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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · 10d

Was great to spend a day with INGV looking at lahar and debris avalanche deposits on the slopes of Mt Etna and discussing land to ocean transport processes. Really inspiring to see these deposits in the field with local experts!

Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · 10d

The best thing about this job is that you get to keep learning. Absolutely incredible day looking at landslide and lahar deposits off Etna with amazing INGV scientists and @mikeaclare.bsky.social (who always teaches me things I don’t know about sediments).

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Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · 11d

Great to see @mikeaclare.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk quoted in this piece in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se... about the Hunga Volcano eruption and the subsequent telecommunications outage in 2022.

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · 15d

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... Interesting article on the 2025 Santorini seismic crisis in Nat Geographic w quotes from @isobelyeo.bsky.social and others discussing the excellent new Nature paper by Jens Karstens, Marius Isken & co

This year thousands of mysterious earthquakes hit Santorini. Scientists finally know why.

During the quakes, researchers were able to track dangerous magma in real time.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · 21d

Get your abstracts in and get registered for VMSG 2026 in Southampton! It’s going to be a great event with some excellent workshops across a range of topics @vmsg.bsky.social

Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · 22d

The Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) Annual Meeting will be hosted by NOC and the University of Southampton, at our waterfront campus 5th - 7th January 2026.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please see the meeting website for details and to register here:

noc-events.co.uk/VMSG-volcani...

Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group | NOC Events

noc-events.co.uk

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Seafloor Explorer Seminar Series @seafloorexploreruk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Seminar 3 recording: @mikeaclare.bsky.social (NOC, UK) on offshore hazards caused by lahars 🌋🌧️ entering the ocean.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDVe...

3.1 Mike Clare - Offshore hazards and sediment fluxes resulting from ocean-entering lahars

YouTube video by Seafloor Explorer Seminar Series

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · 27d

Awesome fieldwork in the UK Lake District seeing welded ignimbrites, subaqueous volcaniclastic density current deposits, autobreccias & lots of soft sediment deformation in and around ancient caldera fill sequences. Scoping future ideas with @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @vmsg.bsky.social

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Jul 3

Amazing talk by @isobelyeo.bsky.social bringing together loads of collaborative research on volcanic hazards from the 2022 Hunga eruption and what we can tell from the deposits left behind at @iavcei.bsky.social @ukri.org

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Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Jul 1

A really great end to this lahars focussed mini session at @iavcei.bsky.social by @mikeaclare.bsky.social from @noc.ac.uk presenting work on lahars offshore and their huge sediment loads funded by the Sustainable Blue Economies Program.

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Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our new paper on volcanoes and the subsea cable network, led by @mikeaclare.bsky.social, is out today in Bulletin of Volcanology. Get it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Volcanic eruptions and the global subsea telecommunications network - Bulletin of Volcanology

When the first transoceanic telegraph cables were laid in the mid-1800s, rapid communication between continents became possible. The advent of fibre-optic submarine cables in the 1990s catalyzed a glo...

link.springer.com

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Jun 4

Excellent talk by @isobelyeo.bsky.social at SubOptic25 in Lisbon talking about how to enhance the resilience of small islands telecoms infrastructure to natural hazards, after she convened an interesting session on Marine Operations @noc.ac.uk

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Jun 4

Really pleased to see our paper out assessing volcanic hazards for subsea cables and what we can learn from instances of damage dating back to the 1883 eruption of Krakatau that cut a critical telegraph cable and up to the present day

Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our new paper on volcanoes and the subsea cable network, led by @mikeaclare.bsky.social, is out today in Bulletin of Volcanology. Get it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Volcanic eruptions and the global subsea telecommunications network - Bulletin of Volcanology

When the first transoceanic telegraph cables were laid in the mid-1800s, rapid communication between continents became possible. The advent of fibre-optic submarine cables in the 1990s catalyzed a glo...

link.springer.com

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Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Jun 3

A great second day at SubOptic 2025, including a fascinating talk by @mikeaclare.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk on the challenges of cable fault attribution and how hazards are not always coincident with events.

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Jun 2

Do you have a passion for marine geohazards and want a permanent job? Join us!

Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Jun 2

We’re hiring! Come and work wit @mikeaclare.bsky.social and me at @noc.ac.uk. We’re recruiting for an open-ended position in marine geohazards.

careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Careers | National Oceanography Centre

careers.noc.ac.uk

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · May 20

Check out an excellent interview with @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk on BBC Radio 5 discussing recent eruptions at Axial Seamount, how new crust forms at mid ocean ridges, and a need to monitor submarine volcanoes -from 02:49 onwards www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Naga Munchetty - Steffan Powell sits in - BBC Sounds

Steffan Powell features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · May 13

Nice discussion of our paper led by Harya Nugraha in The Conversation on large submarine landslides and how some can grow much larger due to erosion, and summarising the relevance for Indonesia theconversation.com/longsor-bawa... Original paper in GEOLOGY pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Longsor bawah laut: Ancaman pemicu tsunami dalam senyap

Longsor bawah laut bisa membesar hingga 13 kali lipat saat meluncur—dan data seismik refleksi memberi peluang untuk mengenali bahayanya sebelum berubah jadi bencana.

theconversation.com

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Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Apr 30

Listen to the much more fun than me @sofiadellasala.bsky.social from @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social talking about our Santorini expedition and her packing challenges here.

