Session TM4

TM4 | Commission on Tephrochronology Community Meeting

Commission on Tephrochronology Community Meeting

Convener: Britta Jensen | Co-conveners: Paul Albert, Elodie Lebas

Wed, 06 May, 19:00–20:00 (CEST)

Room N1

The Commission on Tephrochronology (COT), part of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI), is planning a community meeting to discuss current and future events occurring within our scientific community. The CoT Executive will have the opportunity to introduce themselves to the membership, following the most recent elections and appointments, whilst also outlining their roles and responsibilities within the commission. Here at the meeting, we will be discussing future meetings, workshops, and conference sessions, and overall opportunities to get involved. Specifically, we will be seeking our memberships for input and a final decision on the location of the next CoT international meeting. An expression of interest to host the meeting, that will take place in 2028, was made in 2025 following our last international meeting in Catania (Italy) in 2024. Here we hope to make some announcements.
The meeting will also be discussing and providing updates on several new community driven initiatives, for instance, LA-ICP-MS inter-laboratory comparisons, specifically exploring the development of natural volcanic glass standards for trace element analysis to overcome analytical challenges of volcanic glasses, and the standardisation of analytical approaches and data reduction methods to improve data comparisons across the community (an initiative led by the Tephra Intercomparison Project – TIP). We will also be providing updates on the ongoing tephra related special issues that are currently in progress in GeoHorizons (a joint publication between the AGU and Geological Society, and in partnership with the IAVCEI Tephra Hazard Modelling Commission) and the Journal of Quaternary Science. We will also be designating time at the end of the meeting for general discussions and updates related to the Commission on Tephrochronology, providing an opportunity for community partners to make announcements, and for members of our tephra and volcanological community to provide feedback and initiate discussions on anything else tephra related.

The oral presentations are given in a hybrid format supported by a Zoom meeting featuring on-site and virtual presentations. The button to access the Zoom meeting appears just before the time block starts.