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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hey #volcano peeps, #ocean lovers, fellow #explorers, please join me online, 17 June at noon (EST), for a unique and firsthand presentation about active submarine volcanoes, as part of the Explorer's Club "Dispatches from the field", online presentation series. registration link in ALT text.

Kenna Rubin Explorers Club online presentation, Register for webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Z_zDam63RoumBTRGXfVhjA . (anyone can register)

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URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🌊 We’re thrilled to share that #URIGSO’s @kennarubin.bsky.social has been named an Explorers Club 50 (EC50) honoree! Each year, the @theexplorersclub.bsky.social recognizes fifty extraordinary people advancing science & exploration across the globe. 🌊 🦑 🌋 🧪 ➡️ Read more: buff.ly/9Z3SEeG

Kenna Rubin aboard the multi-purpose vessel MMA Valour on an expedition to study drowned Hawaiian reefs in 2023. (Photos courtesy of ML Parker media)

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🧪🌋Drawing clear connections between science & impacts on people (especially around natural hazards) has always mattered, but now feels more important than ever. Thrilled to teach OCG131G Volcanoes & Society this semester to a large, curious @universityofri.bsky.social student group of many majors.

Montage of images showing 3 days of lava inundation into Hawaiian towns from Kilauea volcano in 2018, and a resultant overall inundation map. Source: Montage by Kenna Rubin using individual images from the expansive and well documented USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory media archive. Lava flowed from fissures in the Leilani Estate neighborhood down the East Rift Zone, and then turned toward the sea by Kapoho, part of a prior eruption in 1960. This eruption also initiated near fissures of a prior eruption in 1955 and not too far from lava inundation in 2014 and from a large eruption in 1840. This eruption was particularly destructive to built infrastructure, as seen here flowing through homes and out to sea. So why do so many people live here, and why were these towns established in the first place? These are complex questions with cultural, social, socio economic and geological underpinnings.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Thrilled to in Explorers Club EC50 Class of 2026: an inspiring multinational cohort of extraordinary people pushing boundaries, doing remarkable science and exploration work across the planet. 50.explorers.org/community/ Thx @theexplorersclub.bsky.social & deepseadawn.bsky.social‬ nominating me 🧪🌋🌊

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🧪🌋🌊 Deep-sea volcanic pyroclast formation decoded. Most submarine eruptions don't break the sea surface & are rarely observed. We're uncovering how energetic underwater eruptions produce distinctive fragmental deposits unlike subaerial plumes. 2 modes shown here presented at #AGU25. More in ALT text

Glowing molten ejecta and freshly formed pyroclasts from a submarine volcanic eruption. Two distinct , mildly energetic eruption styles are shown at nearby vents during the 2009 West Mata eruption in northern Tonga. These common but rarely observed fully underwater eruptions produce thick, coarse pyroclastic deposits close to the vent. The deposits are unlike less frequent, but dramatic, very energetic, and more often observed eruptions that break the sea surface, such as Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai in 2022 or Havre in 2012, with eruption plumes and deposits influenced by distribution all or partly in air. Such eruptions that occur entirely beneath the sea surface produced landforms with low sea bed volcanic terrain stability, impacting the geology, hydrothermal activity, and ecosystem development. Image Source: Kenna Rubin, William Chadwick, Robert Embley, Susan Merle, David Clague (2025) Widescale Recent Submarine Pyroclast Production During NE Lau Basin Eruptions at 1-3 Km Water Depth and Resultant Volcano Morphology, AGU Fall 2025 meeting, New Orleans, LA, presentation V42B-07, Abstract ID:1916983, ESS Open Archive . January 21, 2026, DOI: 10.225

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🧪🌊 Stoked to see our DSV Alvin article named an Editor’s Favorite for 2025 by AGU’s Eos. 60 yrs of ocean discovery; the submersible is still evolving, thanks to an extraordinary community & long-term support from @whoi.edu #NSF #NOAA #ONR. Grateful to be a part of the story. eos.org/articles/our...

