Beneath the Waves conference presentations 2023
Our team has been busy sharing our research at national and international conferences over the past year. Click on the links below to read the abstracts through our Data & Resources page.
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
December 2023
The magmatic system under Hunga volcano before and after the 15 January 2022 eruption
Hélène Le Mével, Craig Miller, Marta Ribó, Shane Cronin
Summary: Understanding the conditions and configuration of melt storage under Hunga to better assess volcanic hazards.
Generalized Volcanic Eruption Forecasters using Seismic Data and Machine Learning: examples in Magmatic and Phreatic eruptions
Alberto Ardid, David Dempsey, Corentin Caudron, Shane J Cronin, Társilo Girona, Craig A. Miller
Summary: Training machine learning forecast models with seismic data to demonstrate their potential to generalize precursor information and expand applicability to other volcanoes.
New Approach to Accurately Hindcast and Forecast Explosive Eruptions at Whakaari, New Zealand
John Stix, McGill, Craig A. Miller, Yajing Liu.
Summary: Showing how a sequence of banded tremor events can be used to hindcast the December 2019 Whakaari eruption
Geosciences NZ
November 2023
Determining volcanic rock porosity through reflectance spectroscopy
Maia Kidd, Gabor Kereszturi, Ben Kennedy, Jonathan Procter
Summary: Using non-destructive VNIR-SWIR reflectance spectroscopy to elaborate determine porosity and uniaxial compressive strength.
Unraveling the timescales and processes of hydrothermal alteration at Tongariro volcano, New Zealand
Rachelle Sanchez, Gabor Kereszturi, Antonio M Álvarez-Valero, Georg F Zellmer, Merc
Summary: Reconstructing alteration processes and timescales for mineral precipitation using field geology, petrography, stable isotopes, and thermodynamic modelling.
Mapping CO2 outgassing over volcanic regions using hyperspectral imaging
Daniel Sturgess, Nitin Bhatia, Gabor Kereszturi, Stuart Mead, Agnes Mazot
Summary: CO₂ detection methods using airborne and satellite hyperspectral scenes of Tongariro (New Zealand) and Ambae (Vanuatu), inspecting point source and diffuse CO₂ emissions.
Sum – Product Networks for eruption forecasting
Florent Aden-Antoniow, Yannik Behr, Annemarie Christophersen, Craig Miller
Summary: Investigating the potential of Sum Product Networks for volcanic eruption forecasting in New Zealand.
Evolution of the tsunami risk management and warning end-end system over 18 years: a myriad of research, guidelines, standards, tools and remaining gaps
Graham Leonard, William Power, David Johnston, Emily Lane, Kevin Fenaughty, Sarah-Jayne McCurrach, Bill Fry, Ken Gledhill, Jose Borrero, Louisa Prattley, Sara Harrison
Summary: A review of tsunami risk management evidence and tool domains, and advances underway to improve tsunami preparedness and response.
A social science review into Tsunami evacuation mapping for Aotearoa New Zealand
Danielle Charlton, Rachel Lawson, Sara Harrison
Summary: An evidence-base for decision making on tsunami evacuation zones and map design in Aotearoa.
Bayesian Networks for eruption forecasting
Yannik Behr, Annemarie Christophersen, Craig Miller, Florent Aden
Summary: Using Bayesian Networks to combine expert knowledge and monitoring data for eruption forecasting at Whakaari.
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly
July 2023
Generative adversarial networks as a fast surrogate model for simulations
Stuart Mead
Summary: Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN’s) as a surrogate model to depth-averaged simulations of debris avalanches at Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand.
Simulation of snow slurry lahar hazard at Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand
S. Mead, J. Proctor
Summary: Quantifying snow slurry lahar hazard at Mt. Ruapehu, New Zealand through simulations to obtain lahar intensities and footprints.
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
February 2023
Probing beneath the waves to understand hazards from New Zealand's volcanic islands
Craig Miller, Lydia di Caprio, Gert Lube, Ben Kennedy, Victoria Miller, Xiaoming Wang
Summary: This oral presentation provided an overview of the “Beneath the Waves” research programme.
Bayesian Networks to forecast eruptions at frequently active volcanoes from monitoring data and expert elicitation: Application to Mt Ruapehu
Annemarie Christophersen, Yannik Behr, Craig Miller
Summary: Investigating building a Bayesian Network model to support decision-making and the development of an eruption forecast model for Mt Ruapehu.
Exploring continuous Bayesian Network modelling for eruption forecasting
Annemarie Christophersen, Anca M Hanea, Yannik Behr, Craig
Summary: A discrete Bayesian Network to forecast volcanic eruption on Mt Ruapehu, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Porosity, strength, and alteration – Volcano stability assessment using VNIR-SWIR reflectance spectroscopy
Gabor Kereszturi, Michael Heap, Lauren N. Schaefer, Herlan Darmawan, Frances M. Deegan, Ben Kennedy, Jean-Christophe Komorowski, Stuart Mead, Marina Rosas-Carbajal, Amy Ryan, Valentin R. Troll, Marlène Villeneuve, Thomas R. Walter
Summary: The use of VNIR-SWIR spectroscopy to provides an accurate non-destructive way of assessing rock strength and alteration mineralogy.
Generative adversarial networks to forecast debris avalanche hazard
Stuart Mead, Gabor Kereszturi
Summary: This oral presentation explores the use of neural networks as a surrogate model to generate debris avalanche footprints from Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand.
Pyroclastic density currents - recent advances in understanding and future challenges
Gert Lube
Summary: This invited plenary presentation reports recent progress in pyroclastic density currents research and examines how this closes the gaps towards robust hazard modelling.
Building damage from tephra fall during the 2020-21 eruption of La Soufriere volcano
Victoria Miller, Susanna Jenkins, Eleanor Tennant, Monique Johnson, Christina Magill, Thomas Wilson
Summary: This oral presentation draws on lessons learned to examine future strategies for collection of impact datasets during eruptions.
Effective practices in the learning and teaching of volcanology: from the classroom to the field
Alison Jolley, Jacqueline Dohaney, Ben Kennedy, Sriparna Saha, Alexander Watson
Summary: A workshop on innovative teaching techniques, activities, datasets and related research, all specific to volcanology.