News
January, 2013:
PASI Workshop on Applying Computational Models to Real-Case Scenarios for Volcanic Hazard Assessment
Calder, Palma, Charbonnier, Courtland, Bajo, Varley, Sheridan, Martinez-Hackert
A 12-day workshop on applying computational models to real-case scenarios for volcanic hazard assessment was held at the University of Colima, Mexico between 8-21 January 2013. The rationale behind the workshop was to provide instruction on the undertaking of quantitative volcanic hazard assessments and it was therefore designed to advance, and make more rigorous the process by which such assessments are achieved. If successful, such an endeavor would have direct and long-lived benefits to society, in terms of potential reduction of loss to lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and economy. Read the full report and article on the workshop here.
Center for Geohazards Student Research Grant
The UB Center for Geohazards Studies is pleased to announce a research grant opportunity for graduate students to support research in any discipline that is related to natural hazards. Proposals are due 1 March 2013. A maximum of 2 awards will be made, and the total amount of available funding is $2,000.
Please follow the link for the call for proposals:
Student Research Grant Call for Proposals
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November 2012: Read about the latest experiments at the Center for Geohazards online here. You can watch Dr. Valentine performing and discussing his experiments on the Daily Planet (Discover Canada channel) documentary at https://review.bellmedia.ca/view/1189312581.
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October 2012:
Center Director Greg Valentine is the lead author of a new Geology paper which provides a novel model for describing what happens underground when maar-diatremes erupt. You can read the UB press release online here: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/13710, and find the full text of the article online at the Geological Society of America's website.
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August 2012:
Please join us!
The Pegrum Lecture Series presents Dr. Elisabeth Widom, of Miami University: “Timescales and Processes of Magma Evolution in the Azores”
Thursday, September 27th, 2012, 3:30pm refreshments, 3:45pm seminar, 216 Natural Sciences Complex
Read about the Center's latest experiments simulating volcanic eruptions in Ashford, NY! http://www.buffalo.edu/news/13570
and, watch a video of the explosion here.
Other features on the maars eruptions can be read at LiveScience.com, and at msnbc.msn.com!
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July 2012:
Visit http://www.globalvolcanomodel.org to learn about GVM, a growing international network that aims to create a sustainable, accessible information platform on volcanic hazard and risk. GVM will provide systematic evidence, data and analysis of volcanic hazards and risk on global, regional and local scales, and will develop the capability to anticipate future volcanism and its consequences.
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May 2012:
Congratulations to the winners of our Student Research Grant: Jessica Ball, and Solene Pouget!
Scheduled: our upcoming joint conference sponsored by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response (IPLER) and University at Buffalo (UB) Center for Geohazards Studies. Learn more by visiting our Conference Page.
Please join us!
Study on glacial lake outburst floods in the Bhutan Himalayas
a talk given by Professor Kouichi Nishimura
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
sponsored by the Center for GeoHazards Studies
Monday, March 19th, 2012
4 – 5pm
Student Union, Room 145C
University at Buffalo, North Campus
Professor Nishimura has worked as a senior researcher for the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, a research associate for the Institute of Low Temperature Science at Hokkaido University, and an engineer for the Japan Weather Association. In addition, he has served as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, England, and the Sandia Institute in New Mexico. Please visit http://snowscience.sakura.ne.jp/index_e.html to learn more about his work.
Thank you to those of you who submitted proposals for our 2012 Student Research Grant. The recipients will be announced by March 30th, 2012. The submission window is now closed.
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January 2012:
Center for Geohazards Student Research Grant
The UB Center for Geohazards Studies is pleased to announce a research grant opportunity for graduate students to support research in any discipline that is related to natural hazards. Proposals are due 29 February 2012. A maximum of 2 awards will be made, and the total amount of available funding is $2,000.
Please follow the link for the call for proposals:
Student Research Grant Call for Proposals
PEGRUM LECTURE SERIES
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY and CENTER FOR GEOHAZARDS STUDIES
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Presents: John Pallister U.S. Geological Survey, Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, Cascades Volcano Observatory
“Merapi’s “100-year” eruption - forecasting and eruption trigger”
Date: Thursday, February 9th
Time: 3:30 Refreshments, 3:45 Lecture
Place: 228 Natural Sciences Complex
Background:
- The 2010 Merapi eruption was monitored in near-real time with cloud-penetrating commercial satellite radar.
- Remote sensing was used in parallel with seismic and deformation monitoring to forecast eruptions and guide life-saving decisions.
- Satellite radar detected initial explosive cratering and rapid lava dome effusion – observations that aided CVGHM in forecasting the subsequent paroxysmal VEI 4 explosive eruption and issuing warnings.
- Satellite radar imaged changes at summit and pyroclastic deposits; yielded information on extent and volumes of summit crater and pyroclastic deposits.
- Relatively small volumes of juvenile magmatic components in 2010 deposits compared to the high explosivity (VEI 4) of the eruption and the large SO2 emissions (total 1.4 Tg) suggests that the eruption was triggered by rise of a separate gas phase, likely derived from a basaltic intrusion at depth
- Explosive cratering and then collapse of much of the summit dome complex raises important questions about the potential for future explosive eruptions.
The Pegrum Lecture Series was established to honor Reginald H. Pegrum, founder of UB’s Geology Department.
This series is funded in part by the Maurice Crook and Orrin Foster Lecture funds.