Collage of images highlighting some of the top 2025 stories in EOS BUZZ, the online version of the American Geophysical Union's science news magazine. Read about all the cool top stores they highlight at https://eos.org/articles/our-favorite-science-stories-of-2025. The Alvin human-occupied submersible, operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is a continually evolving deep-sea research platform that has enabled scientific discovery for six decades. Its longevity reflects the work of dedicated scientists, engineers, technicians, and pilots, and long-term support from the National Science Foundation, NOAA, and the Office of Naval Research. I am honored to have been a part of that history for the past 3 decades. Image source: eos.org

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ Beautiful Kilauea volcano in #eruption again, with an unusual very high mass flux, near-lateral #lava fountain, next to a vertical fountain in episode 38, now, 6 Dec 2025, as seen live on the K2 usgs webcam. See video clip of usgs livestream at ~10 am hst youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-lk... #hawaii

Very large glowing lava fountain at Kilauea volcano, 11 am hst, 7 Dec 2025, episodes 38, as grabbed live from the #USGS live K2 webcam.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ This never gets boring. A pulse of hot lava meanders down the vent proximal surface flow this morning at Kilauea volcano #Hawaii. More than just pretty, Volcanologists study time variations of lava, tephra & gas distribution, movement, & composition to understand volcanic processes and hazards

Glowing lava flow on 8 Nov. 2025, after the most recent high fountain episodes, from a live view camera, Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Kaluapele (Kīlauea caldera), from the northwest rim of the crater USGSc V1cam]. SOURCE: U.S. Geological Survey https://share.google/Sf0CKlyXCTCde18Et

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🧪🌋⚒️Kilauea putting on a show again! The vent was overflowing lava last night; this morning a rainbow arched over the crater. Looks like we’re heading for fountaining episode #36! Shoutout to #USGS_HVO for keeping the #openaccess live webcams streaming, rain or shine, to capture eruption frequency 🌈🔥

Early morning glow of molten lava and hot fume as it escaped from the vent at Hawaii's #Kilauea volcano between fountaining episodes 35 and 36 in Halemaʻumaʻu crater on the V3 cam livestream. https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/v3cam-kilauea-volcano-hawaii-south-halemaumau-crater

Enhanced capture of a rainbow over Halemaʻumaʻu s seen on the USGS live stream B1 cam today, from https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/b1cam-kilauea-caldera-down-dropped-block-and-halemaumau

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🧪🌊⚒️🌋 Can’t believe it’s been 3 years since my last deep-sea dive! Here’s a montage of #WHOI Alvin Dive 5097, from 6 km (20,000 ft) down. You’ll see glimpses of fresh lava flows and the remarkable life that thrives in the #DeepSea. #OceanExploration. Video by Kenna Rubin. Funding by NSF/NOAA/ONR.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ No fountains, but dramatic still: throwback moment to pre 2018 Caldero collapse USGS-HVO image of glow over Halemaumau lava lake during an intense lightning storm at #Kilauea #volcano summit, Oct 16, 2015.

Lightning and glowing.volcanic fume at kilauea volcano in Oct 2015. Source: HVO image cropped and enhanced by Kenna Rubin to highlight the action. http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/multimedia/

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🧪⚒️ What is it about erupting 🌋 that stirs us? Drama & destruction? Earth moving on timescales we can see & feel? The swagger of scientists who chase the fire? Thank you #USGS for the stunning YT #time-lapse of #Kilauea Caldera draining & refilling 2018 to now, & 4 all you do youtu.be/3uGiwlzxgHA?...

youtu.be

Kīlauea Collapse and Refilling – Changes Since 2018

YouTube video by USGS

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🧪🌋⚒️No current US federal funding (thanks, shutdown), but the cameras are still rolling!🔥Huge gratitude for #USGS_HVO keeping the live feed up: Early morning spatter & glowing surface flows today from #Kilauea’s Episode 35 in Halemaʻumaʻu crater are putting on a show. Catch it on the V1 & V3 cams.

