Optional Short Course: 18-19 September
Main workshop: 20-25 September
The 8th Workshop of the IAVCEI Commission on Collapse Calderas, preceded by an optional short course (17 to 26 September 2020) This is the biennial Collapse Caldera Workshop (CCW); it will be longer and much broader in scope than the Explosive Volcanism-Tephra Hazards event, and will deal with all aspects of caldera volcanism, from the magmatic root to the marine environment and human population.
The two-day short course will accommodate 25 to 30 participants (including lecturers) and will cover such topics as the tectonic-magmatic settings of calderas, caldera eruptions and hazards, crustal magmatic systems beneath calderas, geophysical methods of sounding calderas, remote sensing of calderas, physics and structure of caldera systems, caldera unrest and monitoring, and caldera risk and resilience.
The workshop will accommodate the short-course participants plus an extra 20 to 25 (for a total maximum of 50 workshop participants). It will include three field days focussed on the evolution of Santorini, pyroclastic facies and their relationship to caldera formation, architecture and structure of a caldera volcano based on land and submarine records, the unrest of 2011-2012, and the unravelling of a caldera-forming eruption (Late Bronze Age) from its products (fallout, flows, juvenile, cognate and accidental components, petrology, chemistry). The field days will be led by T. Druitt, P. Nomikou and D. Pyle. There will be three days of senior scientist and student led presentations, breakout sessions, and brainstorming with the aim of planning a white paper on fundamental issues of caldera volcanism, unrest, and risk, and the strategies needed to address them (i.e. a multidisciplinary approach).
Short course participants would arrive on-island on 17 September, and the course would take place on the 18 and 19. Workshop-only participants would arrive on 19 September and the workshop would take place on 20-25, with all participants leaving on 26 September. The cost of the workshop would be about 750 euros, and that of the short course an extra 300 euros. These prices exclude travel to and from Santorini and may evolve slightly.
People potentially interested in participating (either short course plus workshop, or just workshop) are invited to contact Tim Druitt at
tim.druitt@uca.fr
for further information.
First Circular (PDF)
20 Feb. 2020 released
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