This programme will be split into two weeks during Weeks 3 and 4:
Field skills
An intensive fortnight with Dr Richard Brown of Durham University to undertake original research to further our knowledge of Tenerife’s prehistoric explosive volcanic eruption events.
Dr Brown is a world expert on explosive volcanology and Tenerife ignimbrites. He is a volcanologist working in Higher Education in the UK with >20 years of experience conducting field-based research on volcanoes around the world. Expertise in the application of volcanology to petroleum geology and diamond exploration and resource development. He teaches university courses in Volcanology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Earth Science, Optical Mineralogy, and Igneous Petrology. He also supervises PhD and Masters students.
He has conducted fieldwork in Tenerife, Italy, UK, Iceland, USA, El Salvador, Ascension Islands, Botswana, Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, Namibia, Turkey and India and published >60 scientific papers and book chapters.
Teaching for both weeks will be fully supported by our resident volcanologist, Alexis Schwartz.