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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Christopher G. Newhall is a world renowned volcanologist, formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey and since 2008 at the Earth Observatory of Singapore. He is the co-creator of the Volcanic explosivity index and is considered among the worlds leading experts in volcanic prediction. A native Californian and son of an engineer, Newhall went to the Philippines in 1970 under the United States Peace Corps program. For his academic training, Newhall first attended the University of California-Davis (MS degree 1977) and later Dartmouth College, Hanover (PhD 1980) under the supervision of the late Professor Richard Stoiber. He is since 1971 married to his wife Glenda, with whom he has two children. After retiring from the USGS Volcano Hazards Program after nearly three decades in 2006, he retreated with his wife to his home on the Philippines. In 2008 he moved to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore to take on the position of senior volcanology group leader at the newly formed Earth Observatory of Singapore.

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