Workshop Details

Volcanic unrest, volcanic eruptions and their aftermath are associated with multiple primary and secondary hazards, which pose short- to long-term threats to people and property. Experience has shown that success in the management of volcanic risks strongly correlates with the degree to which proactive policies of risk reduction are in place before an eruption begins. Such policies should ideally be developed based on comprehensive analysis of the volcanic risk encompassing the full spectrum of volcanic primary hazards (e.g. pyroclastic density currents, lava flows, tephra accumulation and dispersal, gas emissions) and interacting hazards (e.g. lahars triggered by intense rainfall) as well as associated vulnerabilities (e.g. physical, systemic, social, economic, institutional). Risk associated with volcanic eruptions has been recognized as complex and dynamic for many decades, yet still no comprehensive methods for vulnerability and risk analysis are widely accepted. Currently several initiatives are attempting to develop models and methodologies to assess volcanic risk, at this workshop we will gather experts in the field of volcanic hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk assessment in order to evaluate the state of the art of risk assessment in volcanology, investigate current gaps and identify research priorities. We will also discuss good practices for doing international research on volcanic impacts necessary to constrain key hazard and vulnerability features.

“From Volcanic Hazard to Risk Assessment”, Geneva, Switzerland: http://www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/CERG-C/iavcei-gvm-workshop-2018/presentation/

Agriculture is one of the most important sectors that can be heavily affected by volcanic eruptions. Tephra falls, and to a lesser extent gas emissions, may inflict considerable damage to soils, crops, livestock and supporting infrastructures. The impacts are often interconnected and their type and magnitude vary in space and time depending on volcanic factors, environmental conditions and farming system. They can extend beyond the farm to the livelihood and sometimes the food security of the region. However, not all impacts of tephra falls are damaging to farming communities near volcanoes; tephra falls can also improve soil fertility, and those affected can develop sophisticated practical knowledge about impacts and their mitigation. There is thus a complex relationship between the tephra hazard and the vulnerability characteristics of the exposed farming system, and understanding this is essential to developing robust risk models that can inform management strategies.

The workshop will bring together scientists and agriculture stakeholders and professionals from around the world. It will have three primary objectives: (i) assess critically current knowledge concerning farming system vulnerability to tephra fall impacts; (ii) identify the knowledge gaps and hierarchize future research priorities; (iii) propose a platform for sharing and disseminating information on tephra hazards and impacts on farming systems. The format of the workshop will be interactive.

Caldera systems pose risks that are unique amongst other types of volcanoes. Although caldera-forming events are the most rare type of eruption, the systems remain restless for hundreds of thousands of years producing earthquakes, hydrothermal explosions, lava flows, and lessor explosive eruptions. The international community of scientists, emergency personnel and public who are concerned with risks from calderas or other long-dormant volcanoes can learn from each other. This workshop aims to connect caldera risk mitigation programmes around the world. During the half-day meeting, we will forge plans for a long-term network and structure for collaboration to share ideas and experiences between groups who work on caldera risk mitigation. We hope the outcome of this workshop will be the development of common approaches to the science and response of supervolcano systems.
This may include:

• Emergency manager training or professional development programmes 
  
• Scoping decision-support tools 
  
• Lifelines preparedness products 
  
• Response plans 
  
• Interagency exercises 
  
• Citizen science modules 
  
• Education materials and modules 
  
• Hazard and risk communication plans 

Advances in education are rapidly changing the way that science is taught in universities. Teaching staff are striving to improve the quality of student outcomes by implementing transformative approaches to learning and teaching. How are transformative approaches being applied in volcanological contexts? What evidence do we have that these approaches are successful? This workshop invites participants to engage with a new synthesis of effective practices for teaching volcanology in classroom, laboratory and field environments. In this workshop, we will introduce participants to new and innovative teaching techniques, activities, datasets and related research, all specific to volcanology. Using evidence-based resources, participants will apply new practices and curricula to their own contexts, by planning and designing volcanological learning and teaching content for face to face and online settings, including virtual fieldtrips. Facilitated discussions will help identify the new frontiers of volcanology learning and teaching and prioritize important needs and interests of the community. Participants will thus be encouraged to share challenges they face in the classroom, including those relating to technological integration. Participants will leave the workshop with insight, solutions and resources (e.g., lesson plans and rubrics) that support the implementation of effective practices to achieve desired learning outcomes in their own settings. A background in teaching volcanology is not required for participation in this workshop. All levels of experience are welcome and encouraged to participate, from postgraduate teaching assistants through faculty instructors. This full day, interactive workshop will consist of a morning session indoors, followed by an afternoon field session where we can get our hands dirty in some volcanic deposits.

