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Clive Oppenheimer

@ultraplinian

Volcanologist & filmmaker

 UK
geog.cam.ac.uk/people/oppenheimer/
Joined November 2012
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For your holiday reading perhaps... my "love letter to volcanoes" is 99 p on Kindle this month - amazon.co.uk/Mountains-Fire-…. It will also be out in paperback in the UK on 1 August. Thanks!
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David Pyle@davidmpyle16 May 2024
Very many congratulations to the newly elected Fellows of the @royalsociety ! Especially delighted for @tamsinmather 🌋🌋🌋 @OxUniEarthSci @UnivOxford @vmsg_uk royalsociety.org/news/2024/0…
Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society

Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society

Over 90 exceptional researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

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Published today! A wonderful new book by @tamsinmather Adventures in Volcanoland: amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Volc… Congratulations Tamsin!
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves

Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves

Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves

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Roger Highfield@RogerHighfield7 Mar 2024
My 1st @sciencemuseum book, my 1st [highly] illustrated book, and my 10th overall, is out today and tells the story of Stephen Hawking's life and science through the objects in his @Cambridge_Uni office shop.sciencemuseum.org.uk/pr…
Fun & Educational Toys, Gifts & Science Sets | Science Museum Shop

Fun & Educational Toys, Gifts & Science Sets | Science Museum Shop

Engage your inner scientist with science-inspired gifts, gadgets, robots, games, puzzles, toys, chemistry sets and more from the Science Museum Shop. Every purchase goes back into the upkeep of the...

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David Pyle@davidmpyle23 Feb 2024
Wonderful 'Desert Island Disks' on @BBCRadio4 / @BBCsounds, featuring #volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, with a very personal reflection on life, and a delightfully eclectic soundtrack. And of course, a seismometer as the luxury item. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wg…
Desert Island Discs - Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist - BBC Sounds

Desert Island Discs - Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist - BBC Sounds

Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

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Tamsin Mather’s riveting ADVENTURES IN VOLCANOLAND, has received a STARRED review from Kirkus! @tamsinmather @Hanover_Square
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Just published, a fascinating study by Tatiana Bebchuk of Bronze Age yew forests in eastern England: theguardian.com/environment/… and sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
East Anglian Fens were covered in yew trees 4,000 years ago, study finds

East Anglian Fens were covered in yew trees 4,000 years ago, study finds

‘Bog oak’ study finds more than 400 well preserved yews, which could help solve mystery of historic rapid sea level rise

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Anna Baty@AnnaSophiaBaty27 Sep 2023
We're so proud to have not one but TWO books on the @royalsociety Science Book Prize shortlist! Congratulations to our brilliant authors @nbrendborg and @RomaTheEngineer !
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Out in the USA today! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books… with deep gratitude to @josephcalamia and his colleagues @UChicagoPress
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Franklin expedition: Portraits of doomed Arctic explorers go to auction

Franklin expedition: Portraits of doomed Arctic explorers go to auction

It is the only known complete set of crew member photographs from the Franklin expedition in the Arctic.

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Anna Baty@AnnaSophiaBaty23 Aug 2023
Today - 23rd August - is Vulcanalia Day. Vulcanalia was a Roman festival in honour of the god of fire, Vulcan - which is where we get the word 'volcano' from. So it is fitting that we are publishing Mountains of Fire this week by our very own god of fire, Clive Oppenheimer.
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My vacation reading just arrived - volcanoes, history of science and Indonesia - my idea of a great combination.
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We have a vacancy for a lecturer working on any aspect of paleoclimatology: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33668/
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The story of earthquakes on In Our Time with @joshammond, @ZoeMildon and Rebecca Bell: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00154g…
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Seismology

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Seismology

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.

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Endurance is Found - Endurance22

Endurance is Found - Endurance22

The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance.

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Michael Sigl@THERA_4ever30 Jun 2021
New #treering study by Freddy Reinig, U. Büntgen, L. Wacker, @ultraplinian et al. on the #LaacherSee #eruption in #Germany shows Younger Dryas cooling in Europe was instantaneous, not time transgressive as believed. @uni_mainz @WSL_research @unibern go.nature.com/3w8d0qu
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So proud of Giuseppe, and wishing the best to all my colleagues in Italy, Iceland, Hawaii and elsewhere striving to monitor boisterous magmas: theguardian.com/world/2021/m…
‘We monitor its every breath’: inside Mount Etna’s war room

‘We monitor its every breath’: inside Mount Etna’s war room

In the city of Catania, at the foot of the volcano, scientists are trying to explain its recent unusual behaviour

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HAYABUSA2@JAXA@haya2e_jaxa15 Dec 2020
A large number of particles are confirmed to be in “sample chamber A” inside the collected capsule (~11:10 JST on 12/15). This is thought to be the sample from the first touchdown on Ryugu. The photo looks brown, but our team says “black”! The sample return is a great success!
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What an extraordinary accomplishment - congratulations JAXA and to everyone on the Hayabusa2 team!
HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) profile pictureHAYABUSA2@JAXA@haya2e_jaxa6 Dec 2020
Capsule collection! The helicopter team immediately flew to the location identified by the DFS team. They searched for the fallen capsule by using radio waves and maps. Thank you very much! (Collection Team M) #Hayabusa2 #はやぶさ２ #AsteroidExplorerHayabusa2 #HAYA2Report
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