Harold "Butch" Ryan
Safety & Environmental program Manager for the US Geological Survey Volcano Science Center. My responsible program area covers over 170 volcanoes, 5 Observatories from the Yellowstone basin to Alaska, the Northern Mariana Islands & Samoa.
I work with multidisciplinary and multilingual volcano monitoring data and reports to help populate databases of volcanic eruption information for eruption forecasting and eruption event chronologies. I am interested in the lifecycle of volcanic eruption data, forecasting, eruption data visualizations, and volcanic hazards risk reduction. I am also interested in the use of web ontology language to improve the semantic web for volcanology-related multilingual terminology, and the way languages influence the narrative volcano monitoring report styles that vary greatly between countries.