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Roderick Stewart (Rod) was born and raised in Scotland and has a degree in Geophysics from Edinburgh University. Since graduating, he has worked as a seismologist in very diverse areas including global seismology, the monitoring of underground nuclear explosions, micro-earthquakes associated with geothermal energy extraction and in the oil industry. His passion is volcano-seismology and he has worked at both Rabaul Volcano Observatory, Papua New Guinea and Montserrat Volcano Observatory. Rod has also worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation in Vienna, Austria where he helped oversee the construction of seismic stations around the world. He used CTBTO data to monitor an underwater volcanic eruption near Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Most recently, Rod was a Research Fellow at the University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Centre in Trinidad working throughout the Eastern Caribbean including a period as Director of Montserrat Volcano Observatory from 2012 to 2019 and active involvement in monitoring of La Soufriere, St Vincent during the 2020-2021 eruption. Following retirement in 2021, Rod formed his own consultancy company, Dormant Services Limited, to provide expertise to Montserrat Volcano Observatory.