Dr Fabian Wadsworth
@fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
obsidian | poetry | magma physics | sintering
Great time last month at Sandfell in Iceland discovering new aspects of how magma moves in the Earth’s shallow crust. Thanks to Hugh and Ed for joining. And amazing to find the Fish Factory arts centre, the creative centre of Stöðvarfjörður!
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great time last month at Sandfell in Iceland discovering new aspects of how magma moves in the Earth’s shallow crust. Thanks to Hugh and Ed for joining. And amazing to find the Fish Factory arts centre, the creative centre of Stöðvarfjörður!
As part of this paper, Katie Schofield (PhD student at Durham University) unravelled the crystallization history of this sample from the Adamello massif to show how melt fraction evolved. It's exactly that kind of mush seize-up at low melt fraction that our model is built to predict.
September 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As part of this paper, Katie Schofield (PhD student at Durham University) unravelled the crystallization history of this sample from the Adamello massif to show how melt fraction evolved. It's exactly that kind of mush seize-up at low melt fraction that our model is built to predict.
New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape.
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
September 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape.
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Big news (& a little late in posting)…last month I defended my thesis and I’m now Dr Foster! 🩺🌋
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Big news (& a little late in posting)…last month I defended my thesis and I’m now Dr Foster! 🩺🌋
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I’m SO grateful for the support throughout, but especially over the last two years, & to my supervisors @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social, @htuffen.bsky.social & Madeleine. A huge thank you to my examiners @richardjbrown.bsky.social & @volcanologist.bsky.social for helping me end on such a high!
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’m SO grateful for the support throughout, but especially over the last two years, & to my supervisors @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social, @htuffen.bsky.social & Madeleine. A huge thank you to my examiners @richardjbrown.bsky.social & @volcanologist.bsky.social for helping me end on such a high!
The first few days of Melts Glasses Magmas short course taught. Excited to have covered glass and melt structure and properties, up to and including brittle unrelaxed melt rupture due to viscoelasticity.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
July 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The first few days of Melts Glasses Magmas short course taught. Excited to have covered glass and melt structure and properties, up to and including brittle unrelaxed melt rupture due to viscoelasticity.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Tell me you’re working on bubble growth in magmas without telling me you’re working on bubble growth in magmas.
July 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tell me you’re working on bubble growth in magmas without telling me you’re working on bubble growth in magmas.
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🚀New paper -> doi.org/10.1088/1361...
A fun, left-field project with the Earth Sci crew at @durhamearthsci.bsky.social: we built & tested projectile motion datasets for teaching physics, complete with experiments & code. Lovely to see my illustrations published too!
A fun, left-field project with the Earth Sci crew at @durhamearthsci.bsky.social: we built & tested projectile motion datasets for teaching physics, complete with experiments & code. Lovely to see my illustrations published too!
June 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚀New paper -> doi.org/10.1088/1361...
A fun, left-field project with the Earth Sci crew at @durhamearthsci.bsky.social: we built & tested projectile motion datasets for teaching physics, complete with experiments & code. Lovely to see my illustrations published too!
A fun, left-field project with the Earth Sci crew at @durhamearthsci.bsky.social: we built & tested projectile motion datasets for teaching physics, complete with experiments & code. Lovely to see my illustrations published too!
Congratulations to @geologytalk.bsky.social on passing her viva! Thanks to @richardjbrown.bsky.social and @volcanologist.bsky.social for examining! 🎉👌🍻💫 #ProudSupervisor #Sintering
July 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Congratulations to @geologytalk.bsky.social on passing her viva! Thanks to @richardjbrown.bsky.social and @volcanologist.bsky.social for examining! 🎉👌🍻💫 #ProudSupervisor #Sintering
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Discussing Forchheimer and Klinkenberg corrections for permeability data with @annathrl.bsky.social, who is currently visiting Strasbourg to measure her many dome samples! 🌋
@fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
@fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Discussing Forchheimer and Klinkenberg corrections for permeability data with @annathrl.bsky.social, who is currently visiting Strasbourg to measure her many dome samples! 🌋
@fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
@fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
Colin Rennie is an artist I'm thrilled to be working with. Check out his page here where he lays out the elements of our ongoing collaboration around the mysterious material: obsidian.
www.colinrennie.co.uk/research
www.colinrennie.co.uk/research
Research — colin rennie
www.colinrennie.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Colin Rennie is an artist I'm thrilled to be working with. Check out his page here where he lays out the elements of our ongoing collaboration around the mysterious material: obsidian.
www.colinrennie.co.uk/research
www.colinrennie.co.uk/research
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hello hi i am presenting a poster #IAVCEI2025 (session 3.4) on long-lasting ashy rhyolite eruptions esp. in Iceland, come chat come come
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
hello hi i am presenting a poster #IAVCEI2025 (session 3.4) on long-lasting ashy rhyolite eruptions esp. in Iceland, come chat come come
Go chat with @alicerpaine.bsky.social about our work comparing plumes in moderately large explosive eruptions with those rare and exceptional magnitude 8 events.
