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Hey, everyone. Welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshan.

I'm Andy Wood.

I want to get straight into this guest because it's a fun guest.

We're talking about volcanoes. We've not done this before.

So, our guest today is Jess Phoenix, also the author of Musadventure, a new memoir about her life as a volcanologist and explorer.

Hey, Jess, how's it going?

Oh, it's great. Thank you both for having me.

Thanks for joining us.

Of course.

You are our first volcanologist.

Surprisingly, we've not had many of those.

I don't think, how many, I don't know how many of those there are I mean it depends on how you quantify it and qualify it but there's

more or less you know there's a few hundred people around the world who know you

know do volcanoes as a specialty actively and there's a smaller number who do

physical volcanology,

which is basically what it sounds like when you go out and you're actually trying to figure out

the physical characteristics of volcanoes and monitor the hazards they create. So there's a very small

group of folks. And most of us know each other or know of each other. And there are some

people who are like, I strictly do earthquakes on volcanoes or I strictly do the chemistry of

the magma in the magma chamber. So it gets very, very specialized. But I would say, there aren't that

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