We at @noc.ac.uk are very excited to be hosting the VMSG Annual Meeting which kicks off today with a session on marine volcanism following a morning of fantastic workshops.

A selection of photos of people talking at the Vmsg conference at the core workshop and posters across sessions. Also a photo of the sediment deposit left by many flows in the flume at the ice breaker.

What a cracking first day of science presentations at the @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting at @noc.ac.uk Fascinating talks and posters across the sessions. Back today covering magma, eruptive processes and volcanic monitoring among other topics. Photos taken by Dan Bourne.

The end of a great @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting hosted by @noc.ac.uk. Two and a half days of high quality science and still one more workshop to look forwards to tomorrow on pyroclastic stratigraphies led by @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social @drnatashadowey.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to Jacob Nash from @noc.ac.uk on winning the Bob Hunter Prize for Best Student Oral Presentation at the @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting. Very well deserved and stay tuned for his soon to be published paper on the marine deposits of the Hunga Volcano eruption.

There is still time for submit an abstract and register for the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) annual conference at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton in January next year. The deadline has been extended to Friday 5th December.

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Sedimentology of plastics: state of the art and future directions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Plastic waste is now a ubiquitous sedimentary material, from the polar ice caps to the deep ocean. Determining the physical and chemical properties, transport pathways and accumulation sites of plasti...

Check out our new volume in Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society- ‘Sedimentology of plastics: state of the art and future directions’. Thanks to Gary Hampson, Ian Kane, Catherine Russell, Matthew Jackson, Sarah Gabbott & the authors. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @noc.ac.uk

Anatomy of a Caldera: Integrated Mapping of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Anatomy of a Caldera: Integrated Mapping of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

Another exciting PhD opportunity with @isobelyeo.bsky.social, me and others on Mapping Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes…

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It was a huge privilege to contribute to this plan for the future of marine science infrastructure and the final report is a huge community effort. The UK have long been world leaders in marine hazards research and long may it continue!

Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk

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Was great to spend a day with INGV looking at lahar and debris avalanche deposits on the slopes of Mt Etna and discussing land to ocean transport processes. Really inspiring to see these deposits in the field with local experts!

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

Great to see @mikeaclare.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk quoted in this piece in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se... about the Hunga Volcano eruption and the subsequent telecommunications outage in 2022.

This year thousands of mysterious earthquakes hit Santorini. Scientists finally know why. During the quakes, researchers were able to track dangerous magma in real time.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... Interesting article on the 2025 Santorini seismic crisis in Nat Geographic w quotes from @isobelyeo.bsky.social and others discussing the excellent new Nature paper by Jens Karstens, Marius Isken & co

Get your abstracts in and get registered for VMSG 2026 in Southampton! It’s going to be a great event with some excellent workshops across a range of topics @vmsg.bsky.social

3.1 Mike Clare - Offshore hazards and sediment fluxes resulting from ocean-entering lahars YouTube video by Seafloor Explorer Seminar Series

Seminar 3 recording: @mikeaclare.bsky.social (NOC, UK) on offshore hazards caused by lahars 🌋🌧️ entering the ocean.
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Awesome fieldwork in the UK Lake District seeing welded ignimbrites, subaqueous volcaniclastic density current deposits, autobreccias & lots of soft sediment deformation in and around ancient caldera fill sequences. Scoping future ideas with @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @vmsg.bsky.social

Amazing talk by @isobelyeo.bsky.social bringing together loads of collaborative research on volcanic hazards from the 2022 Hunga eruption and what we can tell from the deposits left behind at @iavcei.bsky.social @ukri.org

A really great end to this lahars focussed mini session at @iavcei.bsky.social by @mikeaclare.bsky.social from @noc.ac.uk presenting work on lahars offshore and their huge sediment loads funded by the Sustainable Blue Economies Program.

Volcanic eruptions and the global subsea telecommunications network - Bulletin of Volcanology When the first transoceanic telegraph cables were laid in the mid-1800s, rapid communication between continents became possible. The advent of fibre-optic submarine cables in the 1990s catalyzed a glo...

Our new paper on volcanoes and the subsea cable network, led by @mikeaclare.bsky.social, is out today in Bulletin of Volcanology. Get it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excellent talk by @isobelyeo.bsky.social at SubOptic25 in Lisbon talking about how to enhance the resilience of small islands telecoms infrastructure to natural hazards, after she convened an interesting session on Marine Operations @noc.ac.uk

Really pleased to see our paper out assessing volcanic hazards for subsea cables and what we can learn from instances of damage dating back to the 1883 eruption of Krakatau that cut a critical telegraph cable and up to the present day

A great second day at SubOptic 2025, including a fascinating talk by @mikeaclare.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk on the challenges of cable fault attribution and how hazards are not always coincident with events.

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Naga Munchetty - Steffan Powell sits in - BBC Sounds Steffan Powell features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

Check out an excellent interview with @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk on BBC Radio 5 discussing recent eruptions at Axial Seamount, how new crust forms at mid ocean ridges, and a need to monitor submarine volcanoes -from 02:49 onwards www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Longsor bawah laut: Ancaman pemicu tsunami dalam senyap Longsor bawah laut bisa membesar hingga 13 kali lipat saat meluncur—dan data seismik refleksi memberi peluang untuk mengenali bahayanya sebelum berubah jadi bencana.

Nice discussion of our paper led by Harya Nugraha in The Conversation on large submarine landslides and how some can grow much larger due to erosion, and summarising the relevance for Indonesia theconversation.com/longsor-bawa... Original paper in GEOLOGY pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Listen to the much more fun than me @sofiadellasala.bsky.social from @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social talking about our Santorini expedition and her packing challenges here.

Naga Munchetty - 29/04/2025 - BBC Sounds Naga Munchetty features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

Really enjoyed being interviewed on @bbc5live.bsky.social this afternoon about @noc.ac.uk led @ukri.org funded work on submarine volcanic eruptions. If you want to hear more about underwater robots and my secret lair then give it a listen from about 2hrs 13 minutes in.
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Micro‐Scale Characterization of Marine Sediment Structures: The Potential and Challenges of X‐Ray μCT Imaging Synchrotron X-ray μCT reveals small-scale heterogeneity in sediment structures that is missed by standard geotechnical tests Pore space distribution in natural marine sediments is highly spatiall...

New paper led by Ricarda Gatter of MARUM shows the value of micro-CT scanning, revealing surprisingly fine-scale porosity changes which has wide application to landslide & subsurface fluid flow assessments. Based on work started at @noc.ac.uk in 2020 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

News Splash: Unlocking the Role of High-Temperature Fluids in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions YouTube video by National Oceanography Centre

If you’re interested in knowing more about our work in Santorini here is me talking for two and a half minutes about what we’ve been doing and hope to achieve. Put together by our magnificent Comms Team and filmed by the brilliant Dan Bourne. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFc... @noc.ac.uk @ukri.org

Great to see this research covered by the BBC - looking forward to seeing what we discover from all the data that were collected last month! Nice work by @isobelyeo.bsky.social on radio and TV interviews!

Our new paper shows what happens when a major glacial lake outburst reaches the ocean, led by Lewis Bailey and supported by @ukri.org @noc.ac.uk