Iain Stewart
Iain is a Geologist and Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth. He studied at Strathclyde and Bristol universities, where his research included work on volcanoes in the Mediterranean.
锘縃e has presented a number of series about geology and the landscape. These include , and .
For Volcano Live, Iain revists and . He explains the volcanic phenomena which make that part of Italy so fascinating to geologists, and a byword for volcanic disaster for the rest of us.
Iain has visited over 40 volcanoes during the course of his research and presenting career. However, he has never visited Kilauea, the Hawaiian volcano where . He admits to being excited to visit because 鈥淎s a geologist, the Hawaiian volcanoes are places that you grow up with in textbooks. They're embedded in your geological DNA.鈥