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Updates from the Cambridge Tephra Lab, Dept Geography, University of Cambridge.
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Christine S. Lane
21 days ago
📣 Studying tephra in archaeology? Then submit an abstract to our
#tephratastic
session at the European Association for Archaeologists
#EAAs
in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”. 👉5th Feb deadline👈 More info:
bit.ly/3LCcuyy
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Christine S. Lane
24 days ago
#Tephratastic
PhD alert!! Study the record of volcanism hidden in the sediments of Lake Ohrid with the brilliant
@pgalbert.bsky.social
…and even better, you’d live on the Welsh coastline 🏴🌊☀️ Bad news: deadline is Monday 12th Jan!! 🧑💻 More info:
bit.ly/4pu3FVu
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This looks exciting - a new scanning method to detect tephra 👌🌋🧪🔬
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Commission on Tephrochronology
about 2 months ago
Just going to repost this - EGU is looking pretty special this year, especially for the tephra fans out there!
#geology
#volcano
#tephra
#egu2026
@egu.eu
@iavcei.bsky.social
🌋🧪⚒️
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What’s the collective noun for a cluster of geographers rarely seen out of the labs? Seasons Greetings from Cambridge everyone! 🎄✨🎄✨🎄✨🎄
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about 2 months ago
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Paul Byrne
about 2 months ago
Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.
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Not all tephra travels by air…
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JGR: Oceans
2 months ago
Pumice rafts are floating mats of volcanic rock from the eruption of underwater or coastal volcanoes. Monteath et al., analyze the chemistry of pumice from the Falkland Islands and trace its origin from ∼20,000 km away in the South Sandwich Islands 🌊
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez
2 months ago
Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW.
#eruption
#volcano
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Christine S. Lane
3 months ago
Two weeks until our 2/12 PhD funding deadline! If you’re interested in a cryptotephra research project and joining
@camtephra.bsky.social
there’s still time drop me an email to discuss your ideas. Dept funding info:
www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
NERC DLA:
nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...
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Cambridge Tephra Lab paper hot off the press: read how (2022-23 masters student)
@elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social
used tephra layers in lakes to reconstruct Holocene explosive eruptions from the Main Ethiopian Rift.
#tephratastic
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Refining Late Holocene explosive eruption histories of the Main Ethiopian Rift with lake sediment tephra records
The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) hosts a rapidly growing population exposed to eruption hazards from ∼60 active Holocene volcanoes. The geological record…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005050
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Dr Alice Paine
3 months ago
~100,000 years of rainfall… 💦
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Oxford Tephrochronology Group
4 months ago
🚨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
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Another reason to ♥️ volcanic ash
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4 months ago
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Wonderful tephra layer revealed in this peat core sample. Follow the thread to find out where from… 🌋✨
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4 months ago
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Cambridge Geography
4 months ago
🌍 Curious about Geography? Ready to explore what it’s like to study your favourite subject at
@cam.ac.uk
? Don't miss our virtual Geography Subject Masterclass on 16 October 2025!
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Cambridge Geography
4 months ago
Dept of Geography's Prof Christine Lane
@chslane.bsky.social
was at the Romanian Academy, Cluj, for the "Integrating ice core, marine & terrestrial environments" network meeting. The two-day event was a great success, with current and former
@camtephra.bsky.social
members presenting their research.
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Last week PhD student
@yqnatdeng.bsky.social
and
@chslane.bsky.social
were sampling cores from an Ethiopian lake…in Aberystwyth! Here’s hoping there’s lots of ancient cryptotephra to be found!
#tephratastic
4 months ago
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Danielle McLean
5 months ago
🌋📢 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...
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Journal of Quaternary Science Call for Papers Beyond the Eruption: Advances and applications in distal tephra analysis across the Geosciences
<em>Journal of Quaternary Science</em> publishes papers on any field of Quaternary research, advancing understanding of earth's history over the last 2.58 million years.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991417/call-for-papers/si-2025-000858
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Christine S. Lane
5 months ago
We’ve had two days of science in beautiful Cluj as the “Integrating ice core, marine & terrestrial environments” network met for an open meeting. Photos of past/present
@camtephra.bsky.social
members presenting their work and the birthday flowers they embarrassed me with.
