Workshop Details

Analyzing the risk for the farming system from tephra

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. 

Volcanic ash, gas and acid rain often occur together and collectively have the largest footprint of all volcanic phenomena: they are most likely to affect the greatest number of people. It may be difficult to attribute specific impacts to just one of these three phenomena; recent experience highlights the need to consider these collectively. Effective mitigation of ash, gas and acid rain impacts is a cornerstone of volcanic disaster risk reduction. This workshop, sponsored by the IAVCEI Cities and Volcanoes Commission, the International Volcanic Health Hazards Network and the Volcanic Ashfall Impacts Working Group, invites volcano scientists, city and emergency managers, environmental monitoring agencies and health professionals to work together to:

• Share current knowledge and new research concerning impacts and mitigation resources for ash, gas and acid rain
• Work through case studies of recent eruptions where civil authorities grappled with the combined impact of ash, gas, and acid rain, exploring key lessons and implications for best practice
• Identify information needs of civil agencies to determine research priorities, emphasising research co-production with volcano scientists and civil agencies and linkages to global programs.

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.  . This activity is linked to the IAVCEI Collapse Caldera Commission.  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 

 Much work has been done to build arrangements between volcanology and meteorology to handle the aviation risks from volcanic ash. This workshop will discuss how to approach collaborative arrangements for other volcanic hazards to the public, particularly where a multi-disciplinary approach is required. These hazards include tsunamis, ashfall, rainfall-induced dome collapses, lahars, pumice, glacial floods, and gas. They threaten a range of sectors including marine users, land transport users, agriculture, and residential communities.  Approaching these hazards in an integrated fashion with the hydrometeorological community will help provide consistent and coherent warnings, create a focus on the capacity development required, and ultimately build a safer world consistent with the Sendai Framework and the recent UN call to provide universal coverage for early warning systems.

Building on the presentations, discussions and outcomes of the preceding 2023 IAVCEI Scientific Assembly, IWVA-8 will bring together research and operational experts and stakeholders from the volcanological, meteorological and aviation communities to highlight and discuss the worldwide progress that has been made over the past decade, in supporting the scientific and technological advancement (research-to-operations, science-for-services) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) International Airways Volcano Watch (IAVW).

Within the context of services for international civil aviation, IWVA-8 will seek to explore gaps and other limitations in capacity and capability as the IAVW rolls-out new airborne ash concentration-based services and looks to develop a brand new operational service for the volcanic sulphur dioxide hazard. By attracting representatives from the aviation industry, state volcano observatories and volcanic ash advisory centres, the workshop will then look to chart a path for scientific and technological advancement over the next 10 years and beyond in line with the evolving needs of aviation users.

The workshop will look to embrace and strengthen community partnerships that already exist and will establish new partnerships fostering national, regional and global collaboration.

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.

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

Volatiles are a critical component of magmas, driving volcanic eruptions, creating and modifying planetary atmospheres, and generating ore deposits. There has been an immense amount of work quantifying the solubility of individual volatile species in a wide variety of magma compositions and the creation of various modelling capabilities to look at magmatic degassing. This workshop aims to bring together experimentalists, numerical modellers, and observational researchers with an interest in volatile solubility in magmas. Through group discussions, model demonstrations, and keynote talks, we will explore the current landscape and look for future directions. We will start with a demonstration session of existing models and codes. There is currently no benchmarking for such codes, so we will discuss options for a benchmarking exercise and test datasets. This will be followed by discussions on future directions, covering: (1) what are the experimental gaps (e.g., melt compositions, volatile species, PT ranges, fugacity coefficients, non-ideal mixing, etc.); (2) what do observational researchers need these codes to be able to do; (3) how would we incorporate disequilibrium/isotopic fractionation, (4) how do we incorporate interaction with hydrothermal systems, and (5) can we link monitoring needs to solubility outputs? This workshop will be hybrid, with the opportunity for pre-submitted talks/written work, and a summary of the workshop will be released afterwards, with the opportunity for comment, to ensure as many people as possible can participate. There is scope for exploring a dedicated special issue on this topic following this workshop. 

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.

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 one-day workshop is divided into technological overviews and presentation, followed by brief hand-on tutorials for the participants. Participants will explore the world of optical remote sensing (e.g. thermal, multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing), and 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

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 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.