Ben Ireland
@benirevolc.bsky.social
Volcano Geodesy PhD student at Uni of Bristol Earth Sci 🌋🛰 Advisor for GeoTenerife 🇮🇨 | Keen MTBer 🚵 DM’s open-Get in touch! 💬 He/Him. Views my own
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New around here, getting to know the place :)
Twitter/X: @BensVolcanology
Posts-Volcanoes/La Palma/GIS/RS
New around here, getting to know the place :)
Twitter/X: @BensVolcanology
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Ben Ireland
@benirevolc.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Hey folks! I’m trying out a migration to here from the chaos of the old place!
Hoping to be part of a growing and positive volcano/disaster community on here :)
I’m a Volcano Remote Sensing PhD student at Bristol Uni, feel free to follow and reach out to chat! 🌋🛰️
Hoping to be part of a growing and positive volcano/disaster community on here :)
I’m a Volcano Remote Sensing PhD student at Bristol Uni, feel free to follow and reach out to chat! 🌋🛰️
Reintroducing myself on here after well, you know *waves hands*, I don’t post super-often on any platform but hoping to interact and post more on here going forwards! 🌋
September was a big month for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption; 4th anniversary, new laws, research papers, and an eruption drill
Here are some snippets from my @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories update, available in full here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
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Here are some snippets from my @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories update, available in full here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
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La Palma Reconstruction – September 2025 - GeoTenerife
Volcanic emergency drill takes place in Tenerife - New internal 'map' of Tajogaite - Marine recovery continues - Results published on health impacts of the eruption - Progress of National Volcanology ...
geotenerife.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
September was a big month for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption; 4th anniversary, new laws, research papers, and an eruption drill
Here are some snippets from my @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories update, available in full here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
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Here are some snippets from my @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories update, available in full here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
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Very much appreciated the end of this dedication in a PhD thesis I came across this morning!
October 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Very much appreciated the end of this dedication in a PhD thesis I came across this morning!
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Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Another exciting PhD opportunity with @isobelyeo.bsky.social, me and others on Mapping Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes…
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Anatomy of a Caldera: Integrated Mapping of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Anatomy of a Caldera: Integrated Mapping of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Another exciting PhD opportunity with @isobelyeo.bsky.social, me and others on Mapping Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes…
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!
The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).
Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.
Video source: @_yagha_
The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).
Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.
Video source: @_yagha_
October 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!
The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).
Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.
Video source: @_yagha_
The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).
Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.
Video source: @_yagha_
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We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project
October 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project
The August news roundup for reconstruction on La Palma for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories programme is out and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
Here's a summary of the months updates 🌋🇮🇨⬇️
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Here's a summary of the months updates 🌋🇮🇨⬇️
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September 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The August news roundup for reconstruction on La Palma for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories programme is out and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
Here's a summary of the months updates 🌋🇮🇨⬇️
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Here's a summary of the months updates 🌋🇮🇨⬇️
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New paper alert. Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo. Great work led by Marius and Jens, thanks all for working on that together! It can be found in today’s issue of Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New paper alert. Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo. Great work led by Marius and Jens, thanks all for working on that together! It can be found in today’s issue of Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Take-home message from my favourite browser extension:
My tab management remains pretty poor; much better than before!
(yes the Y axis scale hurts my eyes too)
My tab management remains pretty poor; much better than before!
(yes the Y axis scale hurts my eyes too)
September 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Take-home message from my favourite browser extension:
My tab management remains pretty poor; much better than before!
(yes the Y axis scale hurts my eyes too)
My tab management remains pretty poor; much better than before!
(yes the Y axis scale hurts my eyes too)
My latest piece for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories asks one of the key questions locals on La Palma raise with us:
“Why haven’t Spain paid the annual €100 million for reconstruction they promised?”
Read here:
🇬🇧 geotenerife.com/spanishgovpr...
🇪🇸 geotenerife.com/cuatro-anos-...
“Why haven’t Spain paid the annual €100 million for reconstruction they promised?”
Read here:
🇬🇧 geotenerife.com/spanishgovpr...
🇪🇸 geotenerife.com/cuatro-anos-...
