Dr Eric Breard
@pdcguy.bsky.social
Volcanologist at the University of Edinburgh
🔊 SOUND ON & play in HD 🔊 Flow Fan-Fiction Friday: I let IMEX_SfloW2D_v2 simulate a Mount Doom PDC, loosely inspired by the AD 232 Taupō eruption. Will Osgiliath & Minas Tirith survive? Basically, I let a volcanic-flow model loose in Mordor… #FlowFriday #LOTR #Volcanology tinyurl.com/LORTPDC
The Day Mordor Breathed Again
YouTube video by Eric Breard
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3.5-years Fully Funded PhD position at the University of Edinburgh! www.exageo.org/phd-student-... #CFD #granularflows
🌋We have a 2.5-years long fully funded Postdoctoral position opened at UoEdinburgh to study volcanic plumes with 3D modelling. Spread the word! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Volcanic plume and computational fluid dynamics
The post-holder will join the NERC-funded PHOENIX project, “Influence of complex source and environmental conditions on eruptive plume height”, led by Prof. Thomas Aubry (University of Oxford).
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Wrapping up one week of fieldwork at Fuego volcano, flying drones and sampling PDC deposits with @smakris.bsky.social @pdcguy.bsky.social @tyranakisaurus.bsky.social Sylvain Charbonnier, Gustavo Chigna, Fabrizio Ponce, Amilcar Calderas, Edgar Barrios, William Chigna and Mario Ovalle.
On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car. #tsunami
In this PhD work Chris Harper investigated thin-layer stability (i.e., why a granular flow friction depends on its scale when the flow thickness is /10*characteristic diameter), which makes levees in most geophysical flows and is a process observed even in frictionless systems! #granularflows
Why using matlab sucks... no way to activate Matlab's licence, it has now been a week @matlab ; this is why I only code in python these days...
On this day in 1902, Montagne Pelée (Martinique) unleashed pyroclastic flows that killed over 28,000 people. That tragedy gripped me as a child and led me to volcanology. After more than a decade studying PDCs, I’ve received on this day my permanent faculty post at Edinburgh to continue the journey.
Volcan de Fuego woke up after a nap of 7 weeks... watch live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpqT... and keep informed with insivumeh.gob.gt #Guatemala
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
🧪⚒️ The seismic swarm in Greece continues - and GPS stations on Santorini show that the island itself is deforming, signaling likely movement of magma deep in the crust. In our latest post, we explore a new detailed seismic catalog and come up with a possible interpretation. Read more:
The seismic swarm in Greece gets more complicated
New data reveal unexpected volcano-tectonic interactions
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Just a few more days until the deadline (Feb 17) to apply for the 3.5-year fully funded PhD scholarships in GPU-based modelling! 🚀 Work at the cutting edge of #granularflow and #CFD, pushing the boundaries of #EarthSciences. Don't miss this opportunity! #STEM
With geoscientists keeping a close eye on the seismicity around Santorini over the past couple of weeks, this work by the BGS using machine learning to enhance detection & short-term forecasting for advising emergency services & at-risk communities is fascinating: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/artific...
Artificial intelligence is proving a game changer in tracking the Santorini earthquake swarm - British Geological Survey
An online tool that shows which roads are most likely to cause river pollution is being expanded to assess pollution from agricultural areas.
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I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful. The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action. The truth is bad enough!
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
🧪⚒️ A swarm of earthquakes has been rattling the Greek islands. Today marked the largest event in the swarm so far (M5.1). Schools are closed and emergency crews have deployed. Could the swarm trigger a really big earthquake, like the M7.8 in 1956? Read more on Earthquake Insights:
Earthquake swarm beneath the Aegean Sea
Greek government is responding to elevated risk of large earthquake
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Check this out... I reckon drones should be used for gathering such intel...😐 #tooclosetodanger #volcano #multiphaseflow
From the Volcanoes community on Reddit: yes, that is one happy man that has been disensitized of volcano by simply living in indonesia
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Beauty in simple things... with #highspeedimaging (1800 fps) with @smakris.bsky.social #fluidmechanics
Wait, co-l in means co-lead? I thought it was co-Investigator for years...?
Three years ago, on Jan 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai #volcano erupted, causing the most powerful volcanic explosion since Krakatoa in 1883. The eruption triggered a tsunami, which killed three people and forced the relocation of communities. ⚒🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hy-...
Tonga tsunami cuts off nearly all island communications - BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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DAMN.. and one testament to this may be the 5 typhoons hitting the Philippines in 23 days...
Copernicus ECMWF@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Global Climate Highlights 2024 report is now online. Delve in the analysis and access all the charts, information, and data on temperature, sea ice, precipitation, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Explore the data that defined 2024: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz #C3S #GCH2024
The temperature data from December 2024 were released today. So it is time to update the comparison between measured temperatures and the prediction by Vahrenholt, which has been cited by contrarians & the AfD to deny the anthropogenic influence on #climatechange 🧪
