Kiwi researcher specializing in volcanology, petrology, eruption dynamics and the development of novel techniques to study magmatic systems and supereruptions
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined March 2018
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A mystery eruption, solved?
Uncovering an eruption that caused global temperatures to drop took geologic detective work.
New research from @WillHutchGeo @univofstandrews, comments from Katharine Cashman @uoregon, story by @KatherineKornei.
eos.org/articles/ice-core-re…
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The next massive volcano eruption will cause climate chaos — and we are unprepared go.nature.com/4hIZ8Ma
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Great @nzherald article highlighting the findings from our new research.
"Ancient waves: Scientists uncover evidence of massive South Island lake tsunamis"
nzherald.co.nz/nz/ancient-wa…
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New eruption on Reykjanes, Iceland started around 2 pm local time. The fissure is in the same place as the previous eruption, a few km north of Grindavik. Currently ~2.5 km long and may be still lengthening
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Latest tephra findings from the Greenland ice cores: new age constraints on Holocene caldera-forming eruptions, and widespread tephra markers 🌋 🇯🇵 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇮🇸 led by @siwanmdavies
authors.elsevier.com/a/1j8ne…
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📣Many prolonged cold periods similar to the Little Ice Age occurred during the Holocene as a result of #volcanic activity through gradual ocean-sea ice feedbacks.
@EvelienvDijk93 @ClaudiaTimmreck @THERA_4ever @OeschgerCenter
🔗nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
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How can electrical conductivity help us locate magma? Or how do seabed sediments provide a window into past eruptions?🤔
🎧To find out listen to GNS Geophysicist Craig Miller on today's episode of RNZ's Our Changing World.
i.mtr.cool/druwvypeae
Thanks to @cconcannonsci for putting together this fantastic piece on RNZ’s Our Changing World series that covers the wonderful PhD work of @GrechLicari and our current research around Tūhua and Whakaari volcanoes. @gnsscience @VicUniWgtn
rnz.co.nz/national/programme…
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New paper! How accurate are hindcasts of explosive eruptions? In this new work from Stix et al, these authors assess the use of tremor as an eruption forecasting tool. More here 👇
doi.org/10.30909/vol.07.01.1…
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One of my paper figures made the cover of @WeAreVolcanica! 😁 jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.php…
In the name of shameless self-promotion, the paper it’s from can be found here for those who may be interested 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10…
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This cover design is thanks to Dr Hannah Elms who has beautifully imaged a ~100 micron diameter, quartz-hosted rhyolite melt inclusion from the 1314 CE Kaharoa eruption, from Mt. Tarawera, Ōkataina Caldera (in the Taupō Volcanic Zone of New Zealand). We love it!
Our new cover for Vol. 6 Issue 2 is live!
The cover image, information, and image credit can all be found here:
jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.php…
And this links to this article from DeVitre et al. (2023) about olivine-hosted melt inclusion bubbles:
doi.org/10.30909/vol.06.02.2…
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🚨2 geochemistry positions 🚨
in beautiful @univofstandrews (1 postdoc, 1 lab tech) studying volcanic forcing of climate. FWIW I am definitely better at science & supervising than social media!👩🏻🔬 Deadline extended Jan 10. tinyurl.com/29c6ebxc & tinyurl.com/mpd7tphh
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I am so stoked to have been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. Looking forward to working with some amazing people over the next 5 years to understand the processes that drive New Zealand’s volcanoes. 🌋
In its final year, the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship has awarded 12 outstanding recipients with $800,000 each over the next five years to carry out their specialist research programme.
Find out more about the winners and their projects here: royalsociety.org.nz/news/rut… 🧪
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Time's flown by on the #BeneaththeWaves #TAN2315 voyage. After several days of #core collection, cool #tephra sampling and beautiful views of #Tuhua & #Whakaari, we're stepping off the #RVTangaroa with 105m of cores! Thanks to all involved, it was a blast! #PhD #womeninSTEM – at Wellington Region, New Zealand
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Today was a big day for the #TAN2315 coring team. Despite difficult subsurface conditions around #Whakaari, we retrieved 6 usable cores! We also opened #Tuhua's 1st core & observed at least 6 #tephra layers, which were sampled for more onshore analyses. More to follow tomorrow ⚒️ – at White Island, Bay of Plenty Region
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Today we carried out the 1st coring of the #TAN2315 trip. We recovered 6 cores around #Tuhua (Mayor Island), with one reaching a whopping 5.4m in length! We even spotted tephra around a few of them. Super excited for tomorrow when we get our first sneak peak into the split cores! – at Thames-Coromandel, New Zealand
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Day 2 of the #TAN2315 trip saw us setting up labs and revising field plans. Today (Day 3), the real #science began with the deployment of #magnetotulleric (MT) stations around #Whakaari. We're now approaching #Tuhua, where piston #coring for my #PhD will replace MT around 3am 🌋 – at White Island, Bay of Plenty Region
This is going to be an epic trip to the Bay of Plenty volcanoes. Can’t wait to see what we find for Jacquelines’s PhD project! @MBIEsci @VicUniWgtn @gnsscience
This morning, 12 scientists including myself, boarded the #RVTangaroa in #NZ for the #TAN2315 expedition funded by 'Beneath the Waves' to study the eruptive histories of #Whakaari & #Tuhua via marine coring & MT measurements. Excited for what lies ahead! 🌋 #PhD #volcanology
