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Dr Rebecca Williams
@Volcanologist
Volcanologist in @GeologyHull Associate Dean for Student Experience @HullUniScience. Waffle about volcanology, HE & tea. SFHEA & STEM ambassador. She/her.
Jul 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Today for #VolcanoMonday I want to tell you about @scarlett_jazmin & her ground breakingly interdisciplinary research on volcanoes and society.

Jazmin uses approaches from geology, geography, history and archaeology to understand how societies co-exist with volcanoes What does volcano research that uses historical approaches look like? Jazmin explains in this blog:

phdvolcanology.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/doi…
Dec 26, 2018 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Took a Boxing Day walk today to Dukes Wood Oil Field in Eakring, Nottinghamshire.

The top secret oil field, Britain's first major onshore oil operation, that saved us during the war but masqueraded as a film set...

Thread... green nodding donkey in a wood Prior to 1939, 80% of Britain's oil came from America or Iran. We imported by shipping.

Then WW2 happened. Within the first 7 months of 1941, German U-boats had sunk 681 oil-carrying vessels. By Autumn of 1942, an average of 700,000 tonnes of oil were being sunk a month.