International Volcanological Field School: Katmai National Park, Alaska

UAF’s Department of Geology and Geophysics offers a two-week field class, (June 9-22) in volcanology in cooperation with the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (IVS) and the Kamchatka State University (KSU) in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. The course is offered every summer both in Katmai National Park, Alaska, site of the largest eruption on Earth of the 20th century and on Gorely and Mutnovsky Volcanoes, south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Students explore and discuss the full range of phenomena that constitutes volcanoes, using some of the best examples in the world. The course is co-taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level by John Eichelberger and Pavel Izbekov of UAF, as well as by guest scientists from Russia, the US, and Japan. Students come from across the US, Russia, and Japan, and occasionally from other countries.More information available here