Join us tomorrow at 5pm (UK time) for the next BILNAS lecture: 'Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa' by Dr Danielle McLean @danmclean.bsky.social 💻 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Online event. All welcome!

Our first time attending #EGU26 and the @oxfordtephra.bsky.social had a blast 🌋 It was great to catch-up with colleagues and see some brilliant talks. Check out @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social @gavrkane.bsky.social @danmclean.bsky.social and @volcrocks.bsky.social in action... ⬇

🔔🌋Tonight is the @cot-iavcei.bsky.social social gathering at #EGU26 We will be meeting at 7Stern brewery from 8pm Note the kitchen closes at 9pm so please place any food ordered when you arrive. 🍲

Made it to my first #EGU26 !

Note that the flyer says the COT social is on Wednesday, that is incorrect- it is on Tuesday! Oops! Please rsvp if interested! The link is correct. #EGU26 @tephraportal.bsky.social @oxfordtephra.bsky.social

📣Join us in May for the next BILNAS lecture: 'Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa' by @danmclean.bsky.social 📆 Thursday 14 May at 5pm (UK time) 📍 Online via Zoom 💻 For more details and to register 👇 bilnas.org/event/volcan...

🌋📢 Consider submitting to this JQS #Tephra Special Issue! "Beyond the #Eruption – Advances and Applications in Distal Tephra Analysis Across the Geosciences" Deadline now extended until 2 July 2026. Further details below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Check out our new paper that establishes the timing of the enormous Aso-3 caldera forming eruption and dispersal across Japan 🇯🇵🌋🔎

Have you read this fantastic QSR paper by @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social et al.(2026)? Lake sediments from the Main Ethiopian Rift reveal refined eruption histories of Boset & Corbetti volcanoes over the Late Holocene, with improved age & volume constraints. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔁📢Deadline extended: 2 July 2026!

EAA 2026 (Athens) - Call for contributions is now open for the session "Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research" 🌋🔬🙂🔬🌋 Deadline: 5 Feb. #tephra #archaeology #EAA2026

🌋 Hello tephra & volcano fans 🌋 We have some announcements, including THREE tephra sessions at the #EGU2026 and TWO special issues! Check out our flyer below with all the details, and pass it on! @egu.eu @ingvterremoti.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social @tephraportal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

Deadline now extended! 🌋

Check out this fantastic #tephratastic session at the EAA Annual Meeting in Athens (26-29 August 2026). 🌋🔍😍 203 – Advances in #Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research 🚨The call for Contributions deadline is 5 February.

🌋 New paper led by Emma Horn & the CAVES Project! We’ve characterised the glass geochemistry of 15 major Azores eruptions (~100 ka). This dataset provides fingerprints to trace Azores tephra across Europe, Africa & beyond. 🔎 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jv... #Azores #Tephra #CAVESProject

🚨New paper! Our latest study, led by Sophie Vineberg, integrates proximal & distal tephra records to reveal the timing and dispersal of large explosive eruptions at Aso volcano (Japan) 🌋 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108436 #tephra #volcanology #Aso #Japan #LakeSuigetsu #tephrochronology

It was great to join the INTIMATE network meeting in Cluj this week. 🦣❄️🕣 Some fantastic science coming soon!

🔁📢 Call for papers - JQS Special Issue on distal tephra analysis Sponsored by IAVCEI Commission on Tephrochronology (COT) 🗓Deadline: 2 Jan 2026

🌋📢 Calling all #tephra researchers! Join us in shaping this new JQS Special Issue. "Beyond the #Eruption – Advances and Applications in Distal Tephra Analysis Across the Geosciences" Deadline: 2 Jan 2026. Further details below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

🌋 PhD and MSc students in Earth Sciences 🌋 Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the International Summer School on Geohazards in Volcanic Islands, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores from 28 May to 4 June. Please check ivar.uac.pt/summer-course/ Deadline for application is approaching, 30 April.

📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...

A totally tephratastic 2024 COT-INTIMATE-THM conference in Catania 🌋.

Look at these beautiful #tephra made by the brilliant Elo Wilkinson-Rowe who I have learnt so much from, and with, over the last few years in the Cambridge Tephra Lab @camtephra.bsky.social Elo is heading next to Oxford to start her PhD with Victoria Smith @volcrocks.bsky.social 👏👏

Delighted to share our new UKRI AHRC Catalyst Award project: Reliance or Resilience? Volcanism and the Ancient Maya. www.arch.ox.ac.uk/volcanism-an...

Hello teacher friends! Annual call for anyone who might be interested in outreach activities relating to volcanology, hazards, risk etc to send me a DM or email. Also a quick plug for the ever growing stash of materials at earth-science.org.uk/teach-earth/

Back in the field exploring outcrops on Tenerife 🌋

Deadline for Abstract Submission for the COT-INTIMATE-THM conference in Catania is Monday! 🌋

View from Oxford - breathtaking

🌋The ultimate #tephratastic conference Excited to share details of the COT-INTIMATE-THM meeting in Catania, September 🚨More information on the website: cot.iavceivolcano.org/cot-intimate...

Announcing this year’s postgraduate conference to be hosted by Queen’s University, Belfast from the 29 -31st August! This is a great opportunity to showcase your research in a friendly environment, and get to know other Quaternary ECRs. Registration will be open soon!

Post-conference Cities on Volcanoes camp on Acatenango viewing platform (3600 m altitude). Amazing experience watching Fuego and Agua 🌋

A brilliant COV12 mid-conference trip to Pacaya volcano and the recent lava flows🌋