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 Earth and other planets. In general such interactions are referred to as glaciovolcanism. This website is intended to be the first port of call for anybody with an interest in the subject. It should also serve as a rapid means of discovering what glaciovolcanic meetings are currently planned, and as a way of contacting most of the active workers. In addition, to foster the exchange of ideas internationally, we are compiling a glaciovolcanic image database, since a good clear image of a feature is worth a thousand words. The database will be accessible from this site and all the images will be freely available for use in (non-commercial) public talks and papers. We invite everyone to contribute their favourite educational images to help constantly improve and expand the database.
We will be organizing and announcing online seminars, conference sessions, publication updates and more over the next few months. Stay tuned!
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…
Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 IAVCEI Scientific Assembly. We would like to encourage everyone working on glaciovolcanism, in any shape or form, to consider joining and contributing to our Volcano-Ice session in Geneva next summer. We look…
The joint Volcano-Ice Interaction Commission (VIIC) of the International Associations of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) and Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth‘s Interior (IAVCEI) is inviting nominations for new IACS representatives to serve on the VIIC board. The VIIC is charged…
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…
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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We would like to draw your attention to the EGU26 session GMPV10.8 “Volcano-glacier interactions on Earth and beyond”, taking place at the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna from 3-8 May 2026. Abstract submission has now opened, and the submission…
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,…