There are few, if any, online images of this geoscientist: here is a screen cap from the SGC tribute video at post’s end.
Tweets are concise, and that’s a good way to introduce you to a famous Colombian volcanologist.
I first heard of her in the book Surviving Galeras — here is an official report; Marta and Patricia’s acts that day are mentioned in the paragraph below Figure 65.
Through this thread (which Twitter can translate) I learn that there is so much more.
Las capacidades institucionales y sociales con las que cuenta Colombia hoy para afrontar una posible erupción del #VolcánNevadodelRuiz tienen mucho que ver con una mujer y con su trayectoria en los últimos 40 años: #MarthaCalvache.
🧵 sobre mujeres, ciencia, Estado y sociedad pic.twitter.com/zItpxdQUao
— Sebastián Guerra (@guerrastian) April 7, 2023
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Ten months ago, before Nevado del Ruiz upped its game, Colombia’s Geological Service shared this tribute to “Doctora Marta”:
Flight To Wonder 