Asia-Oceania Geologic Society 2015. session: Advances in research and understanding relating to the high-risk volcanoes in the Asia-Oceania region
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the volcanology session:
Advances in research and understanding relating to the high-risk volcanoes in the Asia-Oceania region
at the Asia-Oceania Geological Society meeting in Singapore (2-7 August, 2015)
Abstracts are due 18 February 2015:
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2015/public.asp?page=home.htm
Login to the MARS system and the session will be under the Solid Earth theme.
Convener: Dawn C.S. Ruth (Earth Observatory of Singapore)
Co-Conveners: Eliza Calder (Edinburgh, UK), Caroline Bouvet de Maisonneuve (Earth Observatory of Singapore), Supriyati Andreastuti (CVGHM - Indonesia)
Invited speaker: Hendra Gunawan (CVGHM - Indonesia)
Description
The Asia-Oceania region hosts the largest number of active volcanoes in the world, many of which are considered high-risk because of the close proximity of human populations and infrastructure. In Indonesia and the Philippines alone, ~191 million and 110 million people respectively live within 100 km of a Holocene volcanic system. Given the regions high population density, even minor activity can pose significant threat. Geochemical, geophysical, and basic geologic studies improve our knowledge about volcanic processes, as well as the nature of past and future potential hazards at a given volcano, which, when combined with monitoring campaigns (e.g. seismic, gas, ground deformation), significantly improves our capacity to mitigate risks. While such studies have been well-implemented at a few, but growing number of volcanic systems, there still remain numerous volcanoes that have been less well studied and still pose a significant threat to human populations and infrastructure. The 2010 and 2014 eruptions of Sinabung volcano (Indonesia) whose geologic history is not widely understood, is a timely example of such a case. We welcome scientific contributions highlighting new research on volcanic processes and hazards at high-risk volcanic systems in the broad global region of Asia-Oceania, but especially from those lesser-studied systems. Contributions may include geochemical, geophysical, and interdisciplinary studies, and may be in the form of field-based, experimental, modelling, or a combination of approaches. We especially encourage early-career and graduate students to submit.
Sincerely,
Dawn, Eliza, Caroline, Supriyati
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