RSS Feed http://www.wovo.org/feed.html en WOVO.org 2006 120 Cost recovery from Aviation http://www.wovo.org/cost-recovery-from-aviation.html The first version of a new guide to State Volcano Observatories about cost recovery from aviation with the warning system for volcanic clouds (the International Aviation Volcano Watch) has been put together and published on the WOVO site.

]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:52:20 +0100 http://www.wovo.org/cost-recovery-from-aviation.html darwin October 2009 http://www.wovo.org/oct-2009-news.html October 2009 updates

1) The fabulous PubVolc initiative is doing a great job helping to make research available to the worldwide community of volcanologists and related scientists, including those from poorer countries.  Congra

]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:01:58 +0200 http://www.wovo.org/oct-2009-news.html darwin Peter Webley joins WOVO leadership http://www.wovo.org/peter-webley-joins-wovo-leadership.html  

We are delighted to announce that Dr Peter Webley, Alaska Volcano Observatory (Fairbanks) (http://www.avo.alaska.edu/about/staff.php?dirid=140 ) is joining the WOVO leadership team.  Peter will be

]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:13:56 +0200 http://www.wovo.org/peter-webley-joins-wovo-leadership.html warner News from IAVCEI 2008 http://www.wovo.org/news-from-iavcei-2008.html During the IAVCEI 2008 conference in Reykjavik, we organized a session entitled "Local and global co-operation in a volcanic crisis - case studies and lessons learned", and we had one WOVO meeting.  The session was a success, with 10 oral talks and 6 posters. ]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:12:39 +0200 http://www.wovo.org/news-from-iavcei-2008.html warner New feeds of volcanic information at the GVP http://www.wovo.org/new-feeds-of-volcanic-information-at-the-gvp.html The Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian have made a major upgrade in near-real time volcanic information.

]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:07:09 +0100 http://www.wovo.org/new-feeds-of-volcanic-information-at-the-gvp.html darwin Paper on health-pertinent ash estimation http://www.wovo.org/paper-on-health-pertinent-ash-estimation.html A paper has recently been published that presents a formula to estimate the percentage of health-pertinent ash in a sieved sample. Currently one can only really accurately sieve to 63 um but finding out if volcanic ash is respirable (< 4 um) is critical for health hazard assessment.

]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:55:04 +0100 http://www.wovo.org/paper-on-health-pertinent-ash-estimation.html warner Publication of pamphlets on health hazard http://www.wovo.org/publication-of-pamphlets-on-health-hazard.html www.ivhhn.org . Pamphlets are available in English, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese and French. ]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:47:05 +0100 http://www.wovo.org/publication-of-pamphlets-on-health-hazard.html warner December 2007 http://www.wovo.org/december-2007.html Thanks to our generous host Eisuke Fujita (NIED, Japan), we had two good meetings during the wonderful Cities on Volcanoes 5 conference in Shimabara.  We started with a general WOVO meeting of about 25 people, and then had a smaller meeting of the WOVOdat steering committee.

The general WOVO meeting ]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:40:03 +0100 http://www.wovo.org/december-2007.html darwin