A near-vent surface lava flow glowing orange in the early AM hours at Kilauea volcano on 17-Oct-25, as captured live on the USGS V1 camera. source: https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/v1cam-kilauea-volcano-hawaii-west-halemaumau-crater

Glowing hot surface lava flow apron issues from low spattering at the active vent in the early AM hours at Kilauea volcano on 17-Oct-25, as captured live on the USGS V3 camera. source: https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/v3cam-kilauea-volcano-hawaii-south-halemaumau-crater

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Did you know that Earth's most & 2nd most powerful/explosive #volcanic #eruptions of the century were submarine? We are discussing both the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (pictured) & the 2012 Havre eruptions, both in the Kingdom of Tonga, this week in my Submarine volcanoes course at #URIGSO 🧪🌋🌊

Two true color satellite views of the rising and spreading tephra plume from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption, from the geostationary satellite GOES-West. (a) Aerial emission linked with the volcanic activity on 13 January; (b) Ash plume emitted during the main eruption on 15 January. Red lines depict the coastline and the yellow triangle depicts the position of the HTHH volcano. Source: Barone, Letelier, Rubin & Karl (2022) Satellite Detection of a Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Following the 2022 Submarine Eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai Volcano, Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (17) e2022GL099293; open access at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL099293

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🧪🌊🌋 Many scientists have a single field moment that changes how they see their work. Mine is in this video clip. What’s yours? Video source is in the clip - see more below (1/3)

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

🧪🌋 What does one of the Kilauea #Volcano active vents look like between dramatic high fountaining eruption episodes happening roughly weekly in 2025? At night, you can see the conduit is a fuming, glowing-orange hole in the ground with magma 100s of m beneath the surface, waiting to repressurize.

Zoomed in view visable ar 3:37 am hst on 27 Sept 2025 (date and time stamps are in the upper left corner of the image) on the USGS V1cam Pan and Tilt camera, live at Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater) | U.S. Geological Survey https://share.google/lvjOmXsEQOsplvAUX

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

West Mata 🌋 shots 4 #FieldPhotoFriday, described in ALT text. AI calls me an “Oceanographer 🌊 passionate about volcanoes, deep-sea science 🧪, community engagement & inclusivity,” then asks: “Are volcanoes just angry mountains? Is the government hiding underwater volcanic alien civilizations?” Hmm 😜!

Annotated views from my research on submarine volcanic eruption and eruption products at West Mata volcano, Tonga, showing a few of the many styles of activity we see at this small yet very active volcano, and a current image of me :)
Sources for all images: Kenna Harmony Rubin

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🧪 Spiritual #sunrise at Puʻu Moaʻulanui heiau in 2018, on Kahoʻolawe’s summit, looking toward Haleakalā #volcano. I joined a small Univ. of Hawaiʻi team exploring ways to enable immersive student #sustainability training through the restoration of these sacred lands. #HandsOnLearning #Fieldwork

View to sunrise at Haleakalā (literally the “House of the Sun.”). Maui, from Puʻu Moaʻulanui heiau (temple) on the wind-swept summit of Kahoʻolawe. Captured during a 2018 visit with University of Hawaiʻi professors brainstorming student sustainability training by restoring sacred lands after more than a century of misuse. Photo (c) 2018 Kenna Harmony Rubin Photography

Close up view of Kahoʻolawe's summit Puʻu Moaʻulanui heiau (a Hawaiian altar) at sunrise, captured on a magical morning (after a not so comfortable jeep ride) during a 2018 visit with University of Hawaiʻi professors brainstorming student sustainability training by restoring sacred lands after more than a century of misuse. Photo (c) 2018 Kenna Harmony Rubin Photography

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

🧪🌊 R/V Endeavor, so central to the @urigso.bsky.social mission, returned home one last time, closing out 49 remarkable years of seagoing research with well-earned cheers for an amazing ship and crew. Is the ship's retirement a hint of broader things to come?

