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Today we celebrate all our amazing women at COMET and introduce you to some members of the COMET Directorate. Meet ...
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COMET Scientist Professor David Pyle (University of Oxford) is the recipient of the 2024 Murchison Medal, awarded by the Geological ...
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In November 2023, a state of emergency was suddenly declared in a fishing town in Iceland, Grindavík, and all residents ...
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Meeting Time Zone PST AGU23 (confex.com) Monday 11th December Session Type Start time End Time Location Session Title COMET Author/Speaker(s) ...
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VMSG has recently announced its 2024 award winners and we are delighted to announce that COMET staff researcher Edna Dualeh ...
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A group from the University of Bristol’s volcanology group represented COMET at the recent Girls into Geoscience careers day at ...
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From July 4 – 9 this year, a team from the University of Oxford, University of East Anglia and the ...
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COMET scientist, Dr Susanna Ebmeier has been recognised at the European Space Agency (ESA)-European Geosciences Union (EGU) excellence awards. The ...
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Project Title: Improving Building Exposure Datasets using High-Res Imagery and Deep Learning  Supervisors: Dr. Scott Watson and Dr. John Elliott (University of ...
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A personal view from COMET* director, Prof Tim Wright  14 February 2023  We have all been shocked and horrified by ...
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On 6 February, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the East Anatolian Fault affecting large areas of Southern Türkiye and Northern Syria ...
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This year, COMET celebrates International Women & Girls in Science Day 2023 by promoting some of the high-quality science that ...
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The BGA is delighted to announce that COMET associate, Dr. Zoe Mildon from University of Plymouth, is the Bullerwell Lecturer ...
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The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has recently announced its 2022 section award winners and named lecturers. We are delighted to announce ...
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The BGA is delighted to announce that Dr Tim Craig from University of Leeds, is the Bullerwell Lecturer for 2022 ...
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COMET scientists Professor Tamsin Mather (University of Oxford) and Professor Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge) have both received the honorary title of Geochemistry ...
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Thinking of applying for a PhD? Watch again a webinar, supported by COMET, where SENSE CDT and their panelists discuss ...
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The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 50 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and ...
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COMET researcher Tamarah King, based at the University of Oxford, has recently written a blog providing a research update on ...
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Professor Gregory (Greg) Houseman, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Leeds and Emeritus COMET Scientist, is amongst the outstanding and distinguished group ...
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The Global Waveform Catalogue hosted by COMET is now fully interactive. The Global Waveform Catalogue was published by COMET Associate ...
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Watch the COMET presentation "LiCSAR Catalogue and Response System of Sentinel-1 Earthquake-related Interferograms" from the Seismological Society of America (SSA) ...
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***This studentship is fully funded for UK students through COMET and the BGS*** Project Title: The dynamics of dip-slip faulting ...
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COMET scientists Professor Juliet Biggs (University of Bristol) and Professor Andy Hooper (University of Leeds) both serve on the Harmony ...
COMET scientist Prof Marie Edmonds based at the University of Cambridge has received the AGU 2020 Joanne Simpson Medal, one ...
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COMET scientist Dr John Elliott based at the University of Leeds is the latest winner of the John Wahr Early ...
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COMET Director Professor Tim Wright  will present a free public lecture, 'Monitoring our hazardous planet from space', as part of ...
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How satellite InSAR has grown from opportunistic science to routine monitoring over the last decade COMET Deputy Director (Volcanoes), Prof ...
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Thursday the 30th of July 2020 at 16:00 UK time (GMT+1). Prof. Richard Walker (University of Oxford) Title: Earthquakes of ...
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Thursday the 25th of June 2020 at 16:00 UK time (GMT+1). Dr. Sam Wimpenny (University of Cambridge) Title: Measurements of ...
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An international group of research scientists including COMET researchers Prof. Tim Wright (COMET Director) and Prof. Andy Hooper, and led ...
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Thursday the 28th of May 2020 at 16:00 UK time (GMT+1) Dr. Tamarah King (University of Oxford) Title: Movers and ...
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Tuesday the 21st of April 2020 at 15:00 GMT (16:00 BST) Dr. Jessica Hawthorne (University of Oxford) Title: Which fault ...
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Monday the 10th of February 2020 at 15:00 GMT Drs. Jonathan Weiss (University of Potsdam, University of Leeds) & Chris Rollins ...
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Monday 25th of November 2019 at 15:00 GMT Dr. Richard Walters (Durham University) Title: The 2016 Central Italy Earthquakes and ...
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Wednesday 30th of October 2019 at 16:00 BST (GMT). Dr. Evgenia Ilyinskaya (University of Leeds) Title: The drizzle burns my ...
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The next COMET webinar will take place on Tuesday 10th of September 2019 at 16:00 BST (GMT+1). Dr. Matthew Watson ...
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The next COMET webinar will take place on Tuesday the 30th of July 2019 at 16:00 BST (GMT+1). Dr. Austin ...
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COMET has been awarded £950,000 by NERC to deliver cutting-edge research on earthquakes and volcanoes and to continue the development ...
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Work led by COMET scientists Juliet Biggs and Andy Hooper is developing new methods for using artificial intelligence and satellite ...
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A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has used satellite technology provided by the European Space Agency ...
