Annabelle Foster
🎨 Illustrator // Volcanologist
📍 Durham University
🧬 Freelance illustrator for Nature journals
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- Reposted by Annabelle FosterFrom Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...
- Another illustration for NatReviews Earth & Environment that came out last month, on Anthropogenic impacts on the Yellow River Basin. Love seeing them published! #sciart tinyurl.com/w4h3bdxb
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterOnce upon a time, the platform formerly known as Twitter was a vibrant meeting-place where scientists, the public, official orgs and more besides could exchange knowledge. I set out to find out how effective it could be for disseminating geoscience info Skip to the paper ☛ doi.org/10.1038/s432...
- My second PhD paper has *finally* come out of preprint. 🙌 Breathing a massive sigh of relief… Have a read here! 🔗🌋 tinyurl.com/kmfy7pek
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterWe're halfway through season 3 now! Be sure to catch up on the past episodes and sign up! open.spotify.com/show/3KgvDuu... @dykanite.bsky.social @scottishgeologist.bsky.social @vojtahybl.com @geologytalk.bsky.social @smitchellscience.bsky.social #podcast #stem #geology #art #science #volcano
- Big news (& a little late in posting)…last month I defended my thesis and I’m now Dr Foster! 🩺🌋
- I had a few obstacles thrown in for good measure. One was being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, which tried its best to take me out in 2023. And from then on a surprising amount of thesis was written/edited from a hospital bed 🫠
- I’m SO grateful for the support throughout, but especially over the last two years, & to my supervisors @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social, @htuffen.bsky.social & Madeleine. A huge thank you to my examiners @richardjbrown.bsky.social & @volcanologist.bsky.social for helping me end on such a high!
- Reposted by Annabelle Foster🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT! 🚨 It's time to talk scientific illustration in the world of volcanoes and geology with @geologytalk.bsky.social , Annabelle Foster! Full episode available to watch or listen now! (Link in bio) #geology #art #artist #stem #steam #illustration #science
- Some fun news: the first Nat Reviews Earth & Environment article I illustrated is available online! Always fun and a privilege to work on science illustrations 🎨 Go check it out here: t.co/QlsirytqV4 …The evolution of Earth’s early continental crust 🌍
- Nooo I hate AI. Use me, I’m a scientific illustrator, I would never glitch like this 😉🤗
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterWe're back for a third season! And now with a new logo and 10 new episodes coming each week over the next few months. @volcaknowledge.bsky.social has just joined #BlueSky So please give a share and a follow to help us spread the good 🌋 word! Tomorrow we take you to country FULL of great geology!
- WELCOME TO VOLCAKNOWLEDGE! The podcast exploring how volcanoes interact with nature culture and society, featuring new guests every episode. Hosted by @smitchellscience.bsky.social Season 3 is JUST around the corner!! 🌋 So stay tuned for an exciting first episode with some VERY famous geology...
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterWe think applying to grad school should be free. App fees create barriers to equity in academia—especially in the US, where students can pay $1,000+ just to be considered. Even waivers don’t fix this. We make the case in our Nature piece: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterScience artist @geologytalk.bsky.social drew Figure 14, which highlights our ideas about the structure and evolution of submarine lava domes! 🌋
- Thank you, Sam! Such a fab paper and team to work with! So happy to see this published 🌋🎨
- A BIG shoutout to @geologytalk.bsky.social who illustrated the final figure in our most recent paper! A final schematic of your ideas can be crucial to the understanding of a paper, so having someone with such a creative eye really elevates the final article! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterCristobalite and diktytaxitic textures are common in lavas. Do they influence rock properties? We try to answer this question by measuring rocks from submarine volcano Havre 🌋 With @smitchellscience.bsky.social, Rebecca Carey, @alteringrocks.bsky.social It's open access 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
- 🚀New paper -> doi.org/10.1088/1361... A fun, left-field project with the Earth Sci crew at @durhamearthsci.bsky.social: we built & tested projectile motion datasets for teaching physics, complete with experiments & code. Lovely to see my illustrations published too!
- Back from an incredible #EGU25! Huge thanks to everyone who came to my workshop yesterday. Seeing your scientific worlds in map form reminded me how much we share—same journeys, same ups and downs. Grateful to be part of this amazing community 🗺️ 💛
- Thank you so much for coming! Your map looks amazing 🤯🥰
- On the train home from Vienna to Utrecht, I'm finishing my map I made during a short course "Scientific Worldbuilding" by @geologytalk.bsky.social at #EGU25. It was great to 'map out' my PhD so far (: . I'm still looking for a name of this island. Any thoughts?
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterStarting soon! Join us for: Scientific worldbuilding: create your own scientific fantasy map 📍 Room: E1. 👉 See you there: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio....
- Paper sculpting short course at #EGU25 by Liliane Burkhard! I tried to make a representation of how I perceive the conference layout as a first time EGU-er! #EGUart
- My #EGU25 World of Research map is filling up! Add yours if you’d like your work to be represented in my final art piece! 🎨 #EGUart
- Thank you so much for dropping by Penny! Was lovely to see you! 🎨🌋
- Make sure to stop by @geologytalk.bsky.social at EGU at her artists in residence booth by room 2.31, really beautiful illustrations and just super interesting to see science-art intersection
- ‼️ New paper alert! Putting my research hat back on… here’s a pre-print about the sintering of small glass particles. We think it demonstrates what’s going on in the shallow sub-surface of silicic #volcanoes! Ash + sintering = lava = hybrid eruptions! #Geology Paper here —> tinyurl.com/kmfy7pek 🌋
- Want a (*slightly* inaccurate) geological field notebook sticker for your actual geological field notebook? I’m giving them out at #EGU25 📖🌍 #sciart #EGUart Find me on the purple level near the poster hall!
