2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 From: "Kuhn, Sally" <KUHNS@xxxxxx> Dear colleagues, Break out the cake and ice cream! This week marks 20 years since the first Weekly Volcanic Activity Report (WVAR) was released to the public. It is a milestone worth celebrating, so we have a few fun announcements. The main WVAR page has a new look. Please visit the page and check it out ( https://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm). The WVAR is the product of a partnership between the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. It was started in 2000 to meet increasing expectations on both agencies to provide the public with more timely information about volcanic eruptions. Gari Mayberry produced the reports from the beginning until mid-2006, when she passed the torch to me, and I have been writing them since. To date there have been 16,098 individual reports written over 1,035 weeks on 305 different volcanoes, an average of 16 per week! These numbers change each week, reflecting the current weekâ??s count, and can now be found under the *archive* *tab*. Additionally, I want to draw your attention to a special page on the GVP website celebrating the anniversary (https://volcano.si.edu/projects/wvar20/). There is a short-ish reflective narrative about the WVAR followed by my top 50 eruption picks. These are a few of the many notable events over the past few decades! Finally, the WVAR would not be possible without the critical and trusted volcanic activity reporting by the worldâ??s observatories. Their authoritative data, along with valuable information issued by emergency management and civil protection agencies, the worldwide VAACs, meteorological agencies, and other key partners and observers make my job possible. Thank you. Have a wonderful day! -Sally Sennert 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 ============================================================== Volcano Listserv is a collaborative venture among Arizona State University (ASU), Portland State University (PSU), the Global Volcanism Program (GVP) of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). ASU - http://www.asu.edu/ PSU - http://pdx.edu/ GVP - http://www.volcano.si.edu/ IAVCEI - https://www.iavceivolcano.org/ To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxx. To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxx. Please do not send attachments. ============================================================== ------------------------------ End of Volcano Digest - 4 Nov 2020 to 6 Nov 2020 (#2020-107) ************************************************************
