Benjamin R. Edwards is an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dickinson College, USA. He has over 24 years of field experience working in remote regions of British Columbia, Iceland, Alaska, Russia and South America on modern and ancient glaciovolcanoes, and is one of the leading researchers in the rapidly expanding field of large-scale experimental volcanology, specifically focussed on lava ice and lava water interactions. Dr Edwards is also a co-founder of the IAVCEI/IACS Commission on Volcano Ice Interactions, and has convened various special sessions on volcano ice i...