Clive Oppenheimer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1405002 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Clive Oppenheimer |
| NOMBRES | Clive |
| APELLIDO | Oppenheimer |
| FIRMA | OPPENHEIMER C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4506-7260 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
An absolutely dated mid-Holocene English yew chronology offers new opportunities for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research
Research on Holocene climate variability and human history greatly benefits from annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies. The quality and quantity of such records, however, decline back in time, with little tree-ring evidence available for the Early and Middle Holocene. Here, we present a tree-ring width (TRW) chronology from 100 subfossil yews ( Taxus baccata L.) excavated from peat-rich soils in the Fenland region of easte…
Experts at risk
Disparate impacts of the Eldgjá and Laki flood-lava eruptions
The Eldgjá eruption of ~ 939 AD is recognised as the largest in Iceland since Settlement, and ranks among the largest late-Holocene volcanic episodes on Earth. It disgorged > 21.0 km 3 (Dense Rock Equivalent) of magma as lava flows (~ 19.7 km 3 ) and tephra deposits (> 1.3 km 3 DRE), comprising alternating phreatomagmatic (wet) and magmatic (dry) explosive phases. Tephra deposits up to four metres thick buried proximal areas, and extreme quantiti…
A frequency-optimised temperature record for the Holocene
Existing global mean surface temperature reconstructions for the Holocene lack high-frequency variability that is essential for contextualising recent trends and extremes in the Earth’s climate system. Here, we isolate and recombine archive-specific climate signals to generate a frequency-optimised record of interannual to multi-millennial temperature changes for the past 12 000 years. Average temperatures before ∼8000 years BP and after ∼4000 ye…
A millennium-long ‘Blue Ring’ chronology from the Spanish Pyrenees reveals severe ephemeral summer cooling after volcanic eruptions
‘ Blue Rings’ (BRs) are distinct wood anatomical anomalies recently discovered in several tree species from different sites. While it is evident that they are associated with a cooling-induced lack of cell wall lignification, BRs have yet to be evaluated systematically in paleoclimate studies. Here, we present a continuous wood anatomical assessment of 31 living and relict pine samples from a high-elevation site in the central Spanish Pyrenees th…
Global perspectives on obsidian studies in archaeology
The “puzzle” of the primary obsidian source in the region of Paektusan (China/DPR Korea)
At the Mercy of the Mountain? Field Stations and the Culture of Volcanology
This paper discusses the role of volcano observatories as local sites of knowledge production through the monitoring of volcanoes, and links this with the global production of knowledge in volcanology. The paper initially discusses the institutional geography of volcanological science, and relates this broadly to the geography of science and science studies. It then focuses on interview data to draw some insights into the experiences of observato…
Geological hazards
Parent relationship quality buffers against the effect of peer stressors on depressive symptoms from middle childhood to adolescence
During the transition to adolescence, several developmental trends converge to increase the importance of peer relationships, the likelihood of peer-related stressors, and the experience of depressive symptoms. Simultaneously, there are significant changes in parent-child relationships. The current study sought to evaluate whether positive relationship quality with parents continued to serve a protective effect by buffering the relationship betwe…
Modelling risk and risking models
This article examines the science–policy interface in volcanic risk assessment. It analyses empirical data from research on Montserrat, where new volcanic risk assessment methodologies were pioneered. We discuss the ways in which these methods contributed towards the ordering of scientific advice in its geographical context, and we provide examples of the complex and overlapping topologies that are assembled in a volcanic eruption. In this case, …
Managing the uncertain earth
We discuss the current challenges facing volcanologists and seismologists in the risk society, recently highlighted by the trial and conviction of six scientists and a public official in Italy. We argue that the nature of the uncertainty surrounding natural hazards, particularly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, coupled with their relative rarity, creates a major challenge for scientists that is as much socially and culturally derived as it is …
Depositional processes of reworked tephra from the Late Pleistocene Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Lenggong Valley, Malaysia
