Mauna Loa, Decade Volcano

A website to report research on Earth's largest volcano.
[Sorry folks, nothing new has been added since 1998]

Pele Dancing, by Katia Krafft
	Mauna Loa: A Decade Volcano Lockwood and Rhodes' abstract from the summer 1995 IAVCEI meeting
	Relief Maps
	Offshore Slope Maps
	Onshore-Offshore Geology
	Mauna Loa Revealed The AGU monograph

Mauna Loa makes up about half of the Big Island of Hawai'i. The mountain has been designated a "Decade Volcano" by IAVCEI (along with fourteen other volcanoes worldwide) in recognition that it provides an excellent locale for studying volcanic processes and volcanic hazards. This web page results from meetings of Mauna Loa researchers and interested parties at American Geophysical Union meetings in 1993 and 1995. At the 1995 meeting, the hope was expressed that all ongoing Mauna Loa studies will eventually be linked to this page.

The rationale behind the Decade Volcanoes program, a component in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, is available at the IAVCEI page Mitigation of Volcanic Disasters. The accomplishments of the Decade Volcano program were summarized in a Status Report to IAVCEI presented by Chris Newhall, USGS, in January 1996.

Other Decade Volcanoes
Colima, Mexico	Etna, Italy	Galeras, Colombia	Merapi, Indonesia	Nyiragongo, Zaire	Rainier, USA	Sakurajima, Japan
Santa María, Guatemala	Santorini, Greece	Taal, Philippines	Teide, Spain	Ulawun, Papua Niugini	Unzen, Japan	Vesuvio, Italy
For additional links, check Boris Behncke's list of Decade Volcano information.

The URL for this page is http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/mauna_loa/
Last modification: 29 August 1996