Announcing VHub.org Workshop at IAVCEI 2013: Introduction to the VHub.org cyberinfrastructure and hands-on sessions with many of the on-line tools
From: Leah Courtland <leah.courtland@xxxxxxxxx>
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to a full day VHub.org workshop at the 2013 IAVCEI General Assembly, to be held in Kagoshima, Japan, on July 25th.
Workshop: An introduction to the VHub.org cyberinfrastructure and hands-on sessions on many of the on-line tools already available to its members
Topics to be covered include on-line models dealing with volcanic processes and hazards, educational materials, the submission process, using the ‘groups’ feature, privacy rights, the VHub.org workspace, numerical models available for download, and more.
Pingu: Pingu is a tool for plotting standard major element and trace elements diagrams.
BET_VH: The main purpose of this software is to provide a graphically supported computation of long-term probabilities of volcanic hazardous phenomena (i.e., lava flows, tephra fall, pyroclastic flows, lahars, etc.) through a Bayesian Event Tree model for Volcanic Hazard (BET_VH).
Tephra2: Tephra2 is written in C and is used to forecast tephra accumulation following explosive volcanic eruptions. This tool is available as a forward model, an educational resource, and as a resource for probabilistic hazard analysis.
Titan2D: The Titan2D toolkit is used for modeling of geophysical mass flows (volcanic flows, avalanches, landslides etc.) over natural terrain .
Each of these tools is installed and available for all to use on VHub.org. Come to the workshop for explanations, help, and hands-on exercises with these and other VHub.org tools. Sessions will be presented by tool developers and/or experienced users familiar with the assumptions, validation exercises, constitutive equations, and VHub.org interface of the tool they will present. Get your questions answered and find out where to go for more detailed information about any particular model. Get ideas for how to integrate these tools into your research, work and/or classroom. Find out how to become a tool developer and share the models that you have designed for your own research with the greater volcanological community.
For more information contact Jorge V. Bajo Sanchez at jvbajo@xxxxxxxxxxx or Leah Courtland at courtland@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Best Regards,
Leah Courtland (University of South Florida)
Jorge V. Bajo Sanchez (University of Buffalo)
Greg Valentine (University of Buffalo)
Shinji Takarada (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
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