One of the great advantages of being a geoscientist is being able to do field work, or at least justifying adventures in exotic countries by the need to get well-characterised samples. Fieldwork is also a social exercise where you meet and get to know people of diverse cultures and collaborate in sometimes harsh conditions.

During my career I joined several field campaigns on active volcanoes in Japan, Italy, and New Zealand to collect high temperature gases. In 1988, Werner Giggenbach, a New Zealander geochemist whom I mentioned earlier, organised a volcanic gas workshop on White Island, an active volcano off...

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