Over the last 6 week, we have recorded a series of podcasts that cover a lot of the basics of volcanology. We've compiled all the episodes here with a brief description. We hope you enjoy them and feel free to use them in your classes or activities.

Back to Basics: Volcanology basics - Episode #1 (Season 1-6): We banter about the nature of magma, the shapes of volcanoes, the ways volcanoes erupt and how volcanologists describe volcanoes.

Watching the Volcanoes: Signs of an impending eruption - Episode #2 (Season 1-7): We banter about the volcanoes of Europe, the signs we observe when volcanoes start to become restless including earthquakes, gas emissions, deformation and more. We also chat about the technology used to see these changes.

Bottle Up and Explode: Large volcanic eruptions - Episode #3 (Season 1-8): We banter about volcanoes in South America. Then we dive into what happens during giant explosive eruptions, including the what causes these blasts, the dynamics of ash plumes, how calderas form and massive ash deposits called ignimbrites.

The Cascades: Monitoring an active volcanic range - Episode #4 (Season 1-9): In this special episode, we banter with Dr. Seth Moran, the scientist-in-charge of the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory. We talk about the relatively danger of different Cascade volcanoes, the challenges of keeping an eye on all the volcanoes and what we might expect next from the Cascades.

Heavy Weather: How volcanoes impact climate - Episode #5 (Season 1-10): We banter about why volcanoes can have a global impact on the planet's climate. We also get into the details of volcanic aerosols like sulfur dioxide, what they do in our atmosphere and why volcanoes aren't the source of our current climate change.

Space is the Place: Extraterrestrial volcanism - Episode #6 (Season 1-11): In our final Mini-series episode, we chat with Dr. Jacob Richardson (NASA Goddard Space Center) about what eruptions are like on other planets and moons. We also banter about ice volcanoes, the giant size of eruptions on Io and what the future holds for exploring volcanoes off our planet.

Your hosts: Dr. Erik Klemetti and Dr. Janine Krippner
Guest: Dr. Paul Ashwell, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto - Mississauga
In this episode, we banter about earthquakes along the Adriatic Sea, the potentially-rising unrest at New Zealand's White Island, and the 2nd anniversary of the Agung eruption. Then we talk pyroclastic flows and lava domes with Dr. Paul Ashwell. We discuss his research in New Zealand, Chile and beyond. We speculate about how nasty and deadly pyroclastic flows can be, how to avoid being killed by one and how to deal with long-term volcanic threats.

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Links from the episode:
​GNS Science - White Island
Earthquake Conspiracy Theorists are Wreaking Havoc During Emergencies - Vice
Volcanism and Society: What to do about Chaiten - Rocky Planet
GNS Science - Tarawera
May 8, 1902: The Deadly Eruption of Mount Pelée - Earth

Songs from the Episode
"Superblast!" by Lush
"Hide Behind the Rock" by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
"Natural One" by Folk Implosion

Your hosts: Erik Klemetti and Janine Krippner
Guest: Brian Terbush - Earthquake/volcano program coordinator at the Washington State Emergency Management Division
The volcanology community is not just scientists. We work with communities to help people prepare for eruptions and volcanic events and emergency management is an important part of this. Brian joins us to talk about this side of the volcano world and chats with us about what he does. What do emergency managers do to prepare their communities? What is Brian's worst volcano nightmare? And we also perform the Great Shakeout!

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Links from the episode:
​Register for ShakeOut
Find a Great ShakeOut audio broadcast to play during your drill
Subscribe to USGS Volcano Notification Service (VNS) to receive Volcano Alert Levels directly from USGS
Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program (GVP)
​Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report

Songs from the episode:
"Emergency! Emergency!" by the Promise Ring
"Shake" by Otis Redding
"Marble House" by the Knife

Popular Volcanics ​Episode #3 - Set Adrift on Pumice Rafts With You

Your hosts: Erik Klemetti and Janine Krippner
We banter about pumice rafts and why they're so cool, why bad Op-Eds in newspapers about volcanoes are not cool, the dangers of pyroclastic flows moving over water and the recent global eruption activity. We then dive into answering listener questions, including how volcanoes get names, whether there is a set pattern to volcanic activity over a volcano's life, what is the most hazardous volcano in the U.S., why anorthosite are weird and why never nuke a volcano (or hurricane).

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Links from the episode:
​Rapid, Long Distance Dispersal by Pumice Rafting: PLOS One
Massive Pumice in Pacific: Rocky Planet
A Raft of Rock: NASA Earth Observatory
Taupo Volcano, New Zealand: GNS Science
2018 Update to the US Geological Survey national volcanic threat assessment: USGS
Stromboli Eruption with Tour Boat: YouTube
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Songs from the episode:
Rumble by Link Wray
Failure by the La's
Woah! by Palomar