• Question: What lead you into working with volcanoes ?

    Asked by kirstt to David on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by hollywoodundead, funkynerd, martinaveale.
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      David Pyle answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      My interest in volcanoes started as a hobby whan I was about 7 – I was living in Chile at the time and saw my first live volcanoes. I stayed interested in geology (rocks, fossils, volcanoes) while I was at school, and then started studying geology when I went to University. After I finished my first degree, I started studying volcanoes for a research degree. For me the fascinating thing about volcanoes is that there is still much to learn about the process – why they erupt; whether they are predictable and so on. I am also attracted to the idea of working on a problem which does have immediate applications – in the case of volcanoes, helping to reduce hazards to people living round them. There are also new eruptions all the time, so there’s always new material to work on.

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