:57 (UTC) - 21:57 ora locale L' #INGV #OsservatorioEtneo, comunica che l'attività stromboliana al Cratere Voragine si è intensificata ed è in atto una #fontanadilava con emissioni di cenere. ct.ingv.it/Dati/informati…

In occasione dei rilievi effettuati dal personale #INGV dei progetti #UNO e #DYNAMO a #Stromboli, stamattina e' stato osservato questo evento localizzato nell'area del parossismo dell'11 luglio

Breve sequenza esplosiva registrata oggi 14 luglio 2024 sull'Etna, a doppia voce dal cratere Voragine (in attivita' gia' da ieri) e da un redivivo cratere di Nordest. #Etna #INGV #OsservatorioEtneo

Martin Harris and Stephan Kolzenburg from @LAVAP_UB at @UBGeology discuss their new handheld lava penetrometer, with comments by @agwhittington from @UTSA. eos.org/articles/how-l…

#Nyiragongo main crater seen by @CopernicusEU's #Sentinel-2 on June 25 2024 Cratère central du #Nyiragongo vu le satellite #Sentinel-2 ce 25 juin 2024

UB PhD student Martin Harris has built a new portable penetrometer for measuring the viscosity of active lava and used it to measure lavas at Litli-Hrutur in Iceland. Check it out! | Review of Scientific Instruments | AIP Publishing pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/articl…

New eruption on Reykjanes, Iceland started around 2 pm local time. The fissure is in the same place as the previous eruption, a few km north of Grindavik. Currently ~2.5 km long and may be still lengthening

Registration for your 2024 edition of the "MELTS, GLASSES, MAGMAS" short course, taking place in Munich, Germany, from 22 through 26 July 2024 is now open: forms.gle/RmFZ4aBHDyW1BF…

#Etna's Southeast Crater continues emitting countless graceful vapor rings ("volcanic vortex rings"), a phenomenon never seen like this before. Someone said "maybe because we receive so much bad news lately, Etna has decided to do something simply beautiful". 5 April 2024

#Etna is putting on a new, different show. Since the evening of 2 April 2024, a small vent on the Southeast Crater is emetting unprecedented quantities of gas rings (volcanic vortex rings). Timelapse (10x) video recorded at dawn on 4 April 2024 from home in Tremestieri Etneo

Effusive activity inside Nyamulagira caldera on March 17, 2024. Activité effusive dans la caldéra du Nyamulagira le 17 mars 2024.

🌋Geochemistry report of the new lava🌋 The report focuses on SO2 emissions during the Sundhnúkur eruptions in comparison with the fagradalsfjall events earthice.hi.is/eruption-sundh…

New work led by our Luiz @PereiraConca out now in Journal of #Volcanology and Geothermal Research, showing how nanolite crystallisation increases #magma viscosity due to silica enrichment in residual melt. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @kaiuwehess @WadsworthFabian @neuville_daniel

The La Cumbre #volcano on Ferandina Island in the Galapagos has been continually erupting since early Sunday. Imagery from @NOAA's #GOESEast 🛰️ shows the hotspot and smoke plume emanating from the archipelago.

Lava has engulfed hot water pipeline that supplies 30,000 people across Reykjanes peninsula. Homes are heated with this water so this is a serious incident and work is underway on mitigating it. Map published on @RUVfrettir

Very plume-y on the commute. Lava really trucking it toward blue lagoon - very splooshy lava as we say in the biz