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterMy friend Tamina drew this adorable sketch from my photo! 😭 It's so cute.
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterMy first post on bluesky will be shameless self promotion for my #EGU talk tomorrow on seismicly induced reactions in fault cores. Please enjoy the compulsory pic infront of the welcome sign. See you there 👋
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterMy first blog for @egu.eu is live! 🎊 Read it here > blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/...
- So glad you like it! Love all the name suggestions 🤗🦕
- Amidst the horrors of being a geoscientist nowadays is one nice thing: At #EGU25, artist-in-residence @geologytalk.bsky.social gave out crocheted triceratops! Now to name mine. I'm open to any suggestions but have 3 ideas of my own which I'll justify in a thread: - Mersenne - Delenn - Chalko - Nick
- I may be away from my art booth rn — but I’ve brought some of it with me! If you see me wandering (probs looking lost) stop me and grab a free sticker/bookmark 🫶🌎 #EGUart #Sciart #EGU25
- Sketches from @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social workshop ‘Draw them in’! I loved her messaging that you can learn a lot from others, as an artist/illustrator too, this is very important to me! #EGU25 #EGUart
- I’m getting Night at the Museum vibes…
- Sometimes when you wander the empty halls pre- #EGU you run into adorable crocheted dinos by @geologytalk.bsky.social just chilling by themselves.
- Last min packing chaos for #EGU25 as one of the artists in residence! It’s my first ever time at #EGU (throwing myself in at the deep end)… please come say hi and talk to me 🤗
- A week tomorrow you can attend my science-art workshop at #EGU25! It’ll be the perfect way to wind down after a busy week, plus you can go home with hand-drawn art to decorate your offices! 🌍🌎🌏 #sciart #EGUart
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterWho said #EGU25 is only about scientific sessions? At EGU, we value the role of #creativity and #art in helping you create the best piece of research! In this #GeoLog, we have collected a variety of creativity-related sessions at #EGU25 to inspire your scientific journey. 👉: egu.eu/2D28O2
- Attending #EGU25 next week? Come say hi! I’ll be at my art stall on the Purple Level—swing by for science-inspired art and good chats! 🎨🪨 #SciArt
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterSintering of volcanic ash often occurs over similar timescales to degassing of volatiles by diffusive loss from the particles. These two processes are coupled, and so our full models for viscous sintering have to account for both. Forthcoming work from @geologytalk.bsky.social, myself, and others!
- Prepping for #EGU25 as one of the artists in residence! Taking the canvas off the frame so I can travel with it (surprisingly worked out ok) 🎨🙏 #EGUart
- After a [very] long hiatus I have a #geoart themed print available in my new shop! So excited to be getting back into this 🌍🫶 You can find the print here annabellefoster.com/shop !
- I’m SO excited and grateful to be one of the artists in residence at @eurogeosciences.bsky.social this year! Looking forward to lots of discussions about #geoart 🌋🦖 You can read more about it here t.co/hNC8fnU13N and introduce yourself to Liliane, another artist in residence!
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterFor #thinsectionthursday, an artistic treat: One of my students, Augusta Weaver, prepared 12 paintings of rocks under microscope for her Studio Art minor project. To say I'm proud is an understatement 🤩 Augusta took my Earth Materials class last Fall, and she fell in love with thin sections
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterI am reaching out to the #geoscience community - I need help. My MSc thesis was curtailed due to being unable to even access the building @ my previous university♿️ they provided no alternative. They’ve taken no responsibility for this #discrimination after I submitted an appeal.
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterWork in review: here's a result from @annabellef.bsky.social's PhD, where she measured the sintering rate of obsidian with some supersaturated dissolved water. She modelled the diffusive water loss during sintering, to arrive at an overall sintering curve that describes the data very well.
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterSad outcome. Deep ocean drilling has changed our fundamental understanding of geology, geophysics, oceanography, marine biology, as well as climate and fundamental life processes...the list of impacts for many decades is enormous #JoidesResolution #JR #Oceanography www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterScientists and/or nerds: what’s a geologic or natural event we don’t talk about enough, in your opinion? Mine is the Zanclean flood, ie “the straight of Gibraltar went ‘oop’ and the Atlantic rushed in fast enough to form the Mediterranean Sea in <2 years”
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterI took one of favourite illustrations from my upcoming book and recreated it using coloured card. Yes, it took quite a while. No, I mostly don’t regret it 🤩 #SciArt
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterNew study from @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social and team examines how crystal-rich magmas deform: a combination of viscous flow and fracture on different spatial scales. Especially relevant to lava dome emplacement. Bravo!
- New paper. Here we develop a general framework for understanding when magmas will break and rupture, with implications for how dome lavas flow and how gas permeability develops. doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterIn this new paper we determined the rheology of the magma that was intercepted by the 2009 IDDP-1 borehole at Krafla, Iceland. We also worked out how quickly it cooling during the drilling. doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterFor #ThinSectionThursday, bipyramidal quartz and alkali feldspar phenocrysts in flow banded felsite from the ring complex at Slieve Gullion, County Down; the eroded guts of a volcano active about 60 million years ago. #thinsection #geology #volcano #petrology #ireland #northernireland
- Reposted by Annabelle FosterMike Heap and Kamal Bayramov present their recent work at GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany, as part of our collaborative grant funded by Campus France and DAAD 🌋🇫🇷🇩🇪
