VOLCANO: Final Announcement - Volcano Hazards Field-Scale Experiment Workshop, Buffalo, NY, 24-27 July 2018

[Sean Peters <speter24@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Valentine, Gregory" <gav4@xxxxxxxxxxx> 

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Subject:  Final Announcement - Volcano Hazards Field-Scale Experiment Workshop, Buffalo, NY, 24-27 July 2018

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences recent report (Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing, www.nap.edu/24650) highlighted the need to develop community-driven,  multidisciplinary experiments on volcano processes.   In response to this, an open workshop will be held on 24-27 July 2018, at the University at Buffalo's Geohazards Field Station.  The workshop will include a day of experiments related to explosive eruptions.  There will be four experiments, each with carefully timed and spaced sequences of buried chemical explosives, generating blast waves, seismic waves, debris-laden jets and plumes, small-scale density currents, and resulting craters and ejecta deposits. Participants are encouraged to participate in data collection using any approach.  This could include, for example:  high-speed video, acoustic sensors, seismic sensors, thermal infrared video, Doppler radar, ejecta and fallout sampling, and photogrammetry to establish quantitative morphology of explosion products. 

 

Preliminary schedule for the workshop:

 

· Day 1 – afternoon presentations and discussions by participants on data collection techniques to be deployed and potential integration of the techniques.

· Day 2 – setup at the field station.

· Day 3 – four experiments

· Day 4 – data archiving for shared access, working session where participants present and discuss data from the experiments and future directions for multidisciplinary experimentation, and begin development of a report on the workshop.

 

Participation is open to any interested researcher.  There is no registration fee, however, registration is required (http://geohazards.buffalo.edu/conferences-and-workshops/).  REGISTRATION DEADLINE - 23 MAY 2018.  Limited funds are available to offset travel expenses for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers (Please indicate whether you are requesting funds when you register; a more detailed request for information will be provided to requesters at a later date.).  The hosts will provide information so that participants can make their own travel and lodging arrangements.

 

Hosts:  Greg Valentine, Ingo Sonder, Andrew Harp (University at Buffalo)

 

Scientific Committee:

Ben Andrews (Smithsonian Institution)

Costanza Bonadonna (Université de Genève)

Joe Dufek (Georgia Tech)

Breg Waite (Michigan Technological University)

 

This workshop is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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