2nd International Conference on Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety
June 21-24, 2004
   
 
Opening Session
  • Mr. Samuel P. Williamson, Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
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Keynote Address/Invited Speakers
  • Dr. James R. Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Deputy Administrator
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  • Dr. Charles G. Groat, Director, U.S. Geological Survey
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  • Mr. Robert A. Sturgell, Deputy Administrator, FAA
  • Mr. Ronald J. Birk, Director of the Earth Science Applications Division, Office of Earth Science, NASA
  • Mr. Gianni Semenzato, Senior Flight Inspector, Ente Nazional per L’Aviazione Civile (Italian Civil Aviation Authority)

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Panel 1 – Airborne Volcanic Ash: Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities

Panel Moderator: Dr. Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, WeatherNews Professor of Meteorology and Founding Director of the Sasaki Applied Meteorology Research Institute, University of Oklahoma
 
  • Dr. Thomas P. Miller, Scientist Emeritus, USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory
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  • Dr. Louis W. Uccellini, Director, NOAA’s NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction
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  • Ms. Gloria Kulesa, Director, Aviation Weather Research, FAA
 
  • Mr. Alan Shaffer, Director, Plans and Programs, Office of the Secretary of Defense
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  • Dr. Peter Chen, Director, Operations Branch, Canadian Meteorological Center, Environment Canada
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Panel 2: Education, Training, and Outreach

Panel Moderator: Dr. Gregory S. Forbes, Severe Weather Expert, The Weather Channel
 
  • Ms. Cyndie Abelman, Meteorologist-In-Charge, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service, Oklahoma City, OK
 
 
  • Captain Albert M. Beerley, US Airways Airbus, US Airways/ALPA Training Committee
  
 
  • Mr. John O’Brien, Director, Engineering and Air Safety Department, Air Line Pilots Association
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  • Mr. Saburo Onodera, Manager, Flight Crew Training Department, Japan Airlines
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  • Professor Eric Doten, Director of Center for Aerospace Safety/Security Education, Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University

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Session 1: Encounters, Damage, and Socioeconomic Consequences

Session Chairs: Mr. Edward Miller, Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)
Mr. Leonard Salinas, United Airlines (UAL)
  1.1 2003 Caribbean Volcanic Ash Encounters
Captain Albert M. Beerley, US Airways ALPA Training Committee, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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  1.2 Engine Damage to a NASA DC-8-72 Airplane from a High-Altitude Encounter with a Diffuse Volcanic Ash Cloud
Thomas J. Grindle, NASA, Edwards, CA, USA; and Frank W. Burcham, Jr.
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  1.3 Aircraft Encounters from the 18th August 2000 Eruption at Miyakejima, Japan
Andrew Tupper, Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia; and Yasuhiro Kamada, Noriyuki Todo, Ed Miller
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  1.4 Impacts of Volcanic Ash on Airline Operations
Leonard J. Salinas, United Airlines Flight Dispatch, Chicago, Illinois, USA; and Daniel Watt
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  1.5 Air Niugini and the Volcanic Ash Threat
Captain David Innes, Flight Safety Office, Air Nuigini, Papua, New Guinea
 
  1.6 Reducing Encounters of Aircraft with Volcanic Ash Clouds
Marianne Guffanti, USGS, Reston, VA, USA; and Thomas J. Casadevall, Gari Mayberry


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Session 2: The Volcanic Source - Eruption Monitoring and Reporting

Session Chairs: Ms. Marianne Guffanti, U.S. Department of the Interior/U. S. Geological Survey (DOI/USGS)
Dr. Steven McNutt, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI)
  2.1 A Global Perspective on Volcanoes and Eruptions
Richard Wunderman, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA; and Lee Siebert, James Luhr, Tom Simkin, Ed Venzke
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  2.2 Promise and Pitfalls in Eruption Forecasting
Chris Newhall, USGS, Seattle, WA, USA
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  2.3 Status of Volcano Monitoring Worldwide
John W. Ewert, USGS, VDAP, Vancouver, WA, USA; and Christopher G. Newhall
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  2.4 Volcanic Alert Systems: An Overview of their Form and Function
Bradley Scott, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Wairakei, New Zealand
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  2.5 Recent Etna’s Explosive Eruptions Threaten Seriously Aviation in Central Mediterranean Region
Mauro Coltelli, INGV, Catania, Italy
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  2.6 Recent Eruptive Activity in Ecuadorian Volcanoes and its Threat to Aviation Safety
Hugo Yepes A., Instituto Geofisico, Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito-ECUADOR
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  2.7 The Alaska Volcano Observatory – Fifteen Years of Working to Mitigate the Risk to Aviation from Volcanic Ash in the North Pacific
Thomas L. Murray, USGS, AVO, Anchorage, AK, USA
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  2.8 Ground-Based Real Time Monitoring of Eruption Clouds in the Western Pacific
Kisei Kinoshita, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan; and Satoshi Tsuchida, Chikara Kanagaki, Andrew C. Tupper, Ernesto G. Corpuz, Eduardo P. Laguerta
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Session 3: Ash Cloud Observations, Modeling, and Forecasting