July 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Go chat with @alicerpaine.bsky.social about our work comparing plumes in moderately large explosive eruptions with those rare and exceptional magnitude 8 events.
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If you’re interested in hydrothermal sealing and explosions, check out my #IAVCEI25 @iavcei.bsky.social poster today! Number 29! 🌋
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If you’re interested in hydrothermal sealing and explosions, check out my #IAVCEI25 @iavcei.bsky.social poster today! Number 29! 🌋
I remain obsessed by sintering processes. Here’s Julia talking about sintering of crystal-bearing granular materials with implications for silicic eruptions.
July 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I remain obsessed by sintering processes. Here’s Julia talking about sintering of crystal-bearing granular materials with implications for silicic eruptions.
Bravo to @frankiehaywood.bsky.social and to Patrick Sullivan both for presenting at IAVCEI. I’m really excited about both of these projects.
July 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Bravo to @frankiehaywood.bsky.social and to Patrick Sullivan both for presenting at IAVCEI. I’m really excited about both of these projects.
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New paper in Volcanica looks at the thermal properties of rhyolites from Havre volcano, a submarine volcano in the Kermadec arc (Pacific Ocean)! 🌋
With Rebecca Carey, @smitchellscience.bsky.social, and @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
It's diamond open access 👇
doi.org/10.30909/vol...
With Rebecca Carey, @smitchellscience.bsky.social, and @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
It's diamond open access 👇
doi.org/10.30909/vol...
June 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New paper in Volcanica looks at the thermal properties of rhyolites from Havre volcano, a submarine volcano in the Kermadec arc (Pacific Ocean)! 🌋
With Rebecca Carey, @smitchellscience.bsky.social, and @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
It's diamond open access 👇
doi.org/10.30909/vol...
With Rebecca Carey, @smitchellscience.bsky.social, and @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
It's diamond open access 👇
doi.org/10.30909/vol...
New article: how can we use projectile motion experiments in a classroom to teach physics and maths? Here are some suggested exercises: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Projectile motion: experimental datasets and classroom exercises - IOPscienceSearch
Projectile motion: experimental datasets and classroom exercises, Wadsworth, Fabian B, Vasseur, Jérémie, Foster, Annabelle, Smith, Alex P W, Byatt, Nathan A, Allgood, Ceri, Loisel, Ariane, Bintang, Fa...
iopscience.iop.org
June 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
New article: how can we use projectile motion experiments in a classroom to teach physics and maths? Here are some suggested exercises: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
@thatcubfan135.bsky.social what’s the best way to contact you about a collaboration between Minecraft aficionados and volcanoes science (to do with obsidian specifically)?
June 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
@thatcubfan135.bsky.social what’s the best way to contact you about a collaboration between Minecraft aficionados and volcanoes science (to do with obsidian specifically)?
Fun workshop at Lehigh University on bubble nucleation processes with some fantastic research on show. Thanks to everyone who came.
May 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Fun workshop at Lehigh University on bubble nucleation processes with some fantastic research on show. Thanks to everyone who came.
Super successful and fascinating trip with @annathrl.bsky.social and @frankiehaywood.bsky.social. It’s a joy to work with such brilliant and thoughtful collaborators and students.
May 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Super successful and fascinating trip with @annathrl.bsky.social and @frankiehaywood.bsky.social. It’s a joy to work with such brilliant and thoughtful collaborators and students.
With @annathrl.bsky.social and @frankiehaywood.bsky.social doing more experiments and measurements at LMU.
May 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
With @annathrl.bsky.social and @frankiehaywood.bsky.social doing more experiments and measurements at LMU.
Fluid flow streamlines through a bed of packed ground coffee from @squaremilecoffee.bsky.social.
May 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Fluid flow streamlines through a bed of packed ground coffee from @squaremilecoffee.bsky.social.
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On the road again (or should I say in the air again)! Off to @unistra.fr first and then a few weeks in @lmumuenchen.bsky.social !
It's worth at least a Punk with a view.
See you there @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @frankiehaywood.bsky.social 🌋🌼
It's worth at least a Punk with a view.
See you there @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @frankiehaywood.bsky.social 🌋🌼
May 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On the road again (or should I say in the air again)! Off to @unistra.fr first and then a few weeks in @lmumuenchen.bsky.social !
It's worth at least a Punk with a view.
See you there @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @frankiehaywood.bsky.social 🌋🌼
It's worth at least a Punk with a view.
See you there @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @frankiehaywood.bsky.social 🌋🌼