5 NOVAC Workshop

DECADE

5th

NOVAC Workshop

April 27 – May 1, 2015

Turrialba Volcano, Costa Rica

∼∼∼∼ Workshop Program ∼∼∼∼ (updated April 23, 2015)

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Monday, April 27, 2015

Official Opening Ceremony

Held at the OVSICORI facilities in Heredia

8:30 Maarten de Moor Introductions and welcome

8:35 Carlos Montero Official workshop opening by OVSICORI

8:45 Bo Galle Welcome to the 5th

NOVAC Workshop and overview of the

Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change

9:25 Christoph Kern A new collaboration between the USGS Volcano Disaster

Assistance Program (VDAP) and NOVAC

9:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Tim Callaghan Disaster Risk Reduction activities supported by the USAID in

Latin America and the Caribbean region

10:30 Maria Martinez Volcanism in Costa Rica and how volcanic activity is monitored

by OVSICORI

11:00 Lunch

12:00 Bus transfer to Guayabo Lodge, Turrialba Volcano

The global Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change

16:00 Geoffroy Avard Monitoring gas emissions from Turrialba Volcano with NOVAC

scanning DOAS instruments and current state of the volcano

16:30 Maarten de Moor Gas monitoring of Costa Rican Volcanoes

17:00 Santiago Arellano Present status of the NOVAC network and global emission

inventory

18:30 Dinner

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

8:00 Armando Saballos,

Elvis Mendoza

The use of the NOVAC instruments data for volcano monitoring

and research in Nicaragua

8:30 Francisco Montalvo The SO2 emissions from San Miguel Volcano During 8 Years of

Monitoring

9:00 Claudia Bucarey,

Roxana Medina

Geochemical Monitoring of Southern Andean Volcano

Observatory (OVDAS) Chile

9:30 Gustavo Garzon Comments on the importance of NOVAC instruments during

increases of activity of three Colombian volcanoes

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Hugo Delgado 10 years monitoring Popocatépetl using mini-DOAS systems:

what we have learned and what we still have to do. A wish list.

11:00 Fabio Vita The Geochemical Continuous Monitoring Network of Vulcano

Island (Italy): Long-Time Variations of SO2 and CO2 Fluxes

11:30 Ryan Rebadulla Monitoring of SO2 emissions using NOVAC-ScanDOAS and other

geochemical techniques in Mayon Volcano (Philippines)

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Freddy Vasconez Monitoring volcanic gases with NOVAC and other

instrumentation in Ecuador

14:00 Pablo Masias,

Fredy Apaza

Results and Experiences in Volcanic Monitoring with NOVAC

Equipment in Peru

14:30 Kila Mulina Monitoring SO2 emissions from Tavurvur volcano, Rabaul, PNG

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Gustavo Chigna NOVAC in Guatemala - Main problems and possible solutions.

16:00 Martin LaFevers,

Aaron Rinehart

Site Infrastructure: Telemetry Options and Grounding

Techniques

16:30 All Discussion: What’s working and what’s not?

Discussion about strengths and weaknesses of the NOVAC

instrumentation and software.

18:30 Dinner

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Field Trip

7:00 Bus to La Central NOVAC site

9:00 Hike to La Silvia NOVAC site

11:00 Hike back to La Central

12:00 Bus leaves La Central driving back to Guayabo Lodge

12:45 Coffee Break

Innovative new techniques for measuring volcanic gases

13:15 Peter Kelly Toward accurate and precise long-term volcanic gas monitoring

with Multi-GAS

13:45 Claudia Rivera Gas ratios from direct solar infrared and UV measurements of

the Popocatepetl plume

14:15 Ulrich Platt DOAS Evaluation of Volcanic SO2 using a Modelled (Kurucz)

Background Spectrum

14:45 John Henry Reina A Regional Centre for Bioinformatics & Photonics: Perspectives

on Applications to Environmental Science

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 Christoph Kern Why bother? Aren’t SO2 cameras poised to replace NOVAC

instruments anyway?

