Reminder; the closing date for our next round of awards & bursaries is 15 Sept!.We're seeking nominations for our VMSG Award, Willy Aspinall Prize & Zeiss Postdoctoral Keynote Award. Please see our website for more details on each award & how to nominate:

Ahead of our next deadline for award nominations on the 15th Sept (VMSG Award, Willy Aspinall Prize & Zeiss Post-doc Award), we've updated our website with information on past winners & their projects. We've also added more info on student bursaries:

UK volcanology was well represented at last week's UNDRR 8th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva! This brings together the global community working on disaster risk reduction & is crucial for assessing progress on implementation of the Sendai Framework.

Great to see work from the VMSG community featured in BBC News this week! @isobelyeo from the National Oceanography Centre & colleagues have been on a month-long mission aboard Discovery to map the hydrothermal systems of Santorini & Kolumbo:

We're now on LinkedIn!

Calling all prospective PhD students: Join our PhD Interview Advice Session!.17th Feb 2025, 11:00AM (30mins).Zoom: We'll share tips, experiences & answer your questions on PhD interviews. Open to all; spread the word! For queries, reach out to @VolcDoc9.

RT @GeologyLeics: Congratulations to Katie for presenting her PhD research findings at the VMSG 2025 meeting in Dublin. A great opportunit….

Our committee also enjoyed the impressive range of talks & posters presented during this week's #VMSG_MDSG25. Congrats to our winners & runners-up for best student talk & poster; Lydia, Abigail, Katie & Jasmine!

Following our announcement that Michael Heap has won this year's VMSG Award, today he was able to receive it in person and give his keynote lecture at #VMSG_MDSG25 in Dublin!

RT @dublinmagma: We’re only halfway through #VMSG_MDSG25 and we’ve already heard about so much fascinating science happening across both gr….

RT @DJCManns: Presented a poster today at @vmsg_uk on my PhD work modelling the volcanic deformation at Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland. htt….

RT @LDR_Strasbourg: Kendra Ní Nualláin presents her amazing 3D models of volcano collapse at #VMSG_MDSG25!.@vmsg_uk @claire_harnett1 🌋 http….

RT @LDR_Strasbourg: .@claire_harnett1 presents her work on lava dome growth at #VMSG_MDSG25!.@vmsg_uk 🌋

RT @VolcDoc9: Thrilled to have delivered my first-ever oral presentation at the VMSG-MDSG-2025 conference at Trinity College Dublin! Honore….

RT @dublinmagma: And we’re off! #VMSG_MDSG25 is underway with fieldtrips currently running in Avoca, the Giants Causeway and White Rock. 🏔️….

Where: Geography Lecture Theatre (Room 2.13), School of Geosciences, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh.When: Tuesday 3rd December 2024, 4pm UK time.A recording of the event will be made available afterwards on the VMSG YouTube channel.

Tonight at 4pm we have a special VMSG 60th Anniversary seminar at the Uni of Edinburgh, featuring two talks from Amelia Bain (UoE) & Symeon Makris (BGS) reflecting on recent research in volcanic hazard & risk in Guatemala. Zoom: [.

We've compiled our annual list of VMSG-related PhD & MSc by Research projects, viewable below & on our website. We continue to keep this list updated, so please get in touch if you have any new UK-base or international opportunities you would like adding:

The last talk of our 60th Anniversary series will be Tues 12 Nov, on interdisciplinary experimental studies for interpreting volcanic unrest by Dr Liz Gaunt (UCL) & Dr Phil Benson (Ports). Kathleen Lonsdale Bldg, Teaching Lab 126, & Zoom (ID: 960 9085 4545; Passcode: VMSG-UCL).

Congrats also to Dr Michal Camejo-Harry, who will be recognised by the Zeiss Postdoctoral Keynote Award this year!.Michal was nominated for her recent paper on surface deformation of La Soufriere during '20-21 eruptions, & contribution to scicomm. & risk management in UWI's SRC.