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Symposium Schedule

All Times are Eastern Time

 April 28 

Time

11:00am

Title

Introduction to the Symposium

Speaker

Kelly Shaw and Gerry Stirewalt

11:15am

Keynote Speaker: How Volcanoes Work

Bill Hackett, WRH Associates

12:15pm

Building and Curating a Comprehensive Dataset for Hazard Analysis in a Distributed Volcanic Field

Shannon Kobs Nawotniak, Idaho State University 

12:45pm

Volcanic, Seismic, and Hydrothermal Hazards in the Yellowstone Region

Michael Poland, USGS (YVO)

1:15pm

Volcanic Earthquakes: Precursors and Hazards

Suzette Payne, SMJP Consulting

1:45pm

BREAK

2:00pm

Approach to Screening Volcanic Phenomena in a Volcanic Terrain

Michael Cline, Rizzo

2:30pm

The Successful Application of the SSHAC Level 3 Process in the Integrated Multisite INL PVHA: Regulatory Compliance and Future Use

Kevin Coppersmith, Coppersmith Consulting , Inc.

3:00pm

To SSHAC, or Not To SSHAC: The Volcanic Hazards Question 

Brittain Hill, Independent Consultant

3:30pm

Lessons-Learned from the First Use of Regulatory Guide 4.26 in the Assessment of Volcanic Hazards at a Proposed Nuclear Power Reactor Site

Jenise Thompson, US NRC

4:00pm

Questions/Discussion

 April 29 

Time

11:00am

Title

Introduction for the Day

Speaker

Kelly Shaw and Gerry Stirewalt

11:15am

Keynote Speaker: New Methods Developed for the Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Assessment of the Idaho National Lab: A SSHAC Level 3 Investigation

Chuck Connor, University of South Florida

12:15pm

Modeling Pre-Historic Recurrence Rate in Volcanic Systems with a Volcanic Event Age Model

James Wilson, RIZZO

12:45pm

Comparing Lava Flow Inundation Hazard from Borehole and Numerical Methods: A Case Study from the Eastern Snake River Plain 

Mitchell Hastings, RIZZO

1:15pm

3D Analysis of Silicic Volcanism in Basaltic Flow Fields Using Aerogravity and AeroLiDAR

Troy Berkey, University of South Florida 

1:45pm

BREAK

2:00pm

Real Time Graben Formation in Grindavík Iceland and Associated Hazards in the Volcanic-Tectonic System

Greg de Pascale, University of Iceland 

2:30pm

Constraining Deformation at Volcanic Systems; Using Deep Learning to Mitigate Atmospheric Effects in InSAR Displacement Maps

Rebecca Bussard, Pennsylvania State University

3:00pm

The Scale of Volcanic Ground Deformation 

Emily Montgomery-Brown, USGS

3:30pm

Questions/Discussion

 April 30 

Time

11:00am

Title

Introduction for the Day

Speaker

Kelly Shaw and Gerry Stirewalt

11:15am

Keynote Speaker: Volcanic Tsunamis: From Physics to Hazard Assessment

Raphaël Paris, University Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS, France

12:15pm

Potential Far-Field Hazards from Volcanically Generated Tsunamis in Alaska

Chris Waythomas, Alaska Volcano Observatory 

12:45pm

Developing a Volcanogenic Tsunami Potential Index of Alaskan Volcanoes

Charlie Mandeville, Alaska Volcano Observatory 

1:15pm

Improving Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Makushin Volcano and for the Community of Unalaska, AK

Hannah Dietterich, Alaska Volcano Observatory

1:45pm

BREAK

2:00pm

Pyroclastic Currents and Their Effects

Greg Valentine, University of Buffalo

2:30pm

Re-Tooling an Observatory to Monitor Deadly Volcanic Hazards in Real-Time: Montserrat, 2000-2003

Glenn Thompson, University of South Florida

3:00pm

VICTOR - A New Cyber Infrastructure for Volcanologists

Einat Lev, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia Climate School

3:30pm

Questions/Discussion

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