Benjamin Simons

Volcanologist at @AucklandUni @EnvUoA
Networks Lead, Urban theme @ResilienceNSC
Mostly posting assortments from my research on #Yasur #Vanuatu.

[Piergiorgio @Pg_Scarlato]

Two days ago we spent the night filming the last paroxysm of #Etna.
Great experience and a lot of high speed and thermal images of the lava fountain and of the strombolian activity.
@hphtlab
@INGVvulcani
@ingv_president

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

Very nice!

[Aris Yanto @aris_volcano]

Volcano Smooking Ring Mt Semeru

This morning, I saw semeru volcano from my window, and make smooking Ring
#semeru #volcano #volcanoes #indonesia

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

@Vertigo_Itn @scronin70 @EnvUoA Is that what you did? 😉🤣

[Dr Jenni L Hopkins @JenniLHopkins]

Wetting your appetite for more #volcanoscience on the #aucklandvolcanicfield from the #devorum13 ? Check out the new website which went live recently (big thanks to @dread_rocks) https://t.co/yAvjhPn5wJ

[Shane Cronin @scronin70]

Our ⁦@EnvUoA⁩ ⁦@ScienceUoA⁩ earth sci PhD graduates today included Paul Oluwunmi, Jie Wu, Sophia Tsang, Gianna Evans, Ayrton Hamilton, Ben Simons (also Alisha Coote not in picture) from gas hydrates to paleoclimate, to volcanoes!

[Shane Cronin @scronin70]

This group includes Twitter volc geos @dread_rocks and @swrtsang - a massive congratulations to them all!!

[GSNZ @GeoscienceNZ]

Calling all NZ geoscience ECRs, are you a member of GSNZ? If not, why not? On Monday we are having a discussion about how GSNZ can better support out ECR community. DM us or comment below. @warrenseismo @AntarcticaBella @calum_ch @GIShaun @VargoLauren @hillman_jess @dread_rocks

[Sandie Will @RockHeadScience]

NEW UPDATE! Research Fellow, Volcanology, Dr. Geoff Lerner @tyranakisaurus on the A Day in the GeoLife Series
https://t.co/QZ27i6Noxq via @RockHeadScience

#volcanoes #geology #Science #STEM

[Shane Cronin @scronin70]

Congratulations to Ben Simons @dread_rocks for successfully defending his @ScienceUoA PhD thesis on a Yasur view into Strombolian eruptions - more celebratory explosion footage please Ben! Also supported by Jen Eccles, Art Jolly, the @vmgdVU plus a cast of @EnvUoA students

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

@scronin70 @ScienceUoA @vmgdVU @EnvUoA Here's some celebratory fireworks 🎆🌋

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

@scronin70 @ScienceUoA @vmgdVU @EnvUoA Thanks Shane! What a project!! Its been a real privilege making every other PhD jealous 🤣

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

@Tyranakisaurus We've got to get that footage of me falling down the flank with that expensive piece of high precision equipment 🤣. Love ya bud. We need to celebrate in person 🥳

[Geoff Lerner @Tyranakisaurus]

#7DaysOfFieldwork (5): Helping @dread_rocks set up his PhD fieldwork, a 3-month monitoring of the steady-state Strombolian volcanism at Yasur volcano (Vanuatu). Burying seismometers, setting up thermal cameras, observing hundreds of eruptions, taming adorable tiny cats.

[Shane Cronin @scronin70]

Soon to be crowned Dr ⁦@Tyranakisaurus⁩ stands proudly above a couple of his peers, the under examination ⁦@dread_rocks⁩ and the furiously writing ⁦@emily1ash⁩

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

@scronin70 That's the reason the image exists! #thesisfirst

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

Examples of volcanic lava bomb deposition. Little impact clouds can be seen where the lava landed (arrows). Taken in 2016. #Yasur #volcano

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

@Tyranakisaurus Good ol' bench 3... I literally spent hundreds of hours up there. I think my butt-groove is still imprinted into the concrete!

[Benjamin Simons @dread_rocks]

Some of my #thermal images and insights were used in a hot-off-the-press aritcle about volcanic #smokerings. Thanks to @SquigglyVolcano for putting the work together. Looking good!

https://t.co/Oyh8KvB4VI

#Yasur #volcano

[Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋☄️ @SquigglyVolcano]

Did you know that volcanoes make smoke rings? Although they had some ideas, scientists weren't quite sure how fiery mountains managed it.

Now, thanks to smoke cannon toys and a virtual volcano, they may have cracked the case. My latest, for @NatGeo. https://t.co/0vXl3pO7V0