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A master's degree in the United Kingdom (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges in most cases upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
Tamsin Alice Mather FRS MAE (born 1976) [1] [3] [4] is a British Professor of Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford [2] [6] [7] [8] and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. [9] She studies volcanic processes and their impacts on the Earth's environment [10] and has appeared on the television and radio.
Her undergraduate degree was in Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia, UK, where she studied environmental, earth and public health sciences. [1] She moved to Victoria University of Wellington for her master's degree (Diploma in Applied Science), and studied volcanology . [ 1 ]
Sparks [2] is a graduate of Imperial College, where he first completed a B.Sc. (1971), and then a PhD (1974) under the supervision of George P. L. Walker.He was subsequently a Research Fellow at Lancaster University (1976–1978), a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate school of oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA (1976–1978), and then lecturer at University of Cambridge ...
Professor Jenni Barclay is the AXA Chair in Volcanology at the University of Bristol.She works on ways to mitigate volcanic risks, the interactions between rainfall and volcanic activity and the communication of volcanic hazards in the Caribbean.
Rosaly Lopes (born 8 January 1957 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Senior Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory specializing in planetary geology and volcanology; Clive Oppenheimer (born 1964) is a British volcanologist, and Professor of Volcanology in the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge
In 2004 he discovered the lost town of Tambora in Indonesia, which was buried by the colossal 1815 explosive eruption of Tambora volcano. [5] [6] In 1999, Sigurdsson published a scholarly account of the history of volcanology. [7] He was also editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, [8] also published in 1999.
www.open.ac.uk /people /hr4 Hazel Rymer is a British volcanologist and pro-vice chancellor at the Open University . Her research investigates how active volcanoes affect their environment and impact global climate change.