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Das Global Volcanism Program (GVP) ist eine international agierende, vulkanologische Institution, die (GVP) documents Earth's volcanoes and their eruptive history over the past 10,000 years. The GVP reports on current eruptions from around the world as well as maintaining a database repository on active volcanoes and their eruptions. In this way, a global context for the planet's active volcanism is presented. Smithsonian reporting on current volcanic activity dates back to 1968, with the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena (CSLP). Angesiedelt ist das GVP beim Department of Mineral Sciences des National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., das zur Smithsonian Institution gehört.

Selbstverständnis und Zweck

• The mission of GVP is to document, understand, and disseminate information about global volcanic activity. We do this through four core functions: reporting, archiving, research, and outreach.

• The mission of GVP is to document, understand, and disseminate information about global volcanic activity.

• The GVP also documents the last 10,000 years of Earth's volcanism. The historic activity can guide perspectives on possible future events and on volcanoes showing activity. GVP's volcano and eruption databases constitute a foundation for all statistical statements concerning locations, frequencies, and magnitudes of Earth's volcanic eruptions during the past recent 10,000 years.

• The mission of GVP is to document, understand, and disseminate information about global volcanic activity.

• We are devoted to a better understanding of Earth's active volcanoes and their eruptions during the last 10,000 years.

• During the early stages of an eruption, the GVP acts as a clearing house of reports, data, and imagery which are accumulated from a global network of contributors. The early flow of information is managed such that the right people are contacted as well as helping to sort out vague and contradictory aspects that typically arise during the early days of an eruption.

Geschichte

Im Januar 1968 initiierte die Smithsonian Institution das sogenannte Center for Short-Lived Phenomena (CSLP), das den hauseigenen Wissenschaftlern bei der Erforschung zeitlich begrenzter Naturphänomene assistieren sollte – dazu zählten beispielsweise Vulkanausbrüche, Erdbeben, Meteoritenfälle sowie ungewöhnliche ökologische Vorkommnisse wie etwa Aussterbeereignisse, Seuchen, Tierregen und die Auswirkungen von Ölverschmutzungen.

• Im Zuge einer Umstrukturierung wurden im Oktober 1975 mehrere Mitarbeiter zum neugegründeten Scientific Event Alert Network (SEAN) versetzt.

• The SEAN passes information rapidly by telephone or telex to scientists directly concerned with each class of event, and follows up at no cost to a broader group of interested scientists and correspondents in a monthly bulletin.

• Das SEAN covered eruptions and earthquakes and sent out monthly bulletins. By 1985, more than 1000 correspondents received the SEAN bulletins. In 1987, the SEAN still printed bulletins but added an electronic bulletin board.
• For volcanic eruptions a network of volcanologists, volcano observatories and civil defense authorities provided information to the center by telephone, telegram or telex. The event notifications were sent to subscribers by postcard – not real time, but distributed in weeks or months.

• All reports of volcanic activity published by the Smithsonian since 1968 are available through a monthly table of contents or by searching for a specific volcano. Until 1975, reports were issued for individual volcanoes as information became available; these have been organized by month for convenience. Later publications were done in a monthly newsletter format. Links go to the profile page for each volcano with the Bulletin tab open. Information is preliminary at time of publication and subject to change.
• Ab 1975: Natural Science Event Bulletin.
• 1978 bis 1990: Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin
• Seit 1990: Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network

Veröffentlichungen

• Volcano Listserv is an electronic mailing list created in 1984 to encourage volcanologists' use of the then-new electronic communication medium. It is used for the distribution of volcanic activity reports, conference and field trip announcements, employment opportunities, and other items of interest to the volcanologic community. Today there are over 2500 subscribers from 56 nations; list members include university faculty and students, members of various geological surveys, aviation officials, newspaper and television reporters, researchers from a range of industries, program directors from federal granting agencies, and interested members of the public. Volcano Listserv also acts as the official IAVCEI mailing list. Here we discuss the role of Volcano Listserv in higher education, focusing on its use in university courses that have volcanological content.

• Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network: All reports of volcanic activity published by the Smithsonian since 1968 are available through a monthly table of contents or by searching for a specific volcano. Until 1975, reports were issued for individual volcanoes as information became available; these have been organized by month for convenience. Later publications were done in a monthly newsletter format. Links go to the profile page for each volcano with the Bulletin tab open. Detailed reports on various volcanoes are published monthly in the Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network. Geowissenschaftler auf der ganzen Welt haben über das B die Möglichkeit, schnelle Statusmeldungen zu einzelnen Vulkanen an das GVP zu melden, oft mit Eindrücken aus eigener Geländearbeit vor Ort und manchmal mit eigenen Skizzen. Insbesondere in der Zeit vor Etablierung des Internets waren das GVP und seine Vorgänger die schnellste Möglichkeit, um an Informationen über aktuelle Eruptionen zu gelangen. Registrierte Wissenschaftler wurden beispielsweise per Fax und Telegramm über die Entwicklungen in Kenntnis gesetzt. Das Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin wurde kostenlos auch an alle Area Control Centre und Flight Information Centre gesendet. Das Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin konnte auch über die American Geophysical Union bezogen werden. Telefon, Telefax, Telex, Telegramm, Luftpost

• Weekly Volcanic Activity Report: The Weekly Volcanic Activity Report is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and the US Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program. Updated by 2300 UTC every Wednesday and averaging 16 reported volcanoes, this is not a comprehensive list of all eruptions this week, but rather a summary of activity that meet criteria discussed in the "Criteria and Disclaimers" section below. Volcanic activity reported here is preliminary and subject to change. Carefully reviewed, detailed narratives over longer time periods are published as reports of the Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network available through volcano profile pages. The Weekly Volcanic Activity Report [1] is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and the United States Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program. Notices of volcanic activity posted on the report website are preliminary and subject to change as events are studied in more detail. Ab November 2000: Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Reports. The Weekly Volcanic Activity Report is a summary of global volcanic activity posted every Wednesday. It is a collaborative effort between the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. It was conceived in the late 1990s by Marianne Guffanti, the former USGS Volcano Hazards Program Coordinator, and James Luhr, the former GVP Director, to meet increasing expectations on both agencies to provide the public with more timely information about volcanic eruptions. USGS employee Gari Mayberry arrived at the Smithsonian in the summer of 2000 and produced the first public WVAR in collaboration with GVP staff, which covered 1-7 November 2000. I succeeded Gari in May 2006 and remain the WVAR writer. For the entire 20 years, Ed Venzke has provided crucial editorial reviews and helped to ensure both accuracy and a consistent style (rarely have I received a "star" and no edits, which we both find humorous). Weekly summaries of global volcanic activity (Weekly Volcanic Activity Report), prepared by GVP and USGS Volcano Hazards Program, are also sent out via Volcano Listserv, a collaborative venture between the Arizona State University, Portland State University, the GVP and the IAVCEI.

Direktoren

• 1968–1995: Thomas Edward Simkin
• 1995–2007: James Francis Luhr
• 2007–2010: Lee Siebert
• 2010–2018: Elizabeth Cottrell
• 2018–: Benjamin Andrews

Publikationen

• Two editions of Volcanoes of the World, a regional directory... (1981)[3] and (1994)[4] were published based on the GVP data and interpretations.

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