That flight was beautiful! Fun fact: Iceland, and more specifically, Mývatn is one of two main homes of lake balls (kúluskítur in Icelandic, marimo in Japanese) in the world, the other one being in Japan. They're a type of algae that forms almost perfectly round balls on the bottom of the lake. They used to be pretty common elsewhere but they aren't anymore, unfortunately.

Great video and ARTWORK. A beautiful piece.

Amanda Jo, hope you are feeling better. Thanks for all you do!

Another great NatureEye flight! Thanks Johan and Shawn!

Thank you Shawn and Johan. I love these drone flights.

Shawn, I always enjoy your weblogs, whatever the topics or locations. Geology is fantastic. After all, no matter your dwelling place, the world is your front yard:) Cheers, Rik Spector

Another great update. Thanks to everyone involved in putting this together!

I visited Hverfjall area last summer, it was an amazing experience. Thank you Prof. Willsey for educating us with every footage.

Thanks for sharing your drone flights with us! A truly beautiful place. My daughter who lives in Boise will see you on Sunday with her book as well as my two. I discovered mine were missing right after she left to head south. Congratulations on the nomination.

Such an amazing, beautiful and knowledgeable flight! Happy, lucky me! Thank you both, Shawn and Johan! 🙌🏼👏🏼👌🏼

Wow! Such stunning scenery. Looking forward to staying there for a few days by the lake. Thank you!

A really interesting video! Always great to learn more even as I enter retirement! Thanks for your time and work. Thanks to Johan and Amanda Jo and Susan!

Great update! Hated to miss it live but work always wins… loved the drone flight over a new-to-me area. Iceland looks to be a magical country!

Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!

What an amazing topography. Thank you for setting this up for us to enjoy.

I feel like the islanders are under both economic and political pressure to a) say it's going nowhere near the power plant and blue lagoon and b) that it's surely going to end soon. They may not be stretching the truth as such, but any uncertainty is interpreted as going in the helpful direction. Alternatively they may have a lot more data about the underground magma and the fracture structure, but it would seem normal to publish some/all of that to support the science. From what you've said though, we lack the Star Trek level imaging and scanning to actually know very much about the subservice. We see where layers (strata?) emerge, we might detect magma motion via small earthquakes, and deformation at the surface is our main tool. That uplift gives us the most info but says little about the storage cavities or the structures involved. In some ways it's curious it takes more magma/uplift each time to trigger an event. Is that because the previous easier pathways have been used and clogged up? Or has magma congealed in the reservoir so has to push higher to find the same space/pressure? There seems to be a hope that the outlets get all used up and sealed, or that the inflow path clogs up. The various predictons don't seem to include an explanation of how that would occur, especially in a heavily fractured, widening fault zone.

Sorta wish I had been able to have this info before we visited 3 years ago. Hiked the full rim train, whale watched in Husavik. Fun 10 days in Iceland. Looks a lot less windy than when we hike that day. Thanks Shaw, Mandie Jo and NatureEye.😀

Catching the (you're) Late Show tonight...(sorry professor, my homework was blown away by some tornadic meteorology?)...thinking maybe if I grab the wheel, and take a "deep dive into the weeds"... he'll read me a bedtime story from one of his books ??? Roadside Read??? Thanks for the pleasant evening flight pilot(s)!!!

I like Bruce`s work there and think its perfectly logical.

Thanks!

Thanks for the drone flight and update! - - If you look back at the Icelandic Met Office update from 30 May at 14:00 UTC the map clearly illustrates the eruptive fissure moving south toward the doorstep of Grindavík. Might want to add this to your Google Earth files.

Once again, thank you Shawn for a great live session complete with superb drone flights, lots of valuable info, a clear update on the situation in Iceland and good Q&A! (YES, Johann, a drone flight over Askja would be a fantastic experience, and maybe we could see Herðubreið as well, so fingers crossed this flight happens! :) So where would you go in the Alps, next year? And by the way, did I hear Nick Zentner say that you wanted to do another 'collab' or something together...? Exciting! ;) Thanks to Susan and Amanda Jo as always, and to Bruce of course :)

At the beginning of your new video, before the drone got very high, I looked at the volcano, and the first thing I thought was that it looked a lot like Diamond Head. That or I need my eyes checked.

