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From: Warner Marzocchi <warner.marzocchi@xxxxxxx>
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Dear colleagues,
I would like to bring to your attention a meeting that will be held during
Cities on Volcanoes 5 meeting in November at Shimabara.
Regards
Warner Marzocchi
WOVO MEETING
November 20 (Tue), Day 2 evening
Tsukumo Hotel: 18:30-22:00
Meeting of World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO)
Organized by Warner Marzocchi, Andrew Tupper, and Florian Schwandner
The meeting will be divided in two parts:
Regular WOVO meeting (6:30 PM to 8:00 PM)
Preliminary Agenda:
1) Apologies
2) Follow-up from last IUGG meeting (brief discussions)
3) Business:
a) The new WOVO web site
b) Report on the workshop at the IUGG
c) Proposed session in Iceland 2008
d) Briefing on WOVOdat
e) Update on possible funding arrangements with civil aviation
4) Any other business
5) Arrangements for next meeting
Second annual WOVOdat Steering Committee meeting (8:30 PM to 10:00 PM)
November 20 at Tsukumo Hotel in Shimabara, Japan
Open to interested participants
Preliminary agenda
1 INTRODUCTION & REVIEWS
1.1 current status of WOVOdat
1.2 reports from meetings
1.3 summary of October 2007 questionnaire
2 LEADERSHIP
2.1 new steering committee members
2.2 leadership structure, terms, nominations, and voting
2.3 nominations for chairman, vote
3 PROJECT STRUCTURE
3.1 Status of pilot study
3.2 Long-term project hosting policy
3.3 Project structure – possible improvements
3.4 Module submission/acceptance procedure
4 FUNDING and FINANCIAL STRUCTURE
4.1 Roadmap to long-term funding
4.2 Proposal tasks, identifying potential PIs that are internationally
acceptable;
4.3 How should WOVOdat acquire its funds:
4.3.1 From a host institution
4.3.2 By subscription from data users
4.3.3 UNESCO, ISDR, or other UN support;
4.3.4 Foundation model, non-profit status
5 DATABASE
5.1 Status review
5.2 Database "editorial board" model
5.3 Miscellaneous
6 Next meeting
Organized by F. Schwandner
Contact: fschwand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Dr. Warner Marzocchi
Co-chairman WOVO (World Organization of Volcano Observatories)
INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, ITALY
Cellphone: (+39)335-349759
e-mail: warner.marzocchi@xxxxxxx
http://www.bo.ingv.it/~warner
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