Upcoming Events
VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminars
As part of the VMSG’s 60th anniversary celebrations in 2024, we will be holding a series of seminars across the UK and Ireland on a range of volcanological topics. These events shall be open to the public, broadcast online, and available to watch on YouTube afterwards.
A provisional list of dates, locations, speakers and topics are given below. These shall be updated with more talks and details throughout the year, so be sure to check back!
| 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
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Room A15, Bute Building, University of St Andrews | Siwan Davies (Swansea)
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A little goes a long way: volcanic ash clouds and climate change
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| Wednesday 8th May
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17:00
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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?
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| Friday 14th June
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12:00
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Seminar rooms, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford | Richard Robertson (UWI)
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Risky Mountains in Paradise: Navigating the Volcanic Tapestry of Island Life
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| Monday 14th October
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17:30
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Aston Webb WG5, University of Birmingham
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Steve Jones, Manfredo Capriolo (Birmingham)
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Large Igneous Provinces and associated greenhouse gas emissions
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| Wednesday 6th November
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16:30
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Williamson Building, University of Manchester
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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 |
Conference
We’re very excited to announce that our next annual conference VMSG 2025 will be held in Dublin from the 6th-8th January.
Full information on the VMSG 2025 conference will be provided in due course.
If you would like to host a VMSG annual meeting in the future please contact the VMSG Secretary for more information. You can also consult our guidelines for local organising committees.
Workshops
If you would like to run a workshop for VMSG or just have an idea for a workshop that you would like someone else to run, we would love to hear from you. Please contact the VMSG Secretary.
Field Trips
VMSG help to run a range of non-profit fieldtrips for the VMSG community. If you would like to run a fieldtrip for VMSG or just have an idea for a trip to a specific location that you would like someone else to run, we would love to hear from you. Please contact the Fieldtrip Secretary.
Exciting plans for the VMSG 60th Anniversary field trip are in motion. The trip will be held in 2023. More information shall be provided when available.
Panel Discussions
Next Panel Discussion – TBC
