{"id":12639,"date":"2025-04-30T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:12:29","slug":"cov-13-cities-on-volcanoes-bend-oregon-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/cov-13-cities-on-volcanoes-bend-oregon-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"COV-13, Cities on Volcanoes, Bend, Oregon, postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In agreement with the Cities and Volcanoes Commission and the IAVCEI Executive Committee, the Local Organizing Committee for the 13th Cities on Volcanoes (COV13) <a><\/a>conference, originally planned for July 2026 in Bend, Oregon (U.S.A.), has made the difficult decision to postpone the event to a future date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent developments have created uncertainty around our ability to confidently and effectively host the conference in 2026 and to welcome attendees without concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision follows many months of collaboration with more than 70 local, regional, and international partners to shape an engaging and meaningful program. We recognize this news will be disappointing, but we believe it is the most responsible choice under the current circumstances, grounded in care for our colleagues and partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With continued support from the Cities and Volcanoes Commission and IAVCEI, we are already exploring the possibility of hosting COV in Bend in 2030 or 2032, and we remain hopeful for opportunities to gather in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COV13 Local Organizing Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cities and Volcanoes Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth\u2019s Interior<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note from the Cities and Volcanoes commission: The IAVCEI Cities and Volcanoes (CAV) Commission fully supports the COV13 Local Organizing Committee\u2019s difficult decision to postpone the conference. CAV salutes the impressive work the COV13 LOC has already done bringing together many different levels of government and jurisdictional authorities, academics and students, and local community partners. We look forward to meeting as a community in Bend when the time is right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CAV leadership will provide further information on future activities within a few weeks via our email distribution list and at the 2025 IAVCEI Scientific Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In agreement with the Cities and Volcanoes Commission and the IAVCEI Executive Committee, the Local Organizing Committee for the 13th Cities on Volcanoes (COV13) conference, originally planned for July 2026 in Bend, Oregon (U.S.A.), has made the difficult decision to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12641,"ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_meta_fields_payment-items":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12639","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 02:13:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}