Welcome
Welcome to the home page of the IAVCEI/IACS Joint Commission on Volcano—Ice Interactions. The Commission is charged with promoting research and interest in the complex interactions of magmas and ice in all its forms (snow, firn, ice and meltwater), on Earth and other planets. In general such interactions are referred to as glaciovolcanism. This website is intended to be the first port of call for anybody with an interest in the subject. It should also serve as a rapid means of discovering what glaciovolcanic meetings are currently planned, and as a way of contacting most of the active workers. In addition, to foster the exchange of ideas internationally, we have created a glaciovolcanic image database, since a good clear image of a feature is worth a thousand words. The database is accessible from this site and all the images are freely available for use in (non-commercial) public talks and papers. We invite everyone to contribute their favourite educational images to help constantly improve and expand the database.
IAVCEI/IACS Joint Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions Homepage
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- 2011 Puyehue Eruption!
Visit the Links page for information and images of recent and ongoing volcano-ice-snow interactions.
Ground-based view of the rhyolitic eruption at Puyehue-Cordon Caulle on January 2012, with explosive activity and an advancing obsidian flow. (courtesy of Hugh Tuffen, Lancaster University).
View of 21 May 2011 eruption column from Grimsvotn volcano (courtesy of Bjorn Oddsson, Univ of Iceland). Further information can be found at the Icelandic Met Office, the University of Iceland Institute of Earth Sciences , and the London Volcanic Ash Advisory Center
Page updated 12 March 2012