16:15 Robin Campion UV camera measurements at Popocatépetl and Colima, two

dome-bearing Mexican volcanoes

16:45 Vladimir Conde The NOVAC rapid response system

17:00 Christoph Kern microDOAS – A miniature DOAS instrument built for flying on

unmanned aerial systems

17:15 Ulrich Platt Possible future of NOVAC measurements: Novel types of

instruments, 2-D sensing, LED-LIDAR ...

17:45 All Discussion: What is the future of the NOVAC instrumentation

and how can it best be complimented with other systems?

18:30 Dinner

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Errors and uncertainty in remote sensing measurements of volcanic gases

8:00 Christoph Kern Errors in UV remote sensing measurements induced by

scattering processes in the atmosphere

8:30 Santiago Arellano Quantification of the measurement uncertainty in NOVAC

9:00 All Discussion on errors and uncertainty in scanning DOAS

measurements and paths towards mitigating them

10:00 Coffee Break

So what? What can gas measurements tell us about volcanic systems?

10:30 Thor Hansteen Degassing Processes in Selected Chilean Volcanoes

11:00 Vladimir Conde Forecasting eruptions using in Costa Rica and Nicaragua using

NOVAC and other

11:30 Cindy Werner Assessing the Role of Scrubbing of Volcanic SO2 at Wet

Volcanoes: Lessons Learned from the 2009 Redoubt Eruption

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Francisco Barahona,

Rodolfo Olmos

Measurements of SO2 flux from active volcanoes; An important

complementary tool to support volcanic monitoring program in

El Salvador, 2005-2010

14:00 Zoraida Chacon The reactivation of Nevado del Ruiz Volcano 2010-2015,

correlation of SO2 with Volcanic Activity

14:30 Tamar Elias Gas measurements at Hawaiian Volcanoes: contributions to

volcanic processes and hazards knowledge

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Syegi Kunrat,

Harry Cahyono

Volcanic Gas Monitoring in Indonesia

16:00 Nicole Bobrowski,

Peter Luebcke

Evaluation of BrO and other gases from NOVAC spectra - how is

it done and initial interpretation

16:30 Toshiya Mori Lessons learned from monitoring volcanic gases in Japan

17:00 All Discussion: What have we learned? How can we use our

observations to help forecast eruptions? What is needed to

improve our understanding and forecasting capability?

18:30 Dinner

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Friday, May 1, 2015

Time for further discussions

8:00 All Time for further discussions on topics such as

- Network maintenance and expansion

- Data Policy

- Next NOVAC workshop

- NOVAC, VDAP, and DECADE

10:00 Coffee Break

Workshop Evaluation

10:30 All Brief evaluation of NOVAC workshop – did we make progress

towards workshop goals and objectives? What should we do

differently next time?

11:00 Lunch

12:00 Bus transfer to Hotel Bougainvillea, Heredia

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Contact information

Workshop locations

OVSICORI

De Copymundo Viejo

100 este y 200 norte, Heredia

Tel +506-2562-4001

Hotel Bougainvillea

Contiguo a la Escuela, Santo Tomas, 40302

Tel +506-2244-1414

info@hb.co.cr

www.hb.co.cr/en/

Guayabo Lodge

Santa Cruz, Cantón de Turrialba, Provincia de Cartago (see maps and directions below)

Tel +506-2538-8492 / +506-2538-8400

reservaciones.guayabolodge@gmail.com

www.guayabolodge.co.cr

Telephone numbers

Maarten de Moor +506-6071-4123

Geoffroy Avard +506-8655-9316

Maria Martinez +506-8711-0052

OVSICORI office +506-2562-4001

Hazel Lopez +506-8316-7768

Guayabo Lodge +506-2538-8492 / +506-2538-8400

Hotel Bougainvillea +506-2244-1414

Taxi Heredia +506-2262-6262

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Maps and Directions- Hotel Bougainvillea to OVSICORI

OVSICORI - 100m east and 200m north of the campus of la Universidad Nacional in Heredia (cien metros

este y 200m norte del campus de la Universidad Nacional)

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SJO international airport to OVSICORI

SJO international airport to Guayabo Lodge in Santa Cruz (between the town of Pacayas and Turrialba)

