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Dr Janet Sumner is a qualified geologist and vulcanologist, a broadcast executive and lecturer with The Open University.

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Looking for dirty galaxies Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Dr Mattia Negrello (The Open University), Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

13 December 2010

The Open University's Mattia Negrello has been using gravitational lensing to seek out dirty galaxies. How does he do it - and, what does it...  Read more : Looking for dirty galaxies

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Meet the Bang team: Will Clough Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Will Clough (Guest), Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

20 April 2010

How can you take the chaos of the Bang studios, and turn it into smoothly-flowing TV?  Read more : Meet the Bang team: Will Clough

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Meet the Bang team: Jem Stansfield Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Jem Stansfield (Guest), Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

20 April 2010

Jem's path took him from university through a Scrapheap and onto Bang!  Read more : Meet the Bang team: Jem Stansfield

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Meet the Bang team: Dallas Campbell Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Dallas Campbell (Guest), Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

20 April 2010

He's done a bit of acting, but that doesn't mean Dallas doesn't know his science.  Read more : Meet the Bang team: Dallas Campbell

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Behind Bang: Keith Dunne on getting set Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio OU

By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

27 July 2009

Big science needs a big stage. Who better to build that stage than Keith Dunne, art director for Doctor Who, Torchwood and touring operas?  Read more : Behind Bang: Keith Dunne on getting set

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Behind Bang: A tour of the set Featuring Video OU

By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

27 July 2009

A great team and some smart science needs a proper place to thrive. Keith Dunne, Bang's art director, shows our own Janet Sumner around the...  Read more : Behind Bang: A tour of the set

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Fossil Detectives: Janet Sumner  Featuring Video Cosmos Production team

By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

24 July 2008

The Open University's Janet Sumner shares her favourite fossil find.  Read more : Fossil Detectives: Janet Sumner

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The Nature of Britain: in front of the lens [part two]Jupiter Images

By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

10 October 2007

Dr Janet Sumner goes swimming with seals.  Read more : The Nature of Britain: in front of the lens [part two]

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By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

10 October 2007

Dr Janet Sumner has a busy time as preparation for "Nature of Britain" gets under way.  Read more : The Nature of Britain: in front of the lens

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Making stars Featuring Video BBC

By Dr Janet Sumner (The Open University)

06 July 2007

Dr Janet Sumner visits a project looking for a source of cheap, clean fuel, which gives us a glimpse of the birth of our sun  Read more : Making stars

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Research [2]

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Sumner, J. M.; Rothery, D. A.; Spiler, O. and Dingwell, D. B. (2007). Impact vesiculation – a new trigger for volcanic bubble growth and degassing. eEarth, 2(4), pp. 151–167.

Sumner, J.M.; Blake, S.; Matela, R.J. and Wolff, J.A. (2005). Spatter. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 142(1-2), pp. 49–65.

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Dr Janet Sumner is a qualified geologist and vulcanologist, a is currently a broadcast executive and lecturer with The Open University. She has also presented a number of BBC programmes, including The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide and British Isles: A Natural History.
Janet was previously a research fellow at The Open University, researching the active volcanoes Stromboli and Etna in Italy. She studied basaltic fire-fountains, their deposits and the hazards they represent. She was also involved in computational fluid dynamic modelling and laboratory modelling of fire-fountains (using golden syrup).

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