A packed pier as seen from Mosby center at R/V Endeavor's last homecoming on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

R/V Endeavor executes its last approach to its mooring at the GSO pier on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

A packed pier with onlookers, mostly from the local community, at R/V Endeavor's last homecoming on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

R/V Endeavor tied up at the dock amid much fanfare during its last homecoming on 20 Sept. 2025. Photo by @kennarubin.bsky.social

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🧪🌋⚒️A day later and #Kilauea #Volcano eruption Episode 33 in Halema'uma'u is really going strong now. Watch the high fire-fountaining feeding surface follow live, at one of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory webcams, courtesy of #USGS. This screen shot is from V2 cam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

High fountains as seen live on USGS's V2 pan and tilt camera now. source: frame grab from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyttmA7YkA

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🧪🌋⚒️Hawai‘i’s Pele is at it again! #Kilauea #Volcano Episode 33 began on Sep 17 & overnight brought low fountaining & lava overtopping the vent. Live frame grabs from USGS webcams 3 AM HST 18 Sep 25. Ongoing eruption started Dec 2024 & has periodic day-long pulses. Cam locations & link in ALT text.

Low fountains and lava overflow, as seen live on USGS's V1 camera (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater) now. source: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/summit-webcams live feed

Tephra spatter, s seen live on USGS's V3 camera (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater) now. source: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/summit-webcams live feed

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Class today was about submarine lava‐flow morphology. wearing my first true autumn outfit of the season. These flows can be even more variable than those on land, thanks to factors like depth, viscosity, effusion rate, & seafloor slope (details in caption). Images: dx.doi.org/10.5670/ocea... 🧪🌋🌊⚒️

Four examples of typical submarine lava-flow morphologies, arranged clockwise by decreasing cooling rate, with me in the center showing off my new shoes today. The rate and geometry of cooling reflects things like how fast the lava is effusing from the vent, how fast it is moving across the sea bed (e.g., from slope variations), and the viscosity of the magma. All images show very young submarine lava flows, from my collaborative research with other submarine volcanologists. Most images are from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.12
Upper left: Turbulently emplaced, curtain-folded sheet flows
Upper right: Collapsed lobate lava with solidified interior lava drips
Lower right: Newly erupted pillow lavas abutting older, sediment-coated pillow lava
Lower left: Young pillow lavas forming on a steep slope

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🧪🌊 Last week's joyous pre-semester selfies + some science 😉 40 yrs of university teaching, leadership & peer-reviewed research in topics like volcanology, deep-sea, coral reef, & environmental chemistry, taught me that girly scientists can be trusted academicians 🏳️‍⚧️, even in a world of so much hate.

A fun post with some of Kenna Rubin's recent outfits and research:
A. on the sides: 2 pictures of the girl scientist from 28 Aug & 29 Aug 2025, trying to decide if it is still summer, or early autumn in New England.
B. In the center (1) Tall, thin, spindly black smoker chimneys emit unusual fluids at Earth’s deepest known hydrothermal vent field, 5000m below sea level (2) Alvin samples a hydrothermal vent site 2500m deep on the East Pacific Rise; (3) Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupting at night, as seen from the USGS V2cam, at 5:29 AM HST 22 April 2025; (4) ROV Subastian sampling arm taking specimen of a large Ice Age coral head at 150m depth in Hawaii. on Schmidt Ocean Institute #SeaLevelSecrets Expedition. All full image captions and sources are available in other posts this past year on this feed. (1)&(2) ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

What's more spectacular than actual (not ai) images of active, deep, submarine #volcanic #eruptions ? Happy to announce I'm teaching the inaugural iteration of Submarine Volcanoes this semester at URI, a course I taught many times at Univ. of Hawaii. I love sharing and talking about this content 🧪🌊🌋

