Mike Clare and I wrote an article for Geographical on the Hunga eruption and how we reduce submarine volcanic hazards for the future. Many people helped write this Shane Cronin Marta Ribo Sally Watson Rebecca Carey Taaniela Kula and others not on X.
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What do we need to do to better understand the risks posed by submarine volcanism? New piece in Geographical led by Isobel Yeo of National Oceanography Centre w inputs from Shane Cronin Marta Ribo Sally Watson Taaniela Kula NIWA AUT University University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau & others geographical.co.uk/science-enviro… VMSG2024

The magmatic system under Hunga volcano before and after the 15 January 2022 eruption | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Evidence at source for the mid-fifteenth century eruption of Kuwae, Vanuatu | Journal of Applied Volcanology | Full Text appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I'll be at AGU next week if anyone wants to catch up about ML eruption forecasting. Talk on Wed (V31B-06).

I will discuss our new work showing how models trained on several volcanoes can forecast eruptions at other volcanoes they haven't seen before.

High concentrations of sea salts were detected in volcanic ash collected shortly after the submarine eruption at Hunga volcano, with possible climatic consequences Shane Cronin Universität München
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Some days that mud is just unctuous…. Extruding sediment core in Nomuka, Tonga

Good to see new post tsunami replacement houses going onto good high ground on Nomuka after the 2022 Hunga tsunami wiped out all the low-lying coastal ones

Oh look / the 2022 Hunga tephra already in the geological record (albeit buried by anthropogenic deposits) - but we see it also at the top of all our swamp/lake cores

🌋 Just when you thought big eruptions were stealing the show, we uncovered some mini volcanic surprises! 📷 Check out our latest research at Mt. Ruapehu #MiniButMighty
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Arrived in Nomuka with the team on the trail of past big eruptions from the Tongan arc

Elbow grease got us to around 3 m depth / in a previous attempt I got to 1.25 m (1500 yrs BP) - many unknown tephras in the deeper core - can’t wait to get them on the probe!

Coring for paleo eruption deposits from past Hunga eruptions in Tonga - we found the tephra units at ~AD 1150 and AD 200 again - but the record seems to go back longer

The productive team of Alberto Ardid David Dempsey Corentin Caudron and others strike again with ML methods applied to forecasting and discovering hidden unrest from volcanic-hydrothermal systems - here @MtRuapehu and other similar centres. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Writing up a bunch of Hunga papers and all I see are calderas everywhere - these erupting ones inspired by the volcano risotto of my Milanese wife…

Its not often that I complain publicly about a company - but Aramex New Zealand has to be the worst courier service in existence - lose packages, deliver to the wrong place, can't follow directions, obstructive customer service and no resolution of any problems.

I am so excited to see this research published! I had no part in it, but have heard so much about it and had the pleasure of writing a Perspective piece on it.

Really fascinating work that I can see generating discussion and future projects! 👇

Hunga volcano's eruption in 2022 was the largest recorded instrumentally & had widespread impacts. Shortly after the eruption, Tonga's only subsea telecommunication cable was damaged - cutting a whole nation off from digital communications at a critical time.