📣Join us in May for the next BILNAS lecture:
'Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa' by @danmclean.bsky.social
📆 Thursday 14 May at 5pm (UK time)
📍 Online via Zoom
💻 For more details and to register 👇
bilnas.org/event/volcan...
🌋📢 Consider submitting to this JQS #Tephra Special Issue!
"Beyond the #Eruption – Advances and Applications in Distal Tephra Analysis Across the Geosciences"
Deadline now extended until 2 July 2026.
Further details below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Check out our new paper that establishes the timing of the enormous Aso-3 caldera forming eruption and dispersal across Japan 🇯🇵🌋🔎
Fig. 1 from Wilkinson-Rowe et al. (2026). Regional overview map of the Main Ethiopian Rift focussing on key Late Pleistocene – Holocene active volcanic centres of the central rift and off-axis volcanic fields and fault branches. The YTVL (grey shaded area) depicts the Yerer Tullu-Wellel Volcanotectonic Lineament. Yellow dots indicate lake records at Babogaya, Dendi, Haro Kori, and Wergoba utilised in this study and blue dots indicate other lake records with published tephra horizons. The inset box provides the location for Fig. 2. Digital terrain model for base map from NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (2013), modified in QGIS.
Have you read this fantastic QSR paper by @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social et al.(2026)?
Lake sediments from the Main Ethiopian Rift reveal refined eruption histories of Boset & Corbetti volcanoes over the Late Holocene, with improved age & volume constraints.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔁📢Deadline extended: 2 July 2026!
EAA 2026 (Athens) - Call for contributions is now open for the session "Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research" 🌋🔬🙂🔬🌋
Deadline: 5 Feb.
#tephra #archaeology #EAA2026
Commission on Tephrochronology presents three sessions at the EGU, come and submit and abstract: GMPV11.1 “Tephra processes and dispersal: from tephrochronology to hazard assessment applications in volcanology” SSP2.7 “Tephrochronology Beyond Boundaries: Chronology, Correlation and Innovation in Earth System Studies” ESSI3.6 "From Principles to Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Data-Driven Tephra Research" Details on the submission process can be found at https://www.egu26.eu/authors/how-to-submit.html
🌋 Hello tephra & volcano fans 🌋
We have some announcements, including THREE tephra sessions at the #EGU2026 and TWO special issues! Check out our flyer below with all the details, and pass it on!
@egu.eu @ingvterremoti.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social @tephraportal.bsky.social
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Deadline now extended! 🌋
Check out this fantastic #tephratastic session at the EAA Annual Meeting in Athens (26-29 August 2026). 🌋🔍😍
203 – Advances in #Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research
🚨The call for Contributions deadline is 5 February.
🌋 New paper led by Emma Horn & the CAVES Project!
We’ve characterised the glass geochemistry of 15 major Azores eruptions (~100 ka). This dataset provides fingerprints to trace Azores tephra across Europe, Africa & beyond. 🔎
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#Azores #Tephra #CAVESProject
🚨New paper!
Our latest study, led by Sophie Vineberg, integrates proximal & distal tephra records to reveal the timing and dispersal of large explosive eruptions at Aso volcano (Japan) 🌋
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108436
#tephra #volcanology #Aso #Japan #LakeSuigetsu #tephrochronology
We also took a trip to explore the rolling hills of Transylvania 🧛♂️🗻,Turzii gorge 🏞️ and the enormous Salina Turda salt mine🧂
It was great to join the INTIMATE network meeting in Cluj this week. 🦣❄️🕣 Some fantastic science coming soon!
🔁📢 Call for papers - JQS Special Issue on distal tephra analysis
Sponsored by IAVCEI Commission on Tephrochronology (COT)
🗓Deadline: 2 Jan 2026
🌋📢 Calling all #tephra researchers!
Join us in shaping this new JQS Special Issue.
"Beyond the #Eruption – Advances and Applications in Distal Tephra Analysis Across the Geosciences"
Deadline: 2 Jan 2026.
Further details below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
🌋 PhD and MSc students in Earth Sciences 🌋 Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the International Summer School on Geohazards in Volcanic Islands, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores from 28 May to 4 June. Please check ivar.uac.pt/summer-course/ Deadline for application is approaching, 30 April.
An AI generated Lego set
An AI generated Lego mini-figure
Love it! I would buy the complete set. 😍
Could we also have some lab group #lego sets? @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @oxfordtephra.bsky.social
📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...
A totally tephratastic 2024 COT-INTIMATE-THM conference in Catania 🌋.
A flattened white greeting card with black line drawings of angular, irregular, cuspate and vesicular (bubble-shapes) tephra glass shards. On top of the card are three ceramic tephra shards - two white (felsic) and one brown (mafic).
Three ceramic tephra shards - two white (felsic) and one brown (mafic). Each is 2-3 cm long and they have cuspate and vesicle forms.
Look at these beautiful #tephra made by the brilliant Elo Wilkinson-Rowe who I have learnt so much from, and with, over the last few years in the Cambridge Tephra Lab @camtephra.bsky.social
Elo is heading next to Oxford to start her PhD with Victoria Smith @volcrocks.bsky.social 👏👏
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Delighted to share our new UKRI AHRC Catalyst Award project: Reliance or Resilience? Volcanism and the Ancient Maya.
www.arch.ox.ac.uk/volcanism-an...
Hello teacher friends! Annual call for anyone who might be interested in outreach activities relating to volcanology, hazards, risk etc to send me a DM or email. Also a quick plug for the ever growing stash of materials at earth-science.org.uk/teach-earth/
Back in the field exploring outcrops on Tenerife 🌋
Deadline for Abstract Submission for the COT-INTIMATE-THM conference in Catania is Monday! 🌋
Registration for the conference and field trips is now open!
View from Oxford - breathtaking
🌋The ultimate #tephratastic conference
Excited to share details of the COT-INTIMATE-THM meeting in Catania, September
🚨More information on the website: cot.iavceivolcano.org/cot-intimate...
Great to see you! 🌋
Announcing this year’s postgraduate conference to be hosted by Queen’s University, Belfast from the 29 -31st August! This is a great opportunity to showcase your research in a friendly environment, and get to know other Quaternary ECRs. Registration will be open soon!
Post-conference Cities on Volcanoes camp on Acatenango viewing platform (3600 m altitude). Amazing experience watching Fuego and Agua 🌋