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Dr Sam Poppe

@sampvolcano.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @ Space Research Centre PAS (CBK PAN) / #volcano / #planets / #geology / #scicomm / #EDI officer @VIPScommission @IAVCEI / He/Him / Husband & twin dad

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A week of #EPSC26 ended with our session on volcanism, tectonics and seismicity through the Solar System. Inspiring week in #TheHague and proud supervisor moment with PhD student Amisha Baiju presenting greatly! Now back to the office and new discoveries!
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The #BepiColombo MTM separation Livestream of @esa.int straight into the #Mercury2026 conference at the @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Promotiezaal! And now the nail-biting wait for confirmation separation was successful!
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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Volcanoes are fascinating. Pictures, videos and articles of eruptions fill our social media feeds and newspapers. But can you believe what you read? Misinformation and rumours spread just as easily as facts. Misconceptions are easily created and hard to correct. @heatherkhandley.bsky.social
theconversation.com
During eruptions, misinformation can spread further than ash. How can we spot it?
From scary headlines to recycled eruption videos, new research reveals how common misconceptions can fuel misinformation about volcanoes.
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The very last landing of our drone "Mick DAGGER" at #Krafla #volcano 🥹🌋 We concluded the field work for our #DAGGER, #Iceland has given us a-ma-zing weather, ✅ all the boxes on our list! Now on to analyzing our data and inserting into numerical models during the long Polish winter 😎 @ncn.gov.pl
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
With the #DAGGER project team (Tegan, Amisha, myself) in East #Iceland again! We're joined by Sonja Greiner from @haskoliislands.bsky.social and mapping magma intrusions at Eystrahorn and Borgarfjörður Eystri in often windy but mostly perfect conditions! Funded by @ncn.gov.pl #CBKPAN
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
No, it is accepted and proofed and will be published open-access in Journal of Applied Volcanology in early August. Stay tuned.
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jippie! Good job @esa.int for extending 13 exciting space missions in full swing! Especially excited for #MarsExpress and its #HRSC camera to continue imaging the surface of #Mars through 2029! 📸 More: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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ESA science missions get green light for new discoveries
On 10–11 June, representatives from European Space Agency (ESA) Member States met in Tenerife to make far-reaching decisions about the future of ESA’s Science Programme. Their decisions to extend curr...
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@janinekrippner.bsky.social @gabbroguy.bsky.social @cristianfarias.com @borisetneo.bsky.social @volcanodiana.bsky.social @heatherkhandley.bsky.social @clairehorwell.bsky.social @theterbush.bsky.social @erikklemetti.bsky.social @volcanologist.bsky.social
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Another revision of our 27-author review paper of #Volcano misconceptions resubmitted! Let's hope 4x is a charm! 🙏🏼🌋
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So sad for victims of another #volcano eruption at Mount #Dukono. When abroad always check with local authorities, here MAGMA Indonesia and #PVMBG They have set #Dukono at Alert Level 2 and advise a 4 km exclusion zone around its crater for months now. magma.esdm.go.id/v1/gunung-ap...
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Laporan Aktivitas Gunung Api - Dukono, Kamis - 07 Mei 2026, periode 00:00-24:00 WIT
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
With #Artemis astronauts on their way home to #Earth, no better day than today for me to mark my first time teaching planetary #geology to our #PhD students! Today, #Mars and - of course - the #Moon!
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We have flown ample times to the Moon and still have so much to learn! #Artemis 2 astronauts have been collecting geological observations of preset targets at the farside, including colors, boundaries between terrains, and fresh impact craters. #NASA has a blog summary ⬇️ www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We are going back and beyond the #Moon! Fingers crossed for a successful launch and safe flight for the #Artemis II astronauts! While going around the Moon, they are scheduled to record geological observations of the lunar surface, exciting!
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
After months of silence Piton de la Fournaise #volcano is at it again, this time with unusual small pyroclastic flows from local collapse near the vent. Good luck to OVPF colleagues monitoring the situation 👍🏼🌋
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
On my way!
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a man in a space suit is walking on the moon in front of the earth
ALT: a man in a space suit is walking on the moon in front of the earth
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Been visiting the impressive experimental rock mechanics and petrology lab at LMU Munich this week! Inspiring chats about modelling rock strength behind us, my talk on cryptic volcanic features on the #Moon and #Mars awaits today!
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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a picture of a raccoon with the words it 's all good we got this below it
ALT: a picture of a raccoon with the words it 's all good we got this below it
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
But it will turn into something beautiful 🤩🌋🤩
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the beast from beauty and the beast has a very large mouth
ALT: the beast from beauty and the beast has a very large mouth
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@janinekrippner.bsky.social @gabbroguy.bsky.social @cristianfarias.com @borisetneo.bsky.social @volcanodiana.bsky.social @heatherkhandley.bsky.social @clairehorwell.bsky.social @theterbush.bsky.social @erikklemetti.bsky.social @volcanologist.bsky.social
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Multi-author (27!) review papers are the hardest to revise, especially this one we just resubmitted to @springernature.com J. Applied #Volcanology! Stay tuned for our #volcano misconceptions if accepted 🙏🏼 🌋🌋🌋
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
On this day my family and I remember our time in #StateCollege @pennstateuniv.bsky.social back in 2020 with #Fulbright and #BAEF and all the great new friends and memories we left with! Thanks!!! 🦃🦃
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julietbiggs.bsky.social @julietbiggs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8
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Karen Fontijn @volckaren.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Toch even een kleine correctie: dit is de eerste gedocumenteerde uitbarsting van deze vulkaan in Ethiopië. We weten niet wanneer de vorige uitbarsting was omdat deze vulkaan amper bestudeerd werd, en we de geschiedenis ervan dus niet kennen. Het zou me verbazen als het echt 12,000 jaar geleden was.
