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Studying Holuhraun volcano

A new study has found a previously undetected potential health risk from the high concentration of small particles found in a boomerang-like return of a volcanic plume.

Professors Tim Wright and Andy Hooper with SatSense team

Two University of Leeds professors, who have developed software that detects subsidence using satellite data, have secured £750,000 seed funding to launch the new spin out company SatSense.

Diagram showing strain rates along Turkey's North Anatolian Fault, alongside westward profession of earthquakes since 1939

Satellite data has shed new light on seismic hazard in one of the world’s most deadly earthquake zones.

The School of Earth and Environment will be strongly represented at the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting that’s in New Orleans this year (11th – 15th December).

holuhraun volcano, Iceland

Shrinking glacier cover could lead to increased volcanic activity in Iceland, warn scientists.