[iris-bulk] Special Session at SSA09 - Volcano Monitoring

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Dear colleagues:

We would like to draw your attention to a special volcano monitoring  
session being convened at the 2009 Seismological Society of America  
annual meeting. The meeting will be held 8-10 April, at the Portola  
Hotel & Spa in Monterey, California. Please note the abstract  
submission deadline is 11 January.

You can visit the meeting website
http://www.seismosoc.org/meetings/2009/index.php for more details.

Our session announcement is outlined below. We hope you'll consider  
contributing to the session and joining us in Monterey!

Best regards,
Charlotte Rowe
Seth Moran

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Volcano Monitoring Using Seismology and Complementary Methods

The field of volcano seismology increasingly faces a dual challenge.  
On the one hand, volcano observatories are increasingly using data  
from multiple monitoring fields (seismology, geodesy, gas  
geochemistry, remote sensing, hydrology, and others), often collected  
in real time, to achieve a broader understanding and reduce  
uncertainty in the interpretation of precursory and eruptive  
phenomena. To take full advantage of such datasets, new analytical  
programs, graphical user interfaces, and databases are needed for  
integrating, displaying, and modeling such multiparametric and large  
datasets. On the other hand, it is still the case that the majority of  
volcanoes around the world are monitored by just a handful of  
seismometers. Thus it is also paramount that progress be made in  
analyzing and modeling such instrument-poor datasets. We invite  
contributions on any aspect of volcano monitoring, but encourage those  
that focus either on analyzing multi-parametric datasets or on  
squeezing as much information as possible from limited monitoring  
datasets. We especially encourage presentations regarding monitoring  
and hazard assessment/mitigation at North American volcanoes; however,  
contributions from other regions are also welcome.

Conveners

    * Seth Moran <smoran [at] usgs [dot] gov>
    * Charlotte Rowe <char [at] lanl [dot] gov>

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