Webinar Series 2026
Disasters by Design
Date: Thursday 29th January at 3pm UK time (3pm UTC / 4pm CEST / 7am PDT)
Speaker: Dr Ekbal Hussain
Please register at: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bd00a260-e5d8-406f-b0c9-3af5827e11d4@b311db95-32ad-438f-a101-7ba061712a4e
Webinar Series 2025
Satellite geodetic constraints on the kinematics and dynamics of the Tibetan Plateau
Date: 29 October 2025
Speaker: Dr Jin Fang
Magma finds a way: insights into dyke pathways and failure of magma-mush reservoirs
Date: 17 September 2025
Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Mantiloni, University of Exeter, UK
SAR-empowered diagnosis of acute and chronic natural hazards
Date: 20 August 2025
Speaker: Dr Xie Hu, Peking University, China
High-resolution remote sensing data to measure topographic changes in volcanoes
Date: 28 May 2025
Speaker: Dr Federico Galetto, Cornell University, USA
Community-driven natural hazard and physical vulnerability assessment – developing a collaborative understanding
Date: 23 April 2025
Speaker: Dr Annie Winson, British Geological Survey
Utilising Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data to Map Grain Size in Different Sediment-Dominated Environments
International Women’s Day Webinar, celebrating the work of three women scientists
Date: 5 March 2025
Speakers: Esme Glastonbury-Southern, University of Cambridge; Camila Novoa Lizama, University of Leeds; Sophie Mann, University of Nottingham
Characterising seismic and volcanic hazards with advanced InSAR
Date: 12 February 2025
Speaker: Dr Lin Shen, Columbia University, USA
Webinar Series 2024
Variable Thermal and Magmatic Modification of the East African Lithosphere
Date: 4 December 2024
Speaker: Dr Rita Kounoudis, University of Oxford, UK
Integrating measurements of deformation and degassing offers insights into magma compressibility and magmatic systems
Date: 13 November 2024
Speaker: Stanley Yip, University of Leeds
What is hiding within the pixels? The use of high-resolution SAR for volcano monitoring
Date: 9 October 2024
Speaker: Mark Bemelmans, University of Bristol
Enhancing confidence in volcanic ash forecasts: Approaches for quantifying and reducing uncertainty
Date: 1 May 2024
Speaker: Natalie Harvey, University of Reading
Using local GNSS observations for improving InSAR atmospheric corrections over tropical volcanoes
Date: 27 March 2024
Speakers: Fabien Albino, Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTERRE)
Solid Earth Deformation in the Antarctic Peninsula
Date: 14 February 2024
Speaker: Grace Nield, Durham University
SAR and InSAR application on temperate raised peatlands
Date: 24 January 2024
Speaker: Alexis Hrysiewicz, University College Dublin
Webinar Series 2023
From measurements to processes: what volcanic gas emissions can tell us about volcanic eruptions
Date: 6 December 2023
Speaker: Ben Esse, University of Manchester, UK
Nationwide assessment of subsidence induced hazard in Iran using Sentinel-1 InSAR
Date: 15 November 2023
Speaker: Jessica Payne, University of Leeds, UK
A Comprehensive Model of Crustal Deformation in the Mediterranean and Middle East: Insights from GNSS Data
Date: 1 November 2023
Speaker: Nicolás Castro-Perdomo, Indiana University, US
Aerosol formation in young volcanic plumes: insights from OP-FTIR measurements
Date: 25 October 2023
Speaker: Dr Jean-François Smekens (University of Oxford)
Along-strike variation of the strain partitioning within the Apennines as seen from large-scale multi-temporal InSAR analysis
Date: 17 May 2023
Speaker: Dr Simon Daout (CRPG/ENSG)
Rupture and deformation pattern of the Kepingtag fold-and-thrust belt, insights from the 2020 Mw6.0 Jiashi Earthquake, SW Tian Shan
Date: 26 April 2023
Speakers: Siyu Wang (University of Victoria, Canada) & Dr Yingfeng Zhan (China Earthquake Administration, Institute of Geology)
International Women’s Day Webinar, celebrating the work of three women scientists
Date: 8 March 2023
Speakers: Miss Cindy Lim Shin Yee (University of Bristol), Dr Lin Shen (University of Leeds), Dr Samantha Engwell (BGS)
pyMelt: new pythonic methods for calculating the petrological behaviour of Earth’s melting mantle
Date: 20 February 2023
Speaker: Kevin Wong (University of Bologna/University of Leeds)
COMET’s Research Fieldwork Guidelines: Safe, Inclusive and Equitable Field Research
Date: 25 January 2023
Speaker: Sam Wimpenny (University of Leeds)
Webinar Series 2022
Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar backscatter for monitoring volcanic eruptions
Date: 1 December 2022
Speaker: Edna Dualeh (University of Bristol)
Mountain building: insights from neotectonics
Date: 26 October 2022
Speaker: Ian Pierce (University of Oxford)
What drives explosive volcanic eruptions, and their impacts? Insights from forensic analysis of past events
Date: 21 September 2022
Speaker: David Pyle (University of Oxford)
Probing the Upper End of Intra-continental Earthquake Magnitude: a Prehistoric Example from the Dzhungarian and Lepsy Faults of Kazakhstan
Seismotectonics of the NW Himalayas with insights for seismic hazard
Date: 24 August 2022
Speakers: CH Wendy Tsai (University of Oxford) & Aisling O’Kane (University of Cambridge)
Large-scale strain mapping over the northeast Tibetan Plateau
Date: 22nd June 2022
Speaker: Qi Ou (University of Leeds)
The use of satellite imagery during emergency disaster response: the 2022 Tonga eruption
Date: 18 May 2022
Speaker: Alessandro Novellino (BGS)
2022: A Space Geodesy
Date: 27 April 2022
Speaker: Vicki Smith (BGS)
