Summary of the core member meeting of Asian Consortium of Volcanology
Date: Feb. 4, 2015
Venue: Campus plaza Kyoto, Kyoto Japan
Participants:[Presentation & Q/A points]
1. Introduction (Fujita)
2. Country report2-1. Indonesia (Hendrasto, CVGHM)
Young volcanologists in Indonesia: shortage of analysis technique
Recent volcanic activity
Proposals
Tambora workshop[Q/A]
Pallister: New employment? Limited training chance for young
scientist
Newhall: Establishment of regional centers and collaboration withvolcano observatories
Taisne: Education themes: broad or specific
Pallister: Collaboration with universities. Revision of blueprints
2-2. Philippines (Solidum, PHIVOLCS)
PHIVOCS Strategic Programs
Disaster Risk reduction and management (DRRM)
Communication Scheme for Volcanic Activity
Capacity Building[Q/A]
Taisne: Training opportunity (Broad or specific) -> Specific
Pallister: VDAP -> special training program for data management
Difficulty in hiring computer programmers
Gunawan: risk assessment for local government software の提供
Taisne: It is important to emphasize the effectiveness of volcanic
hazard maps, like those of earthquakes, tsunami and typhoons.

2-3. Singapore (Costa, EOS)EOS staffs
Possible contributions
WOVOdat[Q/A]
McCousland: PhD program at EOS
McCousland, Newhall, Pallister: n: WOVOdat: pattern recognition ofdata mining..
2-4. South Korea (Lee, VDRPC)VDRPC Mt. Baekdu project
IT-Based system
Plan for training course of IT-based response system[Q/A]
Taisne: Ash fall: international monitoring (including VAAC)
2-5. China (Jiandong Xu)
Volcanic monitoring project by CEA
Changbaishan Observation network
Workshop at Changbaishan in September
2-6. Taiwan (Chen-Horng Lin, Sinica)
Operation of Taiwan Volcano Observatory (Tatun Volcano, etc.)[Q/A]
Taisne: in case of unrest, do the observatory deal with thecommunication, evacuation?
Lin: So far we do only monitoring and are not experts. We have to
make communication with others
Pallister: Amazing that such a small team do a tremendous jobs andthis is a big step. Similar situation with Naples.
Necessary for budget support from government for permanentmonitoring
seismicity – continuous about 10 years.
Solidum: How to issue the information of volcanic activity (level, etc.)

Fidel: Nuclear power plant -> 40 years
John: Tatun explosive past eruption?
2-7. Japan (Iguchi, Kyoto-U)
SATREPSACV proposal[Q/A]
QA: John: Field camp for young scientist
2-8. USGS-VDAP (Pallister, USGS-VDAP)
VDAP (USGS with USAID) activities in many countries
Ideas for ACV Collaboration[Q/A]
Solidum: PH-US relationship, basically based on Navy so far and inhydrology. This is a good opportunity. Seismic monitoring is over andwe will promote to another monitoring aspects.
Costa: importance on continuous and quantitative data acquisition
Xu: How to become a partner?
Lee: CSAV details?
2-9. General (Newhall)Specific unrest (crisis) / eruption opportunities
Joint multi-national observations by different specialties
Virtual library
Short research sabbaticals
Ash-aviation summer school[Q/A]
Bornas: Volcanic ash advisory: international meeting in Asian region
with ICAO
Pallister: Crisis procedures in observatory. How to organize and tocollaborate with volunteers, post-doc, undergraduate, visiting
researchers.

3. Discussion
MOU
Operating structure:
President – Iguchi: Secretariat: Fujita
Executive committee: Made, Solidum, Costa
Web:E.C. will discuss.
Budget:
VSJ: 33,000USD/year for the first three years
All participating countries will make efforts to get budges.
Training course
Japanese proposal: Workshop in Sakurajima in fall
Term: two or three weeks - one month (one-week is too short)
Lecturers: international
Budget: VDAP can sponsor ACV for developing countries
SATREPS (JICA) can support Indonesia.
Method: school / field observation / combination
Target level: Post-doc / Master / Observatory staff
Listing of menu, priorities
Which organization is responsible for which topic?