Cuatro años después: ¿cumple el Gobierno español sus promesas en la reconstrucción de La Palma? - GeoTenerife
geotenerife.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My latest piece for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories asks one of the key questions locals on La Palma raise with us:
“Why haven’t Spain paid the annual €100 million for reconstruction they promised?”
Read here:
🇬🇧 geotenerife.com/spanishgovpr...
🇪🇸 geotenerife.com/cuatro-anos-...
“Why haven’t Spain paid the annual €100 million for reconstruction they promised?”
Read here:
🇬🇧 geotenerife.com/spanishgovpr...
🇪🇸 geotenerife.com/cuatro-anos-...
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We are advertising for a 3-year "Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology and Stratigraphy". Part of a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary research grant "Volcanic Histories", focused on research in the Eastern Caribbean.
Closing: October 15th
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Closing: October 15th
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
September 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We are advertising for a 3-year "Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology and Stratigraphy". Part of a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary research grant "Volcanic Histories", focused on research in the Eastern Caribbean.
Closing: October 15th
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Closing: October 15th
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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The VMSG Annual Meeting will be hosted by @noc.ac.uk and @unisouthampton.bsky.social at their waterfront campus, 5th - 7th January 2026. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please see the meeting website for info on travel, programme, registration & our buddy scheme here: noc-events.co.uk/VMSG-volcani...
Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group | NOC Events
noc-events.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The VMSG Annual Meeting will be hosted by @noc.ac.uk and @unisouthampton.bsky.social at their waterfront campus, 5th - 7th January 2026. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please see the meeting website for info on travel, programme, registration & our buddy scheme here: noc-events.co.uk/VMSG-volcani...
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🌋 How do scientists monitor volcanoes that we can’t see inside? Volcanoes are powerful and unpredictable, but geophysics gives us a window into the hidden processes deep underground.
📽️Learn more about how we use geophysics to monitor volcanic hazards in this new video!
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https://loom.ly/d6Hpq7U
📽️Learn more about how we use geophysics to monitor volcanic hazards in this new video!
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https://loom.ly/d6Hpq7U
August 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🌋 How do scientists monitor volcanoes that we can’t see inside? Volcanoes are powerful and unpredictable, but geophysics gives us a window into the hidden processes deep underground.
📽️Learn more about how we use geophysics to monitor volcanic hazards in this new video!
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https://loom.ly/d6Hpq7U
📽️Learn more about how we use geophysics to monitor volcanic hazards in this new video!
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https://loom.ly/d6Hpq7U
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This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
The 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake
The July 29, 2025, M8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting.
earthquake.usgs.gov
August 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
Our July update for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption for @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories is online and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
Here's a quick summary of last months update🇮🇨🌋
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Here's a quick summary of last months update🇮🇨🌋
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August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Our July update for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption for @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories is online and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
Here's a quick summary of last months update🇮🇨🌋
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Here's a quick summary of last months update🇮🇨🌋
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This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Cities near volcanoes: which cities are most exposed to volcanic hazards?
Abstract. Cities near volcanoes expose dense concentrations of people, buildings, and infrastructure to volcanic hazards. Identifying cities globally that are exposed to volcanic hazards helps guide l...
nhess.copernicus.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
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In light of recent volcanic activity in Russia, here is the link to KVERT - Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team.
Information available in English. kvert.febras.net
Information available in English. kvert.febras.net
August 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In light of recent volcanic activity in Russia, here is the link to KVERT - Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team.
Information available in English. kvert.febras.net
Information available in English. kvert.febras.net
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It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!
'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
August 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!
'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
The June 2025 update for the reconstruction in La Palma for @geotenerife.bsky.social 's #VolcanoStories project is up and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec... 🌋🇮🇨
Here's a quick update of the main stories from this month
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Here's a quick update of the main stories from this month
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July 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The June 2025 update for the reconstruction in La Palma for @geotenerife.bsky.social 's #VolcanoStories project is up and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec... 🌋🇮🇨
Here's a quick update of the main stories from this month
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Here's a quick update of the main stories from this month
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COMET is delighted to announce the registration of the InSAR Training Workshop 2025 is now open!
It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025.
Registration link:
comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...
It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025.
Registration link:
comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...
July 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
COMET is delighted to announce the registration of the InSAR Training Workshop 2025 is now open!
