Call for nomination for the IAVCEI "Volcano Surveillance and Crisis Response Award"

Inaugural call for nominations for the IAVCEI

Volcano Surveillance and Crisis Response Award

All IAVCEI members are invited to submit nominations for the IAVCEI Volcano Surveillance and Crisis Response Award, which will be presented at the Cities on Volcanoes meeting in Naples in September 2018.

Nominations may be made on behalf of an individual, individuals, or an observatory team, that has/have demonstrated exemplary service to the development of observatory-based volcanology and/or response to volcanic crises.

Nominations (instructions available on the IAVCEI website at this URL) should be submitted to Prof. D. B. Dingwell (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), IAVCEI President and Chair of the IAVCEI Awards Committee by May 15 2018.

VII International Workshop on Collapse Calderas

Toba Caldera, Sumatra, Indonesia

From 21st to 27th September 2018

The workshop, like previous meetings, will be a venue to discuss many different aspects of calderas, their physical setting, associated magmatic processes, eruption dynamics, impacts of eruptions, hazards associated with caldera volcanism and their mitigation. Taking advantage of Toba’s unique record, resurgence will be a major theme. The workshop will consists of 3 full days of presentations and discussion, and 2.5 full days of field-based discussions.

Call for nominations for hosting Cities on Volcanoes 11 Conference in 2020

*Please note the deadline for nominations has been extended to 24 May*

Key deadlines:

24 May 2018 5pm GMT - Deadline for nominations for hosting CoV11 in 2020
6 July 2018 5pm GMT - Deadline for written proposals for hosting CoV11 in 2020
To have a proposal considered, a nomination must have been received by 4 May 2018 
Proposals are to be emailed to the 'Commission Leader' at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and Cc'd. to the ‘Secretary’ at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please make sure you have received an acknowledgement email of your nomination and of your later proposal.