Submarine volcanic eruption sampler plate from my and others research, opn access at Rubin, K.H., S.A. Soule, W.W. Chadwick Jr., D.J. Fornari, D.A. Clague, R.W. Embley,
E.T. Baker, M.R. Perfit, D.W. Caress, and R.P. Dziak. 2012. Volcanic eruptions in the deep sea.
Oceanography 25(1):142–157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.12.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I’m launching a Substack on solutions to the changing HigherEd landscape & decline of American universities. Looking to do anon. topical interviews, esp. around leadership & admin failures/successes, budget corporatization, mission creep, content politization, etc. DM me 2 🗣 #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

A foggy day obscures the view of a university building as a metaphor for the lost focus of many American universities. Photo (c) Kenna H. Rubin, 2025

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

🧪🌋⚒️Not on summer break - More episodic super high lava Fountaining (>350m), this time captured being viewed up-close by a koaʻe kea bird, on the last day-long #Kilauea #eruption episode 27 (29 June 25), during which roughly 6,200,000 m3 of lava erupted. Cropped-edited #USGS image-see ALT text).

USGS-HVO photo by K. Mulliken of A koaʻe kea (white-tailed tropicbird) flies near the lava fountain during episode 27 of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu. These birds are often visible in the vicinity of Kaluapele (Kīlauea summit caldera), as they nest in the walls of the caldera. IMAGE SOURDE: Cropped, sharpened and contrast balanced from the original at https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/june-29-2025-kilauea-lava-fountain-and-koae-kea

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

🧪🌋⚒️Yes! Super spicy, Super high lava Fountaining (350m=1150ft) in the last day-long #Kilauea #erutpion episode 26 (20 June 25; clip shortened from #USGS multimediaFile-4442.mp4). Eruption episodes have occurred roughly once/week since 23-December-24.EP28 on the way.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🧪🌊 Happy belated #WorldOceansDay 2025 unworldoceansday.org It isn't always dolphins & rainbows for #ocean #scientists, but I'm proud to be part of this passionate group of people sharing a goal to understand, preserve, educate, & protect the world beneath the waves. Gen AI image [repost w/alt text]

"Dolphins and Rainbows" - Sora Generative AI image prompted by ‪@kennarubin.bsky.social‬ with "scientific research ship working at sea with dolphins and rainbows", May 2025

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🧪🌊 No one's gonna ruin the vibe today as summer arrives in Southern New England. Views today of a bucolic coastal scene steps from my door, woodland creatures in the front yard, & R/V endeavor returning to @urigso.bsky.social after an oceanographic expedition, during her 49th year of service.

Montage of peaceful scenes in south county Rhode Island today, reminding many of us oceanographers how important the ocean is to our lives. Its where we work. live, and play. Clockwise images of sailboats moored in North Cove, Wickford, a rabbit and squirl in my Wickford front yard, and Research Vessel Endeavor shot out of my office window, on the URI Bay campus in Narragansett, returning home to the GSO pier after a stint at sea. Images source: (c) KH Rubin, 2025

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🧪🌊⚒️ Sharks in the water (for real & metaphorically). But as scientists we get back to work, regardless. This was 100m deep at Palmyra, Line Islands, on my Schmidt Ocean Institute program to study #sealevel & #climate change impacts on once shallow coral reef communities over time. More in ALT text.

A shark patrols the very warm water at roughly 100m deep where we were working with ROV Subastian. This is a color corrected video frame grab image from Dive 061, Sept. 2017, on the "Unravelling sea level secrets" expedition, at Palmyra Island, Line Island, which I led for Schmidt Ocean Institute. Learn more at https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/unraveling_ancient-_sea_level_secrets/ Image source (c) KH Rubin and SOI, 2017

The manipulator arm of ROV Subastian grabs a piece of skeletal coral, with living mesophotic organisms attached, as a brightly colored fish looks on. This is a color corrected video frame grab image from Dive 061, Sept. 2017, at about 120m water depth on the "Unravelling sea level secrets" expedition, at Palmyra Island, Line Island, which I led for Schmidt Ocean Institute. Learn more at https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/unraveling_ancient-_sea_level_secrets/ Image source (c) KH Rubin and SOI, 2017

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🧪🌋⚒️. Mesmerizing timelapse of #Kilauea #Volcano #eruption episode 23 in its entirety from V3 webcam this past week, courtesy of USGS. Original video and caption at www.usgs.gov/media/videos.... Lava fountains reached 300m,and the ensuing solidified tephra plume reached an amazing 1.5 km!

