Statement of the chair of the electoral committee (Prof. S. Nakada)

As the chair of the nominating committee, I ensured that the voting process was undertaken properly in according with the current IAVCEI rules (Statutes 35 and 40).

Setsuya Nakada
Date: 2 May 2019

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

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2019 Annual Workshop of the IASPEI/IAVCEI

Inter-Association Commission on Volcano Seismology and Acoustics co-sponsored by the European Seismological Commission (ESC) - Working Group on Volcano Seismology

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The workshop will be held in

Garachico, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain) from 27 September to 3 October, 2019

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Up-dated information regarding registration and accommodation is now
available on our website

http://see.leeds.ac.uk/esc_wg/Wshop/work2019.htm

We encourage participants from the volcano-seismology and acoustic community and other disciplines to join us in Tenerife. This year, we will focus on

*"Automated  detection, identification and classification of volcanic signals"*

however, we will also discuss the wider volcanological context, hence all volcanologists with an interdisciplinary interest are most welcome.

This will be also the kick-off meeting of a new initiative of the IAVCEI/IASPEI Commission, led by Corentin Caudron (France), Benoit Taisne (Singapore) and Jurgen Neuberg (UK), to investigate new ways to process volcanic monitoring signals in an automated way, employing concepts of machine learning.

Looking forward to seeing you in Garachico,

The convenors:
Maria José Blanco Sanchez, Instituto Geográfico Nacional,Tenerife
Stavros Meletlidis, Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Tenerife
Roberto Carniel, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Jurgen Neuberg, Leeds University, Leeds, UK

On the occasion of the tragic events that happened at Whakaari / White Island volcano on the 9th of December 2019, IAVCEI, the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, wishes to express its deep condolences to the families of the victims, as well as its professional support to New Zealand colleagues.

The IAVCEI Executive Committee

Do you identify as a volcano scientist working in a resource-limited context? If so, we would kindly like to invite you to take part in our online survey which can be accessed: 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IAVCEI-NETWORK-DNN

Feedback from this survey will channel directly into the establishment and the functioning of a new community-driven network that is being formed under IAVCEI, and which has the aim to facilitate and enhance the active integration of volcano scientists working in resource-constrained contexts (i.e. mainly within Low- to Middle- Income Countries) into the global volcanological community. The facilitation of respectful partnerships between scientists in different countries will promote both the creation and sharing of information, knowledge and tools in a sustainable way to bridge the gap in these data-sparse regions.

We would like to hear from as many volcano scientists worldwide as possible, including academic researchers, operational staff at volcano observatories or geoscience institutes, risk managers, staff at mapping agencies, etc. Therefore, please do forward the link to the survey within your networks. The survey will remain open until 17th May 2019.

For more information regarding the proposed network or questions related to the survey, please contact:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. & This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The IAVCEI Local Organising Committee has decided to extend the following two deadlines until 15th November:


*1. Call for Proposals for Scientific Sessions*
https://confer.eventsair.com/iavcei2021/call-for-sessions

*2. Call for Pre- and Post-Meeting Workshop Proposals*
https://confer.eventsair.com/iavcei2021/workshops


*IAVCEI 2021 Scientific Assembly*

*15–19 FEBRUARY 2021, ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND*
http://www.iavcei2021.org

At the 27th IUGG General Assembly in July 2019 in Montréal, Canada, IAVCEI celebrated its centenary and one hundred years of scientific advances in Volcanology during a full-day symposium on July 12. The invited presenters have agreed to share their excellent presentations with the wider community (see links within the article).

ONE CENTURY OF VOLCANOLOGY

LESSONS FROM SOME EMBLEMATIC SYSTEMS

VOLCANIC HAZARDS AND RISKS

Have a browse through these presentations by clicking on Read More. 

Dear Colleagues,

we are glad to publish the first circular of the Cities on Volcanoes 11 Conference, which will be held at Heraklion (Creete) from 23 to 27 of May 2020.

Please, click on the thumbnail to download the circular.

UPDATE: Deadline of the Call of Sessions has been moved to July 20, 2019.

Dear IAVCEI Colleagues,

I gently remind you that elections for positions in the IAVCEI executive committee are open now.

You received an email with login details allowing you to vote on April 1. In case you have not received it, please contact our secretary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
 
Voting will close on April 30, 2019.
 
Details of all candidates are available here.
 
Please do participate in these elections, a strong turnout will maximise the mandate for the Executive Committee going forward.

With kind regards,
 
Roberto Sulpizio
IAVCEI SG

To commemorate IAVCEI’s Centenary, NASA have produced a short video clip showing 100 significant eruptions of the last 100 years. 

Major eruptions 1919-2019: Celebrating 100 years of IAVCEI

A NASA-IAVCEI collaboration

To mark the occasion of our 100th birthday at the recent IUGG conference in Montreal, IAVCEI launched a new, fresh logo!

Earlier this year we put out a call for you to come up with your best designs, and we thank everyone who submitted a logo design.

There were some great entries! We put the finalists to the vote in June, and received 647 votes after removal of duplicates from the same email address.

We are happy to announce that the winning logo won by a large margin, receiving 43% of the total votes!  

The new IAVCEI logo was jointly designed by Mai Sas and Robert Dennen, who will each receive a four year membership of IAVCEI and waived registration fees at the next IAVCEI conference of their choice.  

Please use this logo moving forward!

Download available by clicking "Read more"

Report from the Nominating Committee

• Call for nominations to the IAVCEI EC for the 2019-2023 term was announced on 27 November 2018 in the IAVCEI web site and was sent to all members. All nominations were submitted by the deadline of 15 January 2019.
• All positions, except ordinary committee members, have one more candidates than the number of seats; so that the Nominating Committee was not necessary to select candidates before voting (Statutes #38).
• Two candidates are from France, Japan and NZ, respectively. This fulfills “no more than two” from the same country in the Statutes #17 and 39.
• Candidates for the President are from the member countries of IUGG (Statutes #28).
• All candidates were nominated and seconded by members from three countries different from the candidate’s country, except for one candidate for the ordinary members (Statutes #30).
• One current ordinary Executive Committee member (3-rd candidate in the following list) was nominated again as the candidate of the extra (second)-term member, which is allowed in the Statutes #16.
• Seconders of the 4-th candidate for the ordinary member were not paid members when nominated and could not fulfill the membership until the early February 2019 (Statutes #26 and 27). The result was reported to the current Secretary General and President, and the current Executive Committee decided to second the 4-th candidate (Statutes #31).

Dear Colleagues,

we are glad to publish the first circular of the Cities on Volcanoes 11 Conference, which will be held at Keraklion (Creete) from 23 to 27 of May 2020.

Please, click on the thumbnail to download the circular.

UPDATE: Deadline of the Call of Sessions has been moved to July 20, 2019.

 Key deadlines: 

• 31 October 2019 5pm GMT - Deadline for Nominations, stating your intention to develop a proposal to host CoV12 in 2022. 
• 28 November 2019 5pm GMT - Deadline for written Proposals for hosting COV12 in 2022. 

Nominations and Proposals are to be emailed to the 'Commission Leader' at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and cc. to ‘Acting Secretary’ at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please make sure that you have received an acknowledgement email for your Nomination and of your later written Proposal. 

Background: To date there have been ten “Cities on Volcanoes” (COV) conferences, with COV11 scheduled for May 2020. The purpose of these meetings is to bring together volcanologists, civil authorities, sociologists, psychologists, emergency managers, economists and city planners to enhance volcanic crises preparedness and management in cities and densely populated areas.