Two fundamental issues for tephrostratigraphic work are the differentiation of primary from reworked tephra and the characterization of reworking mechanisms. We study the depositional processes of four deposits of Youngest Toba Tuff in the Lenggong valley, Malaysia. We focus on site stratigraphy, particle-size distributions, magnetic susceptibility and mineralogical associations. Reworked tephra display variable sedimentological characteristics i…
Science, policy and place in volcanic disasters
This paper presents the results of empirical research on Montserrat, in the British West Indies, undertaken in 2008–2010. It highlights the challenges of managing a crisis that evolved from acute to chronic over a period of fifteen years. In particular, the paper considers the evolution of science and policy over a period of fifteen years in its social and cultural context. It discusses the relationship between different types of evolving knowled…
The aviation sagas
This commentary discusses several recent incidents involving intersecting human and physical geographies. It examines several volcanic crises that demonstrate the multiple uncertainties inherent in volcanic risk analysis, and the impact of these events on volcanology as a discipline. Its intertwined human and physical epistemologies are discussed. The commentary argues that the geography of risk is an important organising concept in a more detail…
Eruptions that Shook the World
What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 19th century? These are some of the claims made for volcanic cataclysm. Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer expl…
The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption and the reconstruction of geography
Obsidian sources in highland Yemen and their relevance to archaeological research in the Red Sea region
Fundamentals of Physical Volcanology - By Elisabeth A Parfitt and Lionel Wilson
Satellite Remote Sensing as a Tool in Lahar Disaster Management
At least 40,000 deaths have been attributed to historic lahars (volcanic mudflows). The most recent lahar disaster occurred in 1998 at Casita volcano, Nicaragua, claiming over 2,500 lives. Lahars can cover large areas and be highly destructive, and constitute a challenge for disaster management. With infrastructure affected and access frequently impeded, disaster management can benefit from the synoptic coverage provided by satellite imagery. Thi…
Fire and Mud
Fire and Mud is a comprehensive document of the awakening of a volcano after a 500-year sleep. Its 62 technical papers tell the scientific and human story of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo and the events surrounding it.Second in size this century only to an eruption in Katmai, Alaska, in 1912, and ten times larger than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, Pinatubo's eruption threatened the lives of a million people. A giant ash cloud ro…
Satellite Observations of Lava Lake Activity at Nyiragongo Volvano, Ex-Zaire, during the Rwandan Refugee Crisis
In June 1994 the summit crater of Nyiragongo volcano, located in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, began to fill with new lava, ending nearly 12 years of quiescence. An earlier eruption of the volcano in 1977 had culminated in the catastrophic draining of a lava lake through fissures in the crater wall, feeding highly mobile lava flows which reached the outskirts of Goma and killed more than 70 people. By July 1994, as many as 20,000 Hutu…
Discussion Meeting on Natural Hazard Assessment and Mitigation
Parent relationship quality buffers against the effect of peer stressors on depressive symptoms from middle childhood to adolescence
During the transition to adolescence, several developmental trends converge to increase the importance of peer relationships, the likelihood of peer-related stressors, and the experience of depressive symptoms. Simultaneously, there are significant changes in parent-child relationships. The current study sought to evaluate whether positive relationship quality with parents continued to serve a protective effect by buffering the relationship betwe…
Obsidian sources in highland Yemen and their relevance to archaeological research in the Red Sea region
The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption and the reconstruction of geography
At the Mercy of the Mountain? Field Stations and the Culture of Volcanology
This paper discusses the role of volcano observatories as local sites of knowledge production through the monitoring of volcanoes, and links this with the global production of knowledge in volcanology. The paper initially discusses the institutional geography of volcanological science, and relates this broadly to the geography of science and science studies. It then focuses on interview data to draw some insights into the experiences of observato…
Modelling risk and risking models
This article examines the science–policy interface in volcanic risk assessment. It analyses empirical data from research on Montserrat, where new volcanic risk assessment methodologies were pioneered. We discuss the ways in which these methods contributed towards the ordering of scientific advice in its geographical context, and we provide examples of the complex and overlapping topologies that are assembled in a volcanic eruption. In this case, …
