VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.30909/vol.05.01.105131
A. Tadini, A. Harris, Julie Morin, Andrew Bevilacqua, A. Peltier, W. Aspinall, S. Ciolli, P. Bachèlery, B. Bernard, Jonas Biren, A. B. da Silveira, Valéry Cayol, O. Chevrel, D. Coppola, H. Dietterich, A. Donovan, O. Dorado, Stéphane Drenne, Olivier Dupéré, L. Gurioli, S. Kolzenburg, J. Komorowski, P. Labazuy, D. Mangione, S. Mannini, François Martel-Asselin, E. Médard, Sophie Pailot-Bonnétat, Victoria Rafflin, Michael Ramsey, N. Richter, Silvia Vallejo, N. Villeneuve, S. Zafrilla
{"title":"Structured elicitation of expert judgement in real-time eruption scenarios: an exercise for Piton de la Fournaise volcano, La Réunion island","authors":"A. Tadini, A. Harris, Julie Morin, Andrew Bevilacqua, A. Peltier, W. Aspinall, S. Ciolli, P. Bachèlery, B. Bernard, Jonas Biren, A. B. da Silveira, Valéry Cayol, O. Chevrel, D. Coppola, H. Dietterich, A. Donovan, O. Dorado, Stéphane Drenne, Olivier Dupéré, L. Gurioli, S. Kolzenburg, J. Komorowski, P. Labazuy, D. Mangione, S. Mannini, François Martel-Asselin, E. Médard, Sophie Pailot-Bonnétat, Victoria Rafflin, Michael Ramsey, N. Richter, Silvia Vallejo, N. Villeneuve, S. Zafrilla","doi":"10.30909/vol.05.01.105131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.105131","url":null,"abstract":"Formalised elicitation of expert judgements has been used to help tackle several problematic societal issues, including volcanic crises and pandemic threats. We present an expert elicitation exercise for Piton de la Fournaise volcano, La Réunion island, held remotely in April 2021. This involved 28 experts from nine countries who considered a hypothetical effusive eruption crisis involving a new vent opening in a high-risk area. The tele-elicitation presented several challenges, but is a promising and workable option for application to future volcanic crises. Our exercise considered an “uncommon” eruptive scenario with a vent outside the present caldera and within inhabited areas, and provided uncertainty ranges for several hazard-related questions for such a scenario (e.g. probability of eruption within a defined timeframe; elapsed time until lava flow reaches a critical location, and other hazard management issues). Our exercise indicated that such a scenario would probably present very different characteristics compared to recent eruptions, and that it is fundamental to include well-prepared expert elicitations in updated civil protection evacuation plans to improve disaster response procedures.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45480265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-03-29DOI: 10.30909/vol.05.01.95103
G. Lerner, S. Tsang, G. Turner
{"title":"Using paleomagnetism to determine the heating effect of lava flows on underlying substrates","authors":"G. Lerner, S. Tsang, G. Turner","doi":"10.30909/vol.05.01.95103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.95103","url":null,"abstract":"The extent to which heat from lava flows passes into underlying and adjacent materials has significant implications for volcanic hazard studies. Here we demonstrate how paleomagnetism can be used as a tool to determine the heating effects of lava flows in the pre-existing substrates over which they flow. Samples from soils taken beneath lava flows from Rangitoto and Puketutu eruptive centres (Auckland Volcanic Field, Aotearoa New Zealand) and a human-made berm beneath the June 27th Lava Flow (2014–2015; Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii, USA) were subjected to progressive thermal demagnetization to assess the strength and stability of their remanent magnetizations. The temperature and depth to which these soils display a strong coherent magnetization represents the extent to which they were remagnetized (and therefore heated) by the overlying flow. Results suggest heating to at least 570 ℃ at depths of up to 21 cm below the substrate-flow contact. This information is valuable for constraining and validating heat transfer models, which can be used to assess the lava flows’ subterranean thermal hazard. Among many uses, this is vital for emergency management planning for buried infrastructure networks traversing regions that could be exposed to effusive volcanic activity. Further afield, in astrobiology, it might find application in determining the thickness of a substrate layer heated sufficiently by a lava flow to kill living organisms.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43861098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.31223/x5jp7x