Volcanica - http://www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.php/volcanica (open access volcanology journal that welcomes submissions on volcanology education)

When science is communicated with enthusiasm and accessibility, people listen. Practiced science communicators are able to engage non-experts, inform public opinion and policymakers, inspire the next generation of scientists and voters, improve our own research process, and convey the hazard and risk associated with natural processes. This workshop takes a hands-on approach to learning the tricks of science and hazard communication in both crisis and calm. The skills practiced can be applied to all channels of communication, from a public lecture to a social media feed.

The first half of the workshop will focus on general effective communication skills and network building. The second half of the workshop will focus on more specific skills, including an introduction to working with the media, effective communication on social media, visual communication, and best practices for communicating uncertainty, hazard, and risk. The workshop is designed to be highly interactive; participants will both learn and practice!

This workshop is open to all, and particularly aimed at early career researchers.

The Unexpected Benefits of Science Communication Training (https://eos.org/opinions/the-unexpected-benefits-of-science-communication-training); Communicating Science for Impact, IAVCEI 2017 (https://www.unavco.org/education/professional-development/short-courses/2017/scicomm-iavcei/scicomm-iavcei-csfi.html); Communicating Geohazards: Delivering Information in Crisis and Calm (https://www.unavco.org/education/professional-development/short-courses/2019/comm-geohazards/comm-geohazards.html)

In recent years, there has been increasing development of field apps, community best practices, international standards, data repositories, and other initiatives relating to scientific data across disciplines, and these advances are changing how many do science. In tephra studies, multiple data repositories have been developed, and best practices continue to be refined. However, much tephra data collected over decades is still fragmented, difficult to find and access, and consequently underutilized. In addition, researchers spend too much time locating and integrating different data sets before use or collating and reformatting data for repository submission.

This workshop will involve training and hands-on experience with software tools and databases that are improving this situation for tephra studies. Participants are encouraged to bring data to contribute and to provide feedback to software developers.

The workshop will build upon and utilize best practices from a series of tephra workshops (2014, 2017, 2019 https://vhub.org/resources/3860/supportingdocs), the Strabo field app and database (https://www.strabospot.org), the EarthChem Library (http://www.earthchem.org), the EarthChem Synthesis (PetDB), the IGSN sample identifier (http://www.geosamples.org/getigsn), and the new Throughput Annotation Engine and Earth Science Cookbook (http://throughputdb.com). Annotations allow users to add knowledge, add comments to existing data, and link research elements like data, code, and publications across multiple repository resources and systems. The Earth Science Cookbook facilitates workflow discovery including documentation and code to support interdisciplinary, data intensive research in the geosciences.

This workshop is part of the U.S. NSF-supported THROUGHPUT project, a collaborative effort to increase discoverability and access to data across disciplines, improve integration between data types, and facilitate the use of digital tools. Limited funds are available to aid workshop participation by early-career researchers.

Statistical analysis of global volcanic data presents a promising way forward for forecasting the onset, size, duration, and hazards presented by volcanic eruptions. The availability of complete and consistent multi-parametric monitoring and eruption chronology datasets poses one of the main obstacles for global statistical analysis for eruption forecasting.

This workshop aims to bring together those working on volcano databases, global data analysis, and observatory staff to explore the future of global volcanic data analysis for eruption forecasting and probabilistic volcanic hazard analysis. Topics for discussion include database population gaps, data harmonization and consistency issues, choosing useful analogs, and observatory needs and challenges.

