{"id":3607,"date":"2016-06-29T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T07:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2016-06-29T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T07:54:22","slug":"radio-4-shines-light-ou-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/science-mct\/science-environment\/radio-4-shines-light-ou-academic\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 4 shines a light on OU academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the OU\u2019s leading academics has been recounting her career studying volcanoes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b015sqc7\">BBC Radio 4\u2019s The Life Scientific<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/hr4#tab1\">Professor Hazel Rymer<\/a> has recently been appointed the OU\u2019s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning, Teaching and Innovation. However, her career to date has been spent as a leading volcanologist, travelling the globe to study the world\u2019s volcanos. Her previous role was Dean and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Science.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cAwesome\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to presenter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimalkhalili?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Jim Al-Khalili<\/a>, Prof Rymer told listeners that climbing into the crater of an active volcano was \u201cthe most awesome thing you can ever do.\u201d When asked about the risks involved in such missions, she told of a trip to a volcano in Costa Rica, when an unexpected and serious earthquake caught the party by surprise. While she and the rest of the party were unharmed, colleagues further down in the crater were left with a dangerous rush to climb out.<\/p>\n<h2>Monitoring systems<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_3610\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3610\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hazel-Rymer-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Hazel Rymer\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hazel-Rymer-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hazel-Rymer-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hazel-Rymer-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hazel-Rymer-1536x1161.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hazel-Rymer-2048x1548.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Hazel Rymer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Professor Rymer\u2019s work has focused on the development of tools for monitoring volcanic activity, in particular the use of microgravity. The tool she has pioneered has become the standard method for this kind of monitoring of volcanoes. It remains the only way to quantify the sub-surface mass changes that occur before, during and after eruptions. \u00a0The main image above shows Prof Rymer taking a microgravity reading on Masaya volcano, Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07ffxsc\">Listen to Prof Rymer\u2019s interview on The Life Scientific. <\/a><br \/>\nFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 28 July 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the OU\u2019s leading academics has been recounting her career studying volcanoes on BBC Radio 4\u2019s The Life Scientific. Professor Hazel Rymer has recently been appointed the OU\u2019s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning, Teaching and Innovation. However, her career to date has been spent as a leading volcanologist, travelling the globe to study the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[232,240,815,1036,1975,1978,2374],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-environment","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-environment","tag-hazel-rymer","tag-science","tag-scientist","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}