1. In a major eruption many predeployed sensors may not survive (IIRC this occurred at Mt. St. Helen's). Nearby cities, airports, universities may be totally incapacitated. High-res satellite imagery will be available almost immediately via the civil vendors. At Fukushima, rhe arrival of specialized sensors took 24 to 96 hours for approvals, loading, transit, and deployment. Planning can reduce these vulnerabilities, but getting the right sensors collecting at the right locations *promptly* is always going to be a challenge.
2. Some of the major pain points in information gathering after Fukushima were human-behaivor driven, i.e. the confused and obfuscatory reporting emanating from the plant operators. The Italian seismologist case illustrates that in the aftermath of a major volcanic event officials would not be completely irrational to exhibit some "CYA" behavior about access to disaster area and government observations. If I remember correctly, there was also some "will to disbelieve" lag involved in gathering data related to the Icelandic ejections that disrupted jet travel a coujple of years ago. 3. If a major eruption occurs 5 or 10 years from now, all the following will be inescapably present in much larger quantities: drones, cellphones, autonomous floats & divers, citizen observers, 3-D printers, wireless appliances, and on and on,. Scientists should be thinking about how to take advantage of these developments. --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology GE NewsFilter: http://geoengineeringIT.net:8080 On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ken Caldeira <[email protected] > wrote: > With respect to learning more about potential consequences of solar > geoengineering, what kinds of observing systems do we need in place to > take maximal advantage of the next big volcano? > > What would we want to have in space (and why)? > > What would we want to have in airplanes (and why)? > > What would we want on the ground (and why)? > > How would these assets be utilized when there is no big volcano? > > Are there any high-quality reports or studies that address this issue? > > - > > > -- > _______________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution for Science > Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] > http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira > > *Caldeira Lab is hiring postdoctoral researchers.* > *http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira_employment.html* > > Assistant: Sharyn Nantuna, [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
