Video games and volcanoes... who knew?! Ed and Jazmin take us through their gaming experiences as trained volcano scientists, and how they blended their two loves into educational research assessing the accuracy of geology in video games. No surprise, some are more accurate than others! What memories of volcanoes do YOU have in video games?

Ed McGowan (he/him) is a PhD researcher at the University of Leicester. His project focuses on using geochemistry to correlate ancient caldera-forming pyroclastic flow deposits and determine their source vent location within the English Lake District. Additionally, Ed investigates geology within popular video games and how they could be used as an educational tool.

Twitter - @The_Volcano_Guy

Blue Sky - @thevolcanoguy

Website – www.volcanoguyblogs.com

Dr Jazmin Scarlett (she/her) is a Flood Resilience Officer, involved helping communities prepare, respond and recover from flooding, maintenance of the flood warning service and reviewing flood alert and warning thresholds and assisting the Area Incident Team in emergency management.

BlueSky - @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social

Video Games and volcanoes:

Paper - https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/4/11/2021/

Blogpost - https://phdvolcanology.wordpress.com/tag/videogame/

Paper - https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/5/325/2022/