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Hello 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. On a different note, here's a link to the band I play with: The Balkanics Thanks for visiting! LATEST NEWS:
*17/01/2012 My 2003 paper Repeated fracture and healing of silicic magma generate flow banding and earthquakes has now been cited 100 times!
*02/11/2011 I will convene a session at the EGU 2012 General Assembly in Vienna entitled Hazardous volcano-ice interactions in the past, present and future, together with Dave McGarvie and Steve Blake (OU). *01/11/2011 The facilities and technical support at the Diamond Light Source are excellent, I look forward to carrying out more volatile micro-analysis there in the near future! *30/10/2011 I gave a talk "Fire and Ice: What makes volcanoes dangerous?" as part of Manchester Science Festival. *27/10/2011 Well done Jacqui Owen for your prize-winning poster at the LEC PhD poster day! *17/08/2011 I gave an invited talk about water heterogeneity in glasses at the 2011 Goldschmidt conference in Prague. *26/05/2011 Baby Luc is born *16/02/2011 Congratulations to Jo Denton, who has successfully defended her thesis on Icelandic perlite and will now take up a postdoc position at Los Alamos National Laboratory. *14/01/2011 Mike James, Jane Applegarth and myself have been awarded a NERC Small Grant (total value £65k) to study crystallisation of basaltic lava flows. *26/12/2010 Jacqui Owen has been awarded the YSOPP Award for best student poster presentation at the 2010 EGU Assembly. You can find the story here and the link to her poster here. I am a proud PhD supervisor! *21/11/2010 I appear in a Sunday Times feature about Royal Society research fellows *16/05/10 Many thanks to the Royal Society for awarding me a University Research Fellowship, which will start in October 2010. *19/04/10 My paper assessing whether climate change may make volcanoes more hazardous in the coming century is published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. *11/02/10 I have been elected Secretary of the IAVCEI/IACS Joint Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions. Many thanks to all who supported my nomination! *14/01/10 Paper entitled "Magma degassing during subglacial eruptions and its use to reconstruct palaeo-ice thicknesses" accepted for publication in Earth Science Reviews. *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 |
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Dr. Hugh Tuffen Royal Society University Research Fellow |
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