Volcanic Hazard

21 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s): Michael Sheridan, Jorge Valentin Bajo

This is the introductory volcanology course lectures taught at UB in the 1990 to 2006 by MF Sheridan.LecturesVolcanic Hazards .pdfApplication of Titan2D .pdfCasita Disaster 1988 .pdfEvaluating Hazards for People and Property Located Near Active Volcanoes .pdfManagaing Volcanic Hazards in Latin...

Eyjafjallajökull, volcanic clouds and aviation - one year on

05 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s): Simon Carn

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...

Volcano Monitoring Workshops II : IUGG 2011

16 Jul 2011 | Contributor(s): Eliza S Calder

Organized by Jeffrey Johnson & Eliza CalderWorkshop Title: Ground-Based and Remote Sensing of Volcanic UnrestThe workshop involved seven talks focused on fundamental tools used for monitoring and scientific investigation of active volcanic systems. Lectures emphasized emerging technologies,...

GVP Frequently Asked Questions

30 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Ed Venzke

http://www.volcano.si.edu/education/questions/What is a volcano?What is an eruption?How many active volcanoes are there in the world?What is the world's highest volcano?How long does an eruption last?Has volcanic activity been increasing?Why doesn't the Smithsonian post hazard alert levels for...

Gigapan of Santa Ana Volcano

30 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Bettina Martinez-Hackert, Elisabeth Gallant

This is a gigapan image of the crater. gigapan Dr. Bettina Martinez-Hackert, Krista Ventura

Stromboli online

29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Roberto Carniel

Stromboli online - Volcanoes of the World http://stromboli.net The primary goal of Stromboli online website is to enrich and stimulate the teaching of Earth Sciences by presenting images, movies, data, virtual field trips and other educational material in relation to volcanoes.Although there is...

Remote Sensing of Volcanic Gas Emissions

29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Simon Carn

This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: Simon Carn

New Techniques and Technologies for Remote Sensing of Volcanic Ash and SO2 Gas

29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: Fred PrataFred Prata

Observing volcanic clouds

29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose

This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: William I. Rose

Titan2D Viewer

26 Jun 2011 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

A viewer of the simulation results saved by Titan2D

Tutorial for using Titan2D on VHub

25 Jun 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Sylvain Charbonnier

During this tutorial, we will go through a stock example and (1) learn how to enter the different input parameters for running a Titan2D simulation on Vhub, (2) run the simulation and (3) visualize the results using the freely available Paraview software.

DEM converter for Titan2D

15 Apr 2011 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

Convert a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) in ASCII format to a Titan2D readable format

OMIplot

13 May 2011 | Offline Tools | Contributor(s): Simon Carn

OMIplot is a software package that can be used to ingest, visualize and analyze sulfur dioxide (SO2) data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) aboard NASA's Aura satellite. The OMI SO2 measurements can be used to track drifting volcanic eruption clouds and study volcanic degassing. OMI...

More Volcanic Ash Remote Sensing

27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose

Environmental aspects of volcanic clouds as investigated by remote sensing tools. Ice in volcanic clouds. Separation of ash and SO2 in volcanic clouds.Rose, W. I., D. J. Delene, D. J. Schneider, G. J. S. Bluth, A. J. Krueger, I. Sprod, C. McKee, H. L. Davies and G. G. J. Ernst, 1995, Ice in the...

Natural Hazards Tephra Fallout Lab

04 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Leah Michelle Courtland

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...

Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers

02 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Jennifer Nicole Adleman

USGS GIP 99 Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/99/ Alaska's volcanoes, like its abundant glaciers, charismatic wildlife, and wild expanses inspire and ignite scientific curiosity and generate an ever-growing source of questions for students in Alaska and throughout...

Bubbles in Magmas

22 Feb 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Chuck B Connor, Leah Michelle Courtland

Chuck ConnorPeter LaFeminaC. Connor, P. LaFemina, Spreadsheets across the Curriculum: The Physical Volcanology Collection.

Titan2d user manual (spanish)

28 Jan 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Michael Sheridan

This is a translation of the Titan2D user manual by Teresita del Pilar Argoty.

AshFall: A graduate course in volcanology with substantial meteorological content

26 Jan 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): William I Rose

Michigan Tech's AshFall course by William I. Rose.This series of lectures was put together in 2009 as the lecture part of a graduate level course which students did some evaluations of ashfall models, comparing their results with actual ashfall deposits, including the Grain size distributions...

TITAN2D References

22 Jan 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Sarah Elizabeth Ogburn

Contains a list of references about TITAN2D, specifically a list of volcanoes and types of flows for which it has been used.