GSA 2014. T245: Ancient and Modern Cultural Responses to Volcanic Disasters — Messages for the Future
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Call for Abstracts:
Session T245: Ancient and Modern Cultural Responses to Volcanic Disasters — Messages for the Future.
2014 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, 19-22 October in Vancouver, B. C., Canada
Brief Description: What have we learned from past interactions between volcanic eruptions with diverse cultures that can be used to mitigate future disasters? With Earth’s rapidly growing population,more people are at risk from volcanic eruptions.
Rationale: Teams of volcanologists and archeologists have worked together for decades to unravel the fate of groups or towns overwhelmed by volcanic eruptions. The time frame ranges from eruptions that trapped and preserved hominins four million years ago to eruptions in the 19th and 20th Centuries that overwhelmed towns. Eruption phenomena range from gas releases to caldera-forming eruptions. A modern example is the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, which shut down Western Europe’s airports in 2010.
What have we learned from past interactions between volcanic eruptions and human communities that can be used to mitigate future disasters? With the Earth’s rapidly growing population, more and more people are at risk from volcanic eruptions. This session will attempt to bring together experiences from the past to ask questions about the future.
Sponsors: GSA’s Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, Archeological Geology, and Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Divisions.
Convenors: Grant Heiken and Floyd McCoy
Abstracts Due: July 29, 2014 (GSA Annual Meeting website)
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