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Ben Ireland
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Volcano Geodesy PhD student at Uni of Bristol Earth Sci 🌋🛰 Advisor for GeoTenerife 🇮🇨 | Keen MTBer 🚵 DM’s open-Get in touch! 💬 He/Him. Views my own Posts-Volcanoes/La Palma/GIS/RS New around here, getting to know the place :) Twitter/X: @BensVolcanology
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Nov 7
Reintroducing myself on here after well, you know *waves hands*, I don’t post super-often on any platform but hoping to interact and post more on here going forwards! 🌋
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Dec 18
Hey folks! I’m trying out a migration to here from the chaos of the old place!

Hoping to be part of a growing and positive volcano/disaster community on here :)

I’m a Volcano Remote Sensing PhD student at Bristol Uni, feel free to follow and reach out to chat! 🌋🛰️
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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 3d
We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project
Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · 15d
You can see all of our previous reconstruction updates here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

And you can see our open-access archive of news articles (3.2k articles and counting!) in both 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇸 here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Reconstruction updates - GeoTenerife
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · 15d
Science and other updates:

- Military personnel involved in the eruption request health monitoring

- Scientists from La Palma and Korean volcanic island Jeju share groundwater management knowledge

- Tierra Bonita submits a legal appeal for access to PEVOLCA recordings

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Military personnel in red uniform watch on as a glowing red lava flow passes by them on La Palma
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · 15d
Reconstruction and aid:

- €6 million transferred from Spain for infrastructure recovery

- Gas emissions control centre moves so Puerto Naos school can reopen

- Reconstruction of La Laguna school agreed

- Canarian Govt completes aid payments for primary homes

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An excavator bulldozing its way through cooled, black lava flows
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · 15d
The August news roundup for reconstruction on La Palma for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories programme is out and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

Here's a summary of the months updates 🌋🇮🇨⬇️

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Scientists in high visibility jackets standing in front of a cooling lava flow
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Thomas R. Walter @trwalter.bsky.social · 16d
New paper alert. Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo. Great work led by Marius and Jens, thanks all for working on that together! It can be found in today’s issue of Nature.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · 18d
Take-home message from my favourite browser extension:

My tab management remains pretty poor; much better than before!

(yes the Y axis scale hurts my eyes too)
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · 19d
Great to have you back! 🌋
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · 21d
My latest piece for @geotenerife.bsky.social #VolcanoStories asks one of the key questions locals on La Palma raise with us:

“Why haven’t Spain paid the annual €100 million for reconstruction they promised?”

Read here:
🇬🇧 geotenerife.com/spanishgovpr...

🇪🇸 geotenerife.com/cuatro-anos-...
Cuatro años después: ¿cumple el Gobierno español sus promesas en la reconstrucción de La Palma? - GeoTenerife
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Univ. Bristol Volcanology Group @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social · 23d
We are advertising for a 3-year "Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology and Stratigraphy". Part of a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary research grant "Volcanic Histories", focused on research in the Eastern Caribbean.

Closing: October 15th
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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VMSG @vmsg.bsky.social · 22d
The VMSG Annual Meeting will be hosted by @noc.ac.uk and @unisouthampton.bsky.social at their waterfront campus, 5th - 7th January 2026. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please see the meeting website for info on travel, programme, registration & our buddy scheme here: noc-events.co.uk/VMSG-volcani...
Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group | NOC Events
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Aug 30
You’re welcome! We’ve found it very difficult to track the different reconstruction projects just from the Cabildo’s press releases but this is a lot more useful 👍
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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · Aug 26
🌋 How do scientists monitor volcanoes that we can’t see inside? Volcanoes are powerful and unpredictable, but geophysics gives us a window into the hidden processes deep underground.

📽️Learn more about how we use geophysics to monitor volcanic hazards in this new video!
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https://loom.ly/d6Hpq7U
Illustrated volcano erupting orange-red lava under a starry night sky, with text reading “How We Monitor Volcanic Hazards” and “Geophysics and Volcanoes.”
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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · Aug 23
This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️
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The 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake
The July 29, 2025, M8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting.
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Aug 21
As always, please consider checking out @GeoTenerife's #VolcanoStories for anything La Palma related at: geotenerife.com/volcanostori... 🌋🇮🇨

And you can check out our open-access database of sources (>3000) here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Aug 21
Other updates:

- 'Volcano Law' to protect those affected by eruptions in the Canary Islands is 'almost ready to be approved'

- Funds to increase air connections in La Palma, after many were lost post-eruption

- New local book about the social impacts of the eruption

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An author standing in front of a poster promoting her book about La Palma.
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Aug 21
Reconstruction:

- Temporary modular homes dismantled - will re-used and the plots used for permanent housing

- New website to monitor reconstruction project progress

- Cabildo hopes Puerto Naos school will reopen in September, being closed for 4 years

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A screenshot of a map of the lava flows overlain with different projects in different colours representing their stage of completion.
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Aug 21
Aid:

- Cabildo de La Palma demand Spanish Govt. make concrete commitments to La Palma's reconstruction

- Canary Islands Govt. commits €50 million a year for La Palma's reconstruction until at least 2027

- €700k in aid for renewable energy solutions for those affected

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A picture of two large excavators breaking apart lava flows in La Palma, with blue skies behind.
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Aug 21
Science:
- New underwater images published of recovery of life around the lava deltas for a new scientific project

- @geotenerife.bsky.social Hydrocamp students explore nature-based solutions for groundwater for @genesisnbs project

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A group of researchers standing around surveying equipment in a clearing from a forest of La Palma.
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Aug 21
Our July update for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption for @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories is online and available to read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...

Here's a quick summary of last months update🇮🇨🌋
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A group of researchers in hi-vis jackets standing in a rocky gorge below a waterfall, in a lush green forest on La Palma.
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James Dalziel @j-dalziel.bsky.social · Aug 15
This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Cities near volcanoes: which cities are most exposed to volcanic hazards?
Abstract. Cities near volcanoes expose dense concentrations of people, buildings, and infrastructure to volcanic hazards. Identifying cities globally that are exposed to volcanic hazards helps guide l...
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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · Aug 6
In light of recent volcanic activity in Russia, here is the link to KVERT - Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team.

Information available in English. kvert.febras.net
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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · Aug 2
It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!

'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
A graphic of a book. The cover is a deep red and had a good line illustration of an erupting volcano.
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Jul 25
As ever, all of our sources are archived in the @geotenerife.bsky.social open-access La Palma News Article Archive, now with >3000 searchable reconstruction articles: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

And you can read all of our previous updates here: geotenerife.com/volcanostori...

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GeoTenerife VolcanoStories La Palma news article archive
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Ben Ireland @benirevolc.bsky.social · Jul 25
Other updates:

- Ministry of Defense psychologists brought in to support affected people

- Volcano victims again demand for PEVOLCA meeting recordings to be released

- New insights on communication during crises from a keynote talk by the eruption's spokesperson

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