Gareth Fabbro

@fitzgabbro.bsky.social

1915 Followers 3113 Following

Volcano lover and lecturer in igneous processes at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Lived in: ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฏ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช. Studied volcanoes in: ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฌ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ

The post above, saying "it's on everyone's lips", with exactly 69 likes.
A grey bird with a yellow-green head and wings and a prominent white circle around its eye
My wife and I in front of Big Ben, holding a placard saying no to "earned" settlement, with the "earned" very much in scare quotes
Mt St Helens in the distance, looking obliquely into the crater caused by the lateral blast in 1980. In the foreground is the hummocky terrain of the top of the debris avalanche deposits, with a small pond near the camera sitting in a depression between hummocks. There are many small shrubs and trees, mostly about 0.5โ€“2 m tall, that clearly are still fairly young. Between the larger shrubs is a lot of yellow grass, as this photo was taken in the height of summer.
A comic from xkcd showing a magic 8 ball. I have asked it "how will 2026 go for me?" The answer: ๐Ÿ‘พ ๐Ÿ’พ
A close up of the door of the train from the original post, with a "no roller-skating" sign
A map of the area around Tacoma, showing literally hundreds of earthquakes
A handful of carrots and parsnips of varying sizes, two red habanero chillies, a thin red cayenne chilli, and two green bell peppers
Scene from the TV show "Black Mirror". Two people stand on top of chalk cliffs overlooking the sea. A man in a dark green raincoat is facing away from the camera, but facing a women in a blue raincoat. The woman is saying "You're just a few ripples of you, there's no history to you"
Map of Santorini and the offshore area to the east, where a series of submarine volcanic cones can be seen (the Kolumbo volcanic field). The earthquakes form a line, almost parallel to the Kolumbo cones and displaced to the southeast. This line is interpreted as the opening dyke. Also shown is how surface displacement suggests the deflation centred on Santorini and the largest, westernmost cone of the Kolumbo volcanic field.
Video show the propagation of a dyke near Santorini, described in more detail in the associated paper
Venice seen from a plane. A large part of the lagoon can be seen, although it is a very similar blue-green to the surrounding land. Venice is a mass of white buildings with red roofs, and some of the larger canals can be seen (as can the causeway connecting the city to the mainland)
The sun rises over the pointy island of Anafi in the distance, making the whole scene orange. A small boat is sillohouetted in the foreground.
A selfie of a guy in sunglass on a black, pebbly beach. In the background you can see the layered cliffs red, black, and white cliffs of Santorini caldera.
Two black pieces of pottery with orange designs. On the left is a small jar with a long neck and a handle, which has a simple design. On the right is a shard of a much larger pot with a man in ancient Greek clothes and a large-brimmed hat.
Video shot out of the train window. The Corinth Canal is very steep and very narrow.
Assorted dark brown and orange vases, jars, and pots arranged in a museum-style cabinet. Most are fairly plain, but a couple have geometric designs on them.
A laptop is balanced on my legs as I sit on a sun lounger beneath an umbrella on the beach. The weather is sunny and the sea is blue.
Looking down the Gulf of Corinth. Either side, the mountains are silhouetted by the setting sun. Several of the mountain flanks are very flat and dip at about 60ยฐ
A pizza with olives, peppers, and feta, a carafe of red wine, and a salad on a table. In the distance and out of focus the sun is setting behind mountains across a bay, and a few people are walking along the near shore.
A double rainbow spans across the grey sky above the brutalist architecture of the UEA Campus. A ray of sunshine picks out a tree in the middle of the picture.
Me wearing a red Wales jersey and my wife in a black Fiji jersey sat in the stand with a rugby pitch behind us
A long picture showing a thin strip of sky framed by a tiled roof and a flint church tower. The clouds change gradually from a dark purple in the top left to a bright orange in the bottom right.
Baskets and plastic cups overflowing with cherry tomatoes, alongside two large tomatoes, a purple sweet pepper, and a few green cayenne chillies and a plastic cup half-full of parsnip seeds
