USF Volcano Group at Fuji Volcano, Japan 2013
Servicing a seicmic station, Azufre Volcano, Chile 2012
Ararat volcano viewed from Aragats volcano, Armenia
Eruption of Chaiten Volcano, Chile 2009
Local transport across a volcanic ash-laden mountain lake, Chile 2009
Summit dome of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia 2006
East Cedar Mountain, San Rafael Swell, Utah 2010
Collecting volcanic ash samples, Chile 2009
Volcanic ash erosion, Chile 2009
Lava flow entering the Ocean, Hawaii
Traversing a pyroclastic flow, Reventador Volcano, Ecuador 2006
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USF ran its second volcano mapping field camp this year in Idaho. The two-week odyssey for undergraduates included mapping, volcano stratigraphy, and computer modeling of volcanic hazards, taught by Chuck Connor, Laura Connor and Sylvain Charbonnier. We are doing it again in June, 2017! The new International Atomic Energy Agency report on methods for assessment of volcanic hazards to nuclear facilities has been published in Vienna, Austria, ( IAEA-TECDOC-1795 IAEA TECDOC SERIES, TE1795web.pdf). The IAEA report was written by an international team of volcanologists, and was contributed to by Sylvain Charbonnier, Leah Courtland, Laura Connor,Chuck Connor, and Steve McNutt. USF volcanology is contributing to a new National Academy of Sciences panel on the state of volcano science in the US. Chuck Connor is working on the report, and Steve McNutt is liaison to the committee from the NAS crustal geodynamics group. USF has received a new NASA PSTAR award to characterize the geophysics of lava tubes, which might serve as human habitats on distant planets, like Mars. Sarah Kruse is leading the USF work, and coordinating with colleagues at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. ------------------------------------------- 2015 ---------------------------------------------- The USF volcano team is working at Momotombo volcano, Nicaragua, which erupted over 400 times between December and April, 2015. The project is a collaboration between USF, Penn State, and Carnegie Mellon. Congratulations to Lis Gallant for winning an outstanding student paper award at the Fall AGU meeting! Her paper is about lava flow inundation hazards at the Idaho National Lab. Hot stuff! ------------------------------------------- 2014 ---------------------------------------------- REUTERS: ‘Ring of Fire’ volcano risk, the last obstacle for Japan nuclear plants - USF volcanologists, weigh in on the risks to nuclear power plants in Japan from caldera-forming eruptions. Read the news article!
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