The Significance of Volcano Observatories in affiliation with Universities

Abstract

Volcano observatories in affiliation with universities have been clarifing the volcanic eruption process, educating students, and playing a major role to the enlightenment on volcanic activity to the local goverment and the resident. However, recently the programs, such as strategy for establishing the international headquarters of universities, has been designed as a competitive fund and realized as a competitive research environment in Japanese universities. In addition, the mid-term evaluations will be implemented in the third year for 5 years. As a result, volcano observatories in affiliation with universities will take on new, serious and difficult situations. Here, the significance of volcano observatories will be reported.