Last night's final lecture of the year for our 2024/2025 programme was a masterclass in synopticity for our A-Level students. MMU's Dr. Iestyn Bar spoke passionately about his love for ice and passion for researching the interactions between glaciers and volcanic hazards.
By exemplifying through Eyjafjallajökull 2010, Mount St. Helens 1980 and Nevado Del Ruiz 1985, Iestyn showed how these national- and international-scale volcanic eruptions were worsened and their impacts intensified by the presence of ice and glaciers atop the volcanoes.
Below are resources quoted by Iestyn during tonight's lecture for student and staff use:
The Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program - https://volcano.si.edu/
New Scientist report on glacier shrinkage - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2469212-the-worlds-glaciers-have-shrunk-more-than-5-per-cent-since-2000/#:~:text=Glaciers%20worldwide%20have%20shrunk%20by%20more%20than%205,the%20past%20decade%20as%20climate%20change%20continues%20apace.
Taylor et al. (2023) Glacial lake outburst floods threaten millions globally - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36033-x
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th report - https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/
Reinthaler (2019) Area changes of glaciers on active volcanoes in Latin America using satellite imaging - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/area-changes-of-glaciers-on-active-volcanoes-in-latin-america-between-1986-and-2015-observed-from-multitemporal-satellite-imagery/99178DD00E13C9E7354BEBEA48AF85F4
