International Seminar AASPP-Misasa

Magmatic gases, their trip from the mantle tothe surface of the Earth
27 February 2006, Misasa, Japan

Sponsored by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Okayama University (ISEI)
Organized by:
Minoru Kusakabe (ISEI), andShigeru Yamashita (ISEI)

Second Circular
Program overview
Registration & housing
Abstract submission
General information

29 November 2005

Program overview
The oral session will be devoted exclusively to the invited speakers.
They are currently Aka, F.T. (IRGM, Cameroon), Bernard, A. (Univ.
Libre Bruxelles, Belgium), Delmelle, P. (University of York, UK), Notsu,K. (University of Tokyo, Japan), Ohba, T. (TITech, Japan), Saito, G.
(AIST, Japan), Shinohara, H. (AIST, Japan), Tanyileke, G. (IRGM,Cameroon), Taran, Y. (UNAM, Mexico), Varekamp, J.C. (WesleyanUniversity, USA), and Yokoyama, T. (University of Maryland, USA).
Other contributions will be presented by posters. At the seminar, aspecial talk by Minoru Kusakabe, who has been working in
geochemistry of crater lakes and magmatic-hydrothermal systems, isplanned, for he is retiring from ISEI at the end of March 2006. The
banquet which will be held after the seminar in the evening on 27thFebruary contains an element to celebrate Prof. Kusakabe'sretirement.

Tentative program:
Monday, 27th February 2006
TimeSpeaker

08:00

Registration desk
opens.

09:00
09:10
09:35

Kusakabe, M.
Varekamp, J.C.
Delmelle, P.

10:00

Saito, G.

10:25
10:50

Coffee break
Shinohara, H.

11:15

Notsu, K.

11:40

Taran, Y.

12:05
13:30

Lunch
Ohba, T.

13:55

Bernard, A.

14:20

Yokoyama, T.

14:45
15:15

Coffee breakAka, F.T.

15:40

Tanyileke, G.

16:05

Kusakabe, M.

17:00
17:15

Coffee break
Poster session
starts.
Poster session
ends.

19:00
19:30
21:30

Banquet starts.
Banquet ends.

Title of paper

Opening: About AASPP-Misasa.
(to be announced)
The environmental fate of volcanic
emissions.
Magma degassing of Satsuma-Iwojima
volcano: Constraints from melt inclusions,volcanic gases and petrology.
Magmatic degassing during mild-Strombolian
activity of Villarrica Volcano, Chile.
"Visible degassing vs. invisible degassing"during magmatic evolution.
Nitrogen and argon in volcanic andhydrothermal gases. Implications for thevolatile budget in subduction zones.
Volcanic hydrothermal system ofMt.Kusatsu-Shirane Japan, hosting theactive crater lake Yugama.
The monitoring of volcanic lakes inIndonesia: from ground to spacemeasurements.
Melting processes beneath Mt. Cameroon:
Constraints from U-Th-Ra and Sr-Nd-Pb
isotope systematics.
The age of Lake Nyos, Cameroon, using UTh-Ra disequilibria.
The rationale for degassing Lakes Nyos andMonoun.
Lakes Nyos and Monoun, Cameroon: thebeginning, present and future.

Session protocol:
Oral session. The oral session will be held in a conference room
(approx. 100 seats) in Hotel Blanc Art Misasa. The presentation facility
is a computer projector (connector: D-sub mini 15 pin), which can beused for PowerPoint presentation. A PC notebook computer forPowerPoint presentation will be available. If you wish to use thiscomputer please come to the registration desk with your PowerPoint
file (in either CD or USB flash memory device) before 8:30 AM. If you
wish to use your own computer for presentation please contact ourstaff at the registration desk.
Poster session. The posters will be displayed in a room next to theconference room where oral session is held. The maximum poster size
is 90 cm (width) x 180 cm (height). Push-pins will be available on theposter board and at the registration desk. The posters will be displayed
during the whole period of the seminar. The posters can be put up in
the morning before the oral session starts at 9:00 AM.

