Invitation to improve the delivery of warnings during volcanic emergencies
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Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite you to join in our survey of how warnings of volcanic eruptions are delivered to emergency planners. The survey should take less than 10 minutes and would be of enormous value for helping us to understand the needs of emergency planners and volcano scientists, and whether these needs are being properly addressed by current emergency procedures. The results will be presented online as part of the
international Project Volcanoscope, described below.
If you can participate, please select one of the two following
questionnaires:
(1) For volcano scientists, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Volcanoscope_vs
(2) For emergency planners, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/volcanoscope_ep
The questionnaires consists of multiple-choice answers, but also provide the opportunity for making additional comments if you wish.
We will begin processing replies to the questionnaires on Friday 18 March 2011 and expect to have the first results posted online in May at
www.ucl.ac.uk/volcanoscope (which will be activated in March).
Very many thanks for your help in the survey.
Best wishes
Melanie Duncan
Survey Co-ordinator, Project Volcanoscope
Project Volcanoscope is an international consortium of volcanologists and social scientists, whose aim is to improve how warnings of volcanic eruptions are delivered. Co-ordinated by University College London (UCL), it will contribute to the UK programme on “Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards in Volcanic Regions” that is being funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk) and the Economic and Social Research Council (www.esrc.ac.uk). Further details will soon be available at www.ucl.ac.uk/volcanoscope.
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