Widespread Rock Damage from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes
Date: 6 April 2022
Speaker: Alba M. Rodríguez Padilla (University of California, Davis)
The origin of stress- and fluid- driven seismicity in volcanic settings: a laboratory perspective
Date: 9 March 2022
Speaker: Dr Philip Benson (University of Portsmouth) presented the COMET webinar:
Testing the importance of sagduction: Insights from the structure and petrology of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, northwest Scotland
Date: 23 February 2022
Speakers: Sophie Miocevich, Alex Copley & Owen Weller (University of Cambridge)
Characterizing the along-strike length of creep events along the San Andreas Fault
Date: 23 February 2022
Speakers: Dan Gittins (University of Oxford)
Seismic hazard in East Africa from continental rifting of thick lithosphere
Date: 19 January 2022
Speaker: Dr Luke Wedmore (University of Bristol)
Webinar Series 2021
Watch a webinar supported by COMET, where SENSE CDT and their panelists discuss how to apply for PhDs
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Date: 25 November 2021
Imagining earthquakes: the role of qualitative data in seismic risk analysis
Date: 17 November 2021
Speaker: Dr Camilla Penney (University of Cambridge)
Geohazard assessment of Mexico City’s Metro System from SAR interferometry observations
Date: 3 November 2021
Speaker: Associate Professor Darío Solano (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Using Satellites to Inform Seismic Hazard and Risk Estimates in Central Asia
Date: 20 October 2021
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Amey (University of Leeds)
Impacts of climate change on the stratospheric volcanic sulfate aerosol lifecycle and radiative
Date: 29 September 2021
Speaker: Dr Thomas J. Aubry (University of Cambridge)
Measurements of volcanic plumes with the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI)
Date: 18 August 2021
Speaker: Dr Isabelle Taylo
Deformation above inflating igneous sills in sedimentary basins
Date: 14 July 2021
Speaker: Prof Chris Jackson
Present-day crustal deformation of Java, Indonesia using GPS data
Date: 28 May 2021
Speaker: Prof Endra Gunawan
Monitoring volcano deformation with InSAR & machine learning
Date: 12 May 2021
Speaker: Pui Anantrasirichai
101 Geodynamic Modelling Applied to Subduction
Date: 17 March 2021
Speaker: Iris van Zelst
COMET LiCSAR system for measuring tectonic and volcanic deformation by Sentinel-1 interferometry
Date: 24 February 2021
Speakers: Milan Lazecky and Yasser Maghsoudi
Slip and Slip Deficit: The M 7.8 July 2020 Simeonof Earthquake and Interseismic Coupling of the Aleutian Megathrust
Date: 3 February 2021
Speaker: Connor Drooff (Michigan State University)
A 25‐Year History of Volcano Magma Supply in the East Central Aleutian Arc, Alaska
Date: 3 February 2021
Speaker: Xueming Xue
How active volcanism changes topography: Insights from satellite InSAR measurements at Agung and Fuego
Date: 20 January 2021
Speaker: Fabien Albino
Webinar Series 2020
Earthquakes of the Silk Road – reinterpreting the historic and prehistoric ruptures of central Asia
Date: 30 July 2020
Speaker: Prof. Richard Walker
Measurements of the Rheology of Active Faults
Date: 25 June 2020
Speaker: Sam Wimpenny
Movers and shakers down-under: what Australian surface ruptures tell us about intraplate faults, seismic hazard, and reverse earthquake strong ground motions
Date: 28 May 2020
Speaker: Tamarah King
Which fault zone processes could cause slow earthquakes? Constraints from scaling and atmospheric modulation
Date: 21 April 2020
Speaker: Jessica Hawthorne
High-resolution velocity, strain, and earthquake hazard models in Anatolia from InSAR, GNSS and seismicity
Date: 10 February 2020
Speakers: Jonathan Weiss & Chris Rollins
Webinar Series 2019
The 2016 Central Italy Earthquakes and the Global Importance of Seismic Sequences
Date: 25 November 2019
Speaker: Richard Walters
The drizzle burns my eyes and throat”: impacts of volcanic gas and aerosol on the environment and health
Date: 30 October 2019
Speaker: Evgenia Ilyinskaya
The fatal eruption of Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala – causes, consequences and a brighter future?
Date: 10 September 2019
Speaker: Matt Watson
New Insights from Old Earthquakes using Photogrammetry and Early Seismograms
Date: 30 July 2019
Speaker: Austin Elliott
Webinar Series 2018
RAS Group Award Lecture
Date: 20 December 2018
Speaker: Professor Tim Wright
Interferometría radar por satélite: Una introducción
Date: 29 November 2018
Speaker: Pablo González (Universidad de Liverpool)
Volcanoes: from fuming vents to extinction events
2018 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture at the Royal Society
Date: 18 October 2018
Speakers: Tamsin Mather
A day in the life (of a volcano-seismologist)
Date: 19th July 2018
Speaker: Dr. Paddy Smith
What drives volcanic unrest?
Date: 17th July 2018
Speaker: Juliet Biggs
Exploring the controls on earthquakes and tectonics: from the plains of India to the greatest mountain range on Earth
Date: 3 May 2018
Speaker: Alex Copley
Integrating satellite and ground-based measurements to understand volcanic behaviour
Date: 29 March 2018
Speaker: Professor Tamsin Mather
Probing the rheology of the continental lithosphere in the new era of big data geodesy
Date: 19 September 2017
Speaker: Professor Tim Wright
Monitoring our dynamic planet with satellite geodesy
See a replay of Tim Wright’s public lecture at the Royal Astronomical Society
