Convenors

Jesús Ibañez Godoy   University of Granada   Granada, Spain   Email: jibanez@ugr.es Salvatore Gianmanco   INGV   Italy   Email: giammanco@ct.ingv.it Naoyuki Fujii   Shizuoka University   Japan   Email: snfujii@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp

Description

Volcano observation and monitoring is the most useful tool that scientific community has to understand and model volcanic processes. These observations could provide information on the nature and magma characteristics, the rate of the magma involved and ascent from the source area, information of the fractionation processes in the magma evolution, or magma accumulation and transport, and all together permit to estimate its evolution and short time forecast. Results provided from modern observation strategies could be used as early warning alerts in volcanic processes, including potential eruptions. At the present there are many examples where volcano monitoring has produced success alerts, reducing the damages and preparing authorities for the incoming event. In this session will discuss about the recent developments and applications of seismology, geodesy and geochemistry to volcano observation and monitoring.