S. Matthews, Kevin Wong, M. Gleeson
{"title":"PyMelt: An extensible Python engine for mantle melting calculations","authors":"S. Matthews, Kevin Wong, M. Gleeson","doi":"10.31223/x5jp7x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31223/x5jp7x","url":null,"abstract":"Modelling the melting of Earth’s mantle is crucial for understanding the distribution of volcanic activity on Earth and for testing models of mantle convection and mantle lithological heterogeneity. PyMelt is a new open-source Python library for calculating the melting behaviour of multi-lithology mantle and can be used to predict a number of geophysical and petrological observations, including melt productivity, spreading centre crustal thickness, lava trace element concentrations, and olivine crystallisation temperatures. The library is designed to be easily extensible, allowing melting models to be added, different methods for cal- culating lava chemistry to be applied, and new melting dynamics and properties to be incorporated.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46065070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.30909/vol.05.01.7593
B. Kennedy, M. Heap, S. Burchardt, M. Villeneuve, H. Tuffen, H. Gilg, Jonathan Davidson, Neryda Duncan, E. Saubin, Einar Bessi Gestsson, M. Anjomrouz, Philip Butler
{"title":"Thermal impact of dykes on ignimbrite and implications for fluid flow compartmentalisation in calderas","authors":"B. Kennedy, M. Heap, S. Burchardt, M. Villeneuve, H. Tuffen, H. Gilg, Jonathan Davidson, Neryda Duncan, E. Saubin, Einar Bessi Gestsson, M. Anjomrouz, Philip Butler","doi":"10.30909/vol.05.01.7593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.7593","url":null,"abstract":"Ignimbrites within calderas host intrusions with hazardous and/or economically significant hydrothermal systems. The Hvítserkur ignimbrite at Breiðuvík caldera, north-eastern Iceland, is intruded by basaltic dykes. Our data show that the ignimbrite immediately adjacent to the dyke is hard, dark-coloured, recrystallised quartz, plagioclase, and alkali feldspar with a low permeability and porosity and frequent macrofractures. At 1-2 m from the dyke, the ignimbrite is hard, dominantly glassy with pervasive perlitic microfractures, has high permeability, but low porosity and frequent macrofractures. A narrow zone of pervasive unlithified clay exists 2 m from the dyke. Beyond this, the ignimbrite is soft and zeolite-rich, has low permeability, high porosity and fewer macrofractures. The dyke intrusion promoted a narrow zone of welding, fracturing and perlitisation in the ignimbrite resulting in high permeability and focussed alteration. Our study shows how intrusions and their thermal aureoles create vertical pathways for, and horizontal barriers to, geothermal fluid flow.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45152758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.30909/vol.05.01.6174
L. Gailler, P. Labazuy, E. Régis, A. Peltier, V. Ferrazzini
{"title":"Active structures and thermal state of the Piton de la Fournaise summit revealed by combined UAV magnetic and thermal infrared measurements","authors":"L. Gailler, P. Labazuy, E. Régis, A. Peltier, V. Ferrazzini","doi":"10.30909/vol.05.01.6174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.6174","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we demonstrate the strong potential of combining Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based thermal infrared (IR) and magnetic measurements to image the thermal state of volcanic edifices, as well as the distribution of active volcano-tectonic features at depth. Since magnetization is strongly dependent on temperature and alteration, thermally active structures are also associated with a decrease in magnetization. Based on the analysis of recent combined magnetic and infrared acquisitions, we focus on the recent evolution of the summit activity at Piton de la Fournaise. The comparison clearly highlights zones of major thermal activity, alteration and high permeability, and potentially areas of low mechanical resistance. Those observations provide information on preferential pathways for future activity, and also provide constraints on fluid transfer, diffusion, and cooling processes occurring within the volcano subsurface. Through reiterations, such combined UAV measurements are therefore particularly relevant in monitoring volcanic hazards before, during and after eruptions.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46129276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.30909/vol.05.01.3359