The use of UAS (Unoccupied Aerial Systems, a.k.a ‘drones’, ‘UAVs’) in volcanology is a thriving and fast-growing field, with the potential to fill crucial gaps in our ability to collect diverse volcanological data. There are challenges associated with such a rapidly innovating and expanding field of study. For example, there are specific constraints relevant to type of data acquisition required, country of operation, safety, and environment. Currently many individual research groups work this out alone and develop their best-practices at an individual or discipline-specific level. Successful data acquisition relies on safely planning, permitting, preparing, and deploying UAS for volcanic research, monitoring, and disaster response. Our community would benefit from a set of best-practice recommendations based on lessons-learned from across the varied sub-disciplines of volcanology.

This workshop will:
a) Collate information from the UAS volcano community, form breakout groups for specific tasks and deliverables, and form a writing team to establish a first version of a best practices document for community guidance. The team of conveners and invited speakers all have significant experience in UAS applications in volcanology, and this workshop will strongly encourage more to attend and share their knowledge.
b) Deliver a white paper on international community-sourced best practices for UAS operations in volcanic regions.
c) Lead towards development of an IAVCEI UAS in Volcanology working group
d) Facilitate networking amongst the growing international volcanology UAS community

https://youtu.be/H6xMlCrRJyc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtvdOjjVskU&t=12s

The aim of this workshop is to demonstrate the powers and limitations of using ambient seismic noise for seismo-volcanological studies using continuous data, for example using ambient seismic noise cross-correlation for computing dv/v, locating tremor, tracking migration or computing surface wave tomography.

MSNoise package will be introduced and then used by participants on provided demo data. After presenting the theoretical framework and the best practices, we will go through the entire workflow using the Piton de la Fournaise dataset.

Over the last years the MSNoise package has expanded and several new approaches have been plugged (MSNoise-Tomo, MSNoise-SARA, MSNoise-QC, etc). These now stable developments will be presented too.

http://msnoise.org/doc/

For early-career scientists, writing papers for publication can be daunting. This workshop will be delivered by experienced editors and will explore the publication process from “soup to nuts”. The first part will discuss “presenting your science” and will deal with such topics as how to put ideas into a coherent form, making your science “pop”, and producing a complete and well-constructed manuscript. The second part will discuss the “getting a paper published” and will probe topics like journal choice, manuscript submission, the peer review and editorial process. We will also discuss how to be a constructive reviewer. Best practices will be highlighted, pitfalls will be identified, and philosophies will be discussed.

We are also planning two interactive panel-led discussions.

1. Editors of journals relevant to IAVCEI membership 
   
2. Early career faculty who have been through the publishing process 

Panel members will address questions that we have found common amongst early-career writers, but will also focus on questions from workshop participants.

Natural hazard such volcanic eruptions, wildfires, flooding, tornados are fascinating geosciences topics which are regularly in the news and appeal kids fantasy. However, educational material available for pre-scholar kids (3+) is limited. To contribute in filling this gap we have been exploring playful approaches to be used to let kids familiarize with volcanoes.

Paper Volcanoes Laboratory is an experience based activity created within INGV Educational group, which in the last 5 years resulted to engage hundreds of children. The activity has been detailed within a paper and organized in a practical Paper Volcano toolkit.

Our vision is to have the activity carried out in partnership with a large number of institutions and the kit integrated and used by a range of schools and educational institutions at global level to help children to familiarize with volcanic hazards. We aspire to reach 10.000 children within 2020.

To reach this goal we have recently teamed up with Chrysalis centres and University of Auckland in New Zealand to test and evaluate the kit in a different contest where the importance of the relationship between communities and volcanoes has cultural significance.

In the interactive session we will guide attenders through the pedagogical aspect behind the toolkit and train them to run the paper Volcanoes Lab in their institution becoming the paper Volcanoes Lab ambassador. We will share lesson learnt by using the toolkit at Chrysalis centre. Providing teachers with the tools to help children understand living in the presence of an active volcano and how the relationship between humans and volcanoes are seen within indigeious people.
The aim is to inform and leave the participants with the tools and the skills which allow them to integrate the paper volcano in the curriculum or just use it for fun by becoming an ambassador of the PaperVolcanoesLab.

https://sites.google.com/ingv.it/papervolc-lab
www.ingv.it
#INGVvulcani #INGVAmbiente

