"When the Volcano Stirs..."

Carnegie Capital Science Evening Lecture - May 31, 2017

Volcanic eruptions pose an increasing threat to human lives and infrastructure in today's rapidly globalizing world, leading to a need for more-sensitive and accurate tools for detecting and interpreting signs of volcanic unrest. Fortunately, most volcanoes give subtle indications of their future eruptive potential that can be detected using state-of-the-art seismic instrumentation. Dr. Roman explores the recent development of several new paradigms for eruption forecasting and their implications for our understanding of how volcanoes work.

"The Secret Life of Quiescent Volcanoes"

Carnegie Neighborhood Lecture Series - May 28, 2014

Eruptions, while dangerous and captivating, represent only a small fraction of the magmatic activity that occurs on Earth. The spread of geophysical monitoring networks on potentially active volcanoes in recent decades has highlighted a wide spectrum of magmatic unrest beneath apparently 'quiescent' volcanoes. Dr. Roman explore sdifferent types of non-eruptive volcanic unrest through a survey of case studies and considers the implications for eruption forecasting and for our overall understanding of volcanic processes.