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Directions to Guayabo Lodge for local drivers: Desde San Jose, ir direccion Cartago, luego Pacayas (subiendo hacia el Cristo de la carretera al volcan Irazu). Continuar hacia Capellades y Santa Cruz. 15 kilometros despues de Pacayas se encuentra el Guayabo Lodge (a la derecha del camino), un kilometro antes de llegar a Santa Cruz. El telefono del hotel es 2538 8400. NO IR A TURRIALBA - NO IR AL PARQUE DEL MONUMENTO NACIONAL GUAYABO - ESTAMOS EN SANTA CRUZ - From San Jose, head towards Cartago, then Pacayas (going up towards the Christ statue of the Irazu volcano road). Continue towards Capellades and then Santa Cruz. 15 kilometers after Pacayas you will find Guayabo Lodge (right hand side of the road), one kilometer before reaching Santa Cruz. The hotel phone number is 2538 8400

DO NOT GO TO THE CITY OF TURRIALBA - DO NOT GO TO GUAYABO NATIONAL

MONUMENT -WE ARE IN SANTA CRUZ

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Participant Name Institution email

Fredy Apaza Choquehuayta INGEMMET fapaza@ingemmet.gob.pe

Santiago Arellano Chalmers University arellano@chalmers.se

Geoffroy Avard OVSICORI geoffroy.avard@una.cr

Francisco Barahona University of El Salvador barahona_escoto@yahoo.es

Nicole Bobrowski University of Heidelberg nicole.bobrowski@iup.uni-heidelberg.de

Claudia Bucarey SERNAGEOMIN claudia.bucarey@sernageomin.cl

Harry Cahyono VSI harrycahyono31@gmail.com

Robin Campion UNAM robin@geofisica.unam.mx

Zoraida Chacon SGC zchacon@sgc.gov.co

Gustavo Chigna INSIVUMEH gchigna@yahoo.com

Vladimir Conde Chalmers University conde@chalmers.se

Hugo Delgado Granados UNAM hugo@geofisica.unam.mx

Tamar Elias USGS telias@usgs.gov

Bo Galle Chalmers University bo.galle@chalmers.se

Gustavo Garzon SGC ggarzon@sgc.gov.co

Thor Hansteen GEOMAR thansteen@geomar.de

Keith Horton FLYSPEC inc keith@flyspec-inc.com

Sara Jivanjee USGS sjivanjee@usgs.gov

Peter Kelly USGS pkelly@usgs.gov

Christoph Kern USGS ckern@usgs.gov

Syegi Kunrat VSI syegikunrat@gmail.com

Martin LaFevers USGS mlafevers@usgs.gov

Peter Luebcke University of Heidelberg pluebcke@iup.uni-heidelberg.de

Maria Martinez Cruz OVSICORI maria.martinez.cruz@una.cr

Pablo Masias Alvarez INGEMMET pmasias@ingemmet.gob.pe

Roxana Medina SERNAGEOMIN roxana.medina@sernageomin.cl

Elvis Mendoza INETER emenri81@gmail.com

Francisco Montalvo DGSNET-MARN fmontalvo@marn.gob.sv

Maarten de Moor OVSICORI maartenjdemoor@gmail.com

Toshiya Mori University of Tokyo mori@eqchem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Kila Mulina RVO kila_mulina@mineral.gov.pg

Rodolfo Olmos University of El Salvador rolmos99@yahoo.com

Ulrich Platt University of Heidelberg ulrich.platt@iup.uni-heidelberg.de

Ryan Raul Rebadulla PHIVOLCS rrrrebadulla@gmail.com

John Henry Reina Universidad del Valle, Cali jh.reina@mac.com

Aaron Rinehart USGS arinehart@usgs.gov

Claudia Rivera UNAM claudia.rivera@ciencias.unam.mx

Armando Saballos INETER armando.saballos@gf.ineter.gob.ni

Freddy Vasconez IGEPN fvasconez@igepn.edu.ec

Fabio Vita INGV fabio.vita@ingv.it

Cynthia Werner USGS cwerner@usgs.gov