Oxford Sparks @oxfordsparks.bsky.social · Apr 30

🎙️ New #podcast! How can #robots investigate underwater #volcanoes? 🌋🤔

We chat to Sofia Della Sala @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social about her recent #fieldwork #expedition to #Santorini 🛳️

🎧: www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/how...

@sofiadellasala.bsky.social @ukri.org @ox.ac.uk

A Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) is suspended from the side of a research ship on a sunny day in the Aegean Sea, just off the coast of Santorini.

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Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Really enjoyed being interviewed on @bbc5live.bsky.social this afternoon about @noc.ac.uk led @ukri.org funded work on submarine volcanic eruptions. If you want to hear more about underwater robots and my secret lair then give it a listen from about 2hrs 13 minutes in.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Naga Munchetty - 29/04/2025 - BBC Sounds

Naga Munchetty features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Apr 28

New paper led by Ricarda Gatter of MARUM shows the value of micro-CT scanning, revealing surprisingly fine-scale porosity changes which has wide application to landslide & subsurface fluid flow assessments. Based on work started at @noc.ac.uk in 2020 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Micro‐Scale Characterization of Marine Sediment Structures: The Potential and Challenges of X‐Ray μCT Imaging

Synchrotron X-ray μCT reveals small-scale heterogeneity in sediment structures that is missed by standard geotechnical tests Pore space distribution in natural marine sediments is highly spatiall...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you’re interested in knowing more about our work in Santorini here is me talking for two and a half minutes about what we’ve been doing and hope to achieve. Put together by our magnificent Comms Team and filmed by the brilliant Dan Bourne. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFc... @noc.ac.uk @ukri.org

News Splash: Unlocking the Role of High-Temperature Fluids in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions

YouTube video by National Oceanography Centre

m.youtube.com

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Apr 21

Great to see this research covered by the BBC - looking forward to seeing what we discover from all the data that were collected last month! Nice work by @isobelyeo.bsky.social on radio and TV interviews!

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our new paper shows what happens when a major glacial lake outburst reaches the ocean, led by Lewis Bailey and supported by @ukri.org @noc.ac.uk

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Apr 14

In Nov 2020 a landslide into a glacial lake in BC triggered a tsunami & glacial lake outburst flood & eventually a large turbidity current in the sea. In this @jgrearthsurface.bsky.social paper, we look at the sea surface turbidity that resulted.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 🧪⚒️

Location map of Bute Inlet and Elliot Creek, British Columbia, Canada. (a) Acolite corrected Landsat 8 OLI scene from 30 July 2021 showing Bute Inlet and the depositional fan formed at the confluence of Elliot Creek with the Southgate River. The locations of the Homathko and Southgate river gauges, in situ turbidity measurements, and transects used for collecting satellite-derived turbidity measurements are also shown. Aerial photographs of (b) erosion in Elliot Creek (source: Kat Pyne, Hakai Institute) and (c) the depositional fan at the confluence of Elliot Creek and the Southgate River (source: Grant Callegari, Hakai Institute) following the 28 November 2020 outburst flood. Locations and facing directions of (b) and (d) shown in panel (a). (d) Map to show the location of Bute Inlet on the west coast of Canada.

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Apr 11

Pleased to have contributed to this new report published by UNEP-WCMC that looks at the interactions between subsea cables and the marine environment and opportunities for collaborations between industry and research www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/keep... @noc.ac.uk

Keeping connected: submarine communications cables and ocean life - UNEP-WCMC

A new UNEP-WCMC report examines the potential pressures, impacts and opportunities of submarine telecommunications cables on marine biodiversity Submarine telecommunications cables (hereafter called ...

www.unep-wcmc.org

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Apr 10

Sediment flows from 2022 Hunga eruption travelled >100km to the west, entraining more sediment - revealed by ROV dives, sampling & detailed sediment analysis. New paper led by Marcus Chaknova at UninOregon w @isobelyeo.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk & more agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

How Did Westward Volcaniclastic Deposits Accumulate in the Deep Sea Following the January 2022 Eruption of Hunga Volcano?

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Apr 4

Great to see this paper out based on data acquired by @ukri.org funded research, showing how turbidity currents transport and concentrate microplastics in the deep sea

National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · Apr 4

Research led by @uniofmanchester.bsky.social and co-led by NOC's Dr @mikeaclare.bsky.social has discovered that deep-sea microplastic hotspots are created by fast-moving underwater avalanches. 🔁

Find out more about the powerful flows and their impacts on our website: noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...

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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · Apr 2

Absolute pleasure - was amazing working with you and glad we got so much science done! Thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm

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