Mike Cassidy

Karma: 469

Associate Professor of Volcano and Earth Science at the University of Birmingham. Research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and Earth Sciences, University of Oxford. Interested in global catastrophic risks, EA and broad longtermism.

On the assessment of volcanic eruptions as global catastrophic or existential risks

Mike Cassidy13 Oct 2021 14:32 UTC

112 points

18 comments19 min readEA link

[Crosspost]: Huge volcanic eruptions: time to prepare (Nature)

Mike Cassidy19 Aug 2022 12:02 UTC

107 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

How a ventilation revolution could help mitigate the impacts of air pollution and airborne pathogens

Mike Cassidy16 Nov 2021 11:19 UTC

68 points

5 comments15 min readEA link

What can we learn from a short preview of a super-eruption and what are some tractable ways of mitigating it

Mike Cassidy3 Feb 2022 11:26 UTC

53 points

0 comments6 min readEA link