Catherine Annen 

Mie Ichihara

Topic: Understanding the flow-to-fracture transition of volcanic fluids through analogy experiments 

Mie Ichihara is an Associate Professor at the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo. She is a physics based volcanologist working at the intersection between volcanology, mechanical engineering, and physics. She performed laboratory experiments to simulate elementary processes of eruptions and volcanic wave generations. She is particularly interested in the magma fragmentation processes and the transition from flow to fracture. She is also involved in seismo-acoustic monitoring for volcanoes and tries to link between the laboratory phenomena and filed observations.

Gert Lube 

Topic: Pyroclastic density currents - recent advances in understanding and future challenges

Gert is Professor of Volcanology at Massey University and dad of two New Zealand-born boys. Within Massey’s Volcanic Risk Solution group, Gert leads the research group Physical Volcanology and Geological Fluid Mechanics that includes the large-scale international eruption simulation facility PELE. Gert’s research expertise is in Physical Volcanology, general Natural Hazard Science and Fluid Mechanics with a particular emphasis on the mechanisms behind transport, sedimentation and hazard impacts of geophysical mass flows and other types of natural and man-made multiphase granular-fluid flow systems, as well as the eruption record and dynamics of New Zealand volcanoes. Current research foci include the multiphase physics and dynamics of pyroclastic density currents, the turbulence and sedimentation characteristics of gravity currents, and reconstruction of eruption events at Whakaari (White Island) and Taupo volcanoes. For these and other research topics, Gert and his colleagues are typically applying analogue experiments, field studies, theoretical and computational fluid mechanics

Matt Pritchard 

Topic: Advancing volcano science and hazard mitigation with multi-parameter satellite datasets: Vision for a global volcano satellite observatory

Matt Pritchard is a Professor of Geophysics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Continents at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.  He studies how the Earth's surface deforms in response to earthquakes, magma movements, glacier dynamics, and human activities using radar, infrared, and optical satellites, through geophysical field observations, and numerical modeling.  

Matt was educated at the University of Chicago (B.A., physics) and the California Institute of Technology (MS & Ph.D., geophysics), and was a Harry Hess Postdoctoral Scholar at Princeton University.  During 2016 and 2019, he was a Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the President-Elect of the American Geophysical Union Geodesy Section, the U.S. national correspondent to the International Association of Geodesy, and is leading the National Science Foundation funded CorGGLE summer internship program that allows students from diverse majors and backgrounds to explore opportunities for geoscience graduate study, specifically giving them exposure to myriad socially relevant careers in the geosciences.

Brett Carr    

Topic: The hazards and driving processes of lava dome collapse: insight from the eruption of Sinabung Volcano (Indonesia)

Tehnuka Ilanko   

Topic: Un-mixing messages: finding meaning in volcanic gases

Sally Potter   

Topic: The Future of Forecasts and Warnings

Osamu Sandanbata  

Topic: Trapdoor faulting at submarine calderas in Japan and New Zealand: Its potential for volcanic tsunami generation