If you're mesmerized by the steamy #Taal eruption plume and wondering why it's creating so much #VolcanicLightning, you’re not alone. Here’s a micro-crash course on the physics of volcanic thunderstorms for non-specialists. Thanks to @joshibob_ for the incredible footage! (1/14)

91/ Incredible image of the team of engineers working to close off the gap in the berm where the road was, even as the lava flow closed in on them. Given how effective the berm proved in diverting the lava, this is incredible work.

Eruption started, the fissure is 450 m from Grindavik

The moment the new eruption started this morning.... https://t.co/Mi8F2tN9cu

Iceland finally cracked open to unleash torrents of lava. While tourists have flocked to to see past eruptions, officials are warning this new eruption is not “tourist-friendly” and seems to be significantly larger than the Fagradalsfjall in 2021 Here’s what to know🧵

An #eruption has started on #Iceland's #Reykjanes peninsula (north of #Grindavik) with some impressive lava fountains. Follow @Vedurstofan for official updates. Webcams: https://t.co/HcuT4kzVCG https://t.co/Vuv4kYFgRS

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

We're only halfway through the #BeneaththeWaves #TAN2315 expedition and we've already achieved most objectives thanks to an efficient team and great intuition from @VolcanoSimon with site selection🌋 Can't wait to uncover the secrets that these cores hold! #PhD #Whakaari #Tuhua

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 ⚒️

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!

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 🌋

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

"Three possibly active underwater volcanoes discovered off #Sicily" - The Guardian reports about the recent #RVMETEOR expedition in the #Mediterranean led by #GEOMAR: https://t.co/dmCRKjTxee @MBARI_News @OGS_IT @UMmalta @kieluni @news_ub @uniofedinburgh @UnivOxford #SUAVE

After a 3 week expedition in the Sicilian Channel on board the wonderful R/V Meteor, we are back on dry land. Here is one of a number of submarine volcanoes we discovered along the way. @MBARI_News

Kalws hrthame in Greece 🇬🇷! Our 2.5 day transit was spent dismantling equipment, presenting preliminary results on #SUAVE to different groups onboard and working on leaving our mark in the #RVMeteor guestbook. Science team has only a few hours left together now! #M191 out!

Die letzte Dredge ist an Deck, nächster Halt: Piräus, Griechenland. 🇬🇷 Und jep: Gnuhl bei der Arbeit!

And that’s a wrap! Final dredge of #M191 is on deck and processed, now to start our transit to Greece ⛴️🇬🇷

As the #M191 dredge team processes sampled rocks, shift leaders operate from the bridge alongside #RVMeteor's nautical crew, shown below selecting and directing dredge locations🌋⛴️ #SUAVE

On #RVMeteor we like to keep things interesting: if not dredging/mapping, you can find us doing #scicomm. Chief scientist Jörg Geldmacher introduced our work to the crew. Also, a blog post reviewing our discoveries from the first week at sea is now live: https://t.co/UpLun9Wwmb

Over the past 2 weeks we have been hunting for submarine volcanoes in the Sicilian Channel. If you would like to know more about it, read this: https://t.co/REU0YPJyR2