Science, policy and place in volcanic disasters
This paper presents the results of empirical research on Montserrat, in the British West Indies, undertaken in 2008–2010. It highlights the challenges of managing a crisis that evolved from acute to chronic over a period of fifteen years. In particular, the paper considers the evolution of science and policy over a period of fifteen years in its social and cultural context. It discusses the relationship between different types of evolving knowled…
Satellite Remote Sensing as a Tool in Lahar Disaster Management
At least 40,000 deaths have been attributed to historic lahars (volcanic mudflows). The most recent lahar disaster occurred in 1998 at Casita volcano, Nicaragua, claiming over 2,500 lives. Lahars can cover large areas and be highly destructive, and constitute a challenge for disaster management. With infrastructure affected and access frequently impeded, disaster management can benefit from the synoptic coverage provided by satellite imagery. Thi…
Managing the uncertain earth
We discuss the current challenges facing volcanologists and seismologists in the risk society, recently highlighted by the trial and conviction of six scientists and a public official in Italy. We argue that the nature of the uncertainty surrounding natural hazards, particularly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, coupled with their relative rarity, creates a major challenge for scientists that is as much socially and culturally derived as it is …
Discussion Meeting on Natural Hazard Assessment and Mitigation
Fire and Mud
Fire and Mud is a comprehensive document of the awakening of a volcano after a 500-year sleep. Its 62 technical papers tell the scientific and human story of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo and the events surrounding it.Second in size this century only to an eruption in Katmai, Alaska, in 1912, and ten times larger than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, Pinatubo's eruption threatened the lives of a million people. A giant ash cloud ro…
Satellite Observations of Lava Lake Activity at Nyiragongo Volvano, Ex-Zaire, during the Rwandan Refugee Crisis
In June 1994 the summit crater of Nyiragongo volcano, located in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, began to fill with new lava, ending nearly 12 years of quiescence. An earlier eruption of the volcano in 1977 had culminated in the catastrophic draining of a lava lake through fissures in the crater wall, feeding highly mobile lava flows which reached the outskirts of Goma and killed more than 70 people. By July 1994, as many as 20,000 Hutu…
Satellite Remote Sensing as a Tool in Lahar Disaster Management
At least 40,000 deaths have been attributed to historic lahars (volcanic mudflows). The most recent lahar disaster occurred in 1998 at Casita volcano, Nicaragua, claiming over 2,500 lives. Lahars can cover large areas and be highly destructive, and constitute a challenge for disaster management. With infrastructure affected and access frequently impeded, disaster management can benefit from the synoptic coverage provided by satellite imagery. Thi…
Fundamentals of Physical Volcanology - By Elisabeth A Parfitt and Lionel Wilson
Obsidian sources in highland Yemen and their relevance to archaeological research in the Red Sea region
Eruptions that Shook the World
What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 19th century? These are some of the claims made for volcanic cataclysm. Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer expl…
The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption and the reconstruction of geography
The aviation sagas
This commentary discusses several recent incidents involving intersecting human and physical geographies. It examines several volcanic crises that demonstrate the multiple uncertainties inherent in volcanic risk analysis, and the impact of these events on volcanology as a discipline. Its intertwined human and physical epistemologies are discussed. The commentary argues that the geography of risk is an important organising concept in a more detail…
Depositional processes of reworked tephra from the Late Pleistocene Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Lenggong Valley, Malaysia
Two fundamental issues for tephrostratigraphic work are the differentiation of primary from reworked tephra and the characterization of reworking mechanisms. We study the depositional processes of four deposits of Youngest Toba Tuff in the Lenggong valley, Malaysia. We focus on site stratigraphy, particle-size distributions, magnetic susceptibility and mineralogical associations. Reworked tephra display variable sedimentological characteristics i…
Science, policy and place in volcanic disasters
