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Invitation to improve the delivery of warnings during volcanic emergencies
From: "Melanie J Duncan" <melanie.duncan@xxxxxxxxx>
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Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite you to join in our survey of how warnings of
volcanic eruptions are delivered to emergency planners. The survey should
take less than 10 minutes and would be of enormous value for helping us to
understand the needs of emergency planners and volcano scientists, and
whether these needs are being properly addressed by current emergency
procedures. The results will be presented online as part of the
international Project Volcanoscope, described below.
If you can participate, please select one of the two following
questionnaires:
(1) For volcano scientists, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Volcanoscope_vs
(2) For emergency planners, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/volcanoscope_ep
The questionnaires consists of multiple-choice answers, but also provide
the opportunity for making additional comments if you wish.
We will begin processing replies to the questionnaires on Friday 18 March
2011 and expect to have the first results posted online in May at
www.ucl.ac.uk/volcanoscope (which will be activated in March).
Very many thanks for your help in the survey.
Best wishes
Melanie Duncan
Survey Co-ordinator, Project Volcanoscope
Project Volcanoscope is an international consortium of volcanologists and
social scientists, whose aim is to improve how warnings of volcanic
eruptions are delivered. Co-ordinated by University College London (UCL),
it will contribute to the UK programme on “Increasing Resilience to
Natural Hazards in Volcanic Regions” that is being funded by the Natural
Environment Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk) and the Economic and Social
Research Council (www.esrc.ac.uk). Further details will soon be available
at www.ucl.ac.uk/volcanoscope.
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