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Plumbing the depths of Costa Rica’s volcanoes

Volcanologist Maarten de Moor helps to warn local people of looming eruptions.
  1. Jack Leeming
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Marteen de Moor and his colleague place collecting tubes and bottles in the most active area of the Olca crater.

Maarten de Moor is a volcanologist at the National University of Costa Rica in Heredia. Credit: Jacopo Pasotti for Nature

I’m fascinated by the raw power of volcanoes. As a volcanologist, being in a crater and feeling the movement and pressure under your feet is almost a spiritual experience.

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Nature 606, 1040 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01744-6

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