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Dr Sam Poppe
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Assistant Prof @ Space Research Centre PAS (CBK PAN) / #volcano / #planets / #geology / #scicomm / #EDI officer @VIPScommission @IAVCEI / He/Him / Husband & twin dad
Reposted by Dr Sam Poppe
Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Dr Sam Poppe
Toch even een kleine correctie: dit is de eerste gedocumenteerde uitbarsting van deze vulkaan in Ethiopië. We weten niet wanneer de vorige uitbarsting was omdat deze vulkaan amper bestudeerd werd, en we de geschiedenis ervan dus niet kennen. Het zou me verbazen als het echt 12,000 jaar geleden was.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Dr Sam Poppe
Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I've never been, so I thought 2026 may be good to attend #LPSC in Texas.

By restricting academic freedom through abiding an executive order they have effectively lost their prime #Space #science meeting position.

This is not ok, you won't see me or my science there. I hope no one submits.
Choosing to go to LPSC now that they've doubled down on banning any content about making the field a better place for underrepresented scientists? That would be rewarding this behavior and make the field even more unsafe! Just a thought!
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Our @iavcei.bsky.social #VIPS Commission committee is looking for someone to take over my #EDI officer role.
Do you want to help diversify our community and make us more inclusive? Apply before 12th December!
vipscommission.org/vips-is-look...
@egu.eu @agu.org @vmsg.bsky.social
VIPS is looking for new committee members! - VIPS Commission
The IAVCEI commission for Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing Systems is currently seeking members to fill the following three roles: Commission vice-president, EDI officer, and Focus on VIPS Blog Editor. I...
vipscommission.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Working at a #Space #Science institution with governmental ánd industrial connections we live this tension every day.
We have to continue convincing that having science in the driver's seat of space exploration is prime.
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thanks @astro-slawosz.bsky.social for visiting us at #CBKPAN to return the patch of the 1st Pole in space and add your own #IGNIS patch having been as 2nd Pole in space! Ready to inspire a new generation of our students! 🚀🌖
@science.esa.int
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Finally made it to #Mars!

...at the wonderful Mars Yard at the Planetary Exhibition of the Jagellonian University in #Kraków, #Poland. Equipped with two rovers of Warsaw University of Technology
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I have trouble seeing how these felsic veins and dykes at Austurhorn #Icelqnd could have come in by pyroclastic processes and not flow of a fluid magma at 2-3km depth?
Any papers to suggest @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @htuffen.bsky.social or others working on tuffisite veins et al?
September 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The #LASI7 post-conf fieldtrip in SE #Iceland was a blast!
On day 1 Gudmundur Omar took us into the heart of #Geitafell, once a central #volcano.
We saw the gabbro intrusion that once sat at 2-3 km depth, and the most impressive sheet intrusion complex above that once fed #lava flows!
September 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
And with that, the main conference of #LASI7 is over and disappears in our foggy rearview mirrors of time! It was an honor to host all of you VIPS in #Iceland!
See you in a few years in..?
September 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When you organize a conference and tell a bunch of volcanologists NOT to step on the #lava 😎👍🏼
#LASI7
September 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ready to start with #LASI7!
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The stage is set! Ready to start #LASI7 #Iceland edition tonight in #Hveragerdi!

@iavcei.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Dr Sam Poppe
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
August 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
You can't undo robust scientific consensus even if you tried.

It is a well-proven #fact:

Earth's #climate is changing, and that change is human-made.

To all American scientists standing up to this attempt: global #academia is with you
💪🏼🌍 #climatecrisis
“This little report is basically designed to suppress science, not to enhance it or encourage it”

Researchers say that the report misrepresents decades of climate science
go.nature.com/3J4TOWD
Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back
Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.
go.nature.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Visited the inspiring George Walker museum in Breiddalsvik in #Iceland last week, saw one of my most inspiring collaborators & friend @claireharnett.bsky.social win the @iavcei.bsky.social Walker award yesterday. What a boost, congrats Claire! 🤩🌋
July 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
July 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
@iavcei.bsky.social just awarded the well-deserved Thorarinsson medal to planetary volcanism visionary Prof Lionel Wilson. An example for all of us, congrats!!!
@europlanetmedia.bsky.social #planet #volcano #iavcei2025
July 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
And our #IAVCEI2025 session on planetary volcanism has kicked off with exciting detections of recent volcanism on #Venus by Davide Sulcanese!
@theplanetaryguy.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
What an honor to present as first early-career plenary keynote at #IAVCEI2025! In front of the whole #volcano crowd!
Thanks @iavcei.bsky.social !
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Practicing my tomorrow's #IAVCEI2025 #ECR plenary keynote like a true Belgian 🤩🍟🇧🇪
June 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Aaaand the #IAVCEI25 assembly has kicked off! Ready for a week of hot #volcano #science!

If you're attending, come see my plenary keynote on #magma intrusion modelling as the first one tomorrow 11:40! 🌋
June 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Visiting the George Walker museum in Breiðdalsvík today is just such an eye-opening lesson again in field work documentation. His notebooks and hand-drawn maps are absolutely amazing in their detail and rigour 🤩🌋
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I have the best job in the world. Hi from NE #Iceland 😎
June 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM