Indoor Meeting, 'Catastrophic Volcanoes'. Speaker: Sebastian Watt.
15 October
Monday 15 October (Indoor Meeting): 'Catastrophic Volcanoes'. Speaker: Sebastian Watt, lecturer in Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham. Volcanic eruptions have the capacity to cause extreme destruction, but the impact of individual events is not always simply related to their size. In this talk, Sebastian will use past examples to explore some of the factors that lead to volcanic catastrophes, and discuss how our capacity to forecast and mitigate the impacts of such events has changed in recent decades.