Rachel C. W. Whitty, M. Pfeffer, E. Ilyinskaya, T. Roberts, A. Schmidt, S. Barsotti, W. Strauch, L. Crilley, F. Pope, Harold Bellanger, Elvis Mendoza, T. Mather, E. Liu, N. Peters, Isabelle A. Taylor, H. Francis, Xochilt Hernández Leiva, David Lynch, Sebastien Norbert, Peter Baxter
{"title":"Assessing the effectiveness of low-cost air quality monitors for identifying volcanic SO2 and PM downwind from Masaya volcano, Nicaragua","authors":"Rachel C. W. Whitty, M. Pfeffer, E. Ilyinskaya, T. Roberts, A. Schmidt, S. Barsotti, W. Strauch, L. Crilley, F. Pope, Harold Bellanger, Elvis Mendoza, T. Mather, E. Liu, N. Peters, Isabelle A. Taylor, H. Francis, Xochilt Hernández Leiva, David Lynch, Sebastien Norbert, Peter Baxter","doi":"10.30909/vol.05.01.3359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.3359","url":null,"abstract":"Gas and particulate matter (PM) emissions from Masaya volcano, Nicaragua, cause substantial regional volcanic air pollution (VAP). We evaluate the suitability of low-cost SO2 and PM sensors for a continuous air-quality network. The network was deployed for six months in five populated areas (4–16 km from crater). The SO2 sensors failed and recorded erroneous values on multiple occasions, likely due to corrosion, requiring significant maintenance commitment. The PM sensors were found to be robust but data required correction for humidity. SO2 measurements could not be used as stand-alone tools to detect occurrence of VAP episodes (VAPE), but an SO2/PM correlation reliably achieved this at near-field stations, as confirmed by meteorological forecasts and satellite imagery. Above-background PM concentrations reliably identified VAPE at both near-field and far-field stations. We suggest that a continuous network can be built from a combination of low-cost PM and SO2 sensors with a greater number of PM-only sensors.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48073127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.30909/vol.05.01.1132
Alison Jolley, J. Dohaney, Ben M. Kennedy
{"title":"Teaching about volcanoes: Practices, perceptions, and implications for professional development","authors":"Alison Jolley, J. Dohaney, Ben M. Kennedy","doi":"10.30909/vol.05.01.1132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.1132","url":null,"abstract":"Volcanology education is important for the development of geoscientists and scientifically literate citizens. We surveyed 55 volcanology instructors to determine their learning and teaching practices, perceptions of academic development, and educational support needs. Instructors reported using a wide range of practices and tools, but lectures, field experiences, maps, rock samples, academic literature, and inherited teaching materials are the most common. Instructors valued educational support from others (e.g., talking with colleagues and students, consulting with learning and teaching specialists) over conducting their own investigations. However, they did not report engaging in as many of these activities as they valued. Instructors requested more support in resource sharing and collation, conference workshops, and co-creation of resources and educational research. We suggest that instructors and academic development staff work together to share and build knowledge in the learning and teaching of volcanology in higher education, and to improve student learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45925605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.30909/vol.05.01.0110
M. Pankhurst, J. Scarrow, O. Barbee, J. Hickey, Berverly C. Coldwell, G. Rollinson, J. A. Rodríguez-Losada, A. Martin Lorenzo, F. Rodríguez, W. Hernández, David Calvo Fernández, P. Hernández, N. Pérez
