FUTUREVOLC IS project in the field of volcanology, led by University of Iceland in collaboration with the Icelandic Meteorological Office. The main objectives of FUTUREVOLC are to establish an integrated volcanological monitoring system through European collaboration, develop new methods to evaluate volcanic crises, increase scientific understanding of magmatic processes and improve delivery of relevant information to civil protection and authorities. The project was launched in the autumn of 2012 and will end at the beginning of next year.
Various stakeholders of the project, focusing on a non-scientific audience, are currently in Iceland at a workshop to discuss the benefits of the project and its significance for long-term monitoring and reaction to volcanic hazards in the future. The workshop includes a series of talks and discussions, followed by brainstorming in groups on selected topics relevant to the FUTUREVOLC project and its follow-up actions. The presentation will be streamed online and available after the workshop.
The idea for FUTUREVOLC came in wake of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010. The eruption had a serious effect on air-traffic in Europe and over the Atlantic Ocean. The project collaborators are twenty-six in ten European countries, including leading European Universities, various institutes and companies. Iceland has been at the centre of the project from the beginning, and numerous domestic and foreign scientists have gathered various geological data in Iceland for almost three years now. This data has consequently been processed and published in acknowledged scientific journals and other platforms.
For further information please consult the project website.
Further information on the workshop in Hveragerði ; 5 – 6 November 2015.