@jinheum.bsky.social
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LST floating in LST. Small pleasures 🤓🌋 (Laacher See Tephra floating in the heavy liquid, lithium metatungstate)
6 months ago
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Alaska Public Media
6 months ago
Volcanic ash originating from Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula canceled Alaska Airlines flights to Nome and Kotzebue Tuesday morning. The ash plume came from the Klyuchevskoy volcano, prompting an advisory from the Alaska Volcanic Ash Advisory Center.
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Alaska Air flights to Nome and Kotzebue canceled due to volcanic ash from Kamchatka
Klyuchevskoy erupted shortly after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake two weeks ago.
https://alaskapublic.org/news/2025-08-12/alaska-air-flights-to-nome-and-kotzebue-canceled-due-to-volcanic-ash-from-kamchatka
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PARK Jinheum
7 months ago
We report a cryptotephra deposit from a ~120 ka Tondano eruption in a sediment core from Lake Towuti (Indonesia)!
doi.org/10.1002/jqs....
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Cryptotephra from a ~120 ka Tondano eruption in a sediment core from Lake Towuti (Indonesia)
Southeast Asia is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world, yet their long-term eruptive history has been comparatively little studied. In particular, little work has explored the pot....
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3730
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Ben Black
7 months ago
Some nice fresh looking tephra from Laki. Imagine these fragments quenching in fire fountains a kilometer high
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Jess Phoenix 🌋
7 months ago
🌋 Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano is at it again. Biggest hazards are lahars and volcanic ash (the latter being particularly bad for air traffic). Stay safe, Indonesians!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Indonesian volcano Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki spews massive ash cloud as it erupts again
Following a series of eruptions three weeks ago, Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has begun spewing hot ash and lava again.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3r8v13zrro
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Cambridge tephrochronologists discover Holocene wall art from the “other place”… 👀 Come visit anytime
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7 months ago
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DeniseG
7 months ago
Megadrought Reveals Volcanic Ash at Lake Mead Volcanic ash from volcanoes in Wyoming, Idaho, and California was deposited in the rocks along the shore. The ash samples ranged from 6 million to 12 million years old.
#drought
#LakeMead
🧪
www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...
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Megadrought Reveals Volcanic Ash at Lake Mead, Giving Us a Better Look at the Lake's Past
Learn more about the volcanic ash researchers found in the sediment around Lake Mead’s now exposed shoreline, and how it could help us in the future.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/megadrought-reveals-volcanic-ash-at-lake-mead-giving-us-a-better-look-at-the
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Thanks to Alex Mattin [
www.wgtn.ac.nz/antarctic/ab...
] for visiting yesterday and giving a fascinating talk about his search for tephra from the ~25 kyr Ōruanui eruption in Antarctic ice cores!
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Alexander Mattin | Te Puna Pātiotio / Antarctic Research Centre | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/antarctic/about/grad-students/alexander-mattin
7 months ago
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Congrats! But we will miss you
@jinheum.bsky.social
😭
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7 months ago
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The Conversation U.S.
8 months ago
Here's the link:
theconversation.com/volcanic-ash...
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Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt
When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the harm can continue to spread long afterward.
https://theconversation.com/volcanic-ash-is-a-silent-killer-more-so-than-lava-what-alaska-needs-to-know-with-mount-spurr-likely-to-erupt-254461
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Dave Rodland
9 months ago
Welcome home, my beloveds, to
#FossilFriday
🧪⚒️. I've spent most of the week deep in the collection, trying to get a basic count together as we look at moving to a new home. Sometimes you find things you never realized were there all along. Here, plant fossils from the Florissant Fm.
