* Astronomy

2nd Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars Conference
Conveners: Ben Edwards, Dickinson College, USA; Ian Skilling, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Lionel Wilson, University of Lancaster, UK, Hugh Tuffen, University of Lancaster, UK.

This conference is a follow-up to the first Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars Conference, held in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2000, and will also build upon the International Symposium on Earth and Planetary Volcano-Ice Interactions, organized by the International Glaciological Society (IGS), also in Reykjavik in June 2006. The VII2 conference is sponsored by the IAVCEI Working Group on Volcano-Ice Interaction, University of British Columbia (UBC), Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), and the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Further support from the IAVCEI Commissions on Explosive Volcanism (CEV) and Volcanogenic Sediments (CVS) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) is pending. VII2 will in particular be a chance to see and discuss the many superb examples of non-basaltic volcano-ice interaction that are preserved in British Columbia and north-west USA.

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