From: Gill Jolly <G.Jolly@xxxxxxxxxx>
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1. WOVOdat Workshop
A free one-day COV8 pre-meeting workshop
Date of Event:
8 September 2014 (08:00-16:30)
Venue:
Gadjah Mada University Club Hotel & Convention
Jl. Pancasila No. 2 Bulaksumur, Kampus UGM
Yogyakarta - Indonesia
Phone. 0274 563461
Fax. 0274 563461
www.ugmclub.com
WOVOdat is the World Organization of Volcano Observatories’ (WOVO’s) database of worldwide volcano unrest. Historical monitoring data are compiled into common formats to make them freely web-accessible for reference during volcanic crises, comparative studies, and basic research on pre-eruption processes. WOVOdat will be to volcanology as an epidemiological database is to medicine.
During periods of volcanic unrest, forecasting of further activity is aided by knowledge of previous activity (data) at the restless volcano and knowledge of unrest and eruptions at similar volcanoes. Having data ready in hand is indispensable. For example, if a volcanologist responding to a crisis asks, "Where/when has unrest like (the present) been seen before, and what happened?” WOVOdat can provide that information.
Advances in volcano monitoring during the past few decades have resulted in significantly increased volumes of data. Volcano observatories need to archive and be able to retrieve those data efficiently, to compare past unrest at each volcano to its present activity. If one is to compare present unrest to past activity of analogous volcanoes, those data must be stored in a centralized database for ease of Boolean searches and quick retrieval.
An advantage of the WOVOdat structure is that it can accept almost all existing types of monitoring data and can accommodate new fields as needed. At most volcanoes, not all fields will be filled but available data can be captured.
In this workshop we will introduce WOVOdat, an open source database which is being developed by and for the volcano monitoring community, as a reference tool during volcanic crisis and for basic research on pre-eruption processes.
This will be a one-day workshop that includes:
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 08:30 – 09:30 | An overview of WOVOdat (database schema and data format) | WOVOdat team |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Tutorial and practice on using WOVOdat: submitting data | WOVOdat team |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Tutorial and practice on using WOVOdat: data query and data visualization tools. | WOVOdat team |
| 12:00 – 13:15 | Lunch break | |
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Intro:
Make use of WOVOdat (application)
Presentation followed by discussion | Chris Newhall |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Development
of volcano monitoring database at PHIVOLCS
Presentation followed by discussion | PHIVOLCS |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Development
of volcano monitoring database at NIED
Presentation followed by discussion | NIED |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Use/application
of WOVOdat in response to volcano crisis (involving Boolean search, alert
level, probabilistic event tree, etc.)
Presentation followed by discussion | John Pallister (VDAP) |
Maximum participants: 40 persons (priority for registrants from WOVO observatories).
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2. WOVO meeting
An evening meeting during COV8 including dinner.
Date of event:
10 September 2014 (18:00-22:00)
Venue:
Gadjah Mada University Club Hotel &
Convention
Jl. Pancasila No. 2 Bulaksumur, Kampus UGM
Yogyakarta - Indonesia
Phone. 0274 563461
Fax. 0274 563461
www.ugmclub.com
Volcano Observatory representatives and other
people with an interest in Volcano Observatory work welcome.
Agenda
1. WOVOdat
update
2. WOVO
website - updates and revitalisation
3. Co-chairs
4. Future
meetings - IUGG, Prague
5. GVM
6. Volcano
Observatory Best Practice workshops
Dinner included from 19:00.
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Yours sincerely,
Colleen Vedder
On behalf of Dr Christina Widiwijayanti
Senior Research Fellow, Volcano Group, Earth Observatory of Singapore
and
Dr Gill Jolly (WOVO co-chair and IAVECI Liaison Committee member)
Volcanologist,
General Manager: Natural Hazards Division, GNS Science, New Zealand.
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Colleen Vedder
Administration Support
GNS Science
TE PU AO
114 Karetoto Road, SH1, Wairakei, Taupo 3377, New Zealand
T +64 7 376 1462
www.gns.cri.nz
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