The Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group – a joint special interest group of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland and the Geological Society of London – are delighted to announce their 56th annual meeting will be held in Plymouth between 7-9 January 2020. Check out their webpage for further information here.
Symposia include:
1. Processes at plate margins (J Barclay and M Harris)
2. Magma storage and transport (M Edmonds and A Morris)
3. Timescales and rates of magmatic processes (C Petrone and P Cole)
4. Intraplate magmatism (M Harris and S Gibson)
5. Monitoring and forecasting (J Hickey and J Johnson)
6. Hazard, risk and communication (J Phillips and I Manzella)
7. Research in Progress (P Cole and A Peach)
Keynote speakers include:
- VMSG award winner Professor David Pyle, Oxford University
- Professor Kathy Cashman, University of Bristol: ‘From magma storage to eruption: New questions for a new decade’
- Dr Mike Cassidy, University of Oxford: ‘Explosive or Effusive? Investigating the controls of volcano eruptive style’
- Dr Johan Lissenberg, University of Cardiff: ‘Magma processing in the lower oceanic crust’
- Professor Costanza Bonadonna: ‘Integrating hazard, exposure and vulnerability for risk assessment and management: the case study of Vulcano island, Italy’
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