As our understanding of pyroclastic density currents (a.k.a. PDCs, pyroclastic flows, pyroclastic surges) has advanced and become increasingly quantitative, the need to develop benchmarking and validation (B&V) methods for flow models has grown. In the past, individual model developers and users have pursued different approaches and differing levels of rigor for B&V. Community efforts have also begun to emerge, such as a 2013 workshop on flow model validation that was held in conjunction with the IAVCEI meeting in Kagoshima, and a 2019 workshop hosted by Massey University (New Zealand) in conjunction with the IAVCEI commissions of Explosive Volcanism and Volcanogenic Sediments. Simultaneously, experimental datasets that can be used to validate models have been growing. Because of the importance of modeling for advancing our fundamental understanding of pyroclastic currents and - critically - for hazards and risk applications, now is an opportune time to bring a community-wide focus to B&V.

Once your graduate degree is completed, it is often time to look for a job, but the route and the options can be unclear. Most early-career researchers (ECRs) are exposed only to the “traditional” academic career, as it is often the path taken by their supervisors, and also where qualifications are gained. Consequently, many ECRs are often unaware of, and feel unprepared for, the many opportunities within and outside academia. These include research- and teaching-only academic jobs, government and funding organizations, and many private sector careers. In this workshop we seek to prepare ECRs to explore the many varied career paths that are open to them. Invited speakers will represent different career paths from different regions of the world, and will discuss how they got into their careers, the skills that their roles require, and the challenges they have faced. Non-academic speakers will share how they transitioned from academia into their current positions. Participants can expect to learn how the myriad of transferable skills they have acquired along their graduate school journeys can also be used outside of academia, and to pick up tips for continuing in academia if they so choose.

https://volcanologistsoutsideacademia.wordpress.com/ 

Remote Sensing provides a fast and versatile baseline information to monitor volcanic activity from a safe distance. Volcanoes has been changing rapidly promoting regular and frequent monitoring infrastructure, to predict their behavior and establishing volcanic hazards. Previously, many different types of remote sensing imagery has been used to assess on-going volcanic activity (e.g. tephra deposition), develop long-term inventories (e.g. calculate eruptive volumes, geological mapping), and to forecast volcanic hazards (e.g. InSAR based volcano deformation, gas detection). These data stream often include thermal, shortwave infrared, ultraviolet, and visible and RADAR imagery from ground, airborne and satellite platforms.This workshop aims to introduce new tools and technology available for volcanic observatories to assess and quantify past and on-going volcanic activate. Additional objectives of this workshop is to provide a better understanding of the currently available technologies, remote sensing data sources for volcano monitoring, as well as to facilitate a communication between the science community and operational volcano observatories.

This two-day workshop is divided into technological overviews and presentation, followed by brief hand-on tutorials for the participants. On day one the participant will explore the world of optical remote sensing (e.g. thermal, multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing), while the second day will cover the active remote sensing (e.g. LiDAR and RADAR). By the end of the workshop, participants will develop a working understanding of different remote sensing data and basic analytics required to adopt new tools for volcano monitoring.

Scientific drilling programmes yield game-changing datasets and concepts to improve knowledge of Earth processes. The Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ) in Aotearoa New Zealand is a rapidly evolving rift within a young volcanic arc hosting numerous hydrothermal systems with a long history of research and geothermal development. It is the ideal place to study interactions between tectonic, magmatic, volcanic, geothermal and microbiological processes.

This workshop aims to refine the global scientific questions to be addressed by an international scientific drilling in the TVZ. The workshop will advance the integrated science plan with the IAVCEI community, looking at opportunities for pre-drilling surveys, experiments during drilling, and post-drilling long-term monitoring. Key questions this project will address include (but are not restricted to): (1) feedbacks between the volcanic arc and the active rift; (2) controls on the timing and rates of volcanic and seismic events; (3) structure and dynamics of hydrothermal and magmatic plumbing systems; and (4) the deep biosphere, and its relationships to the physical and chemical processes in volcanic and faulted areas. There will be presentations from other international drilling projects in volcanic areas and from the New Zealand geothermal community, providing a truly collaborative link between volcanic and geothermal interests. Participants will be encouraged to share ideas to maximise outcomes from drilling on processes occurring in rifts, volcanoes and the deep biosphere.

