A paper authored by Dr Luca De Siena from the School of Geosciences has been recognised by a leading Nature journal as one of its most popular articles of 2017.
Dr De Siena’s paper - Source and dynamics of a volcanic caldera unrest: Campi Flegrei, 1983-84 - received 1498 article views last year, placing it at sixth place in Scientific Reports’ list of its top 100 most read Earth sciences papers in 2017.
The paper was based on the results of research carried out by Dr De Siena in conjunction with the INGV Osservatorio Vesuviano, the RISSC lab of the University of Naples, and the University of Texas at Austin, where they found the first direct evidence of a so-called 'hot zone' feeding a supervolcano in southern Italy that experts say is nearing eruption conditions.
A summary of the paper’s findings can be found here