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🧪 I ❤️ this "big impacts" of US NSF funded discoveries & developments site. Please take a moment to appreciate. Should be a "no duh" moment, but unfortunately not for many Americans 3D printing, AI, Internet, GIS, Deep-sea (😍), human health, Gene Editing, Super Computing, etc. www.nsf.gov/impacts

A combination of thumbnail images illustrating many of the Big Impact topics feature on the NSF website using Images from
https://www.nsf.gov/impacts
Please see that link for original image information. Image Montage by Kenna Harmony Rubin

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

🧪🌋⚒️. You don't see this every day: 🔥🔥🔥 volcanic vent at #Kilauea #Volcano as it emits and burns hydrogen gas mixed in with the major volcanic gasses (CO2, SO2, H2O), following episode 23 of the Halemaʻumaʻu #eruption, on 21 May 2025. Shortened from USGS video at www.usgs.gov/media/videos...

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🧪🌊🌋⚒️ Despite current US science agency carnage, its a great season for federally funded deep submergence news, incl. by the @urigso.bsky.social team. Great timing too for a just-published special deep sea exploration issue of @eos.org with our DSV Alvin deep diving article eos.org/science-upda...

The cover of the June issue of AGU's EOS science news magazine shows ROV Deep Discoverer imaging an outcrop during the second of three expeditions to the mid-Atlantic Ridge in 2022. Source: https://eos.org/agu-news/submerged-in-science Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge 2022

Alvin samples a hydrothermal vent site unexpectedly discovered in 2021 near 9°54′N on the East Pacific Rise during a 2024 expedition. The vent is off the ridge axis, where most venting occurs. This image was taken by a new high-resolution Multidisciplinary Instrumentation in Support of Oceanography (MISO) camera deployed on an imaging lander. The image was cropped, and the color and sharpness were corrected by K.H.R. Credit: Dan Fornari, WHOI MISO Facility and coPIs of AT50-21- Barreyre, McDermott, Parnell-Turner, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Source, copped from version in our paper at https://eos.org/science-updates/an-upgraded-alvin-puts-new-ocean-depths-within-reach

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

🧪🌊 a calm Sunday moment on a Spring weekend in coastal Rhode Island, where most folks highly value #ocean #science. The current purposeful USA government attack on #scientists, #academics, & #knowledge is designed for short & and long-term impacts that are all bad. Hoping the 🌎 picks up the pieces.

Zoomed image of historic smith castle from across the north cove at wickford near sunset. Photo (c) kenna harmony rubin photography

A lone kayak is beached at the duck cove coastal bay at in Wickford, on a lonely Sring weekend near sunset. Photo (c) kenna harmony rubin photography

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🧪🌊 Blue Innovation is in our blood at @universityofri.bsky.social. Thank you @venturewell.bsky.social & @noaa.gov. We are happy to partner, play a role, & showcase our infrastructure & commitment to ocean innovators. Here are some of my photos from during the event. Read more pbn.com/venturewell-...

Stage 1 innovator Teams tour IP workflow sites on URI's Bay Campus, April 2025. This collage of photos shows the Wave Tank, Ocean Technology center, R/V Endeavor, and the Inner Space Center. All images by Kenna Harmony Rubin, Associate Dean of Research at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, during the technology "dev, test, & deploy tour" she led as part of the workshop, run by @venturewell.bsky.social for the @noaa.govsponsored Blue technology Accelerator program

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

🧪🌊🌋⚒️ What do you do when a 2.5-km-deep Pacific Ocean volcano erupts (3rd time in 33 yrs) with the Alvin sub in the water? You pull Alvin fast, coat a weight in Crisco, toss it overboard with a wireline acoustic locator beacon, & pull up fresh lava chips the "old fashioned" way. Specimens on the way😍

Frame grab by @kennarubin.bsky.social from the unfortunately titled, but still fascinating, Woods Hole Oceanographic video "Underwater volcano explodes in the Pacific!", showing a small flash of orange glowing lava oozing from the sea bed approximately 10 m in front of the Alvin submersible on 29 April 2025. Original video source: https://youtu.be/FYZm6N0xIyI?si=snMubVEgabTMczOU. Original video courtesy of Andrew Wozniak, University of Delaware, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Funded by the National Science Foundation.

