Pan-American Studies Institute (PASI): Magma-Tectonics in Latin America; Managua, Nicaragua, 2013.

泛美高级研究所（PASI）将于2013年在尼加拉瓜马那瓜举行。组委会由首席研究员Peter La Femina博士（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）、Angelica博士Muñoz（尼加拉瓜研究所）、John Stix博士（加拿大麦吉尔大学）和Freysteinn Sigmundsson博士（冰岛大学）组成。PASI将解决与岩浆-构造相互作用相关的基本问题，以提高对火山-岩浆系统的理解，从而帮助减轻相关的危害、风险和脆弱性。特别是，该研究所将解决四个关键的科学方面，这将使科学界在重大方面改进科学：(1)岩浆-构造相互作用；(2)深部与浅层岩浆管道系统；(3)喷发触发机制；(4)火山监测新途径、新方法、新技术。从阿拉斯加的阿留申群岛到南美洲的南端，弧火山活动一直威胁着美洲的脊梁。这些危害突出了对附近居民的重大风险，就火山灰而言，对民用航空的重大风险，以及在特别大规模喷发的情况下对区域的重大风险。火山系统与俯冲带断裂系统非常接近。正如最近看到的那样，俯冲带可以产生可能引发火山爆发的大地震。为了以一种有意义和新颖的方式研究这些问题，本次PASI将围绕三个不同但明显相关和重叠的主题进行会议：(1)地球物理过程，(2)地球化学过程，(3)岩浆-构造相互作用的综合研究。以跨学科的方式使用这三种方法将为火山爆发前的地下岩浆行为，岩浆和构造过程之间的相互关系和反馈，以及火山不稳定时期（包括喷发）的事件提供新的和重要的见解。这次PASI将汇集来自美洲各地的科学家，在火山监测和岩浆和构造过程建模方面进行最新的科学进展和技术培训。它将使来自美国的高级研究生和博士后研究人员有机会发起与拉丁美洲同行的合作，并将使拉丁美洲的同事能够促进来自整个地区的科学家的专业网络。此外，它还将利用美国国家科学基金会边际计划和COCONet计划的数据来调查整个美洲的岩浆和构造系统。

A Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) will be held in Managua, Nicaragua, in 2013. The organizing committee consists of the Principal Investigator, Dr. Peter La Femina (Pennsylvania State University), Dr. Angelica Muñoz (Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales, Nicaragua), Dr. John Stix (McGill University, Canada) and Dr. Freysteinn Sigmundsson (University of Iceland). The PASI will address fundamental issues related to magma-tectonic interactions, in order to improve understanding of volcano-magmatic systems and thus help mitigate associated hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities. In particular, the institute will address four key scientific aspects, which will allow the scientific community to improve the science in significant ways: (1) Magma-tectonic interactions; (2) Deep vs. shallow magma plumbing systems; (3) Eruption trigger mechanisms; and (4) New approaches, methods, and technologies for volcano monitoring. Arc volcanism is an ongoing threat along the backbone of the Americas from the Alaskan Aleutians to near the southern tip of South America. The hazards highlight the significant risk to people living close by, to civil aviation in terms of volcanic ash, and also regionally in the case of particularly large eruptions. Volcanic systems are in close-proximity to subduction zone fault systems. As seen in the recent past, subduction zones can generate large magnitude earthquakes that could potentially trigger eruptions. In order to examine these issues in a meaningful and novel manner, this PASI will have sessions on three distinct yet clearly related and overlapping themes: (1) geophysical processes, (2) geochemical processes, and (3) integrated studies of magma-tectonic interactions. Using these three approaches in an interdisciplinary fashion will provide new and important insights into subsurface magma behavior before eruptions, inter-relationships and feedbacks between magmatic and tectonic processes, and the events that initiate periods of volcano restlessness, including eruptions. This PASI will bring together scientists from across the Americas for training in the latest scientific advances and technologies in volcano monitoring and modeling of magmatic and tectonic processes. It will give advanced graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from the U.S. the opportunity to initiate collaborations with their Latin American counterparts, and will enable Latin American colleagues to promote a professional network of scientists from across the region. Furthermore, it will utilize data from the NSF MARGINS program and the COCONet initiative to investigate magmatic and tectonic systems across the Americas.