Parallel Scientific Programme

VolcanOscars

Films can be a memorable way of raising awareness, educating or simply sharing the joys of volcanoes and volcanology. As technology advances volcanologists are finding increasingly creative ways to produce and share these films, abetted by the proliferation of distribution platforms. This session aims to celebrate that creativity and share ideas as well as our love and  fascination for volcanoes and volcanic phenomena. 

Date: one of the evening parallel sessions (either 23rd,24th or 26th May) 

Would you like to submit a film? 

Call for submissions of short films for Cities on Volcanoes 11 ‘VolcanOscars’! 

If you have produced a short film (< 10 minutes) on a volcano-related topic, we welcome your submission. You can enter your film in one of three categories: 

Submissions will be invited in the run up to CoV11 in one of three categories: 

(a) films created or edited in collaboration with professional film-makers 

(b) films created or edited by scientists/researchers 

(c) films created and edited by early-career researchers (up to 5 years post-PhD Award). 

(d) Other digital audio (e.g. podcast) or audiovisual media not on film 

Deadline for submission is the 8th May 2020 

The winners of each category will be decided via public vote during the VolcanOscars and will be announced at the closing ceremony. 

How to apply: 

1. Send your film via a file transfer service such as wetransfer or mailbigfile to Dr Anna Hicks at the British Geological Survey: ahicks@bgs.ac.uk Please name your file in way that easily allows us to link the film to your submission details below (e.g. surname_name of film). 

Immersive Virtual Reality to study inaccessible and dangerous sites in onshore and offshore volcanic terrains

The aim of this daily live demo is to involve the participants in surveying text-book outcrops for volcanic hazard assessment by utilizing the innovative Immersive Virtual Reality (VR), sites are both in onshore and offshore environment. Participants will explore and study in 3D key sites from Santorini and the Northern volcanic zone of Iceland by collecting field data in dangerous or inaccessible areas, where volcanic, volcanotectonic and tectonic processes produced outstanding and textbook-like geological outcrops. Such 3D real-world outcrops have been reconstructed using the Areal Structure from Motion technique, obtaining 3D models with cm to mmsharp resolution, and are focused on: i) magmatic dykes; ii) 1 to 30-m high normal faults; iii) active craters; iv) Holocene and historical volcanic edifices; v) tectonic-induced extension fractures; vi) transform fault zone; vii) volcanic deposits. This outreach activity is both supported by the Erasmus+ 3DTeLC Project (http://3dtelc.lmv.uca.fr/) and the Argo3D (http://www.argo3d.unimib.it/).

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