Collage of shipboard images from R/V Atlantis of lava samples of the 29 April 2025 East Pacific Rise eruption that were acquired by the ingenuity and quick thinking of ship and shore based scientists! SOURCE: Collage itself by @kennarubin.bsky.social. Cropped Base images courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic scientist Dan Fornari, who orchestrated the sampling from shore, and courtesy of the at sea expedition Chief Scientists

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🧪🌊 This Friday's💩: Planned evisceration of US NSF just announced- research divisions abolished, massive layoffs, radical budget cuts. Fascists hate knowledge they can't control, so the gold standard of US science is doomed & our global science leadership will follow www.science.org/content/arti...

Please read the linked article from Science.org for details. This image shows an above ground nuclear test in 1946 at Bikini atoll. US National Archives image (see also the interesting historical analysis) from https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/environmental-diplomacy-nuclear-vault/2016-07-22/bikini-bomb-tests-july-1946

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🧪🌊📷How is it being a US university Dean during the current peak of anti-science, anti-progress rhetoric, where greed, denial & personal belief threaten fact-based discovery, #climate crisis protection, & people's lives? 😔 Depressing. Especially seeing research grants pulled & lives forever impacted.

This lone tree in a field, near my home on a snowy Rhode Island Christmas day in 2024, captures the feeling of watching the US science enterprise being dismantled by self-serving politicians and their ignorant followers. SOURCE: Original Photo (c) by Kenna Harmony Rubin

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

🧪🌋⚒️. Gorgeous display of glowing red flowing lava in pre-dawn light at #Kilauea #Volcano on 2 May 2025 as effusion of 8-hour-lomg Episode 19 of the ongoing of Halemaʻumaʻu #eruption, was ceasing at the vents. Basaltic Pahoehoe lava spreads like water over gently sloping landscapes like this.

This photo of a km-long glowing lava is from the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Service Facebook page, shortly after the eruption paused. This brief eruption released just under 4 million cubic yards of lava — enough to fill more than 1,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Lava flows from the north vent spread across about half crater floor in just a few hours. Source: I cropped the original image by J. Wei from https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=976686261299702&set=a.155988473369489

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ Yay 😊. Thank you #Kilauea #Volcano, #USGS, and helicopter support for giving us exciting high lava fountain footage yet again this week to share with BlueSky. This was from day-long episode 18 of the (thus far) 4 month long eruption: mod. from www.usgs.gov/media/videos... (deets in Alt text).

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ Yay 😊. Kilauea Volcano is back at it. #USGS reports that Episode 18 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption resumed at 3:20 a.m. HST on April 22 . There is high fountaining going on right now, some 2 hrs later. Watch it live! This frame grab is from live stream video (link in Alt text)

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting at night, as seen from the [V2cam] (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater). Source" image is an open access frame grab from live stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyttmA7YkA at 5:29 AM HST 22 April 2025

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🧪🌊 Breaking dawn over #Hawaii 🌋 on day 2 of a grueling 2 months of work at sea. With the massive recent foibles, including defunding so much quality scientific research & other gov't services, this is a metaphor. Can we skip the next several years of pain & just jump right to the nuremberg trials? 📷

My pre-sunrise photo with very colorful sky over Hawaii Island from sea on IODP exp. 389, showing silhouettes of Kohala and Mauna Kea volcanoes. (c) kh rubin, 2023

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🧪🌊🌋⚒️ Another #FieldPhotoFriday throwback to 2017. Perfect submarine pillow lavas, elongate, intact striated tubes on a very steep slope, decorated by living orange microbial mat, Tafu volcano, NE Lau spreading center. ROV Sebastian dive image on Schmidt Ocean Institute, Underwater Fire Expedition.

