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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Blog from Dr TiVonne Howe, recent #volcanology #PhD alumnus from @lancasteruni.bsky.social, on her research into magmatic volatiles at #Montserrat #SHV30, via @iavcei.bsky.social vipscommission.org/new-insights...

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Extract from the book #DomPhillips was writing at the time of his death: "How to Save the Amazon: A journalist's deadly quest for answers". A must-read for us all: out soon in the UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m.... The Dom Phillips institute: institutodomphillips.org.br/en/

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A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction

The long read: The Guardian journalist and the Brazilian activist were killed while investigating the destruction of the Amazon. In this extract from the book Phillips was writing at the time of his d...

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

UK Hydrological Outlook for May-July ☀️🌈 River flows likely to be below normal across most of UK, with potential for current low to exceptionally low flows persisting in some catchments. Flows in western Scotland and Northern Ireland are likely to be in normal range. 🔗 hydoutuk.net 💧 1/

Map of UK with shaded areas showing principal aquifers. map annotated with notes from the UK Hydrological Outlook

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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Eleven-time. I made the music with Ableton, a fiddle & my friend @htuffen.bsky.social on cello. The images are incidental, the tune is the main thing. It's the second section of a Serbian tune called Kopatchka. Cello and fiddle took ten mins to record, the rest took ten days! youtu.be/sx97_V4QLJI

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Eleven Time Kopatchka Land

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hugely proud of TiVonne Howe for passing her PhD viva today! TiVonne's thesis tackled deep CO2 and volatile degassing at Lesser Antilles volcanoes, supported by a Government of Montserrat scholarship. Super independent and original work reveals new volcanic insights.. @lancasteruni.bsky.social

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

These cards show how I've been at Lancaster University for a little while.....starting last century as a postgraduate student!

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Super proud of my son Alec (no. 11, right) for being part of the Dallam School boys U16 football team that won the Cumbria County Cup today ⚽👏🏼💥

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Excellent photo essay from Alessandro Gandolfi in today's @theguardian.com from Italy's Phlegraean Fields (Campi Flegrei), where ground movements, seismic swarms, and fumaroles are a part of life at a restless, active #volcano www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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‘The ground keeps breaking and deforming’: life in Italy’s volcanic Phlegraean Fields

In the Phlegraean Fields in southern Italy a record 6,740 earthquakes were recorded in 2024, and the seismic swarm has continued in 2025

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Fun and sunny field day looking at the Falls Foot #landslide in North Yorkshire, as our students prepare to write a technical report on its characteristics and likely triggers. Another great field site close to #Lancaster university!

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Congratulations to Montserratian @lancasteruni.bsky.social PhD student TiVonne Howe for publishing her first paper, on magmatic CO2 and storage depths at her volcano: Soufriere Hills, Montserrat. New insights into the depth of magma storage and CO2 systematics: www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The #LancasterUniversity educational philosophy states that "Education is at the heart of global change for the better". I'm proud of our graduating students brave enough to unfurl banners calling for an end to genocide, and to question ongoing University association with BAE systems, who arm it 👏🏼

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So good to see some of our graduating #volcanology #masters students at today's #LancasterUniversity graduation ceremony. Exciting plans for the future and a proud director of studies in the picture 👏🏼

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So great to see some of our graduating #volcanology #Masters students at today's #Lancaster University graduation ceremony. We'll keep in touch, and there are many exciting plans for the future!

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Excited to get a sneak preview of the spectacular textures in samples of lava and pumice from the ~877AD Hrafntinnuhraun eruption, #Iceland, from David Zhang (LEC PhD student). Rhyolite-basalt magma mixing, sintering, fracture and healing, and more...

Beautiful thin sections of Icelandic pumice and lava!

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Great atmosphere in the Gregson Centre last night... here's a snippet of bluegrass from Mr Saturday Night. Thanks to everyone who played and who came...we raised loads of money for charity!