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The outstanding contributions of COMET UCL's Professor Marek Ziebart to the science of space navigation, guidance and control have been ...
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The achievements of four COMET scientists have been recognised in a recent spate of prizes! Juliet Biggs, Reader at the ...
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The timing and size of three deadly earthquakes that struck Italy in 2016 may have been pre-determined, according to new ...
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COMET Oxford's Professor Tamsin Mather is the latest recipient of the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award, recognising her achievements in volcanology ...
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Satellite data has shed new light on seismic hazard in one of the world’s most deadly earthquake zones. Published today ...
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COMET’s achievements in Earth observation and modelling have been recognised by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in their latest round ...
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As part of the RiftVolc consortium, COMET researchers David Pyle, Tamsin Mather and Juliet Biggs have co-authored a new paper ...
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COMET scientist Juliet Biggs will receive the 2017 Geodesy Section Award at this year's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, ...
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COMET researchers at the University of Oxford have estimated the total carbon emissions emanating from the Eastern Rift - the ...
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Pablo J Gonzalez is a COMET researcher at the University of Liverpool.  He is currently (August 2017) carrying out a ...
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At about 5:38am local time on 24 June 2017 (21:38 on 23 June 2017 UTC), a massive landslide struck Xinmo ...
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Cerro Azul is the southernmost active volcano on Isabela Island, Galápagos (Ecuador). On 18-19 March 2017, seismic activity increased on ...
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Dramatic data from last year’s major earthquake in Kaikoura, New Zealand, will change the way scientists think about earthquake hazards ...
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By COMET Scientist Juliet Biggs Malawi is a small country at the tip of the East African Rift. Small, that ...
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Congratulations to COMET scientist Professor Andy Hooper, who has been awarded the American Geophysical Union (AGU) James B. Macelwane Medal ...
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COMET scientists have helped to shed new light on how volcanoes collapse during major eruptions, in new research published in ...
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A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters by Tom Pering and Andrew McGonigle has combined fluid dynamical modelling of ...
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A new paper in Scientific Reports, co-authored by COMET's Tamsin Mather, has demonstrated for the first time that airborne remote ...
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COMET's Marek Ziebart and Chris Atkins, both at UCL, have been using sidereal filtering to detect geohazards in near-real time ...
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In the geological past, large eruptions have often occurred simultaneously at nearby volcanoes. Now, a team of COMET scientists from ...
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Pablo Gonzalez's work on the 2014 Pico do Fogo eruption has been featured in the AGU's Eos magazine. The research ...
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Scientists from COMET are participating in a workshop, funded by the US National Science Foundation, to study Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala ...
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An international team of scientists, led by COMET's John Elliott, has shed new light on the earthquake that devastated Nepal ...
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On the evening of December 2 2015, Sicily’s Mount Etna began to erupt for the first time in over two ...
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Are the volcanoes of the Ethiopian Rift Valley now peaceful, or do they continue to pose a threat to the ...
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Around 20 scientists gathered at the University of Leeds recently to share their knowledge and their views on how magmatic ...
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COMET researchers have unravelled a complex seismic sequence using a combination of techniques, explaining not only the earthquake sequence itself ...
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COMET researchers have used the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1A satellite to shed light on the 2014-15 eruption at Fogo, the ...
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A huge volcanic eruption in Iceland emitted on average three times as much of a toxic gas as all European ...
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Post by Richard Walters, Research Fellow at the University of Leeds with COMET and the Earthquakes without Frontiers project (r.j.walters@leeds.ac.uk) Active ...
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In 2013, a MW7.7 earthquake struck Balochistan, caused a huge surface offset and triggered a small tsunami in the Arabian ...
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COMET scientists’ Tamsin Mather, David Pyle and Roy Grainger have a new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research on the ...
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COMET Research Associate Dr Paola Crippa, from the University of Newcastle, has been awarded a prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO National For Women In ...
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Congratulations to COMET’s James Jackson who has received a CBE for his services to environmental science. As well as being ...
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On 25 April, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, claiming over 8,000 lives and affecting millions of people. Images from ESA’s ...
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COMET scientists have been closely involved with international efforts to analyse satellite data from the recent Nepal earthquake. You can ...
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On 22nd April Calbuco volcano, Chile, erupted for the first time since 1972 with very little warning. Plumes of volcanic ...
COMET Director Tim Wright has been selected as the 2015 Rosentiel Award Recipient by the University of Miami (UM) in recognition of ...
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On Friday 13 March the Royal Astronomical Society held a discussion meeting on advances in high-resolution topography and imagery.  Christoph Gruetzner ...
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Hear COMET's Tamsin Mather and David Pyle on how we are monitoring volcanic risk on Radio 4's Costing the Earth. You ...
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Two COMET scientists are to receive prestigious awards from the Geological Society of London. <a title="@NERC_COMET scientists receive awards from ...
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Read COMET scientist Alex Copley's  blog about the hazards posed by active fault-lines within the Earth's crust for the United Nations Office ...
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RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London 13th March 2015 | Download the programme | **Specialist ...
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Europe's Sentinel-1A spacecraft and its extraordinary images of slip from the South Napa earthquake herald a new era of space-based ...
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A warm welcome to Austin Elliott who has just arrived in Oxford to take up a postdoctoral position in remote ...
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