Three bridges over the river Tweed. The nearest (and lowest) is an old stone bridge, completed in 1624. Behind it, and slightly taller, is the Royal Tweed bridge, a concrete bridge built in 1924. In the distance is the Royal Border Bridge, a stone railway viaduct designed by Robert Stephenson and completed in 1850. A red and white LNER Azuma train is crossing this bridge.
Two rocks looking over a valley, from Everything Everywhere All At Once. "Just be a rock" is written above them.
A map of the area to the northeast of Grindavรญk showing that the fissure is 500 m long, in the middle of the previous lava flows, and had just reached the protective barrier.
A rusty, grafiti-covered railway carriage has been deliberately placed over a fast-running river to form a makeshift bridge between rocky hillslopes. There are trees in the foreground with no leaves, and the weather looks grey and wintery.
A women with a wooly hat with ears has her back to the camera. In the background is a stream in front of a wooded area. All the trees are bare.
A map of Santorini with the locations of recent earthquakes. Six days ago, most of the earthquakes were under the northern half of the caldera. Since then, they've moved to the northeast of Santorini. Data: University of Athens Seismological Laboratory
A seal lying on its side, nose in the air, eyes closed, and raising one flipper in front of it
A big fat seal lies in the grass, turning its big cute eyes towards the camera
The face of the lady sat next to the awful women in the video. She is very unimpressed
Route map for the 89, from Haywards Heath no Horsham
Map of the current eruption from Sundhnรบksgรญgar, showing that the lava erupted from a ~4 km long fissure to the borth East of the Blue Lagoon and the Svartsengi geothermal power plant. The lava flowed west until it reached the northern dyke built to pretect the power plant, and continued to follow it.
A walk-on game board made of flashing lights with a picture of a volcano behind. A screen says "the floor is magma"
A sticky toffee pecan cheesecake in a box ๐Ÿ˜‹
Text: GET TO KNOW MY MUSIC TASTE for every like, I will post one song I love โ™ฅ๏ธ
Large marble statue of a topless, bearded ancient dude apparently taking a selfie
A juvenile boobie (white body, brown wings, dark brown face, wingspan of maybe 1m) flying towards my unsuspecting wife, who is using a camera with a large zoom lens and looking the other way. This is taking place on a small desert island with some dry, shrubby vegetation. In the background another small island can be seen across a short stretch of bright turquoise water.
Round bird, with slate grey head, short black bill, brown back, and belly that grades from off-white to orange. Sat on a thin branch, looking a little grumpy.
In the background, an old church made from pale white limestone, with a few weeds growing out of the walls. In the foreground are two philippine trikes: moterbikes with colourful metal sidecars complete with roofs.
A church built from pale orage limestone, some of which has become blackened by pollution. The central part of the church has a triangular roof, and either side are two heavily built towers with large butresses. The tower on the left has a square top and a flat roof, wheras the one on the right is more rounded and has a pointy roof. The facade is intricately carved. The sky is very moody.
An old church built out of pale yellow limestone. Towards the top of the facade is a carving of a battle: troops with pale blue jackets and muskets are fighting bearded cavalry. Small plants are growing out of the wall here and there. The sky is cloudy and the ground is wet.
Map of an open hillside named Great Cockup. There are some grouse butts nearby, and the UNESCO World Heritage site logo
On the left, a picture of two students working at computers together. On the right, a picture of a yellow autonomous submarine drone gliding through the water. At the top is the logo for the University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences. Text on the image: Are you looking for an MSc? Do you want to develop highly employable data analysis and computing skills? Have a look at our brand-new MSc in Data Science for Environmental Science. You will be working with large datasets and learning about Al and machine learning and its applications to Environmental Sciences.
Norwich cathedral, under a sky full of small pale blue to orange clouds
Tweet from PHIVOLCS-DOST: ATM: Ongoing eruption at Kanlaon Volcano producing a 5000-meter plume. Details to follow. Alert Level 1 prevails over Kanlaon Volcano
Dark swirling clouds over the UEA zigurats
A non-discript house with a large TM on the door. In the garden is a glass igloo, two targets, and a statue of Greg Davies sat on a throne.