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The Executive Committee of IAVCEI expresses its total support to the organisers of the 1st ALVO congress in their decision to postpone the meeting, originally scheduled on November 3-8, 2019 in Antofagasta, Chile. We fully understand the difficult circumstances they face in taking such a decision. The IAVCEI EC expresses his best wishes for a prompt restoration of peace and social equity in Chile.

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8th International Maar Conference

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 24-30 August 2020

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth´s Interior (IAVCEI) I am pleased to invite you to the 8th International Maar Conference (8IMC), which will be held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian Federation, on 24-30 August, 2020.

The 8IMC is a multidisciplinary congress on maar volcanoes, crater-lakes, and monogenetic volcanism.

We hope you will consider presenting the results of your research in the next IMC.

Best regards,

Alexei Ozerov, chair of the 8IMC.

Click on Read More to download the 2nd circular and to Subscribe to the Conference

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IAVCEI members are invited to submit nominations for the 2020 IAVCEI Volcano Surveillance and Crisis Response Award, which will be delivered at the Cities on Volcanoes COV11 meeting in Heraklion (Creta) in May 2020.

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.

Motivations and instructions are available on the IAVCEI website at URL: https://www.iavceivolcano.org/iavcei-awards/volcano-surveillance-and-crisis-management-award.html. Nominations should be submitted to Dr. Patrick Allard, IAVCEI President and Chair of the IAVCEI Awards Committee by 20 January 2020.

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 Key deadlines: 

  • 31 October 2019 5pm GMT - Deadline for Nominations, stating your intention to develop a proposal to host CoV12 in 2022. 
  • 28 November 2019 5pm GMT - Deadline for written Proposals for hosting COV12 in 2022. 

Nominations and 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. to ‘Acting Secretary’ at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please make sure that you have received an acknowledgement email for your Nomination and of your later written Proposal. 

Background: To date there have been ten “Cities on Volcanoes” (COV) conferences, with COV11 scheduled for May 2020. The purpose of these meetings is to bring together volcanologists, civil authorities, sociologists, psychologists, emergency managers, economists and city planners to enhance volcanic crises preparedness and management in cities and densely populated areas.