Stephen Self is a British volcanologist, best known for his work on large igneous provinces and on the global impacts of volcanic eruptions.
He then went to Imperial College to study for a PhD on the recent volcanology of Terceira,[3] Azores, supervised by George P. L. Walker.
The 1815 eruption of Tambora was the largest and most deadly eruptipn of the past 750 years, and led to the infamous 'Year without a Summer' of 1816.
[10][11][12][13] With Thor Thordarsson, Self has also written extensively on the Icelandic eruptions of 1783–4,[14] and on the emplacement and inflation of large basaltic lava flows.
[17] In 2012, he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; an honour which recognises 'individual members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and attained acknowledged eminence'.