My guest is John Stevenson from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and there is a lot to cover in this episode: John's switch from science to engineering; how to move from proprietary to open source software - and the hot stuff: volcanos. And what John did in volcanology.

Here are a few links:

https://www.bgs.ac.uk/people/stevenson-john/ John's profile at the BGS
https://volcanologistsoutsideacademia.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/spotlight-john-a-stevenson-ph-d/
https://all-geo.org/volcan01010/every-post-ever/ John's blog posts
https://fosstodon.org/@volcan01010 John's profile on Mastodon
https://github.com/volcan01010/ GitHub for John
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Kübler-Ross a reference for the 5 stages of grief

Volcanos

https://icelandicvolcanos.is Iceland has a lot of volcanos
https://rischi.protezionecivile.gov.it/en/volcanic/volcanoes-italy/ Volcanos in Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallajökull the big eruption from 2010
http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written-by-pliny-the-elder-about-the-eruption-of-vesuvius-in-79-a-d-history-of-pompeii-en-238-s.htm the letters by Pliny the Younger describing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD

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2025-09-9- KSR - Hour 1