This paper presents the results of empirical research on Montserrat, in the British West Indies, undertaken in 2008–2010. It highlights the challenges of managing a crisis that evolved from acute to chronic over a period of fifteen years. In particular, the paper considers the evolution of science and policy over a period of fifteen years in its social and cultural context. It discusses the relationship between different types of evolving knowled…
Geological hazards
Parent relationship quality buffers against the effect of peer stressors on depressive symptoms from middle childhood to adolescence
During the transition to adolescence, several developmental trends converge to increase the importance of peer relationships, the likelihood of peer-related stressors, and the experience of depressive symptoms. Simultaneously, there are significant changes in parent-child relationships. The current study sought to evaluate whether positive relationship quality with parents continued to serve a protective effect by buffering the relationship betwe…
Modelling risk and risking models
This article examines the science–policy interface in volcanic risk assessment. It analyses empirical data from research on Montserrat, where new volcanic risk assessment methodologies were pioneered. We discuss the ways in which these methods contributed towards the ordering of scientific advice in its geographical context, and we provide examples of the complex and overlapping topologies that are assembled in a volcanic eruption. In this case, …
Managing the uncertain earth
We discuss the current challenges facing volcanologists and seismologists in the risk society, recently highlighted by the trial and conviction of six scientists and a public official in Italy. We argue that the nature of the uncertainty surrounding natural hazards, particularly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, coupled with their relative rarity, creates a major challenge for scientists that is as much socially and culturally derived as it is …
At the Mercy of the Mountain? Field Stations and the Culture of Volcanology
This paper discusses the role of volcano observatories as local sites of knowledge production through the monitoring of volcanoes, and links this with the global production of knowledge in volcanology. The paper initially discusses the institutional geography of volcanological science, and relates this broadly to the geography of science and science studies. It then focuses on interview data to draw some insights into the experiences of observato…
The “puzzle” of the primary obsidian source in the region of Paektusan (China/DPR Korea)
A millennium-long ‘Blue Ring’ chronology from the Spanish Pyrenees reveals severe ephemeral summer cooling after volcanic eruptions
‘ Blue Rings’ (BRs) are distinct wood anatomical anomalies recently discovered in several tree species from different sites. While it is evident that they are associated with a cooling-induced lack of cell wall lignification, BRs have yet to be evaluated systematically in paleoclimate studies. Here, we present a continuous wood anatomical assessment of 31 living and relict pine samples from a high-elevation site in the central Spanish Pyrenees th…
Global perspectives on obsidian studies in archaeology
A frequency-optimised temperature record for the Holocene
Existing global mean surface temperature reconstructions for the Holocene lack high-frequency variability that is essential for contextualising recent trends and extremes in the Earth’s climate system. Here, we isolate and recombine archive-specific climate signals to generate a frequency-optimised record of interannual to multi-millennial temperature changes for the past 12 000 years. Average temperatures before ∼8000 years BP and after ∼4000 ye…
Disparate impacts of the Eldgjá and Laki flood-lava eruptions
The Eldgjá eruption of ~ 939 AD is recognised as the largest in Iceland since Settlement, and ranks among the largest late-Holocene volcanic episodes on Earth. It disgorged > 21.0 km 3 (Dense Rock Equivalent) of magma as lava flows (~ 19.7 km 3 ) and tephra deposits (> 1.3 km 3 DRE), comprising alternating phreatomagmatic (wet) and magmatic (dry) explosive phases. Tephra deposits up to four metres thick buried proximal areas, and extreme quantiti…
Experts at risk
An absolutely dated mid-Holocene English yew chronology offers new opportunities for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research
Research on Holocene climate variability and human history greatly benefits from annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies. The quality and quantity of such records, however, decline back in time, with little tree-ring evidence available for the Early and Middle Holocene. Here, we present a tree-ring width (TRW) chronology from 100 subfossil yews ( Taxus baccata L.) excavated from peat-rich soils in the Fenland region of easte…
Geography (18 obras) · Geology (15 obras) · Volcano (12 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras) · Earth science (6 obras) · Seismology (6 obras) · Engineering (5 obras)