Claudio Scarpati is currently aggregate professor of Physical Volcanology and Volcanology at University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and a visiting professor of Volcanology at Brigham Young University (USA). Using a series of detailed case studies Professor Scarpati’s research centres around identifying and quantifying the processes involved in explosive volcanism. His main research interests include: evaluation of […]
Road trip through south-western USA with Graham Pritchard, pt. 3
This is part 3 of 3. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Probably the best field trip* in the world ever! (*and it wasn’t even a field trip) Part 3 of 3: Yosemite to Las Vegas Two years ago we decided, as a family, […]
Road trip through south-western USA with Graham Pritchard, pt. 2
This is part 2 of 3. You can read part 1 here. Probably the best field trip* in the world ever! (*and it wasn’t even a field trip) Part 2 of 3: Los Angeles to Yosemite It was two years ago that we agreed to have an extra-special […]
Road trip through south-western USA with Graham Pritchard, pt. 1
Graham is a petroleum geologist working for a small oil & gas company based in London, UK. Having completed a BSc in Geology at Exeter University in 1985, Graham has spent much of the last 30 years working on the prospectivity of many areas, including the UK & Ireland, North Sea, much of mainland and […]
Swirling around Asturias with Daniel Pastor-Galán
Daniel Pastor-Galán is a geologist interested in plate tectonics in general. His research focuses in formation of mountain belts and global tectonic and geodynamic evolution of the Earth. He is especially interested in the formation of oroclines, which are map scale curvature in mountain belts and in the formation and evolution of supercontinents. He tries […]