Rock Lab Strasbourg

🚨🌋 New paper on hydrothermal alteration & permeability at La Soufrière de Guadeloupe!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
📊 More altered rocks show higher average permeability
🔬 But microstructures reveal alteration reduces permeability
⚠️ Small datasets can be misleading

@rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social

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They're coming to get you Barbara...

I’m in the middle!

The 16th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics is now over! What a week! Great science, great people, great location! Best conference ever? 😆

Some highlights from the design workshop at EuroConf2026 yesterday, with talks from Profs Toshi Shimamoto and Tom Mitchell!

Proposal now submitted! We hope to drill into the sliding flank of Mt Etna! 🌋
The number of emails between the PIs—Claudio, Eleonora, Gilda, and myself—in the last days were eye-watering! Fingers crossed now! 🤞

Stay tuned for the video that Sophie is preparing! 🎥

Our paper about phreatic explosions at Whakaari is the featured paper on the Communications Earth & Environment homepage! 🌋
Check out our open-access paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Now installed as editor-in-chief of Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 🌋
Will start handling manuscripts at the start of next year!

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Check out our new paper about phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano in New Zealand! 🌋🇳🇿

And @kkamalpha.bsky.social and @sarvarmammadov.bsky.social! Safe travels!

On my way to Strasbourg, to visit @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social and to connect with the @epostcsah.bsky.social community. I got to admit, traveling per train beats the plane by a mile! Better views, better seats, better WiFi. Now if there wouldn't be any strikes on the way... It would be perfect

Yes. No matter where they were, there was a bus to UBC. All roads lead to UBC?

Big congrats to @claireharnett.bsky.social, who won the 2026 @egu.eu Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists! 🥳🏅

Here's some photos of Claire recommended by my phone...

www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...

Big congrats to Lucille Carbillet, who won the 2026 @egu.eu EMRP Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award! 🥳🏅

Here's a collection of photos suggested by my phone...

www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...

The ROTTnROCK team mapping hydrothermal alteration at Sulphur Springs in Dominica using a lidar drone! 🌋
@trwalter.bsky.social

ROTTnROCK postdocs Matías and Ariane exploring how hydrothermal alteration shapes volcanic hazards in Dominica 🇩🇲 🌋
@arianeloisel.bsky.social

The ROTTnROCK team investigate Boiling Lake in Dominica! 🇩🇲 🌋
@trwalter.bsky.social
@magmatroll.bsky.social
@arianeloisel.bsky.social

Some of the ROTTnROCK team are currently in Dominica 🇩🇲 🌋 looking at, well, hydrothermal alteration of course!
@magmatroll.bsky.social
@trwalter.bsky.social
@arianeloisel.bsky.social

Hyperspectral mapping of density, porosity, stiffness, and strength in hydrothermally altered volcanic rocks Abstract. Heterogeneous structures and diverse volcanic, hydrothermal, and geomorphological processes hinder characterisation of the mechanical properties of volcanic rock masses. Laboratory experimen...

New paper out in Solid Earth, led by Sam Thiele: "Hyperspectral mapping of density, porosity, stiffness, and strength in hydrothermally altered volcanic rocks" 🥳
@rottnrock.bsky.social

It's #OpenAccess! 👇
se.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

Nice weather, volcanoes, and altered rocks 👌

Nice couple of days at Teide volcano summit 🌋 to understand hydrothermal alteration and associated risks with @magmatroll.bsky.social (Uppsala Univ) and @rottnrock.bsky.social ERC synergy grant

cc @ipna.csic.es @csic.es

Deadline tomorrow!

Samples of hyaloclastite from Krafla in Iceland 🇮🇸 🌋 These samples are from different depths within the shallow reservoir, and they’re now ready for some physical and mechanical probing in the laboratory!

Little man is a unit.

I'm lurking at the back!

I'm hiring a new post-doc to work on the @rottnrock.bsky.social project! Come help us understand hydrothermal alteration and volcanic hazards!
Advert here:
www.unistra.fr/universite/t...
📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋

Glowing endorsement by John Eichelberger! 😂

Talking about what laboratory measurements would be needed as part of the FlankEd project in Catania, Italy 🇮🇹 🌋

First day of the FlankEd workshop in Catania! We were all treated to a guided tour of Etna 🌋 by the experts at @ingvterremoti.bsky.social! Here they are pointing at maps at sites of interest!