| Tephra 2014 - Draft
Program |
| Arrival |
August 3, 2014
Check-In and Informal gathering 5-10 pm
|
Day 1
|
August 4, 2014 (Monday) - Field Trip
to Mount St. Helens
- Examine proximal to distal tephra deposits
- Discuss field studies, tephra sampling, and the
importance of field data.
Draft Itinerary:
|
Day 2
|
August 5, 2014 (Tuesday)
| Introduction |
8:15
- 8:30
|
Introduction and meeting
objectives |
8:30 -
9:30
|
Plenary talks:
- Tephra from creation to deposition
- Objectives and applications of tephra
studies |
| Tephra deposits: getting
information from the field and core |
9:30 -
10:00
|
What to describe in the field:
importance of physical characteristics and
uncertainties |
10:00
- 10:30
|
Break - refreshments
and posters
|
10:30
- 11:00
|
How to recognize and sample
tephras |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Locating and sampling
crypto-tephras and lacustrine-marine
tephras |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Recognizing reworking and
remobilization |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch break |
13:30 - 14:00
|
Influence of the environment
and time |
| Characterizing
tephra deposits: mineralogy and
geochemistry |
| 14:00 - 16:00 |
Methods and best practices in
tephra mineralogy and geochemistry
|
16:00 - 18:00
|
Posters (with
refreshments)
|
|
Day 3
|
August 6, 2014 (Wednesday)
Dating
tephra and tephra-bearing sequences
|
8:00 - 10:00
|
Dating methods and age
modelling
|
| 10:00
- 10:30 |
Break - refreshments
and posters |
Characterizing
the eruption from tephra deposits
|
10:30
- 11:00
|
Thickness, mineralogy, and
particles with distance |
11:00
- 11:30
|
Identifying the source and the
influence of wind
|
| 11:30
- 12:00 |
Estimating erupted volume and
column height |
| 12:00
- 12:30 |
Eruptive history: eruptive
style and evolution with time |
12:30 - 13:30
|
Lunch break |
Modelling
volcanic eruptions
|
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Step 1: injecting tephra in
the atmosphere - column models |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Step 2: transport tephra in
the atmosphere - dispersal models |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Step 3: sedimentation of
tephra - tephra fallout models |
Correlating
tephra: a multi-parameter approach
|
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
Methods, tools, and
uncertainties |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Correlation across increasing
distances: Emerging inter-continental
studies |
16:30 - 18:30
|
Posters (with
refreshments)
|
|
Day 4
|
August 7, 2014 (Thursday)
Tephra
data, eruption catalogs, and samples
|
| 8:00 - 8:30 |
The importance of a global
tephra and eruption database |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Improving accessibility and
discoverability through open data sets: an
opportunity
|
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Using consistent vocabulary
and methodologies |
| 10:00
- 10:30 |
Break |
Break-out
session and discussion
|
| 10:30
-11:30 |
Working groups
|
| 11:30 -12:00 |
Closing discussion
|
12:00
- 13:00
|
Lunch break |
Hands on sessions
|
| 13:00
- 14:30 |
- Modelling volcanic ash:
eruption, dispersal, and sedimentation
-
Age modelling
|
| 14:30 - 16:00 |
- Recognizing and tephra beds
in lakes, bogs, and marine cores
-
Contributing to open databases: samples,
ages, and geochemistry |
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