VOLCANO: 4th international workshop on calderas

[Jean-François Smekens <jsmekens@xxxxxxx>]

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 4th international workshop on calderas
From: Valerio Acocella <acocella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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4^th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COLLAPSE CALDERAS
 
September 23-29, 2012, Vulsini Calderas, Italy
 

Second Circular -  http://www.gvb-csic.es/CCC.htm

Organizers:
Valerio Acocella; Roma Tre, Roma, Italy; acocella@xxxxxxxxxxx
 Adelina Geyer; CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; ageyertraver@xxxxxxxxx
Danilo M. Palladino; La Sapienza, Roma, Italy; danilo.palladino@xxxxxxxxxxx

Scientific Committee:
Valerio Acocella, Univ. Roma Tre, Italy.
Gerardo J. Aguirre-Díaz; UNAM, Queretaro, Mexico.
Jim Cole; Univ. Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Adelina Geyer; CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.
Agust Gudmundsson; Univ. Royal Holloway, London, England.
Peter W. Lipman; USGS, Menlo Park, USA.
Joan Martí; CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.
Geshi Nobuo; Geological Survey, Ibaraki, Japan.      
    Stephen Self; Open University, UK/US-NRC.
Roberto Sulpizio; Univ. Bari, Italy.       
Danilo M. Palladino; Univ. La Sapienza Roma, Italy.

What is the Workshop on Collapse Calderas?

The IAVCEI Collapse Calderas Commission (CCC;

http://www.gvb-csic.es/CCC.htm) was created in 2008 to have a wider
and deeper understanding on calderas. It includes caldera geology,
geodesy and geophysics, modelling, magma chamber processes, volcanic
hazard and risk management, economic benefits and environmental research.
CCC promotes interdisciplinary interaction to help solve the many
questions regarding the formation, evolution and affect on society of
collapse calderas. Previous meetings were held at Tenerife, Canarias,
(2005), Mexican Volcanic Belt (2008) and Reunion (2010).

 
Venue

The 4th Workshop on Collapse Calderas is scheduled for
September 23-29, 2012, at Hotel Royal in Bolsena, Central Italy. Bolsena
is a medieval village on the edge of Bolsena Caldera, that is the most
distinctive feature of the Vulsini Calderas District, 100 km north of
Rome. The Vulsini District is a worldwide famous type-locality, where
many fundamental concepts on the eruptive dynamics, particularly those
related to caldera-forming events, have been proposed.

Workshop outline

The workshop is devoted at understanding the different aspects related to
calderas, including the structure and development, erupted products and
eruptive history, unrest episodes, magmatic processes, geodetic,
geophysical and geochemical signature, mathematical and analogue models,
as well as the related economic and environmental research. The workshop
includes 2 days of scientific meeting, with oral and poster sessions, and
3 days of field trip at Bolsena, Latera and Vico calderas. 
The scientific meeting is based on 5 sessions; each session
includes, but is not restricted to, several first-order topics, on which
the workshop is expected to provide constraints:
1) Caldera context and structure:
- Plate-boundary and intraplate calderas - similarities and
contrasts;
- Rift-related calderas in comparison to arc calderas in compressional
setting;
- Caldera geology from the surface to the magma chamber;
- Geophysical constraints on caldera structure;
2) Caldera formation and evolution:
- Monogenetic vs polycyclic caldera centres - why the
difference?
- Constant vs incremental collapse;
- Caldera resurgence: evidence, mechanisms, conditions;
3) Caldera deposits:
- Ignimbrites and their source calderas as records of incremental
batholith assembly;
- Triggers for caldera-subsidence events on ocean-island volcanoes:
subaerial or submarine eruptions, explosive or effusive?
4) Caldera magmatic processes;
- Petrologic and geochemical constraints on magma-chamber evolution
prior to caldera-forming eruptions;
- Caldera-related intrusions: residua from erupted magma or separate
magma batches?
- Duration of caldera cycles; evidence from high-resolution
geochronology;
5) Caldera unrest;
- Monitoring for eruption precursors in restless calderas;
- Magmatic vs. hydrothermal nature of caldera unrest.
Each session is introduced by a keynote lecture, followed by selected
oral presentations, shorter posters presentations and a final discussion
of the state of the art.
The field trips at Bolsena, Latera and Vico calderas are devoted
at illustrating their structure, eruptive products and relationships,
with the participation of some of the most distinguished Italian
volcanologists who have been working in the area, including: Bruno
Capaccioni (University of Bologna), Raffaello Cioni (University of
Cagliari), Donatella de Rita (University Roma Tre), Mario Gaeta
(University La Sapienza), Guido Giordano (University Roma Tre), Patrizia
Landi (INGV Pisa), Giovanni Nappi (University of Urbino), Danilo M.
Palladino (University La Sapienza), Alberto Renzulli (University of
Urbino), Mauro Rosi (University of Pisa), Raffaello Trigila (University
La Sapienza) and Luigina Vezzoli (University Insubria, Como).
Thematic informal discussions are planned in the evenings.

Costs

The fee for participants to the workshop is 730 euros. It includes
transportation from Rome to Bolsena (on the 23rd) and from
Bolsena to Roma (on the 29th), all meals and accommodation in
double rooms from the evening of the 23rd to the morning of
the 29th (6 nights), the ice-breaker party, 3 days of
excursions, the registration to the meeting, the abstract volume and the
field-trip guidebook.
Limited financial support is available for young scientists motivating
their request in a letter when submitting the abstract (to:
acocella@xxxxxxxxxxx).

Deadlines

The workshop is limited to 60 participants, with a first-come,
first-served basis. We recommend to register as soon as possible, and not
to wait for the deadline, to assure your participation to this
event.
- Deadline for financial support request for young researchers: March
20, 2012.
- Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2012.
- Registration deadline: April 30, 2012.
- Registration between May 1 and July 31 will cost 800 euros.
- Registration after July 31 will not be possible. No onsite
registration is foreseen.
Meeting point for the workshop is scheduled for the early
afternoon of September 23 on the west exit of the main train (Termini)
station in Rome, where a bus bound to Hotel Royal Bolsena will depart at
14:00.

Abstract Submission

Submit one or more abstracts (<300 words) in Times New Roman, font 12,
1.5 spaced, containing: title (bold), authors, affiliations, email
addresses and abstract text.
Please specify the scheduled session(s), as well as any oral/poster
preference.
Submit abstracts to:
acocella@xxxxxxxxxxx
While submitting the abstract, please also provide any notice of
registration (see below).

Registration

We strongly encourage to register by means of credit card payment at the
following site:

http://asi.uniroma3.it/moduli/npr/
If necessary, payment may be also made through bank transfer (IMPORTANT:
clearly specifying the reason for the payment: “Bolsena Caldera”)
at:
Title: UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE
Bank: UNICREDIT – TESORERIA UNIVERSITARIA
IBAN: IT05T02000805165000400014281
SWIFT: UNCRITM1B58
Whatever the chosen type of registration, please send prompt
notice of payment to both
acocella@xxxxxxxxxxx and
r.praturlon@xxxxxxxxxxx
Failure in sending notice of payment results in unconfirmed registration.

Dr. Valerio Acocella
Dipartimento Scienze Geologiche Università Roma Tre
Largo S.L. Murialdo, 1
00146 Roma
Italy

Tel.: 0039-06-57338012
Fax: 0039-06-54888201
acocella@xxxxxxxxxxx

http://host.uniroma3.it/dipartimenti/geologia/geo_index.php

http://uniroma3.academia.edu/acocella

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