3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 From: "Wright, Heather M" <hwright@xxxxxxxx> Dear Volcano Community, The IAVCEI Commission on Volcanic Hazards and Risk (CVHR) is pleased to announce a call for an election of new leadership for all leadership positions. Please self-nominate to become a new leader of CVHR. Nominations are requested for each position (Leader, Co-leader, ECR representative, Liaison/DEI representative, Social media/community engagement, and secretary). The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2025, with a view to holding an election shortly thereafter. We appreciate this is a short timeline but we wish to harness momentum from discussion during and after the IAVCEI meeting. Please self nominate using this form: https://forms.gle/SnC6zETcgsBDBMS56 CVHR also would also like to take this opportunity to request renewed engagement and participation in our commission. If you would like to join our mailing list and Commission, please use this Google form to indicate your interest: (*https://forms.gle/BfEzzAFbWvu4aqBQ7 <https://forms.gle/BfEzzAFbWvu4aqBQ7>*). As a reminder of our commission charge and goals, please see our commission philosophy statement below and on the *commission webpage <https://cvhr.iavceivolcano.org/>*. More detail about each position is listed below. CVHR Commission Executive Committee Overview: - The CVHR Commission Executive Committee consists of six Commissioners (Leader, Co-leader, ECR representative, Liaison/DEI representative, Social media/community engagement, and secretary). The current list of Commissioners is available *online <https://cvhr.iavceivolcano.org/about/personnel/>*. - The Commissioners elected in this election will serve for four years. See the most recent IAVCEI by-laws here: (*https://www.iavceivolcano.org/content/uploads/2024/04/iavcei_statutes-by-laws-2024_english.pdf <https://www.iavceivolcano.org/content/uploads/2024/04/iavcei_statutes-by-laws-2024_english.pdf>* - The CVHR Commission is strongest when there is geographic and professional diversity in its leadership. In the past, the Commission leadership has been dominated by Aotearoa New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan and the academic (including government scientists) sector. We encourage candidates who promote geographic and professional diversity, from volcano observatories, and from outside the physical sciences (e.g., emergency management, civil defense, and the social sciences). - Please note that according to the IAVCEI Statutes & By-Laws, Commissioners need to be current IAVCEI members. - As a team, Commission leaders are tasked with promoting advances in volcanic hazard and risk topics, organizing meetings or workshops, and supporting formation of new working groups (which are themselves organized around specific tasks) and promoting existing working groups. Officers participate in meetings held by the IAVCEI Executive Committee when appropriate. A more thorough list of duties can be found in the link above. Commission philosophy The Commission on Volcanic Hazards and Risk is dedicated to applied volcanology, a key realm of volcanology that occupies the front line between academic research and governmental organizations that are responsible for decision-making and policy processes that reduce the impact of volcanic hazards on society. This commission focuses on understanding, quantifying, and communicating the hazards, the extent and likelihood of their occurrence, and assessing their impacts and the societal vulnerabilities they create from near to far-field. There is both a research push from volcanologists pushing at the frontiers between volcanic hazard and risk, and a societal pull coming from the increased need for systematised, universal approaches to analysing and characterising volcanic hazards and risk. The principal topics covered by this commission include: - Hazard Mapping: The methods and best practices of generating effective hazard maps based on an understanding of the physical processes involved. Including integration of field and, where appropriate, modeling methods (both deterministic and probabilistic) for different hazards associated with volcanic eruptions. - Hazard Assessments: The methods and best practices of estimation of hazard, or hazard assessment (which do not always include maps). The integration of field and modeling methods for all hazards associated with volcanic eruptions, including those for individual volcanic edifices, site-specific assessments, regional volcanic hazards, and volcanic hazards associated with volcanic field volcanism. - Risk Assessments: Integration of hazard assessments with exposure and vulnerability studies, and thus a highly multidisciplinary area. - Risk Communication and Perception: An emerging but critically important field, and again a highly multidisciplinary area. Risk communication is how warnings or technical information about volcanic activity is used and understood by populations around volcanoes to formulate decisions that reduce individual and societal risk. The effectiveness of communication can be modulated by complex social and political issues, as well as varying perceptions and expectations of activity or even warnings. The lack of effective translation of warnings or technical information into actions to reduce risk provides a significant additional input to risk. Efforts here would be to promote new analyses of these processes and their impact, encouraging improved collaboration between volcanologists and social scientists, and to apply these findings with more effective interactions between physical volcanologists and those involved in research or policy decisions that act to mitigate risk. - Science into Policy: An emerging but critically important field, involving two-way knowledge transfer between scientists and end-users. A key aspect of this work will be to help guide the needs-defined development of hazard science and products to tailor our science better to what is needed by the community. Efforts here may include engineering amelioration as well as issues and policies that affect a societyâ??s capacity to recover, building resilient and sustainable communities in volcanically active regions. Working groups within this commission include or have included: - Working group on hazard mapping (active) - Working group on volcanic risk to agriculture (active) - Working group on cyberinfrastructure for volcanic hazard assessments (new) - Working group on hazard communication (inactive) 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 ------------------------------
