Clive Oppenheimer

Clive Oppenheimer

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Clive Oppenheimer is a volcanologist at the University of Cambridge and the Etna Observatory. He is also a filmmaker and made two documentary features with Werner Herzog ("Into the Inferno and Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds"). He has collaborated with volcano observatories worldwide in the development of monitoring devices, and participated in 13 field missions in Antarctica to study Erebus volcano.

Articles by: Clive Oppenheimer

Calbuco volcano erupting with ash spreading across the blue sky

'Hunter-gatherers must have gazed in horror': What would Toba's supereruption have been like for our ancient relatives?

By Clive Oppenheimer published

"This was a blast 150 times bigger still than Tambora's, disgorging enough pyroclastic rock to cover the whole of the United States to the depth of a one-storey home."