Press office news tagged geoscience

Explosive activity at La Soufriere, an active volcano on St Vincent, in 2021

£3.7m study aims to improve understanding and detection of dangerous volcanic eruptions

University of Plymouth news: Researchers from our School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences are part of a major new project that aims to shed light on dangerous shifts in volcanic activity

Dr Paul Cole, Associate Professor of Volcanology and a lecturer on the University of Plymouth’s Earth Sciences programmes, who has won the 2026 VMSG Award from the Geological Society of London

Lecturer receives award acknowledging outstanding contribution to volcanology

University of Plymouth news: Dr Paul Cole, Associate Professor of Volcanology and a lecturer on our Earth Sciences programmes, has received a prestigious award from the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) of the Geological Society of London

Greg Price, Rhodri Jerrett and Lauren O’Connor conducting fieldwork at West Bijou

Giant volcanic eruptions affected Earth’s climate but were not responsible for dinosaur extinction, study suggests

University of Plymouth news: New research involving scientists at the University aims to enhance our understanding of a turbulent period of Earth’s history

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Scientists embark on first study of Antarctica’s underwater avalanches

University of Plymouth news: The Antarctic Canyon Experiment (ACE) is a five-year £2.4m project being led by the University and an international consortium of partners.

Emily Vernon. PhD title: Assessing the impact of ionising radiation on aquatic organisms

University benefits from major investment in next generation of scientists

University of Plymouth news: The University has secured funding from UK Research and Innovation to either lead, or be part of, three Doctoral Landscape Awards that will train and support more research students across science, engineering and health

Large ocean wave crashing

University takes the helm of global scientific drilling research programme

University of Plymouth news:The University of Plymouth will lead the central scientific body at the heart of a global research initiative that aims to unlock some of the secrets hidden beneath the world’s seafloor.

The confluence of the Alaknanda and Bhagirathi Rivers, which represents the source of the Ganges. Differences in the colour of the water are the result of variations in sediment load, which can be caused by landscape disturbances originating higher in the catchment.

£1m project aims to forecast long-term effects of debris transported by natural disasters

University of Plymouth news: Led by the University, the SUPERSLUG initiative will assess how sediment moved by landslides, avalanches and other extreme events can impact river systems and the landscapes and communities near them

Mantle rocks collected from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean during the IODP expedition 399 in the Spring of 2023

Rocks that originated in Earth’s mantle could reveal secrets of planet’s history

University of Plymouth news: Dr Andy Parsons is part of an international team that is using rocks from the deep ocean to unravel mantle’s role in life on Earth, volcanism and global chemical cycles.

Joshua Jones landslide research - Nov 2021 (1280x720)

Project aims to enhance the potential to forecast landslides

University of Plymouth news: The EXCESS project aims to begin addressing the issue of variations in landsliding through time, and will go some way to providing the type of information that could ultimately save thousands of lives

Europe’s first 5G interactive microscope labs - students watching lecturer

5G interactive microscope labs enable students to get up close with science

University of Plymouth news: Europe’s first 5G interactive microscope labs, created in partnership with Nikon Industrial Metrology Business Unit and Ostec Instruments, are transforming the learning experience for students across a range of science courses

The Celtic Sea off the western coast of Cornwall (STHLM [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)])

Film highlights how an understanding of seabed geology is critical to the Celtic Sea clean energy revolution

University of Plymouth news: A new short film highlights that advances in renewable technologies are not the only scientific challenge that needs to be addressed if the Celtic Sea clean energy revolution is to become a reality

A rocky platform at Bream Cove near Falmouth, one of the beaches visited as part of the research

Fossilised beaches help scientists understand impacts of past global warming

University of Plymouth news: A study developed at the University found the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet would have caused a rise in global sea levels of up to 5.7 metres.