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UAlberta Volcanic Ash Research Group
11 months ago
New opportunities in Canada 🇨🇦
@oxfordtephra.bsky.social
@camtephra.bsky.social
@tephraportal.bsky.social
@volcancanuck.bsky.social
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Our good old friend the Laacher See Tephra in a speleothem!
#tephratastic
@swinnyy.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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This is wonderful footage. Enjoy
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about 1 year ago
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The Cambridge Tephra Lab wishes you all a Tephratastic new year!
about 1 year ago
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Sediment sending me some love while sieving for
#tephra
🤎🥺
about 1 year ago
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PARK Jinheum
about 1 year ago
It was great to visit Oxford to speak at the seminar in School of Archaeology on Tuesday!
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What a view that is
@palaeobecca.bsky.social
🤩 Looking forward to many more shots of your field and lab work!
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about 1 year ago
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From one volcanic ash lab to another, welcome to Bluesky
@tephrotastic.bsky.social
🌋⚒️ I’ll show you mine, you show me yours 😉 …Here’s a close up of a beautiful microvesicular glass shard from the ~8 kyr BP Mercato tephra, sampled near Naples 🤩
about 1 year ago
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Christine S. Lane
about 1 year ago
Given the new followers👋 I’ll reintroduce myself: I use volcanic ash to date sediments hiding secrets of past climates & people. Prof in Cambridge Uni Geography & Corpus Christi College. Likes: field & lab teaching, tephra-hunting, family time. Follow my group
@camtephra.bsky.social
Now your turn…
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Mindy Weisberger
about 1 year ago
Wow, hello new people! This is a weird, sad, scary time, but welcome & I hope you'll stay a while. I mostly post about science and I lean toward the strange stuff. Speaking of which, do you like trilobites? Here are some that were smothered in volcanic ash & preserved in 3D, 515 million years ago 🧪
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‘Prehistoric Pompeii’ reveals 515 million-year-old sea bugs’ anatomy in pristine 3D | CNN
A volcanic eruption in what’s now Morocco preserved ancient trilobite specimens in nearly pristine condition about half a billion years ago, according to a new study.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/09/science/trilobite-fossils-discovery-volcanic-ash/index.html
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Shuang Zhang
about 1 year ago
Calling all researchers in tephra studies and volcanology! Join us at
#PAGES25
for an engaging session on advancing tephra/volcanology research. Share your work and contribute to discussions either on site or remotely. Abstract deadline: 1st December.
www.pages2025.org.cn/Data/List/Ab...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
over 1 year ago
Absolutely beautiful rocks and plants
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Some lovely Cambridge Tephra Lab news!
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over 1 year ago
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Jeanne Timmons
over 1 year ago
#WorldRhinoDay
Deadly ash from a supervolcano millions of yrs ago killed almost everything in its path, leaving hundreds of well-preserved fossils in NE, including rhinos (Teleoceros major), horses, camels, & saber-toothed deer.
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
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PARK Jinheum
over 1 year ago
Had a good time in Sicily last week giving a talk + having a day trip to Etna! (thanks to photographers)
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Huge shout out to the COT24Early Career Presentation prize winners and runners up. Including Elo Wilkinson-Rowe, who presented about her MPhil research, completed in the Cambridge Tephra Lab last year. 🌋⚒️
over 1 year ago
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Documenting this day so we can attribute all the Mt Etna tephra we are about to find in our cryptotephra lab to the correct isochron 🫣🌋🤔🕵🏻♀️
#tephratastic
#toomuchtephra
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over 1 year ago
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Members of the Cambridge Tephra Lab (past and present) are at the Commission of Tephrochronology meeting, Catania - COT24, this week.
over 1 year ago
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Christine S. Lane
over 1 year ago
Job alert! A chance to work with the incredible Matthew Adeleye on his project “Integrating past and present ecologies, and traditional knowledge for effective biodiversity management into the future”. Please share with your networks!
#geosky
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48010/
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Research Associate in Palaeoecology (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate in Palaeoecology (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48010/
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