Hi and welcome to my homepage!

I am a volcanologist and my research aims to improve our understanding of how hazardous volcanoes erupt.

On this website you can find details of the volcanoes I study, why and how I study them and who I work with, together with some volcano photos and my recent publications.


Thanks for visiting!

NEWS:

*Sept 2009 My research on how climate change may affect hazards at ice-covered volcanoes was featured in a Nature News story

*Sept 2009 First ever measurement of 3D water concentrations in silicate glasses carried out with Kai-Uwe Hess (watch this space for updates)

*July 2009 I was at Torfajokull in Iceland looking at obsidian and ice

*04/04/09 Feature about my work on volcanic earthquakes published in NERC's Planet Earth magazine

*13/11/08 Paper on how spherulites grow in obsidian published in American Mineralogist.

*11/11/08 Paper about a subglacial eruption at Krafla, Iceland published online in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

*13/09/08 Baby Alec is born

*22/05/08 Paper on volcanic earthquakes published in Nature 22nd May - click here for the article and here for the news story

*18/07/08 Harry Pinkerton, Mike James, Jane Applegarth and myself have received £370 k from NERC to study basaltic lava flow dynamics.

*20/07/08 I have received a £6 k NERC new investigator grant to study degassing of rhyolitic magma in Iceland.

*Cumberland Geological Society have published the geological guidebook "Exploring Lakeland Rocks and Landscapes". Click here for information and to order a copy or purchase direct from me.



Alec and Hekla




On Mt St Helens

[modelling eruptions under ice]
[mount st helens crater]		 [geochemistry of lava]


Dr. Hugh Tuffen
NERC Research Fellow - Volcanology