Research Stories
Volcanic Plumes from the Seafloor to the Edge of Space: GW4 workshop
Thomas Aubry organised a workshop in Bristol on 8th January for the ‘Volcanic Plumes from the Seafloor to the Edge of Space’ community, funded by a £20k GW4 Generator grant. The workshop had 33 participants (picture attached), saw some very stimulating discussions, and included a career development event for our early career researchers. The workshop also followed the annual UK volcanology conference in Bristol, where the Cornwall volcanology gang was heavily featured with nine presentations across Thomas’ and James Hickey’s volcanology groups, including four brilliant presentations by first-year PhD students Jasmine, Dan, Becca, and Magali.
University of Exeter take VMSG-MDSG 2025
A group of University of Exeter PhD students, staff, and graduates attended VMSG-MDSG 2025, hosted in Dublin, presenting posters, giving talks about their research, and mingling with many other Universities and industry professionals. There were honourable mentions for Jasmine Dibben’s (with co-authors Dr James Hickey and Dr Adelina Geyer-Traver) poster on ‘A hydrothermal unrest model for Deception Island caldera, South Shetland Islands’ and for Madhu Ardhanari’s (with co-author Dr Kathryn Moore) talk on ‘A technocultural pathway towards a new mineral coproduction paradigm: critical metals and ore sands’.
Charlie Hamblet (MSc Exploration Geology Grad) also won the Mineral Deposits Studies Group (MDSG) prize for the best master’s thesis related to mineral deposits. His thesis on the Antelope deposit of Namibia, which was nominated by supervisor Prof. Jens Andersen, won a prize of £500! The prize money was sponsored by the Applied Mineralogy Group of the Mineralogical Society and was announced in Dublin.
