Nothing to do with ants, everything to do with volcanoes in Antarctica. AntVolc is here to share stories, photos, updates and promote research in the area.
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Hey Antarctic volcano people, if you are heading to #vEGU2021 here is a good session to submit to: meetingorganizer.copernicus.…
Remember EGU is online this year, so the logistics are easier from anywhere in the world! The submission deadline is in a week (13 Jan).
Signs of volcanic eruptions in an Antarctic marine benthic invertebrate
By
Avila C, Cruz M, Angulo-Preckler C, Geyer A
#SCAR2020
9/10
Thermal structure and heat flux of the Antarctic lithosphere
By
Haeger C, Kaban M, Petrunin A
#SCAR2020
10/10
Enjoy!
#SCAR2020 is now fully online and free to attend!
Sign up at the link below, and keep an eye out for the talks about antarctic volcanism and related topics!
scar2020.org/
Not all inhabitants of Antarctica love the cold. Schultz et al. map the genome of a heat-loving (50°C/120°F!) bacteria living on antarctic volcano Deception island. This bacteria might have uses in bioremediation of hydrocarbons. Quite a find!
mra.asm.org/content/8/40/e00…
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Not all inhabitants of Antarctica love the cold. Schultz et al. map the genome of a heat-loving (50°C/120°F!) bacteria living on antarctic volcano Deception island. This bacteria might have uses in bioremediation of hydrocarbons. Quite a find!
mra.asm.org/content/8/40/e00…
#antvolc
Evidence of recent Antarctic volcanism is in marine sediments as well! Di Roberto et al show that a cryptotephra from their core in the Ross Sea is from a 1252 ± 2 CE eruption of Mt Rittman, also found in a number of nearby ice cores.
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-4…
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Can we use artificial intelligence to detect new eruptions in Antarctica?
Yes, according to this new article from Dye and Mora. They use a convolutional neural network to detect 263 eruptions at Mt Erebus from infrared images.
Read for yourself here:
researchgate.net/publication…
Deception Island, one of Antarctica's most active volcanoes. Figure from Geyer et al. 2019 shows the donut like shape of the island with many recent craters. So how can we understand what is happening to the magma underneath this volcano? #cryosphere #Antarctica
Finally, why not measure deformation directly using GPS stations? Here Rosado et al., 2019 capture an episode of inflation, with the centre of the volcano uplifting and bulging outwards.