{"title":"Rapid response petrology for the opening eruptive phase of the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption, La Palma, Canary Islands","authors":"M. Pankhurst, J. Scarrow, O. Barbee, J. Hickey, Berverly C. Coldwell, G. Rollinson, J. A. Rodríguez-Losada, A. Martin Lorenzo, F. Rodríguez, W. Hernández, David Calvo Fernández, P. Hernández, N. Pérez","doi":"10.30909/vol.05.01.0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.0110","url":null,"abstract":"How and why magmatic systems reactivate and evolve is a critical question for monitoring and hazard mitigation efforts during initial response and ongoing volcanic crisis management. Here we report the first integrated petrological results and interpretation provided to monitoring authorities during the ongoing eruption of Cumbre Vieja, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The first eruptive products comprised simultaneous Strombolian fountain-fed lava flows and tephra fall from near-continuous eruption plumes. From combined field, petrographic and geochemical analyses conducted in the 10 days following sample collection, we infer low percentage mantle melts with a variably equilibrated multimineralic crystal-cargo and compositional fractionation by winnowing during eruptive processes. Hence ‘rapid response’ petrology can untangle complex magmatic and volcanic processes for this eruption, which combined with further study and methodological improvement can increasingly assist in active decision making.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49156359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.30909/vol.04.02.345367
H. Craig, T. Wilson, C. Magill, C. Stewart, A. Wild
{"title":"Agriculture and forestry impact assessment for tephra fall hazard: fragility function development and New Zealand scenario application","authors":"H. Craig, T. Wilson, C. Magill, C. Stewart, A. Wild","doi":"10.30909/vol.04.02.345367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.04.02.345367","url":null,"abstract":"Developing approaches to assess the impact of tephra fall to agricultural and forestry systems is essential for informing effective disaster risk management strategies. Fragility functions are commonly used as the vulnerability model within a loss assessment framework and represent the relationship between a given hazard intensity measure (e.g., tephra thickness) and the probability of impacts occurring. Impacts are represented here using an impact state (IS), which categorises qualitative and quantitative statements into a numeric scale. This study presents IS schemes for pastoral, horticultural, and forestry systems, and a suite of fragility functions estimating the probability of each IS occurring for 13 sub-sectors. Temporal vulnerability is accounted for by a ‘seasonality coefficient,’ and a ‘chemical toxicity coefficient’ is included to incorporate the increased vulnerability of pastoral farming systems when tephra is high in fluoride. The fragility functions are then used to demonstrate a deterministic impact assessment with current New Zealand exposure.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41454952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VolcanicaPub Date : 2021-12-30DOI: 10.30909/vol.04.02.325343
E. Gallant, Lawrence Cole, C. Connor, A. Donovan, Danielle Molisee, Julie Morin, Rory A. Walshe, P. Wetmore
{"title":"Modelling eruptive event sources in distributed volcanic fields","authors":"E. Gallant, Lawrence Cole, C. Connor, A. Donovan, Danielle Molisee, Julie Morin, Rory A. Walshe, P. Wetmore","doi":"10.30909/vol.04.02.325343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.04.02.325343","url":null,"abstract":"Vent opening hazard models are routinely used as inputs for assessing distal volcanic hazards (lava flows, tephra fallout) in distributed volcanic fields. These vent opening hazard models have traditionally relied on the location of mapped vents; seldom have they taken into account how vents are linked in space and time. We show that inputs needed to appropriately model distal hazards are fundamentally different than thoses required to model near-vent hazards (ground deformation). We provide a computational model to obtain more appropriate eruptive source parameters (ESPs) for distal volcanic hazard sources and show the utility of our code through three examples. The code's strength is that it links events based on the spatio-temporal relationships of vents through heirarchical clustering. The development of the code and its strenghts and weaknesses are discussed. This work challenges previous ideas about ESPs and we hope this work leads to further improvement in hazard assessment methods.","PeriodicalId":33053,"journal":{"name":"Volcanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46943684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}