Business Meeting
Following items were discussed and decided at the business meeting held on 22 October at Kagoshima during the workshop.
a) Scope of the commission
The aim of the commission has traditionally been biased on "bottle sampling" of volcanic gases. However, volcanic gas study has quite broad aspects including remote sensing techniques (COSPEC, FT-TR etc), soil gas measurements, aerosol studies, volatile component analyses of volcanic rocks (in particular of melt inclusions), physical mechanism of magma degassing and so on. Involvement of these aspects into the commission scope was discussed and decided. Broadening of the commission aspects will be advertised through the commission description at the IAVCEI HP as well as CCVG Web site (see below). Collaboration with remote sensing and soil gas people will be proposed at the next field workshop (see below).b) Next workshop
Next field workshop plan at Nicaragua and Costa Rica in 2003 was proposed by J. Stix, P. Dellmelle, W. Strauch (Nicaragua) and E. Malavassi (Costa Rica). Integrated studies of volcanic volatile emission through the traditional "bottle sampling", soil gas measurement, filter sampling, and remote sensing measurements will be the major aim of this workshop.c) Web site
Web site of the commission was decided to create in order for close communication among members and for public announcement. Web master will be elected as one of the officers to create and maintain the web site. (The web site is now under construction at University of New Mexico server by Tobias Fischer)d) Election of the officers
Following people were elected for the commission officer for 2001-2003 (until the next workshop):
- Leader: Jun-ichi HIRABAYASHI (jhirabay@js5.ksvo.titech.ac.jp)
- Secretary: John STIX (stix@eps.mcgill.ca)
- Newsletter Editor: Hiroshi SHINOHARA (shino@gsj.go.jp)
- Webmaster: Tobias FISCHER (fischer@unm.edu)