Our PhD students and postdocs had a fantastic time presenting their research at #VMSG2024 last week!

That wraps up a brilliant VMSG2024 ! Bring on Dublin Magmatism Group X VMSG in 2025 🇮🇪🌋 Thank you to everyone who took an interest in my undergrad project. I really enjoyed chatting and learning from you all! What an awesome bunch of academics ✨

Some beautiful photos from the outreach event at #vmsg2024 last Friday courtesy of Dr Samuel Mitchell! Myself, ProfJenniBarclay & David Pyle had a great time sharing our enthusiasm for the #Imaginarium with other volcanologists & the public! #scicomm #volcanoes #GamesForLearning

📷Attention early career geochemists 📷 Final reminder that Geochemistry Group has various awards for UK & Ireland ECR geochemists, including best paper. Deadline is Monday 15th January. More details here: geochemistry.group/awards-and-med…

Thanks VMSG and the Bristol Volcanology Group team for hosting the #VMSG2024 meeting. Such a valued opportunity to assemble the UK and Ireland #volcanology community to support each other, celebrate successes, and identify future challenges!

🚨🚨 We’re holding a PhD interview advice and Q&A today for prospective PhDs! Join Rahul Subbaraman and I at 12pm on Zoom 🌋 Get it touch for the link 🔗

Please see below the latest VMSG newsletter, with news about past & future VMSG meetings, bursary reports, news of upcoming conferences & award deadlines, & more updates from our fantastic community. Hope you enjoy reading! vmsg.org.uk/2024/03/vmsg-n…

Happy to share the second VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar at Trinity College Dublin Dublin Magmatism Group, with talks on advancements in volcano monitoring from Prof Chris Bean DIAS & Dr Swetha Venugopal School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. This event is open to the public & will be broadcast online.

The European Mineralogical Conference (EMC) will take place at Trinity College Dublin from 18-23/08/2024. Sessions, field trips, courses & more at emc-2024.org. Abstract deadline is 22/03, & early-registration deadline is 31/03.

Join us on 8th May for a public seminar at Cambridge as part of the VMSG 60th anniversary celebrations! We'll have talks from Dr. Blaise Mafuko and Prof Amy Donovan 🕷 on their work applying social sciences to volcanic risk reduction. Details in the link! cser.ac.uk/events/vmsg-60…

The recording from our 60th Anniversary VMSG seminar on using social science for volcanic risk reduction with Dr. Blaise Mafuko and Prof Amy Donovan 🕷 is now live on the VMSG Youtube page! youtube.com/watch?v=hymOrG…

We've recently uploaded two of the recordings from our 60th Anniversary Seminar series to our YouTube channel, in the Universities of Cambridge & St Andrews. You can watch them both, as well as future uploads, here: youtube.com/@vmsg_uk/videos

A wonderful Friday last week celebrating the 75th birthday and career of Sir Steve Sparks! We had some visitors, past students, and friends of Steve from across the country (and even aborad) attend. Thank you for all the messages sent in by others too! A very enjoyable day.

We've recently uploaded guidelines & application forms for the next round of our VMSG Award, Willy Aspinall Prize & Zeiss Post-doctoral Keynote Award. Nominations should be sent to the VMSG Awards Officer by 15 September 2024, more info available at vmsg.org.uk/awards/