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We had Toba volcano on trial today as part of an atmospheric science module, accused of almost wiping out our species. Prosecution: Rampino & Ambrose 2000 tinyurl.com/rampinoambrose Defence: Lane et al 2013 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301474110 Students inspired to see established thinking challenged!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Great audience in the Lancaster Environment Centre for Joe Roman (joeroman.com) explaining role of birds and seals in fertilizing the new volcanic island of Surtsey, and plugging his book Eat Poop Die. @lec-reefs.bsky.social

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We're proud to offer the UK's first & only taught #Volcanology Master's here at Lancaster University. Our alumni go on to great things in academia & industry: look at @mikevolc.bsky.social & @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social! Applications open via tinyurl.com/lancsvolc & video here: youtu.be/I40_31sLLiI

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MSc Volcanology and the Environment

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Here in the #Lancaster Environment Centre we're proud to offer the only UK Master's degree in #politicalecology, taught by @kaiheron.bsky.social & colleagues. For more info watch this video: youtu.be/jKsEQCKTjRg?... and check out our MA Political Ecology page: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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MA Political Ecology - A conversation with Dr John Childs

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

New study from @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social and team examines how crystal-rich magmas deform: a combination of viscous flow and fracture on different spatial scales. Especially relevant to lava dome emplacement. Bravo!

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Just finished In Ascension by Martin MacInnes: tinyurl.com/inascension. What a remarkable piece of writing...weaving together #ecology, #technology, #climate catastrophe, and the (dis)connect between humans and #nature, and humans and each other. A must-read for all social and physical scientists!

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Martin MacInnes interview: ‘An SF novel can be as high-brow as any other genre’ | The Booker Prizes

With In Ascension longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Martin MacInnes about the inspiration behind the novel and why he wrote it

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 25/11/2024

As COP29 draws to close, our research briefing highlights the breadth of BGS research and datasets available to support building resilience to geohazards under future climate change scenarios. www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/se...

BGS Geohazards and climate change research briefing

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A pleasure to read the classic Magnús Tumí Gudmundsson paper on volcano-ice interaction in the 1996 Gjálp eruption (www.nature.com/articles/40122) with our #glaciology students. Head twister: warm meltwater drained uphill beneath Vatnajökull! Pic: Magnús, me, Hannah Reynolds (ex-LEC Volcanology MSc)

Magnus, Hannah, and I catching up in 2019

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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Our new MSc #DataScience with Biodiversity Pathway is now up on the LEC webpages www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/graduate... Run through @dsilu.bsky.social

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Taught Master's - Lancaster University

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's not too early to reflect how the outline of lava flow fields in any future geological maps will record how public money protected the profits of a private company #anthropocene #capitalism #volcanology @andrimagnason.bsky.social

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Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya @eilyinskaya.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Lava flowing over the Blue Lagoon car park

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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm sorry but 1.5c is dead. It's over. Climate politics today is about mitigating runaway heating and ecological decline, while those with the levers of power -states and capital- push on the accelerator. This is why we must build new forms of popular power. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

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The 1.5°C Target for Global Warming Must Prevail | by Joeri Rogelj - Project Syndicate

Joeri Rogelj argues that the threshold established by the Paris agreement remains crucial – even if it is breached.

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi as 🦋 newbie: I'm a #volcanologist & environmental scientist at Lancaster Environment Centre (UK). My research: volcanic conduit processes, rhyolitic eruptions, and #magma #degassing, also increasingly #soils and #microplastics. Directed only taught #volcanology Masters in UK: tinyurl.com/MScVandE

hugh enjoying fieldwork at Torfajokull Iceland with Jacqui Owen and Dave McGarvie

Hugh using a heated stage microscope to image high temperature magma

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Calling all Lancastrians...come along to the Greggy on Friday December 6th to help me and Damon Kilcawley celebrate our birthdays with a festive fundraising party! Folk, klezmer, bluegrass and Morecambe Bay Americana from Balkanics, Mr Saturday Night, and Ruth Eliza...

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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello bluesky community! I'm fleeing from the fanatical billionaire fascism of Musk. It's great to see many friends and colleagues on here already. Any tips for volcanology/environment accounts to follow would be much appreciated.

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