Tag: Volcano

  • Nation & World

    Dealing with disaster

    As part of the class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction,” students took part in a role-playing game that had them play the parts of the government and citizens of the island of Montserrat, as well as a group of scientists monitoring the island’s volcano.

    4 minutes
    Jania Tumey speaks in the Harvard class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction.”
  • Nation & World

    Long-ago freeze carries into the present

    Harvard researchers contributed to a study identifying a 124-year freeze running from the sixth century into the seventh, with widely disruptive effects.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    With the Earth as teacher

    Students in Earth and Planetary Sciences kicked off their academic year early, spending a late-August week in paradise, observing Hawaii’s volcanoes, green and black sand beaches, and overarching geologic splendor.

    3 minutes