PIRE: United States - Russia - Japan Partnership in Research and Education in Volcanology

----国际研究与教育伙伴关系将把美国、俄罗斯和日本的科学家和学生聚集在一起，解决与火山学直接相关的一个重要问题：1980年在圣海伦斯火山和1964年在俄罗斯堪察加半岛的两个类似系统——舍韦鲁奇和1956年在贝兹米尼亚尼——发生的毁灭性火山锥崩塌/爆炸序列及其后果。教师团队由费尔班克斯阿拉斯加大学的John Eichelberger、俄罗斯堪察加彼得罗巴甫洛夫斯克火山学和地震学研究所的Evgenii Gordeev和日本东京大学的Takehiro Koyaguchi领导。火山是地球上最令人兴奋和鼓舞人心的，也是最危险的现象之一，这个项目使用了世界上火山最活跃的地区之一作为自然实验室。随着人口的增长和社会技术的复杂性使我们更容易受到自然灾害的影响，以及我们认识到火山作用在全球变化中的作用，了解火山变得越来越重要。通过对这三个特别剧烈的类似系统在过去50年爆发以来的不同时间进行综合比较，该项目将促进我们对岩浆如何储存在地壳中，火山爆发是如何触发的以及板块崩塌如何影响未来喷发行为的理解。三国合作对于开展项目分析至关重要，因为每个国家的科学家将贡献不同的和互补的专业知识。这项合作继续并扩大了美国、俄罗斯和日本机构之间的合作，并为北环太平洋地区这些国家之间的长期研究和培训奠定了基础。这些努力将通过提高我们对这些大型爆炸性喷发背后过程的理解，以及通过培训从事国际活动的年轻火山学家，加强未来火山灾害监测能力。该项目以培养由教师和学生组成的国际研究团队而闻名，他们将在堪察加半岛、阿拉斯加和圣海伦斯山进行实地研究。研究生将接受多种方法的训练，包括地球物理、物理火山学、建模和岩石学。这些学生还将接受俄语语言和文化培训，并将在堪察加国立师范大学与俄罗斯和日本研究生一起参加短期课程。该项目将培养一批精通国际合作方法的学者骨干，加深对三国文化和科学文化的了解。这些团队将通过频繁的定期网络广播研讨会和会议保持联系，这些研讨会和会议将在现场工作之前开始，并在现场数据收集后继续进行，以确保对数据进行综合和协作分析。这个奖项是由地球科学部共同资助的。

----This Partnership for International Research and Education will bring together U.S., Russian and Japanese scientists and students to address an important problem in volcanology of immediate relevance: the devastating cone collapse/blast sequence and its aftermath that beset Mount St. Helens in 1980 and two analogous systems in Kamchatka, Russia - Sheveluch in 1964 and Bezymianny in 1956. The faculty team is led by John Eichelberger, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Evgenii Gordeev, Institute of Volcanology and Seismology in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, and Takehiro Koyaguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan. Volcanoes are among the most exciting and inspiring, as well as dangerous phenomena on the planet Earth and this project uses one of the most volcanically active regions of the world as a natural laboratory. Understanding volcanoes has become increasingly important as growing population and technical complexity of society make us more vulnerable to natural catastrophe and as we realize the role of volcanism in global change. By conducting an integrated comparison of these three especially violent analogous systems at different times since their eruptions over the last 50 years, this project will advance our understanding of how magma is stored in the crust, how eruptions are triggered, and how sector collapse affects future eruptive behavior. The trinational collaboration is essential to carrying out the project analyses because the scientists from each nation will contribute different and complementary expertise. The collaboration continues and expands cooperation among U.S., Russian and Japanese institutions, and establishes the foundation for long-term research and training among these countries in the northern Pacific Rim. These efforts will enhance volcano hazard monitoring capabilities in the future by improving our understanding of the processes behind these large explosive eruptions and by training internationally-engaged young volcanologists. The project is notable for developing international research teams of faculty and students that will undertake field research in Kamchatka, in Alaska, and at Mount St. Helens. The graduate students will be trained in multiple approaches in geophysics, physical volcanology, modeling, and petrology. The students will also have language and culture training in Russian and will take short courses at Kamchatka State Pedagogical University with Russian and Japanese graduate students. This project will develop a cadre of scholars that are fluent in international collaborative approaches, with increased understanding of both the cultures and the cultures of science in the three nations. The teams will stay connected by frequent regular webcast seminars and meetings that will start before the field work and continue after field data is collected to ensure an integrated and collaborative analysis of the data.This award is co-funded by the Division of Earth Sciences.