Session Chairs: Dr. William Rose, Michigan Technological University (MTU)
Ms. Barbara Stunder, U.S. Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research/Air Resources Laboratory (DOC/NOAA/OAR/ARL)
Mr. Andrew Tupper, Bureau of Meteorology, Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), Australia
  3.1 Modeling Volcanic Ash Transport and Dispersion: Expectations and Reality
Rene Servranckx, CMC, MSC, Quebec, Canada; and Peter Chen
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  3.2 Discrepancies Between Satellite Detection and Forecast Model Results of Ash Cloud Transport: Case Study of the 2001 Eruption of Mt. Cleveland Volcano, Alaska
David J. Schneider, USGS, AVO, Anchorage, AK, USA; Rene Servranckx, Jeff Osiensky
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  3.3 Assessing Volcanic Ash Hazard by Using the CALPUFF System
Sara Barsotti, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Volcanologia, Pisa, Italy; and Augusto Neri, Joe Scire
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  3.4 Potential of the ATHAM Model for Use in Air Traffic Safety
Christiane Textor, Lab. Sciences du Climate et de L’Environnement, Paris, France; and Gerald Ernst
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  3.5 Volcanic Ash and Aerosol Detection Versus Dust Detection Using GOES and MODIS Imagery
Bernadette Connell, CIRA/CSU, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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  3.6 Ice in Volcanic Clouds: Where and When?
William I. Rose, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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  3.7 Detection of Upper Level SO2 via the GOES Sounder
Fred Prata, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia; and Anthony J. Schreiner, Gary P. Ellrod, Timothy J. Schmit
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  3.8 The G-bIRD Volcanic Ash Cloud Detection System
Fred Prata, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia;and Cirilo Bernardo
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Session 4: VAAC Operations and Capabilities

Session Chairs: Ms. Grace Swanson, U.S. Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service/Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, Washington, D.C., USA (DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/VAAC)
Mr. Rene Servranckx, Environment Canada, Canadian Meteorological Center, Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, Montreal (EC/CMC/VAAC)

  4.1 The International Airways Volcano Watch (IAVW)
Raul Romero, ICAO, Montreal, Canada
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  4.2 WMO Activities Related to Volcanic Ash
Saad Benarafa, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  4.3 NOAA’s NWS Volcanic Ash Program: Current Status and Plans for the Future
Christopher S. Strager, NWS Alaska Region Headquarters, Anchorage, AK, USA; and Jeffrey M. Osiensky, Gary L. Hufford
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  4.4 Volcanic Ash Impact on International Airport of Mexico City (AICM), Due to Emissions of Popocatepetl Volcano
Humberto Rodriguez, DMTA of SENEAM, Mexico, D.F. Mexico
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  4.5 The Darwin VAAC Volcanic Ash Workstation
Rodney Potts, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia; and Mey Manickam, Andrew Tupper, Jason Davey
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  4.6 Shared Situational Awareness and Collaboration Through the Use of the Volcanic Ash Collaboration Tool (VACT)
Jeffrey M. Osiensky, NWS Alaska Aviation Weather Unit, Anchorage, AK, USA; and Greg Pratt, David J. Schneider, Lynn Sherretz
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  4.7 Perspectives on Operational Volcanic Ash Warnings
Hordur Thordarson, Meteorological Service of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
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  4.8 Volcanic Cloud Conceptual Models for Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Operations
Andrew Tupper, Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia; and Gerald Ernst, Christiane Textor, Kisei Kinoshita, J. Scott Oswalt, Daniel Rosenfeld
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  4.9 Volcanic Ash Advisory Support for the U.S. Department of Defense
Charles Holliday, U.S. AFWA, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, USA
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  4.10 Web Access to the Digital Archive of VAA Messages and VAFTAD Model Output
Paula Dunbar, NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC, Boulder, CO, USA; and Grace Swanson


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Session 5: Aviation Industry Perspectives

Session Chairs: Mr. Steven R. Albersheim, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration (DOT/FAA)
Mr. John Murray, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Langley Research Center (NASA/LaRC)
  5.1 Technology Transfer: Moving R&D to Operations
Steven R. Albersheim, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, D.C., USA
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  5.2 The Effect of Volcanic Activity on Airports
Marianne Guffanti, USGS, Reston, VA, USA; and Gari Mayberry, Rick Wunderman, Thomas J. Casadevall
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  5.3 An Air Traffic Controller Perspective on Volcanic Ash: How to Deal with It!
Richard Hernandez, FAA San Juan Automated International Flight Service Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
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  5.4 The New Zealand Volcanic Ash Advisory System
Peter Lechner, Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ
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  5.5 Prevention of Volcanic Ash Encounters in the Proximity Area Between Active Volcanoes and Heavy Air Traffic Routes
Saburo Onodera, Flight Crew Training Department, Japan Airlines, Tokyo, Japan
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  5.6 A Program for Research and Systems Integration to Help Mitigate the Volcanic Ash Hazard to Aviation
Tenny A. Lindholm, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA
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  5.7 Explosive Volcanic Eruptions Across the Heavily Traveled North Pacific Air Routes: Frequency, Duration, and Impact on Aviation
Thomas P. Miller, USGS, AVO, Anchorage, AK, USA
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  5.8 Monitoring and Reporting of Kamchatkan and North Kurile Islands Volcanic Eruptions
Evgenii Gordeev, Institute of Volcanology and Seismology FED RAS, Russia; Sergei Senjukov and Olga A.Girina

 
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Closing Session

ICAO’s Commitment to Mitigating Volcanic Ash Hazard

  • Mr. William Voss, Director, Air Navigation Bureau, International Civil Aviation Organization
  

Conference Highlights

  • Ms. Marianne Guffanti, DOI/USGS
  • Mr. Andrew Tupper, Bureau of Meteorology, Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), Australia
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Building on Our Successes in Aviation Safety for the Next Decade

  • Dr. Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, University of Oklahoma
  • Dr. Paul D. Try, Senior Vice President, Science and Technology Corporation
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Closing Remarks

  • Mr. Samuel P. Williamson, Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
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