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Ben Black

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Associate professor of geology. How do planets' insides connect to their outsides? He/Him

New York, NY
Joined February 2014
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Ben Black
1 month
Really exciting synthesis of high temporal resolution tephra geochemistry and seismic data to understand how to relate seismic data to what is actually happening in magmatic systems beneath active eruptions
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Check out our paper just out in @NatureGeosci on petrological monitoring of the 2021 eruption on La Palma and the link between melt composition and volcanic tremor
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Nice piece on our @Naturegeosci paper on cryptic degassing—aka a CO2 leak from deep in ancient LIP plumbing systems
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RT @s__morrison: TT faculty job: @RutgersEPS welcomes candidates in all areas of Earth and planetary sciences with emphasis in #Geophysics/…
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4 months
RT @VolcanoListener: The first of hopefully many papers from our @NSF funded @c2c_proj, suggesting that cryptic degassing driven by a rheol…
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Ben Black
4 months
One neat aspect of this work: we suggest that climate records could actually be a way of placing top-down constraints on what is happening deep in magmatic systems. Always a treat to work with @bjwmills @VolcanoListener @tamsinmather and many others!
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5 months
RT @C2C_proj: What do you see? The C2C project explored this amazing (and complicated) outcrop with Oregon high school students. There’s…
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Ben Black
5 months
Check out these humongous dikes lurking beneath the Columbia River Basalts (and meet the friendly horses who helped us haul our gear up to explore them)! Great field work with @VolcanoListener and the C2C team
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Ben Black
6 months
Has anyone made or come across a compilation of mid-career fellowships/programs for scientists (ie things it might be fun to participate in during a sabbatical year)?
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Ben Black
7 months
Here is an amazing thing about field work in Timanfaya National Park (Lanzarote, Canary Islands). The older roads were quarried from the xenolith-rich 1824 eruption. So the roads are literally paved with mantle xenoliths!
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Ben Black
8 months
To all who attended the Workshop on Mantle Supply and Imaging Magmatic Systems—thanks for making it such a blast! Great discussions (and huge momentum I think!) on integrating multidisciplinary approaches to trace magma from the mantle to crust to volcano Thanks @NSF @SZ4D1!
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@WeAreVolcanica Wow! Someone should give those authors a Volcanica t-shirt for that milestone!
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Ben Black
10 months
Considering a change in life? What about a spell on this fragment of a stack of flood basalt lavas in the North Atlantic…
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The Government of the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴
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🇫🇴Koltur island will soon welcome 2 new superintendents. Picture yourself living & working solo on this 2.30 sq km remote island, surrounded only by nature. Your tasks would include research, preserving historic sites & welcoming visitors. Would you ever consider it?🐑 #Koltur
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RT @VolcanoListener: Well! The Volcano Listening Project record is now finished, and I'm doing a kickstarter to cover costs of making vinyl…
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Ben Black
10 months
I grew up a block from a splay of the Hayward fault. I remember the Loma Prieta earthquake—I thought my parents had hired workers to move our house. Even though I knew about the 2011 VA quake, how unexpected to feel this kind of shaking in my office in New Jersey!
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1 year
@PedroMMonarrez Congratulations Pedro, super excited for you!
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Ben Black
1 year
@otolithgirl Is that Jago?!?
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1 year
@OlivierNamur @WeAreVolcanica @kuleuven_fwet Neat! Excited to try this… We are working on our own standards. But if anyone has leads on basaltic glass standards that might be loanable I’d be interested to discuss
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@e8chin I just re-read 13 ways of looking at a blackbird. It made me disagree with what I wrote above. the blackbird definitely matters, it’s not a side note. But at the same time you could gain lots/all from seeing just about anything 13 ways… Xenoliths, volcanoes, etc
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