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We are pleased to invite you to submit a contribution to the following session of Symposium 1 at the next "Cities of Volcanoes 10" held in Naples (Italy) from 2 to 7 September 2018:
S1.30 Environmental and societal impacts of past volcanic eruptions: integrating the geosciences with the historical, anthropological, and archaeological sciences
This session is endorsed by the PAGES working group VICS – Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (http://www.pastglobalchanges.org/ini/wg/vics/intro )
Volcanic eruptions and their downstream environmental impacts are major hazards for societies in the immediate vicinity of a given volcano as well as to those further removed. Eruptions occur along a time continuum, intersecting geology, history, anthropology, and archaeology, and are often recorded in more than one medium. Although researchers from each discipline often work in isolation, integrating data between sciences can provide an exceptionally rich and detailed record of volcanic activity. Yet, comparing the timing and magnitude of volcanic eruptions to climate variability and societal events, and inferring underlying direct or indirect causal relationships, is important, given uncertainties in observations, paleoclimate estimates, and model simulations. For example, an eruption may impact a society such that it is recorded in oral traditions, but is only accessible with specific cultural and linguistic skills. Many cultures also have extensive written records, but these documents are sometimes physically fragile, not in centralized locations, and require specialized knowledge to read and interpret. In many regions, pre-colonial trade networks and complex colonial histories caused documents recording eruptions to be dispersed, sequestered, and forgotten in archives far from the volcano. Deposits apparent in the geological (palaeoenvironmental) and archaeological (palaeosocietal) records can provide insight into an eruption’s impacted area and dynamics; evidence for an eruption’s societal impact is sometimes present in these archaeological and anthropological records also. Each data source records unique aspects and details of an eruption. Combining methods from multiple disciplines provides a more detailed understanding of the number, timing, circumstances, and impact of eruptions. Multidisciplinary methods are critical in regions lacking eruption chronologies, but can also yield important insights at volcanoes with highly constrained eruption histories. At any volcano, such information is fundamental to appropriately assessing its hazards. This session aims to present stateof-the-art results on volcanic impacts on climate and society, using ice-core, geological, historical and archaeological records of volcanic eruptions and their climatic and societal impacts at various spatial and temporal scales. We welcome presentations on multidisciplinary research combining geological, historical, anthropological, archaeological, or other methods to understand an eruption, a volcano’s eruption history, or the societal impact of such events. We hope to discover and discuss new results on the history, archaeology and anthropology of direct or indirect climatically mediated consequences on past human societies.
Convened by:
Felix Riede, Aarhus University, Denmark
Christopher Harpel, US Geological Survey-USAID Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, USA
Celine Vidal, Cambridge University, UK
Francis Ludlow, Trinity College, Eire
Martin Bauch, Leipzig University, Germany
Karen Fontijn, University of Oxford, UK
The deadline for the abstract submission is May 10, 2018.
We look forward to seeing you in Naples!
The conveners
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From: "Céline Vidal" <cv325@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: COV10: Call for abstracts Environmental and societal impacts of past volcanic eruptions
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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit a contribution to the following session of Symposium 1 at the next "Cities of Volcanoes 10" held in Naples (Italy) from 2 to 7 September 2018:
S1.30 Environmental and societal impacts of past volcanic eruptions: integrating the geosciences with the historical, anthropological, and archaeological sciences
This session is endorsed by the PAGES working group VICS – Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (http://www.pastglobalchanges.
Volcanic eruptions and their downstream environmental impacts are major hazards for societies in the immediate vicinity of a given volcano as well as to those further removed. Eruptions occur along a time continuum, intersecting geology, history, anthropology, and archaeology, and are often recorded in more than one medium. Although researchers from each discipline often work in isolation, integrating data between sciences can provide an exceptionally rich and detailed record of volcanic activity. Yet, comparing the timing and magnitude of volcanic eruptions to climate variability and societal events, and inferring underlying direct or indirect causal relationships, is important, given uncertainties in observations, paleoclimate estimates, and model simulations. For example, an eruption may impact a society such that it is recorded in oral traditions, but is only accessible with specific cultural and linguistic skills. Many cultures also have extensive written records, but these documents are sometimes physically fragile, not in centralized locations, and require specialized knowledge to read and interpret. In many regions, pre-colonial trade networks and complex colonial histories caused documents recording eruptions to be dispersed, sequestered, and forgotten in archives far from the volcano. Deposits apparent in the geological (palaeoenvironmental) and archaeological (palaeosocietal) records can provide insight into an eruption’s impacted area and dynamics; evidence for an eruption’s societal impact is sometimes present in these archaeological and anthropological records also. Each data source records unique aspects and details of an eruption. Combining methods from multiple disciplines provides a more detailed understanding of the number, timing, circumstances, and impact of eruptions. Multidisciplinary methods are critical in regions lacking eruption chronologies, but can also yield important insights at volcanoes with highly constrained eruption histories. At any volcano, such information is fundamental to appropriately assessing its hazards. This session aims to present stateof-the-art results on volcanic impacts on climate and society, using ice-core, geological, historical and archaeological records of volcanic eruptions and their climatic and societal impacts at various spatial and temporal scales. We welcome presentations on multidisciplinary research combining geological, historical, anthropological, archaeological, or other methods to understand an eruption, a volcano’s eruption history, or the societal impact of such events. We hope to discover and discuss new results on the history, archaeology and anthropology of direct or indirect climatically mediated consequences on past human societies.
Convened by:
Felix Riede, Aarhus University, Denmark
Christopher Harpel, US Geological Survey-USAID Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, USA
Celine Vidal, Cambridge University, UK
Francis Ludlow, Trinity College, Eire
Martin Bauch, Leipzig University, Germany
Karen Fontijn, University of Oxford, UK
The deadline for the abstract submission is May 10, 2018.
We look forward to seeing you in Naples!
The conveners
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