It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025.
Registration link:
comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...
It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025.
Registration link:
comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...
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If you are interested in the Fentale diking episode then have a read of Prof. Elias Lewi's new paper in Bull. Volc. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @alarosa.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social
Scientific response to the 2024–2025 dyke intrusions in the Fentale-Dofen Region, Ethiopia: geophysical monitoring, surface manifestations, and hazard mapping - Bulletin of Volcanology
In continental rifts, tectonic deformation, magmatic processes, and earthquakes interact dynamically reflecting the crust’s complex response to extensional stress and evolving subsurface and surface c...
link.springer.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
If you are interested in the Fentale diking episode then have a read of Prof. Elias Lewi's new paper in Bull. Volc. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @alarosa.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social
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New paper alert🚨
In this new article in @natgeosci.nature.com we use a multidisciplinary approach (geochemistry, geophysics and mathematically modelling) to see pulsing in the mantle plume beneath Afar and how the flow varies along the rift See the 🧵 below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In this new article in @natgeosci.nature.com we use a multidisciplinary approach (geochemistry, geophysics and mathematically modelling) to see pulsing in the mantle plume beneath Afar and how the flow varies along the rift See the 🧵 below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mantle upwelling at Afar triple junction shaped by overriding plate dynamics - Nature Geoscience
The mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates that shape the distribution of both the compositional heterogeneities and abund...
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
New paper alert🚨
In this new article in @natgeosci.nature.com we use a multidisciplinary approach (geochemistry, geophysics and mathematically modelling) to see pulsing in the mantle plume beneath Afar and how the flow varies along the rift See the 🧵 below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In this new article in @natgeosci.nature.com we use a multidisciplinary approach (geochemistry, geophysics and mathematically modelling) to see pulsing in the mantle plume beneath Afar and how the flow varies along the rift See the 🧵 below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Day 3 of @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna is in full flow! At 11.30am we have two talks by @timwrightleeds.bsky.social and
Camila Novoa Lizama from @envleeds.bsky.social. At 4.15pm Erin Mills @bgs.ac.uk is presenting and, after that session, there will be lots of COMET posters to see. More info below:
Camila Novoa Lizama from @envleeds.bsky.social. At 4.15pm Erin Mills @bgs.ac.uk is presenting and, after that session, there will be lots of COMET posters to see. More info below:
June 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Day 3 of @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna is in full flow! At 11.30am we have two talks by @timwrightleeds.bsky.social and
Camila Novoa Lizama from @envleeds.bsky.social. At 4.15pm Erin Mills @bgs.ac.uk is presenting and, after that session, there will be lots of COMET posters to see. More info below:
Camila Novoa Lizama from @envleeds.bsky.social. At 4.15pm Erin Mills @bgs.ac.uk is presenting and, after that session, there will be lots of COMET posters to see. More info below:
The latest geo-puzzle in UoB Earth Sciences is of our ‘Volcano Donkey(!)’ photo from La Palma in 2021! 🧩🌋
Big shoutout to Erica who had the great idea of turning our research photos into puzzles!
Big shoutout to Erica who had the great idea of turning our research photos into puzzles!
June 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The latest geo-puzzle in UoB Earth Sciences is of our ‘Volcano Donkey(!)’ photo from La Palma in 2021! 🧩🌋
Big shoutout to Erica who had the great idea of turning our research photos into puzzles!
Big shoutout to Erica who had the great idea of turning our research photos into puzzles!
Our April 2025 #LaPalma post-eruption reconstruction update for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories has been published and can be read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
This month, major stories include debates over state aid and new volcanological studies
Here's a summary ⬇️
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This month, major stories include debates over state aid and new volcanological studies
Here's a summary ⬇️
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La Palma Reconstruction – April 2025 - GeoTenerife
LP-2 reconstruction remains complex and delayed – The recovery of the LP-2 road across the lava flows between Tajuya and Las Manchas is still yet to move forward despite government assurances, drawing...
geotenerife.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Our April 2025 #LaPalma post-eruption reconstruction update for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories has been published and can be read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
This month, major stories include debates over state aid and new volcanological studies
Here's a summary ⬇️
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This month, major stories include debates over state aid and new volcanological studies
Here's a summary ⬇️
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