Recently erupted submarine pillow lavas at Tafu Volcano, in Tonga's Lau Basin. Source: Color/contrast corrections (c) Kenna Rubin, on an open access image from ROV Sebastian 4K video, Schmidt Ocean Institute #UnderwaterFire Expedition https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/underwater-fire-studying-submarine-volcanoes-tonga/, Kenna Rubin, Chief Scientist.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ Can't get enough of these mesmerizing zoomed-in night views of the active Kilauea volcano eruption in #Hawaii. This #USGS clip shows episode 10 activity from the North Vent in Feb 2025. The eruption began 23-Dec-24. Source: compressed/muted/shortened from www.usgs.gov/media/videos...

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ Lava fountaining & tephra production is spectacular, but many volcanologists study the ensuing lava flows, e.g., as in these Apr-25 #USGS visual & thermal #Kilauea #Hawaii images. Length, thickness, & texture of these viscous fluid flows reflect eruption/cooling conditions, composition & rate.

Kilauea summit eruption episode 16 lava fountain and its lava flow on April 1, 2025. The lava fountain was reaching heights of more than 650 ft (200 m) at times and feeding a lava flow that as of noon on April 1 reached about 2,300 ft (700 m) from its vent. USGS photo by D. Downs. Source: USGS, https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/april-1-2025-kilauea-summit-eruption-episode-16-aerial-view

This thermal map was taken on the 7 a.m. overflight of Kilauea summit on April 9, 2025, and shows the expansive lava flow covering the floor of Halema‘uma‘u, supplied by lava fountains at the vent. As in earlier episodes, the lava exited the vent into a short channel that fed a broad perched lava pond. Lava channels then drained this pond and carried lava farther to the east. A small ooze-out, fed by lava supplied beneath the solidified crater floor, was present in the south portion of the crater. The fountaining ended a few hours after the flight, ending episode 17. Source: USGS, https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/april-9-2025-thermal-map-episode-17-lava-flow-kilauea-summit

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🧪🌊 My photo seems poignant to the coming #storm. #NOAA is THE major oceanography research funder at @urigso.bsky.social & many others. Massive cuts to 'align' w/ cheeto's philosophy, or support private industry alternates, or to save 💰, are all dishonest & ruinous. www.science.org/content/arti...

A stormy morning on beautiful Waimanalo Beach on Oahu's eastern shore. Days like this are perfect times to quietky enjoy the warm water of a usually popular Hawaiian Beach, and to forget about those particular politicians and private industry infiltrators who literally ruing evey thing about the country for self interest.

#shoreline #beach #dramaticsky #stormy #inspiration #cloudporn #ocean #hawaii #idyllic #mountains #tropical #naturephotography #travelphotography #hawaiiphotographer #atmospheric

Source: (c) KH Rubin Photography
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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🧪Oahu's 'freakosystems': "Deep in a #Hawaiian #forest, surrounded by tropical plants, are a warning from the future". www.bbc.com/future/artic... Captured this forest hiking spot a few yrs ago near my Oahu home. Don't know if any of these plants are native; but they're beautiful. Image link in ALT.

Image in a dense, low land Hawaiian tropical forest landscape, on the island of Oahu, captured by the author. Image source: (c) KH Rubin Photography. See a full resolution version on my 500px account at https://500px.com/photo/244333817/hawaiian-rainforest-by-ken-rubin

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

🧪🌋⚒️ Wait for it ... ( #USGS #kilauea #eruption time lapse): Only 9 of 31 hours of this episode (15) were high fountains, mostly from southern of 2 active vents. Volcanoes can be episodic on min. to yr. timescales. Since 23-Dec-24, we have seen 16 roughly day-long bursts w/ little action between.

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