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Partners of this web site
Volcanic Ash: Effects & Mitigation Strategies
(Do you have material to
contribute to this Web site? Follow
this link.)
The idea for this web site developed in parallel by two groups
who earlier in the process decided to combine their efforts.
In 2000 the late Dr. Richard V. Fisher, scientist emeritus of
University of California Santa Barbara, approached USGS volcanologists
to explore what he could do to help prepare volcano-hazard educational
material for the benefit of people having to deal with active and
erupting volcanoes. Volcanic ash typically covers a much larger area
and disrupts the lives of far more people than the other more lethal
types of volcano hazards, but information about ash and what to do with
it is not readily available. With Dr. Fisher's extensive experience and
interest in pyroclastic rocks, he enthusiastically agreed to begin work
on a web site about volcanic ash. By creating an online resource about
the known effects of volcanic ash and summarizing how people have dealt
with the tiny abrasive rock particles during and after recent
eruptions, Dr. Fisher and the partners listed below hope people can
learn to prepare and protect themselves from future volcanic ash fall.
In a separate
development the experience from the1995-1996 Ruapehu (New Zealand)
eruptions by Dr. David Johnston and Dr. Bruce Houghton of the Institute
of Geological & Nuclear Sciences highlighted the need for
real-time information on the consequences of volcano hazards. Such
information often blends volcanology with input from engineering,
medical, plant, animal, and material sciences and often cannot be found
readily in any single institution or reference. This information needs
to be available in a format that meets the needs of a variety of
end-users and structured in a fashion that permits rapid access to all
the information required by each end-user sector. From this
perspective, work was begun to provide information about volcanic ash
through this web site.
The initial material for this Web site was designed by
Jennifer Adleman and Steven Brantley of the U.S. Geological Survey,
David Johnston of the Institute of Geological & Nuclear
Sciences Limited, New Zealand, Richard Fisher, University of California
Santa Barbara and Bruce Houghton, University of Hawai`i, Manoa.
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University of Hawai`i in Manoa, School of Ocean
and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)
Principal contact: Bruce Houghton (bhought@soest.hawaii.edu)
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International Association of Volcanology and
Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
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It is our hope that new information can be added to this
Web site based on the contributions from people that have experienced
ash fall and documented well the effects of ash and steps taken to
remove ash and reduce the effects of ash on equipment, vehicles,
utilities, and various economic activities. If you would like to
contribute new material to this Web site, first please contact Steve
Brantley, U.S. Geological Survey, srbrant@usgs.gov.
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