Using scientific drilling to help unravel the heat and mass transport mechanisms in the TVZ has direct implications for understanding the entire “subduction factory”, better evaluate the associated earthquake and volcanic hazards, and sustainably use geothermal resources which are highly regarded taonga (treasures) to New Zealand’s Māori. Direct observations through scientific drilling, with extensive data collection will yield wide-ranging results that will be of wide interest to the international science community and local population.

The IAVCEI Commission on Volcanic Hazard and Risk has a working group dedicated to hazard mapping. The hazard mapping working group held its first workshop at COV8 (State of the Hazard Map 1), and the most recent at COV11 (State of the Hazard Map 4). We propose to host a meeting at the IAVCEI General Assembly in Rotorua. The workshop will continue the broad aims of the earlier meetings alongside some new initiatives, namely presenting and discussing a new hazard map database and stakeholder tool. The workshop will bring together people from around the world working on or with volcanic hazard maps, and will have three primary aims: 1) to openly discuss approaches and experiences regarding how hazard maps are interpreted and used by different groups; 2) to present and comment on a new online database of volcanic hazard maps and stakeholder tool; and 3) to discuss the new source book for volcanic hazard mapping. In line with previous working group events, a key philosophy of this workshop is that participants will be encouraged to bring their experience to the table for discussion, so that the workshop format will be more about exchange of knowledge rather than instruction about particular techniques. The workshop will take the form of short presentations followed by group discussions, and the day will be divided up based on the aims outlined above. 

https://cvhr.iavceivolcano.org/ 

This workshop will combine fieldwork and ‘classroom’ activities to demonstrate and explore statistical methods for volcanic hazard assessment and analysis of field data. In the fieldwork component, participants will be exposed to the range of hazards and hazard intensities produced by Mt. Taranaki, one of New Zealand’s most prominent volcanoes. This will serve as a case study on collection methods, uses and complexities of field data applied in quantitative hazard analysis. The ‘classroom’ portion of the workshop will use this case study to discuss and demonstrate statistical techniques for determining hazard frequency and intensity including validation and evaluation against field data. Topics covered will include correlation of field data/stratigraphy, developing eruption occurrence models and the use of surrogate models for numerical simulations. This workshop will enhance the participants understanding of field and mathematical techniques, their applications and limitations in hazard analysis.  

This workshop will introduce computational thermodynamics and phase equilibria modeling tools for volcanic systems including alphaMELTS 2, alphaMELTS for MATLAB/Python, and other MELTS-related software.

The MELTS family of algorithms is widely used by petrologists and geochemists to predict the outcomes of melting and crystallization processes, to compare with experiments or to design experimental campaigns, to assess the energy budgets of igneous processes, to teach the principles of igneous petrology, and more. Although there are a variety of ways to access such models, this workshop will focus on the newly released alphaMELTS 2 interface, and alphaMELTS for MATLAB/Python. alphaMELTS 2 is a text-based front end to the Rhyolite-MELTS, pMELTS, and pHMELTS models, with built-in trace element calculations and a variety of unique features and workflows. (Note that no commercial software is required for the workshop; access to alphaMELTS from MATLAB or Python is near-identical, so users may select one or the other.) This workshop will differ from previous alphaMELTS workshops in emphasizing modeling of volcanic systems, such as vapor saturation, and magma chamber processes. This workshop will introduce the underlying thermodynamics, illustrate the capabilities and potential applications of individual MELTS-type models and give participants first hand experience running MELTS programs and tools. We will cover software installation as well as some undocumented tricks that are important to getting reliable results from MELTS calculations. There will a brief overview of other available interfaces (MELTS for Excel, MagmaSat, the Magma Chamber Simulator), and how to use search results from the traceDs experimental database of trace element partitioning in alphaMELTS 2 calculations. 

The workshop will be suitable for any user or prospective user of alphaMELTS 2 or related software, whether for teaching or research. No previous knowledge of MELTS in general, or alphaMELTS in particular, is required.

