Amelia Bain

@amelia-bain.bsky.social

Researcher in volcanology, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, co-production. Based in Edinburgh 🌋 Volunteer Managing Editor for the Journal of Applied Volcanology.

📢New 𝐉𝐀𝐕 article alert! 🌋 Patrick et al. discuss benefits and challenges of livestream video monitoring in Hawaii. Providing an “up-close” view previously limited to observatory field staff, and are generating unprecedented levels of public engagement. #volcano link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Seeing is believing: livestream video monitoring of Hawaiian eruptions - Journal of Applied Volcanology

Livestream video has become a crucial tool for volcano monitoring in recent years, building upon the use of webcam snapshots that have been common for the past two decades. In Hawaii, livestream video...

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**Deadline Extended!** 🌋Our special collection on data visualization and effective communication in #volcanology is now accepting submissions till 31 January 2026. JAV is fully open access and many institutions have read/publish agreements that cover the APC. Waivers also available where needed🌋

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Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project. This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc. Thank you all who contributed! 🌱

Edinburgh Diamond@edinburghdiamond.bsky.social · last yr.

We are pleased to share our latest #OA book, 'Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk'. This recipe book is part of a transformative feminist & decolonial project that documents the agri-food traditions within the work of Tz'utujil Maya women. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

An image of a lake with trees and mountains wafts up from a cooking pot being stirred by a spoon.

🌋Hot from Kīlauea #Volcano, read about a 𝗻𝗲𝘄, versatile and nimble technique for real-time monitoring of lava lake fluctuations using a continuous laser rangefinder. Used by #USGS Hawai'i Volcano Observatory since 2018 to monitor magmatic system pressure & hazards👉https://tinyurl.com/52kbk2m6

Figure 3 from Younger et al. (2025) in Journal of Applied Volcanology showing the field installation of continuous laser rangefinder instruments for continuous real-time monitoring of lava lake levels at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i.

🌋Exciting new article in Journal of Applied Volcanology by Paine and Wadsworth, who created a global compilation of fall deposit and ignimbrite volumes for #eruptions >M4. They found little or no buoyant plume component for eruptions of the highest known magnitudes😯👉https://tinyurl.com/44jsepxn

Figure 5 from Paine and Wadsworth (2025) in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the key differences between (a) high VFALL/V ratio eruptions, and (b) low VFALL/V ratio eruptions.

Don't forget about this exciting special issue, receiving submissions till end September. The Journal of Applied Volcanology is fully open-access and covered under many institutional publishing agreements. We also have APC waivers available for authors from resource constrained contexts✍️🌋

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🌋Don't miss this '𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓' blog post by author Charles Ching discussing the motivations for their recently published study on monitoring the crater lake of Ruapehu #volcano 📜🖊️ Link to the open-access article in the blog post👇 tinyurl.com/mpwfam3u

Watching Ruapehu Crater Lake: What does this tell us about an active volcano?

Ruapehu is an active volcano in New Zealand, with all historical eruptions having occurred from its Crater Lake. By watching and photographing the Crater Lake, we attempted to better understand the la...

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