The British Geophysical Association is delighted to announce that the Bullerwell Lecturer for 2025 will be Dr. Susanna Ebmeier from the University of Leeds.

Dr. Susanna Ebmeier completed her BSc. Hons. in Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh in 2008, and her D. Phil. from Oxford in 2012. She then worked at the University of Bristol, and the University of Leeds where she has been a Leverhulme Fellow and is now a NERC Independent Research Fellow.

Susanna is at the forefront of satellite monitoring of volcanoes, working to understand volcanic systems and mitigate their hazard. She has pioneered the analysis of deformation signals from entire magmatic provinces, revealing previously hidden connectivity (Ebmeier et al. 2018), and shown that lava dome volume can be estimated from radar amplitude (Dualeh et al. 2023). Through COMET, she leads training sessions on geodetic monitoring and has run capacity building workshops in Ecuador and Costa Rica volcano observatories. Susanna also created the COMET Volcano Deformation Portal, which allows non-specialist volcanologists to interact with automatically-processed geodetic data, and to assess whether ground movement signals relate to unrest. Susanna is international co-lead of the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites Volcano Demonstrator, coordinating satellite tasking with space agencies and satellite companies on behalf of volcanologists worldwide. She is an enthusiastic teacher, has supervised >13 PhD researchers and 2 postdoctoral associates, and supports open access science. She is Associate Editor for Volcanica and J. Geophys. Res.  Further information, and references, are available at: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1246/dr-susanna-ebmeier

The title of his Bullerwell lecture is: 

“Satellite monitoring of volcanic unrest and eruption”