Sadly, Charles Lockwood of UCL died today as the result of a motorcycle accident, it is reported by John Lynch (who in turn was notified earlier today). Lockwood was a morphologist trained at Wits in South Africa with a post doc at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University (formerly of Berkeley). I think he moved fairly recently to the University College London.
Here's a recent (late last year) story in the Times on Lockwood's work.
Please read John's blog post on Lockwood.
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Hope no one minds my shameless plug here, but I get a lot of questions about books to read if you're interested in learning about volcanoes.
Well, now that Lockwood got #13 on the first try, I will have to reach back into my vault to attempt to find a stumper ...
[Update 2013/11/01: Solar Activity and the so-called “Little Ice Age” is sufficient evidence of Lockwood's opinion].