5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 From: Geoffrey Lerner <galerner@xxxxxxx> Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to participate in our session *"**Advancing equity and diversity for a more inclusive future in volcanology"* at the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland (29 June - 4 July 2025). This session is part of Theme 7: Communication in volcanology. We are excited for a wide range of presentations that fall within the following description: *The global nature of volcanic hazard and risk means that volcanoes both affect, and are studied by, an extremely diverse range of people around the world. Representing these diverse experiences and perspectives in our research is necessary to effectively tackle the grand challenges of volcanology. Therefore, consideration of issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential for our field to build a collaborative community for conducting research, as well as when developing studies and considering the impacts of our research on people who live in volcanic areas. In this session we solicit studies that discuss topics related to DEI in volcanology. This includes studies that consider DEI directly within the makeup of the volcanological community, volcanic research that incorporates DEI into its methodology, educational approaches that address recruitment and retention of volcanologists from historically underserved groups, and efforts to promote DEI within our field.* For those interested, please submit your abstracts here by by 20 December 2024: https://on-line-form.eu/iavcei2025sa/abstracts/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://on-line-form.eu/iavcei2025sa/abstracts/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!bvE6CXCLSz2l875S1VcgKaAn2u5GMGXxzJ2IA39L5yuKTAcbjUX49sOXbfTXLID-U3f76kNP7VqRdPos22pQ8kyizA$> Hope to see many of you there! Geoff Lerner (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore) Thystere Bantidi (Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction, Tokyo, Japan) Jamie Farquharson (Niigata University, Niigata, Japan) Lis Gallant (University of Hawaiâ??i at Hilo, Hilo, United States) Janine Kavanagh (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom) 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 ------------------------------
