📌 Webinar Title: Modeling Soil Moisture from InSAR Closure Phase
🗓 Date: Thursday 26th February
⏰ Time: 4pm UK time (4pm UTC / 5pm CET / 10am US Central)
🎙 Speaker: Dr. Yujie Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
🔗 Please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6ca940...
🚨 New map redraws our understanding of how continents deform 🚨
We are excited to share ground-breaking work led by COMET Co-Director @timwrightleeds.bsky.social, published in @science.org. Read more: comet.nerc.ac.uk/new-map-redraws-our-understanding-of-how-continents-deform/
#Tectonics #Research
We’re excited to share the latest COMET Annual Report! 🌍🌋🛰️
Dive into our 2024/2025 research highlights, science updates, and key activities across #EarthObservations, #Volcanism, #Earthquakes and #Tectonics.
🔗 comet.nerc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Join us for the first 2026 COMET webinar:
Title: Disasters by Design
Speaker: Dr Ekbal Hussain, British Geological Survey, UK
📅 Date: Thursday, 29 January 2026
⌛ Time: 3pm UK time (3pm UTC/ 4pm CEST / 7am PDT)
📍 Location: Online
🔗Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bd00a2...
COMET InSAR Training Workshop 2025 Resources Now Available!
📹 Full video recordings are live on the COMET YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0tb...
📊 Presentation slides and practical materials are available on GitHub: comet-licsar.github.io/ciw.html#com...
COMET is delighted to announce a range of funded PhD studentships across our world-leading research institutes.
🔗 Explore All Positions: 👉 comet.nerc.ac.uk/phd-opportun...
Don't miss this opportunity to join the COMET community and contribute to ground breaking research.
A huge thank you to everyone who participated in last week's COMET InSAR Training Workshop!
📹 Couldn't make it or want to revisit the sessions?
🔗https://www.youtube.com/@COMETWebinars
📅 Details for the 2026 InSAR Training Workshop will be announced on COMET Bluesky next year. Stay tuned!
🎉 We want to congratulate COMET Scientist Susanna Ebmeier for her promotion to the position of Professor of Volcano Remote Sensing.
🎧 The latest COMET webinar is now available on YouTube!
If you missed last week’s live session, you can now watch the full recording here:
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuhd...
In June 2025, COMET welcomed a delegation from the China Earthquake Administration to mark 20 years of collaboration.
During the visit, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding, opening the next chapter in our mission to understand and prepare for natural hazards.
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3WsxTw7
Join us for the next instalment of the COMET webinar
📅 Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2025
⌛ Time: 3 PM UK time (4 PM CEST / 7 PM PDT)
📍 Location: Online
We are pleased to welcome Dr Jin Fang, a COMET Research Fellow from the University of Leeds, as our speaker.
Register 👉https://bit.ly/4hIwlbj
Congratulations to Prof Andy Hooper @geoandyhooper.bsky.social and Prof Juliet Biggs on their election to the Academia Europaea 🎉
Membership in the Academia Europaea is by invitation only and recognises scientists who have made outstanding contributions to their fields.
****Reminder to register to attend the InSAR Training Workshop - deadline Friday 10th October.****
It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025.
The registration link and more information are available at:
comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...
Next COMET webinar:
Magma finds a way: insights into dyke pathways and failure of magma-mush reservoirs
Wednesday 17th September 2025 at 4pm UK time (4pm BST / 5pm CEST / 8am PDT)
Dr Lorenzo Mantiloni (University of Exeter, UK)
Please register at: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b9492e...
COMET+ webinar
SAR-empowered diagnosis of acute and chronic natural hazards
Wednesday 20th August 2025 at 10am UK time (10 am BST /11 am CEST/ 5 pm China ST/ 7 pm AET)
Dr Xie Hu
Peking University, China
Please register at: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/2b3cb7...
COMET is delighted to announce the registration of the InSAR Training Workshop 2025 is now open!
It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025.
Registration link:
comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...
The sun sets over Vienna on the last day of #lps25 - a more relaxed day ending earlier than usual (and a bit less hot outside). Lots of cool science presented here over the last few days, with various new insights for my own research. See you at the next edition 3 years from now! ;)
Sadly, it's the final day of @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna. There are are still lots of interesting sessions to attend, including talks by @julietbiggs.bsky.social and Luke Bateson (@bgs.ac.uk) on using AI for monitoring natural hazards, @ednadualeh.bsky.social and Camilla Medici. Full schedule below:
Day 4 of @esa.int Living Planet Symposium 2025 #LPS25
Join us at the poster session later today to learn about preparations for the upcoming Harmony mission with @julietbiggs.bsky.social @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social and deep learning methods for interseismic observations with Kun Jiang.
Day 3 at #lps25 wrapped up! Lots of COMET talks and posters to see…. and a little COMET group photo of those we could gather during the focaccia break. On to day 4 now!
Day 3 of @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna is in full flow! At 11.30am we have two talks by @timwrightleeds.bsky.social and
Camila Novoa Lizama from @envleeds.bsky.social. At 4.15pm Erin Mills @bgs.ac.uk is presenting and, after that session, there will be lots of COMET posters to see. More info below:
Day 2 at #lps25: a busy poster session (with drinks and snacks provided..), a swim in the Donau between sessions, more natural hazard sessions, and to wrap up the day: a shared COMET and @cpom-uk.bsky.social dinner that took over half of a restaurant. See you tomorrow for more…!
***COMET Scientist @geoandyhooper.bsky.social will be speaking on behalf of @yassermaghsoudi.bsky.social at 14.00 today.***
It's day 2 of @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna. At 2pm today COMET Scientist @yassermaghsoudi.bsky.social will be speaking about the "Development of an InSAR Phase Bias Correction Processor". You will also find two @envleeds.bsky.social PhD research posters in the poster hall from 5.45pm. More info below:
It's been a great start to the @esa.int Living Planet Symposium 2025! #lps25 If you're in Vienna, join us at the poster session this afternoon (see below) and to hear about "Routine Global Volcano Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 Data and the LiCSAlert Algorithm", presented by @geoandyhooper.bsky.social
Breakfast in Leeds, second breakfast in London, lunch in Brussel, sweet treat (ice cream!) in Frankfurt, late dinner in Vienna! And no delays all day - would recommend this train journey 😃
We spotted flixtrains (not buses!)
On to #lps25 starting tomorrow with workshops. Now it’s time to sleep… 😴
The sun rises early over Leeds on the longest day of the year as we set off from the train station towards Vienna for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium #lps25 🌞🌞
The coming week, I (Stijn Vleugels, Uni of Leeds) will be taking over the COMET socials to give you a firsthand experience of the conference!
We are delighted to celebrate two outstanding
@uk-comet.bsky.social Scientists, Professor Marie Edmonds @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social and Professor
@davidmpyle.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk), elected Fellows of the Royal Society this year: royalsociety.org/news/2025/05... 🎉
Read more: wp.me/p5NBzI-1Zg