In case of distributed volcanism, where eruptive vents are scattered within a volcanic field, it is challenging to forecast where the next vent will develop. Rivalta et al. (2019) developed a new physics-based strategy to forecast magma trajectories and vent locations based on a probabilistically constrained crustal stress field, consistent with observed vents, fissure orientations and magma paths during ascent. Currently, this idea is being developed within a German-French-Italian project - MagmaPropagator. The project also aims to improve forecasts on the timescales of dike propagation from its reservoir to the surface. 

Aim of the workshop is to: a) Present the physics-based strategy to vent location forecasting, its current state of development, performed validations in the analog laboratory and on natural systems (half a day); b) Discuss case studies brought by the audience (a list of the needed information and data will be given well in advance to the workshop participants) and evaluate the potential of applying the strategy to such cases (two half days); c) Train the audience in use the software that will have been developed at the time of the workshop within the MagmaPropagator project framework.

Explosive eruptions generate pyroclasts and these are studied in a number of ways to understand eruptive events. The first steps are generally grain size analyses and componentry. The juvenile pyroclasts, especially in the ash range, provide important information on primary fragmentation processes, and the state of the magma both prior to and at the point of fragmentation and quenching. There exists an extensive body of literature on the quantification of juvenile particle shapes, internal textures and surface features spanning several decades, yet a standardized methodology has yet to emerge. This precludes robust comparison between different studies and laboratories.
 
The workshop organizers have been working on a detailed proposal for a standardized methodology, and we hope that this will have been published by the time of IAVCEI2022. The workshop will therefore be an opportunity to discuss, and refine, this and any other proposals. The morning of the first day will feature invited to volunteered 30 mins+ oral presentations on a standardized methodology. Contact the workshop organizers a.s.a.p. if you wish to present. The rest of the workshop will include small group discussions on specific aspects, and a summary discussion.

We hope that a broad consensus can be reached and that, once published, it becomes the new standard. The community would be able to accumulate consistent data on juvenile pyroclasts from a range of eruption styles, fragmentation mechanisms, magma compositions, crystallinities and vesicularities. Then statistical analyses can be performed, new “fragmentation diagrams” can be developed and we may obtain deeper insights into the full panoply of magma-to-pyroclast processes. Fragmentation diagrams would allow different styles of particle-forming eruptions to be distinguished, and perhaps even improve the classification of explosive eruptions. Applying such fragmentation diagrams to the deposits of active volcanoes would help to better understand the explosive record of their eruptive history, and so has hazards assessment implications. 

Volcanic eruptions can pose a considerable threat to the wellbeing and livelihoods of nearby and downwind communities. New Zealand has a number of active volcanoes and volcanic fields, which have the potential for eruption in the foreseeable future. Consideration of such hazards, as well as those from geothermal fields such as the Rotorua Geothermal Field, are of importance because of their potential impact on population health. Co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary efforts are needed to assess and successfully prepare for health hazards associated with volcanic phenomena, and to provide timely advice to anxious populations and emergency managers during volcanic crises. 

This workshop is an opportunity for international and local participants to be updated on global best practice for health protection in volcanic eruptions and new International Volcanic Health Hazard Network (www.ivhhn.org) standardized epidemiological protocols for use in volcanic crises, and to learn lessons from recent eruption crises and eruption health response planning in other countries. The workshop is sponsored by IVHHN (an IAVCEI Commission), which works with governments to prepare for eruptions and provides public information for use during the responses. 

www.ivhhn.org 

The enigmatic and spatially distributed nature of eruptions in volcanic fields makes creating conceptual geological models and assessing probabilistic volcanic hazard and risk in such environments challenging. Planning and preparing for future eruptions from the dormant Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF) is especially important as 1.6M people live atop the field in New Zealand’s biggest city and economic hub, Auckland. Despite extensive research, gaps in knowledge regarding our understanding of melt generation, magma ascent, and other key variables remain, making it difficult to fully assess probabilistic hazard and risk to the nearby population and infrastructure. This workshop (with optional associated pre-conference field trip) aims to: 1) review the state of knowledge about AVF volcanism and hazards, 2) discuss approaches to addressing knowledge gaps and assess hazard and risk in such fields using the AVF as a case study, and 3) garner international expert feedback to apply to research on the AVF and other distributed volcanic fields. 

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