Column Forming Joints In An Andesite Lava Flow At Ruapehu Volcano, New Zealand (c Conway)

Volcano-ice Interactions Commission

We will be organizing and announcing online seminars, conference sessions, publication updates and more over the next few months. Stay tuned!

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Welcome to the Volcano-Ice Interactions Commission
Column Forming Joints In An Andesite Lava Flow At Ruapehu Volcano, New Zealand (c Conway)

Welcome to the Volcano-Ice Interactions Commission

Welcome to the home page of the IAVCEI/IACS Joint Commission on Volcano–Ice Interactions. The Commission is charged with promoting research and interest in the complex interactions of magma and ice in all its forms (snow, firn, ice and meltwater), on…


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New VIIC leadership
Nch’ḵay̓ (Mount Garibaldi) and the Table in British Columbia, Canada (T. Unnsteinsson)

New VIIC leadership

Iestyn Barr, Linda Sobolewski and Tryggvi Unnsteinsson have just taken over as the new leaders to represent IAVCEI in the joint IAVCEI/IACS Volcano-Ice Interactions Commission. Our backgrounds cover a diverse range of topics related to volcano-ice interactions, including work on…


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Online Workshop – January 2025
Fractures in the Mazama dacite lava flow at Mount Rainier, USA (C. Conway)

Online Workshop – January 2025

The VIIC is holding an online workshop from 13-15 January 2025. The workshop will be focusing on volcano-ice interactions but is suitable for both volcanologists and glaciologists in the same way. It is also open to everyone else interested in…


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Iceland workshop – May 2025
Lava flow moving over snow at Tolbachik volcano, Russia, 2013 (B. Edwards)

Iceland workshop – May 2025

The Volcano-Ice Interactions Commission (VIIC), a joint commission of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) and the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), is organizing an in-person workshop in Iceland in May 2025. Everyone…


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VIIC Seminar – 11 Nov 2025
Lava flow moving over snow at Tolbachik volcano, Russia, 2013 (B. Edwards)

VIIC Seminar – 11 Nov 2025

When: Tuesday, 11th November 2025, 9 AM GMT Join us for our next seminar with our speaker Jodi Fox, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Jodi is presenting her work on marine sediment cores from Antarctica,…


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