Wendy McCausland

Abstracts and Presentations

• 2017 Indonesia - Lead of a 4-person USGS response team that briefed the Program Specialist for USAID and Senior Officials of CVGHM responsible for analyzing and assessing monitoring parameters and the likelihood of eruption at Agung volcano that guided decisions related to evacuations and hazard zones.

• 2015 Nicaragua - Lead of 2-person USGS response team that briefed U.S. Ambassador Laura Dogu, the Mission Disaster Relief Officer for USAID, Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission, the Embassy Economic Officer, USAID Director in Nicaragua to address concerns of Embassy and to keep the USG apprised of Momotombo eruption forecasts and technical assessments of INETER’s needs.

• 2015 Ecuador - Part of a 4-person USGS response team that briefed U.S. Embassy personnel regarding eruption hazards from Cotopaxi volcano in Quito to in-country staff and to keep the USG apprised of the eruption forecasts and technical assessments of IGEPN’s needs.

• 2013 Indonesia - Sole representative of a USGS response team that briefed U.S. Consulate staff in Medan and USAID Program Specialist to keep the USG apprised of the ongoing Sinabung eruption and changing conditions at the volcano.

• 2009 Columbia - Sole representative of a USGS response team that briefed USAID-OFDA’s Mission Disaster Relief Officer on renewed eruptions at Nevado del Huila volcano and the resulting hazard implications.

• 2009 Saudi Arabia - Part of 2-person USGS response team that briefed  the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah and Senior Officials of the Saudi Geological Survey on the potential for further large damaging earthquakes or an eruption from an swarm in the volcanic region of Harrat Lunayyir.

• McCausland, W.A., R. White, N. Indrastuti, H. Gunawan, C. Patria, Y. Suparman, A. Putra, H. Triatuty, M. Hendrasto, Using a process-based model of pre-eruptive seismic patterns to forecast evolving eruptive styles at Sinabung Volcano, Indonesia, CENAPRED-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, 4 May 2017

• McCausland, W.A., Volcano Seismology, Association of Latin American Volcano Seismologists (LAVAS) 4, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 15 - 29 Jan 2016

• McCausland, W.A., Earthquake Characteristics of Deep Seismicity, Association of Latin American Volcano Seismologists (LAVAS) 4, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 15 - 29 Jan 2016

• McCausland, W.A., Overall Pre-Eruptive Seismic Patterns at Closed Volcanoes, Eruption forecasting based on patterns of seismicity, Eruption Forecasting Working Group Meeting, Vancouver, WA, October 26-30, 2015

• McCausland, W.A., Contextualizing Syn-Eruptive Seismicity Changes and Identifying Important Changes, Instituto Geofisico y Escuela Politecnica Nacionale, Quito, Ecuador, 18 September, 2015. IG Seminar

• McCausland, W.A., and R. White, Overall Pre-Eruptive Seismic Patterns at Closed Volcanoes, Eruption forecasting based on patterns of seismicity, Instituto Geofisico y Escuela Politecnica Nacionale, Quito, Ecuador, July 10, 2015.  IGEPN Geophysics Department seminar

• Pallister, J.S., and W. McCausland, Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) Briefing for the Asian Consortium of Volcanology (ACV), ACV Core Member Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, Feb 1, 2015

• McCausland, W., J. Pallister, S. Jónsson, Z. Lu, H.M. Zahran, S. El Hadidy, A. Aburukbah, I.C.F. Stewart, P.R. Lundgren, R.A. White and M.R.H. Moufti, Stalled Eruption or Dike Intrusion at Harrat Lunayyir, Saudi Arabia? INGV Napoli, Sept 21, 2011

• McCausland, W.A., Volcano Disaster Assistance Program: The intersection of science, crisis response, infrastructure building and diplomacy, Keynote Speech for Region IV Finals of the 2010 Siemens Competition in Science, Math and Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, November 20, 2010