Volcano monitoring equipment installations 2013

A gas station for continuous measurements was installed at Krýsuvík. (photo: Baldur Bergsson)

Futurevolc scientist Bo Galle (Chalmers University of Technology) installing an improvement to one of the scanning SO2 DOAS instruments at Hekla. Photograph:Þorgils Ingvarsson (IMO).

the Icelandic Met Office (IMO) in cooperation with the University of Reading, UK, released a few weather balloons from the IMO. Attached to the balloons where traditional upper level radiosonde instruments, that measure temperature, humidity and winds, but also solar radiation and electric charge detection instruments as well as a geiger counter. The hope is that in an explosive eruption these additional instruments will assist in detection of ash layers in the atmosphere. During the first release it was rather windy and a group of people was needed to assist with the release! Photo: Guðrún Nína Petersen, IMO

"Cafe Hekla" - a permanent gas monitoring station was installed at the top of Hekla volcano at the end of March (part of WP 5 - University of Palermo, IMO and BGS). We were incredibly lucky to have the Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter assisting us, without them it would not have been possible. Data can be accessed remotely, saving us long difficult hikes up Hekla's slopes! (Photo: Richard Yeo)

One of the Futurevolc measurement sites at Hekla. At this site there are GPS, seismic, and scanning SO2 DOAS instruments. Photo:Þorgils Ingvarsson. (June 2013)

Bergur Bergsson, technician at IMO working on the new FUTUREVOLC seismometer at Húsbóndi in early June 2013, a nunatak that first appeared through the surface of the Vatnajökull glacier about 15 years ago (Photo: Magnús Tumi Gudmundsson).

One of the Futurevolc measurement sites at Hekla. At this site there are GPS, seismic, and scanning SO2 DOAS instruments. Photo:Þorgils Ingvarsson. (June 2013)