Cooperative Research on Volcanic SO2 Emissions from Volcanoes in Guatemala, Ecuador, and Chile

该奖项将支持密歇根州的威廉·罗斯教授 技术大学与埃迪桑切斯和 国家系统学研究所的豪尔赫·吉隆， Vulcanologia，Meteorologia e Hidrologia（INSIVUMEH） 危地马拉;与国立理工学院Minard Hall合办 厄瓜多尔外交部的卡洛斯·拉米雷斯 智利地质矿产。 该项目的目的是 测量几座火山的二氧化硫排放量， 相关光谱仪（COSPEC）。 所有的火山 非常活跃或越来越活跃。 许多人提出了一个 严重威胁当地居民、财产和经济。 然而，关于目前的信息很少。 这些火山的状态。 因为二氧化硫 在较浅的深度从岩浆中显著出露， 是浅层岩浆活动的可靠指示 因此，我们认为， 获取当前二氧化硫排放信息 将帮助当地政府机构协调他们的 火山爆发应急计划，并提供重要信息 to the researchers研究人员. 虽然总体目标是将二氧化硫 测量，有一个重要的培训组成部分， 罗斯教授将指导当地的 科学家正确使用COSPEC。 这样的培训将导致 在访问结束后继续监测， 以减轻火山爆发所造成的破坏 这些火山 在这种情况下，该裁决履行了 发展中国家科学计划的目标。

This award will support Professor William Rose of Michigan Technological University in collaboration with Eddy Sanchez and Jorge Giron of the Instituto Nacional de Sismologia, Vulcanologia, Meteorologia e Hidrologia (INSIVUMEH) of Guatemala; with Minard Hall of the Escuela Politecnica Nacional of Ecuador; and with Carlos Ramirez of the Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria in Chile. The purpose of the project is to measure the sulfur dioxide emissions of several volcanoes with a correlation spectrometer (COSPEC). All of the volcanoes to be visited are very active or increasingly active. Many pose a severe threat to local populations, properties, and economies. However, very little information is known about the current state of these volcanoes. Because the sulfur dioxide only significantly exsolves from magmas at shallow depths, it is a reliable indicator of shallow magmatic processes. Therefore, obtaining information about current sulfur dioxide emissions will help the local government agencies coordinate their eruption contingency plans and provide significant information to the researchers. While the overall objective is to conduct the sulfur dioxide measurements, there is a significant training component to this grant in that Professor Rose will be instructing the local scientists in proper use of the COSPEC. Such training will lead to continued monitoring after the visit is over and could help to lessen the damage from the eventual destructive eruptions of these volcanoes. In this context the award fulfills the objectives of the Science in Developing Countries Program.