Mr Ben Ireland

I'm a PhD student in the School of Earth Sciences interested in building systematic global catalogues of volcano deformation events and investigating the links between magmatic processes and ground deformation patterns using machine learning approaches (largely clustering methods).

I am also involved in projects on volcanic hazards, geomorpholgical change, science communication and disaster preparedness.

My current project focuses on a global scale, but in previous projects I have focused on Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala and multiple volcanoes on La Palma and Tenerife, Canary Islands, on topics such as pyroclastic flow hazards, topographic change, and science communication.