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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 23/11/2025
Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano
Volcanic ash plume from Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia, November 23, 2025. Credit: NASA/Aqua
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Instead, consider @egu.eu or @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #EPSC, or @agu.org if you really, really need to attend in the US. We have built a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible community for years now. The work is far from finished. Politics will not take that from #academia.
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I've never been, so I thought 2026 may be good to attend #LPSC in Texas. By restricting academic freedom through abiding an executive order they have effectively lost their prime #Space #science meeting position. This is not ok, you won't see me or my science there. I hope no one submits.
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It's been an absolute pleasure to push initiatives, but the battle for our community's diversity goes on! I will retire from this role but will never stop fighting for those who feel excluded. Our EDI webpage links to some good resources for all of us to do so 👇🏼 vipscommission.org/about/equali...
vipscommission.org
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - VIPS Commission
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at VIPS
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our @iavcei.bsky.social #VIPS Commission committee is looking for someone to take over my #EDI officer role. Do you want to help diversify our community and make us more inclusive? Apply before 12th December! vipscommission.org/vips-is-look... @egu.eu @agu.org @vmsg.bsky.social
vipscommission.org
VIPS is looking for new committee members! - VIPS Commission
The IAVCEI commission for Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing Systems is currently seeking members to fill the following three roles: Commission vice-president, EDI officer, and Focus on VIPS Blog Editor. I...
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Working at a #Space #Science institution with governmental ánd industrial connections we live this tension every day. We have to continue convincing that having science in the driver's seat of space exploration is prime.
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thanks @astro-slawosz.bsky.social for visiting us at #CBKPAN to return the patch of the 1st Pole in space and add your own #IGNIS patch having been as 2nd Pole in space! Ready to inspire a new generation of our students! 🚀🌖 @science.esa.int
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Finally made it to #Mars! ...at the wonderful Mars Yard at the Planetary Exhibition of the Jagellonian University in #Kraków, #Poland. Equipped with two rovers of Warsaw University of Technology
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Happy it went into the Valle del Above then 👍🏼 And certainly worth a mention as the longest recorded at Etna 😉
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Hi Boris, do you have an idea of the length of the June 2 PDC? Longer than the 3km of 2014? Asking for a big paper revision 😉
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Hard to imagine indeed! We're doing some work on Austurhorn now so yes, happy to have a chat, will dm 👍🏼
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I have trouble seeing how these felsic veins and dykes at Austurhorn #Icelqnd could have come in by pyroclastic processes and not flow of a fluid magma at 2-3km depth? Any papers to suggest @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @htuffen.bsky.social or others working on tuffisite veins et al?
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
...and then we went on to Reyðarártindur pluton, with it's roof contact showing hot interactions between granite and basalt in the roofs, even with a conduit and faults in the roof! All described by Emma Rhodes et al in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The second day the Tertiary Slaufrudalur pluton revealed itself magnificently (low ☁️ are regular here...), an example of a shallow granitic #magma pluton with roof contacts beautifully exposed for geologists ready to scramble upslope 🤩
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The #LASI7 post-conf fieldtrip in SE #Iceland was a blast! On day 1 Gudmundur Omar took us into the heart of #Geitafell, once a central #volcano. We saw the gabbro intrusion that once sat at 2-3 km depth, and the most impressive sheet intrusion complex above that once fed #lava flows!
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And with that, the main conference of #LASI7 is over and disappears in our foggy rearview mirrors of time! It was an honor to host all of you VIPS in #Iceland! See you in a few years in..?
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Oh yes 🤭
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When you organize a conference and tell a bunch of volcanologists NOT to step on the #lava 😎👍🏼 #LASI7
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Ready to start with #LASI7!
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The stage is set! Ready to start #LASI7 #Iceland edition tonight in #Hveragerdi! @iavcei.bsky.social
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
That looks pretty Rott'n indeed!
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Have fun while we chat volcanic plumbing in #Iceland! 😎
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Boris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
You can't undo robust scientific consensus even if you tried. It is a well-proven #fact: Earth's #climate is changing, and that change is human-made. To all American scientists standing up to this attempt: global #academia is with you 💪🏼🌍 #climatecrisis
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Visited the inspiring George Walker museum in Breiddalsvik in #Iceland last week, saw one of my most inspiring collaborators & friend @claireharnett.bsky.social win the @iavcei.bsky.social Walker award yesterday. What a boost, congrats Claire! 🤩🌋
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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@iavcei.bsky.social just awarded the well-deserved Thorarinsson medal to planetary volcanism visionary Prof Lionel Wilson. An example for all of us, congrats!!! @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #planet #volcano #iavcei2025
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