Past Events
Conferences
VMSG runs and supports many scientific events throughout the year. One of the highlights of the calendar is the Annual VMSG meeting, hosted by a different UK academic institution each year. These meetings are extremely well attended by 200+ delegates, with presentations on the latest research delivered over 3 days.
2025: Trinity College Dublin
2024: Bristol
2023: London
2022: Manchester
2021: Virtual conference
2020: Plymouth
2019: St Andrews
2018: Leeds
2017: Liverpool
2016: Dublin
2015: Norwich
2014: Edinburgh
2013: Bristol
2012: Durham
2011: Cambridge
2010: Glasgow
2009: Bournemouth
2008: Dublin
2007: Oxford
2006: Leeds
2005: Milton Keynes
2004: Bath
2003: Edinburgh
2002: London
2001: Durham
VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminars
As part of the VMSG’s 60th anniversary celebrations in 2024, we held a series of seminars across the UK and Ireland on a range of volcanological topics. These events were open to the public, broadcast online, and available to watch on YouTube afterwards.
| Date | Time | Location details | Speakers | Topic |
| Wednesday 3rd April
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18:00
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Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin
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Swetha Venugopal (TCD) & Chris Bean (DIAS)
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Modern advancements in volcano monitoring – petrological insights and volcano seismology
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| Wednesday 8th May
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13:00
|
Room A15, Bute Building, University of St Andrews | Siwan Davies (Swansea)
|
A little goes a long way: volcanic ash clouds and climate change
|
| Wednesday 8th May
|
17:00
|
Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge | Dr Blaise Mafuko Nyandwi (Université de Goma, DRC) & Amy Donovan (Cambridge)
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How can social sciences be used to explore how communities think and feel about volcanic risk and better inform disaster risk management?
|
| Friday 14th June
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12:00
|
Seminar rooms, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford | Richard Robertson (UWI)
|
Risky Mountains in Paradise: Navigating the Volcanic Tapestry of Island Life
|
| Monday 14th October
|
17:30
|
Aston Webb WG5, University of Birmingham | Steve Jones, Manfredo Capriolo (Birmingham)
|
Large Igneous Provinces and associated greenhouse gas emissions
|
| Wednesday 6th November
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16:30
|
Williamson Building, University of Manchester
|
Dr Ben Esse (UoM), Dr Iestyn Barr (MMU)
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Satellite Observations of Global Volcanic Unrest
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| Tuesday 12th November | 16:00 | Kathleen Lonsdale Building, Earth Sciences, UCL |
Liz Gaunt (UCL), Phil Benson (Portsmouth) |
Experimental Volcanology: Insights into eruption mechanisms from rock physics |
Field Trips
2021: Virtual fieldtrip to Mull, Skye and Namibia
2019: Isle of Arran
2017: Isle of Mull
2015: Isle of Rùm
2012: Gran Canaria
2011: The Borrowdale Volcanics
2010: The Irish Palaeogene Igneous Province
2009: The Auvergne
2008: Ardnamurchan
2007: Isle of Rum
2007: Tenerife
2006: Santorini
2003: Iceland
Workshops
2023: Researchers Responding to Volcanic Crises
2023: Manuscript Writing Workshop
2021: VMSG GIS Workshop
