3S member Martin Mahony has contributed to an exhibition called ‘Sensing Volcanoes’ which will feature at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Festival.

The interactive exhibition brings together findings from the Curating Crises project with cutting-edge scientific research on recent volcanic eruptions to tell the story of how techniques of sensing and detecting volcanic processes have changed over time, and how scientific uncertainty shapes political decision making.

The Curating Crises project team has been exploring archives in the UK, US and Caribbean to unearth some of the previously hidden stories, networks, connections and structures that shaped responses to twentieth century volcanic eruptions in the Caribbean.

You can find out more about some of the stories to be shared in the exhibition here.

On Tuesday 4th July at 3pm Martin and the team will be offering a virtual tour of the exhibition as part of the Digital Festival for the History of Science, organised by the BSHS. The online event will also feature discussion of the contributions historians of science can make to current scientific practice, and of the challenges and opportunities of digital archiving.