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Photomicrograph of tree ring cell density from open to tight showing the repeating pattern of seasonal growth.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

How Hot Was the Summer of 1783 Really? Trees Tell Tales

by Sarah Feakins 20 April 202214 April 2022

Volcanoes, heat waves, and tree rings – getting the seasonal story straight – a new study finds that volcanic fog lowered summer tree ring density despite the heat.

Satellite image of a long plume of ash extending from Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland
Posted inNews

The Art of Volcanic Ash Modeling 10 Years After Eyjafjallajökull

by Jane Palmer 15 April 202028 September 2021

The ash plumes from the eruption of the Icelandic volcano in 2010 disrupted air travel in Europe for several weeks. Since then, scientists have developed models to mitigate ash’s impacts.

Java's Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu volcanoes
Posted inScience Updates

Data from Past Eruptions Could Reduce Future Volcano Hazards

by F. Costa, C. Widiwijayanti and H. Humaida 25 March 2019

Optimizing the Use of Volcano Monitoring Database to Anticipate Unrest; Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26–29 November 2018

Kīlauea’s fissure 8 in May 2018
Posted inNews

Lessons Learned from Kīlauea Eruption’s Media Frenzy

by Jenessa Duncombe 18 December 2018

The Kīlauea eruption earlier this year unleashed a media bonanza. Here are nine tips about how to debunk geohazard misinformation in real time from a scientist frequently tapped for expert comments.

Researchers use data from a network of buoys to visualize the undersea portion of Campi Flegrei caldera
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Visualizing One of the Most Hazardous Formations in Nature

by S. Witman 29 March 2018

A network of buoys provides a first glimpse of the seafloor beneath a volatile Italian caldera.

Scientists aboard the R/V Sonne profiled the seafloor and subsurface near Ritter Island, north of New Guinea, in 2016.
Posted inScience Updates

An 1888 Volcanic Collapse Becomes a Benchmark for Tsunami Models

by A. Micallef, S. F. L. Watt, C. Berndt, M. Urlaub, S.Brune, I. Klaucke, C. Böttner, J. Karstens and J. Elger 10 October 201710 October 2017

When volcanic mountains slide into the sea, they trigger tsunamis. How big are these waves, and how far away can they do damage? Ritter Island provides some answers.

Aerial view of Orakei basin, near Auckland, New Zealand, where a research team took core samples near the center of a maar, an ancient volcanic explosion crater.
Posted inScience Updates

Probing the History of New Zealand's Orakei Maar

by P. C. Augustinus 20 September 201626 September 2016

A team of scientists drilled into the bed within a northern New Zealand explosion crater lake to gain insights into volcanic hazards and past climates.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Volcanic Java and Climate Change

by M. E. Wysession 12 September 20169 February 2018

An account of a geophysicist's recent trip to Indonesia wouldn't be complete without intrigue and elucidations about what Java, climate change, and Butch Cassidy all have in common.

Sulfuric lake Kawah Ijen was used to study volcanic activity.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A New Tool to Better Forecast Volcanic Unrest

by S. Hall 8 July 201612 July 2016

In a retrospective study of volcanic unrest at Indonesia's Kawah Ijen, a new model was able to pick up on the rising probability of eruption 2 months before authorities were aware of the risk.

A December 2015 eruption of Mexico’s Colima volcano.
Posted inScience Updates

Enhancing Safety in a Volcano's Shadow

by J. Martí, S. Bartolini and L. Becerril 21 June 2016

A new project gives civil authorities and scientists a common set of tools for assessing volcanic hazards and managing associated risks.

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