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Natural Hazards Tephra Fallout Lab
04 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials
This lab walks students through using the tephra2 education graphical user interface (gui) to investigate tephra fallout at Colima volcano. By the end of this lab, students should be able to:•understand that every volcanic event is different and so produces a unique deposit•convert from units of...
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1st IAVCEI/GVM Workshop: "From Volcanic Hazard to Risk Assessment", Geneva, 27-29 June 2018
18 Dec 2018 | Workshops
The complexity of volcanic risk analysis typically resides in the interaction of multiple hazard, vulnerability and exposure aspects dynamically acting over various spatial and temporal scales. Risk analyses provide an evidence-based approach to development and implementation of proactive...
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A Matlab implementation of the Carey and Sparks (1986) model
04 Nov 2015 | Offline Tools
Download the code on GitHub: https://github.com/e5k/CareySparks86_MatlabFollow updates on: https://e5k.github.io/ This file is a Matlab implementation of the Carey and Sparks (1986) model to estimate i) the plume height above sampling altitude and ii) the wind speed at the...
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A new method to identify the vent location of tephra fall deposits based on thickness or maximum clast size measurements (SVL)
17 Apr 2018 | Offline Tools
This tool presents a new method to identify the vent location of tephra fall deposits based on thickness or maximum clast size measurements. It is temporarily named "svl", which is short for Source Vent Locator. The method estimates the vent location by coupling semi-empirical models...
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AGU Poster: Results of the Tephra 2014 Workshop on Maximizing the Potential of Tephra for Multidisciplinary Science
11 Dec 2014 | Publications
Poster presentation from the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting reporting on results and conclusions of the Tephra 2014 workshop
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Announcement: Coupling Uncertain Geophysical Hazards Workshop
30 Nov 2018 | Miscellaneous
Coupling Uncertain Geophysical Hazards WorkshopMarch 24-26, 2019James B. Hunt Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCDescription: Scientists are beginning to understand the propagation of uncertainty through mathematical models, to enable predictions of the likely...
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BET_VH presentation at VHUB workshop, 25th July 2013, Kagoshima, Japan
30 Jul 2013 | Workshops
This is the material used to introduce the BET_VH online tool and to carry out a step-by-step exercise for setting and performing a full Probalistic Volcanic Hazard Assessment (PVHA). The tool and the exercise have been presented during the vhub workshop held the 25th July 2013 in Kagoshima,...
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ECMapProb
18 Jul 2019 | Tools
Probability map of PDC by using a modifed approach of the energy cone model and topographic information derived from the SRTM 30 m elevation model.
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eject model
25 Jan 2021 | Offline Tools
Eject is a user-friendly model that calculates the trajectories of blocks that are ballistically ejected from volcanic craters. It has also been used to calculate ballistic trajectories of other objects in other other settings, including missiles and bullets.Details are at:The attached zip...
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Eyjafjallajökull, volcanic clouds and aviation - one year on
25 Jan 2021 | Workshops
A workshop at the 2011 IUGG General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia, lead by Andrew Tupper (Australian Bureau of Meteorology), Fred Prata (Norwegian Institute for Air Research), and Arnau Folch (Barcelona Supercomputing Center).The Eyjafjallajokull eruption, resulting in ground and air...
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INQUA–INTAV International Field Conference and Workshop: Crossing New Frontiers
14 Mar 2018 | Workshops
The INQUA International Focus Group on Tephrochronology and Volcanism (INTAV) cordially invites you to participate in the Crossing New Frontiers - Tephra Hunt in Transylvania international field conference that aims to continue the long tradition of very successful inter-INQUA congress tephra...
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INQUA–INTAV International Field Conference and Workshop: Crossing New Frontiers
14 Mar 2018 | Workshops
The INQUA International Focus Group on Tephrochronology and Volcanism (INTAV) cordially invites you to participate in the Crossing New Frontiers - Tephra Hunt in Transylvania international field conference that aims to continue the long tradition of very successful inter-INQUA congress tephra...
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Maar-diatremes - a course module
25 Jan 2021 | Educational Materials
Maar-diatremes are one of the most common volcanic landforms on Earth, and represent an end-member type of volcano whose eruptions are dominated by explosive, subsurface magma-water interaction. Thus they should form an important component of volcanology courses. The recent decade has...
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MAMMA (Magma Ascent Mathematical Modeling and Analysis)
25 Jan 2021 | Tools
1D-steady state model for volcanic conduits
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Mapping a 49 year old eruption of a basaltic cone: Pacaya Guatemala
25 Jan 2021 | Presentations
This presentation summarizes the 50 year eruption and the 3 dimensional map produced. The map, prepared as part of an MS thesis by Ruben Otoniel Matias Gomez, is under review as a Map and Chart Series publication by the GSA. The lecture summarizes the situation at Pacaya, and uses Matias' map as...
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Mono-Inyo Tephra Database
01 Aug 2017 | Data Sets/Collections
The Mono-Inyo Craters is a zone of active volcanism in California, USA, that extends from Mammoth Mountain and Long Valley caldera in the south to the islands of Mono Lake in the north. This resource provides the citation for the Mono-Inyo tephra database. The database can...
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Multi-parameter monitoring overview: Eliza Calder (Lecture 1)
30 Jun 2011 | Presentations
This is the Introduction and first lecture in a series of 7 lectures given as part of the workshop "Ground-based and remote sensing of volcanic unrest" (IUGG 2011)Organized by Jeffrey Johnson & Eliza CalderThe workshop involved seven talks focused on fundamental tools used for monitoring...
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PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America
11 Jan 2011 | Workshops
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/PASI2011The Open Vent Volcanoes PASI in Costa Rica gathered 60 scientists from 13 countries to build scientific networking in the transdisciplinary field of volcanology in January 2011. The accelerating application of field measurements and remote sensing to...
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PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America
11 Jan 2011 | Workshops
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/PASI2011The Open Vent Volcanoes PASI in Costa Rica gathered 60 scientists from 13 countries to build scientific networking in the transdisciplinary field of volcanology in January 2011. The accelerating application of field measurements and remote sensing to...
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puffin
25 Jan 2021 | Tools
puffin = a tool to run the volcanic ash dispersal model -- puff -- based on the plume trajectory model -- bent.