Volcanology Research

• VHUB: Cyberinfrastructure for volcanology
  
• Dynamic hazard maps
  
• Long-term volcanic hazard assessment in Japan
  
• Volcanic hazards of Dominica
  
• Modeling pyroclastic density currents
  
• Volcanic hazards of the Yerevan basin, Armenia
  
• Patterns of volcanism on Earth, Mars, Venus
  
• Intrusions of the San Rafael Swell mapped with Lidar
  
• Modeling tephra dispersion
  
• IAVCEI Commission on Statistics in Volcanology
  
• Statistics and Volcanology Online Journal
  

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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!

Congratulations to Jacob Richardson for receiving the Pierazzo International Student Travel Award for his research on "LiDAR Observations of an Earth Magma Plumbing System as an Analog for Venus and Mars Distributed Volcanism" , presented at the European Geophysical Union meeting in Vienna by the Division for Planetary and Solar System Sciences.

Congratulations to Aleeza Harburger on receiving her MS degree in Geology.

Congratulations to PhD student, Jacob Richardson. His recent paper summarizing his work on distribution of Mars volcanoes (Richardson, J. A., Bleacher, J. E. & Glaze, L. S. The volcanic history of Syria Planum Mars. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 252, 1-13 (2013)) was cited in Nature, by the authors of the cover story on Martian supervolcanoes. Nice!

PhD student, Anita Marshall, is a successful recipient of this year's AGU Student Travel Grant Program. She will be presenting a poster at the 2013 Fall American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco in December: "High Resolution Magnetic and Gravity Surveys to Constrain Maar Geometry and Eruption Mechanisms, Rattlesnake Crater, Arizona." Congratulations Anita!

Eruption of Sakurajima volcano from Kagoshima, Japan, during the 2013 IAVCEI meeting (photo by Mel Rodgers). USF faculty, students and former students attending IAVCEI included Sylvain Charbonnier, Mel Rodgers, Aurelie Germa, Rocco Malservisi, Chuck Connor, Steve McNutt, Leah Courtland, Koji Kiyosugi.

Congratulations to Ophelia Georg on receiving a CocoNet Fellowship to continue her work on tectonics and volcanic hazards assessment for Dominica. Ophelia and colleagues from the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre are using geophysical data (seismic, GPS) to improve long-term hazard models.

Congratulations to Mel Rodgers on her post-doctoral appointment at Oxford University (UK). Mel will be working on geophysical time series collected at open-vent volcano systems - a nice follow-on to her doctoral research at USF!

USF volcanologists met with General Jacoby and his Staff in July to discuss US preparedness for disasters, as part of a Natural Hazards Network initiative. General Jacoby runs Northern Command and NORAD.

Congratulations to Jose Armando Saballos on receiving his PhD in volcanology in August, 2013. Armando worked on the geophysics of Concepcion volcano and is now working at INETER, Nicaragua, monitoring active volcanoes.

Rocco Malservisi, Chuck and Laura Connor have started work on the next phase of the TOPAZ project to improve volcanic hazard assessment for potential high-level radioactive waste repositories in Japan, working with an international team from University of Bristol (UK), GNS (New Zealand), INTERA (USA), MCM (Switzerland), In2Earth (Switzerland) and Obayashi Corporation (Japan).

Sylvain Charbonnier is working with an international team (France, Indonesia, UK) on assessing volcanic hazards at Merapi volcano, as a follow on to the 2010 eruption.

Congratulations to Leah Courtland on her NSF funded post-doc at Georgia Tech to study physical processes of ash aggregation with Joe Dufek. Leah received her PhD in Spring 2013 and has done great work on the VHub cyberinfrastructure project.