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My name is Dr Jazmin Scarlett, a Historical and Social Volcanologist. I combine the fields of anthropology, historical geography, social psychology, disaster management and volcanology to better understand how people live in their volcanic environment, because I have never been one to be straightforward.

You will find things related to my work on the historical impacts of the volcano La Soufriere on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, other academic musings involving social and historical volcanology and recently a sub-series in reviewing the representation of volcanism in videogames.

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  1. Hi Jasmin
    I am a geography lecturer at Leicester and have been trying to contact you by email. I am a Caribbean- British in origin, grew up in the eastern Caribbean and researched migration to Britain in the post WWll era. Really interested in your work. Could you drop me an email at mb416@le.ac.U.K. please
    Best wishes
    Margaret Byron

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  3. Hello Dr. Scarlett!

    My name is Geneva and I am a current student in Professor Holmberg’s course on Volcanoes. I absolutely loved the presentation you gave to our class a few weeks ago, especially your reviews of volcanoes on video games. Truthfully, I am not much of a video game player myself, but at Gallatin, I am studying the power of storytelling.

    We are currently in the middle of picking what we want to do for our final projects, and I was thinking about doing a sort of video game redesign of volcano portrayal to discuss the power of accurate scientific representation in educating audience members.

    I would like to ask for your help in discussing how you think some of the video games you reviewed would benefit from a volcano redesign. If this interests you, I would love to collaborate!

    Thank you for your time!!

    Best,
    Geneva Tenney

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  4. Hello Jazmin,

    My name is Cheyenne Bryant, and I am in Karen Holmberg’s Volcanoes class this year. Thank you for speaking to our class; it was so informative and engaging!

    When you spoke about the Caribbean, and people’s relationship with volcanoes, I deeply resonated with your insights. Moreover, I’m working on a project focused on La Soufriere in St. Vincent, investigating the slaves’ response/reaction to such a traumatic event as a volcanic eruption. I’m curious to know about their healing processes, and if it ever took a creative/artistic path, similarly to how African Americans developed soul and jazz music from the traumas of slavery?

    As such, I’d love to discuss this further with you if you have the chance! I followed you on Twitter, but I was unable to DM you since we aren’t following each other yet! However, my email is cmb987@nyu.edu. Thank you so much for your time and consideration.

    Warmly,
    Cheyenne Bryant

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  6. Hi Jazmin!
    I’m a college student who has dreamed of a career in volcanology since I was five! I’m in a geology class this semester and we are doing a project on international geoscientists, and technically we’re supposed to choose off of a list but I thought it would be super neat to do an interview with a badass-woman-volcanologist like you! Let me know if that would be an option?

    -Cameron McClellan

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  9. Hi Jazmin Scarlett

    Your Blog is really interesting. I am also looking at going into a career in volcanology, having completed a degree in environmental hazards and disaster managment.

    I would recommend reading eruptions that shook the world by Clive Oppenheimer it combines the scientific and social elements of volcanology expertly.

    I was wondering if it would be possible to contact you regarding adivice about how you have found studying volcanology and the route you took to study your Phd?

    Thanks

    Adam Sparrowhawk

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    1. Hi Adam,

      Thank you. I am happy that you are considering a career in volcanology!

      I have read the book it makes an interesting read.

      Yes feel free to contact me – refer to my twitter account @scarlett_jazmin and send a private message so I can give you an email if that is okay?

      Thanks

      Jazmin

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