Volcanoes

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The 2019-2020 monthly Tuesday evening lecture series in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences will be held in the Wallace Lecture Theatre (0.13), Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT.

Lectures begin at 18.30. Booking is not needed. Should you require the Q&A sessions to be in Welsh, please email edwardsd2@cardiff.ac.uk at least two weeks before the event.

Did you know that the majority of volcanic eruptions – maybe even 90% – occur under water and of which we are largely unaware? There remains a very great deal we don't know about volcanoes, but many exciting new insights are emerging from ongoing research. This lecture series will encompass the diversity of volcanoes, their functioning and products, together with the nature of eruptions and their attendant problems of predictions plus their ensuing past and present environmental and biological impacts.

2019

Sept 10  Enormous eruptions. Steve Sparks, University of Bristol

Oct 8    Campi Flegrei: Italy’s restless giant. Wim Degruyter, Cardiff

Nov 12  Building a volcano. Jon Blundy, University of Bristol

Dec 10   The secrets of Vulcan: the hidden world of underwater volcanoes. Chris MacLeod, Cardiff

2020

Jan 14   Volcanoes: from fuming vents to extinction events. Tamsin Mather, Earth Sciences, Oxford

Feb 11   Predictions of eruptions. Paul Cole, University of Plymouth

March 10 The precious diamondiferous cargo of volcanoes. Wolfgang Maier, Cardiff

April 21   Dangerous neighbours: living alongside erupting volcanoes. Jenni Barclay, UEA

May 12   Volcanoes and human history. Caroline Williams & Cathy Cashman, University of Bristol