Registration & housing reservation
Registration for the seminar is being accepted only through the online
registration form:
http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/AASPP/registrationinfo.html
until 28th December 2005.
A confirmation will be automatically emailed to you when yourregistration is successful. If you do not receive this confirmation in 24
hr, please contact the organizers via email: shigeru@misasa.okayamau.ac.jp
Registration fees:
Full registration (seminar & banquet): ¥10,000
Seminar only: ¥3,000
Banquet only: ¥7,000
Full registration fee covers refreshments, a lunch, an abstract volume
and banquet. Seminar-only fee covers refreshments, a lunch, and anabstract volume.
Payment information:
Registrants are requested to pay the registration fees at theregistration desk in cash (Japanese Yen only). Please note that nocredit card payment facility will be available at the conference site, andthat no bank in Misasa will handle foreign currency exchange.

Housing reservation:
We have booked 14 twin/triple Japanese-style rooms at the conference
site, Hotel Blanc Art Misasa. The room rate is ¥6,430 per person pernight, with breakfast. Participants can make room reservations
through the online registration form:
http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/AASPP/registrationinfo.html
Single use of the rooms is not acceptable as a policy of the hotel, soplease specify one or two person with whom you would like to share
the room in the online registration form. The housing reservation will
be closed when all 14 rooms are booked even if before the closing date
for the online registration is reached. Your early reservation isrecommended. A confirmation will be emailed to you when yourreservation is accepted. If you receive an email of no availability of aroom from the organizers, or when the housing reservation is closed inour website, please find your accommodation by yourself. For
information of hotel (ryokan) accommodations in Misasa, please visit
Misasa town official website: http://www.town.misasa.tottori.jp/For hotel reservation in Kurayoshi city (approx. 15 min away from theconference site by bus), please visit Kurayoshi city tourist information:
http://www.apionet.or.jp/kankou/ (in Japanese only)
We will offer free-of-charge bus transportation between the conferencesite and major hotels in Kurayoshi city in the morning and evening of
27th February. The timetable for bus transportation will be available
shortly on our website.

Abstract submission
Abstract for the seminar is accepted only through the abstract
submission form:
http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/AASPP/abstractinfo.html
The deadline of the abstract submission is 31 January 2006.
Author should prepare an abstract as PDF file, based on the following
format: Page setting must be A4 paper, portrait orientation. Allmargins should be more than 20mm. The abstract (including anyfigures/photos) must not exceed two pages with these settings.
Type title, authors' names and affiliations including e-mail addresses inblankets. This should be followed by body text, figures, tables etc.
Grayscale figures and photos can be embedded in abstracts. The filesize of each abstract (including figures and photos) must be less than2MB.
All abstracts should be submitted online using the abstract submission

form. Use the "Choose file" button in the form to locate the file you aregoing to upload, and then check your entries by clicking on the "Checkentries" button (All your entries including the size of your file willautomatically be checked). After checking your entries, use "Uploadabstract" button to upload the file. A confirmation will be automaticallyemailed to you when your submission is successful. If you do notreceive this confirmation in 24 hr, please contact the organizers via
email: shigeru@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp
Copyright. The copyright of submitted abstracts is owned by Institutefor Study of the Earth’s Interior, Okayama University.

General information
Registration desk:
The registration desk will be open on 27th February, from 8:00 AM to
7:00 PM at the conference site, Hotel Blanc Art Misasa. Registration
fees will be collected at the registration desk. Note that only
Japanese yen in cash is acceptable. Registrants are requested tocheck-in at the registration desk and receive a name badge, abstract
volume, lunch ticket etc.
Currency exchange:
Overseas participants are strongly recommended to exchange yourcurrency into Japanese yen at the International Narita-Tokyo or
Osaka-Kansai Airport. There are no international currency exchange
facilities in Misasa. Please also note that ATMs at Japanese banks do
not accept credit cards issued in other countries.
Catering:
All costs for the following catering are included in your full registration
fees.
Refreshments. Coffee, tee and biscuits will be offered at theconference site.
Lunch. Japanese-style lunch boxes are offered in a dinning room in theconference site. You will find a lunch ticket at the registration desk.
Banquet. The conference banquet will be held in the evening of 27thFebruary, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, at the conference room.

International Seminar AASPP-Misasa
http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/AASPP/
Minoru Kusakabe (kusakabe@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp), andShigeru Yamashita (shigeru@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp)
Organizers of the SeminarInstitute for Study of the Earth’s Interior
Okayama University
Misasa, Tottori-ken 682-0193, Japan
Tel: +81-858-43-3737 (M.K.) and -3738 (S.Y.)
Fax: +81-858-43-2184 and -3450