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The 2016-17 shallow submarine eruption of Bogoslof volcano, Alaska

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The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) and partners have established a tradition of reporting on the results of significant volcanic unrest in Alaska by seeking to compile collected works that describe the overall nature of eruptive activity at individual volcanoes. There are typically multiple novel and noteworthy aspects of each eruptive event that are of broad interest to the volcanological community. There are more than 50 historically active volcanoes within the Aleutian arc, most of which are ice- and snow-covered stratovolcanoes, and AVO has a long record of monitoring and evaluating subaerial eruptive activity at these volcanoes. Submarine volcanism in the Aleutian arc is much less common, and until the 2016–2017 eruption of Bogoslof volcano, AVO had never monitored, studied, or evaluated a significant submarine eruption. This special issue of Bulletin of Volcanology reports on our initial research results from a 9-month long, predominantly submarine eruption of Bogoslof volcano.

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  • Christopher F. Waythomas Christopher F. Waythomas , 

    Christopher F. Waythomas

    Waythomas is a project chief for USGS, Water Resources Division program. Areas of expertise are geomorphology, hydrology, and Quaternary geology. Current investigations and research activities include hydrologic hazard assessments at Alaska Volcanoes, volcano-glacier interactions and the generation of floods and lahars, and Holocene geomorphic history of Alaska volcanoes.

  • John J. Lyons John J. Lyons , 

    John J. Lyons

    John Lyons is Research Geophysicist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, USGS, studying infrasound and seismic data from restless and erupting volcanoes in Alaska and around the world and developing better tools for monitoring changing and potentially hazardous eruptive activity.

  • David Fee David Fee  &

    David Fee

    David Fee is Research Professor at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, with research interests in volcano Infrasound and Seismology.

  • Kristi L. Wallace Kristi L. Wallace

    Kristi L. Wallace

    Kristi Wallace is a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) specializing in volcanic ash research and eruption response and is the head of the Alaska Tephra Laboratory and Data Center, an interdisciplinary center for studying volcanic ash in Alaska.

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