Our MSc student Hannah Dixon participated in the eighth UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction forum last week. Held in Geneva, the event enabled participants to share new knowledge, exchange best practice and discuss the latest developments in reducing disaster risk. @es-ucl.bsky.social

@es-ucl.bsky.social are advertising for a full-time permanent lectureship in Earth Sciences. You can find out more about the position (and apply) here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Some of the scenery on our Azores field trip....😍 @es-ucl.bsky.social

On the fourth day of our field trip, students learnt about landslide hazards and mitigation at Ribeira Quente. ⛰️ @es-ucl.bsky.social

On the third day of our Azores field trip, we learnt about structural controls on volcanism, including the formation and hazards associated with calderas and monogenetic fields. Here is the group stood in Sete Cidades caldera on the western margin of São Miguel. @es-ucl.bsky.social

On the second day of our field trip to the Azores, students had a go at taking soil carbon dioxide concentration and flux measurements to investigate soil diffuse degassing, which can be a significant hazard on parts of the island here. @es-ucl.bsky.social

On the first day of our MSc Geophysical Hazards field trip to the Azores, our students walked in a lava tube and discussed the hazards associated with lava flows and lava-water interaction. @es-ucl.bsky.social 🌋

The education secretary is being urged for climate change to be comprehensively included in the school curriculum, in an open letter sent by subject experts including specialists in @es-ucl.bsky.social. You can read the letter and add your name at: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/news/150-lea...

For our final student blog article, Ruby Tavola explores Fiji's vulnerability to Cyclone Winston in 2016. Enjoy: www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Our second student blog article by Ella Hunter-Campbell looks at issues of social vulnerability and resilience exposed by the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran. Check it out here... www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Our students have been writing blogs on vulnerability to natural hazards, and this week we will be sharing links to three of them. The first, written by Sébastien Schillé, explores Colombia's vulnerability to the 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz: www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Amid ongoing Santorini unrest, re-plugging our recent pre-print: "Leaky faults modulated magma ascent and seismicity during the 2022 São Jorge (Azores) volcanic unrest" eartharxiv.org/repository/v... (featuring @pablojglez.bsky.social @alomaxnet.bsky.social amongst others). Feedback & ideas welcome

We are in Nicosia to present our interdisciplinary project with NYU-Gallatin (learningwithmountainsconference.wordpress.com). We are applying research theatre to explain the nature of unseen natural hazards. Photo shows Ellada Evangelou, Karen Holmberg, Kristin Horton. @es-ucl.bsky.social

We are seeking a Lecturer (Teaching) to act as Deputy Undergraduate Tutor and to assist with delivering our taught programmes (particularly in areas of environmental geoscience and environmental geochemistry). www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 14.02.2025

New Paper Alert! UCL Hazard Centre affiliate, David Smart, has been investigating Storm Ciarán using a counterfactual analysis. Check out the paper here: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @rmets.org