I agree with your prediction for Iceland. The flow of lava is the interest for the next event. Due to the growing change in the topography, there is less low lying areas for the lava to go. Will it cause problems around Swazengi power plant or flow towards Grinduvik, or both. Each event has more impact on both places, with lava build up and the berms being impacted.

Grindavik is a possibility like eldvorp is no there where it goes.

Thank you, interesting bits there. Di….Cumbria.

Regarding the Hadean the question of if there were oceans or not depends a lot on what atmospheric pressures were involved as if high enough water could have been supercritical especially based on the more abrupt lunar formation model Kimberlite eruptions while largely old have occurred in more geologically recent times in fact if I'm not mistaken diamonds are only metastable on Earth's surface so any surviving diamonds have had to have been excavated more recently than a few billion years else they wouldn't be diamonds anymore. There was a significant wave of volcanic pipe eruptions during the Jurassic and Cretaceous which included both kimberlite and lamproite eruptions the type which seems to depend on the age of continental crust in question i.e. if it is an Archean age craton it becomes a Kimberlite eruption otherwise if its younger Proterozoic to Phanerozoic continental crust then you only get Lamprolite eruptions for reasons which seem to be related to crustal chemistry and the underlying geological processes at play during these earlier times in Earth's history. As the number of intact Archean aged Cratons decreases over time the number of Kimberlite eruptions has definitely decreased but the most recent Kimberlite like eruptions were the Igwisi Hills which appear to be late Pleistocene to early Holocene in age though it is controversial over whether they truly count due to their unique character as the only extrusive Kimberlite like volcanism with surface pyroclastic tuff cones and lava flow features. The next oldest well dated Kimberlite is over 30 million years older so these eruptions are quite a bit older with these young examples all corresponding with active mantle plume rifting of Africa The youngest well identified Lamproite pipe eruption features are apparently from Antarctica dating to around 56,000 +/-5000 years before present. Ultimately it should be noted there isn't much available information on these kinds of volcanic pipe eruptions since the data on volcanic pipe eruptions tends to be considered commercially sensitive proprietary information. I know you have a video of a ~1 million year "young" Lamproite eruption in Wyoming which based on proximity is/was likely a consequence of the magma upwelling associated with Yellowstone eating into the NA Craton(s) though they may have more to do with subducted slabs since the Mesozoic Lamproite pipes beneath Arkansas My suspicion personally is they may have to do with the subduction old of carbonate platforms though evidence of the carbon isotopes have been placed against that there is also geological processes which bias carbon towards a biological signatures since organic carbon is more easily incorporated into crystal lattice structures. It is interesting but so many questions I wish there was more info on these kinds of eruptions.

Loved the livestream. Thank you Shawn. Like you, I tend to think their statement was bold. But, it also has an element of truth. As lets be honest noone knows where the next eruption if any will be. It could be anywhere nature decides it to be. But I find it rather strange for the Icelandic Metservice to make such a bold statement. Is there something they have been made aware of that we do not know? Has the tunnel system feeding that existing area, collapsed or blocked up? As if that is the case then, that would surely increase the risk further south moreso as has erupted there previously. Or are they simply saying that as a subtle but indirect way of saying the next eruption is likely to overflow the barriers. Have the barriers done an awesome job? yes for sure. But it does not take a genius to work out the last couple of eruptions have almost and in one place have caused those berms to be breached or very close to breaching. Another eruption that discharges the same amount or more of Larva is going to cause major issues and especially if that flows southwards rather than more westward. There is only so much can be done to the berms. At some point if this series of events continues the risk of overflow of the berms must be considered high to very high. There is only so many further berms they can add simply because of space between the existing berms and structures trying to protect. Whatever the outcome, I just hope that noone is hurt or lost than what has already happened. Buildings can be replaced, people cannot. Keep safe and well everyone.

Until you showed your books, I was starting to think that you had suddenly become left-handed!

As much as I appreciate the information and attempt at a drone flight. I wish Shawn would let Johan control the drone. Whenever Shawn gets involved with flying or moving the drone, he messes up the shot.