VICTOR for Educators

This page provides resources to help educators bring volcanic modeling into their classrooms. VICTOR offers cloud-based tools, workflows, and models that let students explore volcanic phenomena while learning essential data science techniques. 
The teaching materials developed by the VICTOR team include videos, tutorials, lecture slides, lab assignments, and case studies to help students engage with workflows, interdisciplinary models, and hazard assessment. Our goal is to provide hands-on studies to foster a deeper understanding of computation volcanology in real-world contexts.

Featured Educational Content:

Image of tephra piled multiple feet high, blanketing vehicles and buildings. Text over the image reads "Tephra2 x Civil Engineering Lab."
Tephra2 for Civil Engineering Lab
Tephra2 for Civil Engineering Lab
Image of a cooling lava flow snaking its way across a topography. Text over the image reads "Lava Flow Modeling Lecture & Lab."
Lava Flow Modeling Lecture & Lab
Lava Flow Modeling Lecture & Lab
Image of dried lahars with a volcano in the background. Text over the image reads "Modeling Lahars w/ QGIS Extension."
Modeling Lahars w/ QGIS Extension
Modeling Lahars w/ QGIS Extension

Education Content by Type:

Hazard Modeling x Engineering Lab w/ Tephra2 (lab assignment) 

Assignment: Ash Dispersal from Explosive Eruptions (take-home assignment)

Modeling Lahars for Evacuation Preparedness at Mt. Ranier w/ LaharZ (lab assignment)

Mauna Loa Lava Flow Modeling Lab w/ MOLASSES & MrLavaLoba (lab assignment)

Mauna Loa Lava Flow Modeling Mini Lab w/ MOLASSES (lab assignment)

Iceland Problem-Solving in Lava Flow Modeling w/ MOLASSES & Lava2D (lab assignment)

Eruption on Campus Sample Activity (lab by Arianna Soldati)

MOLASSES Algorithm Game (classroom activity, in testing, created in collaboration with Arianna Soldati)

Melts Crystallization Lab: ALPHAMelts and Thermobar on VICTOR (lab assignment)

Melts Crystallization Lab: ALPHAMelts and Thermobar on VICTOR with Mt. Spurr Application (lab assignment)

Introduction to Remote Sensing Analysis of Eruption Events (lab, in testing stage)

Modelling the Behaviour of Volatiles in Magmas

This free workshop, hosted by some of our collaborators at Goldschmidt 2026, provided an interactive learning opportunity for modeling volatile behaviors in magmas.

Watch exercises from the workshop on our YouTube Channel here.

Workshop exercises are available on the hub platform under the 'Education' folder.

Tephra2 Step-by-Step Guide 

LaharZ Step-by-Step Guide 

IMEX--Lava Step-by-Step Guide

Lava2D Step-by-Step Guide 

Titan2D Step-by-Step Guide

Intro to Remote Sensing on VICTOR 

Tephra Fallout and Tephra2 Lecture 

Lava Flow Modeling on VICTOR 

Education Content by Topic:

Introduction to VICTOR with an overview of the Hub (lecture slides)

Introduction to Cloud Computing (lecture slides)

Intro to Python and Jupyterhub (lecture slides)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Introduction to VICTOR (lecture recording)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: DEMs and Raster Tools (lecture recording) 

Tephra2 Step-by-Step Guide (procedural guide)

Hazard Modeling x Engineering Lab w/ Tephra2 (lab assignment) 

Assignment: Ash Dispersal from Explosive Eruptions (take-home assignment)

Tephra Fallout and Tephra2 Lecture (lecture slides)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Tephra Fallout (lecture recording)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Magma Degassing w/ SulfurX (lecture recording) 

Spring 2025 Volcanology Course: Inversion Methods (lecture recording)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Lahars (lecture recording)

LaharZ Step-by-Step Guide (procedural guide)

Modeling Lahars for Evacuation Preparedness at Mt. Ranier w/ LaharZ (lab assignment)

Lava Flow Modeling on VICTOR (lecture slides)

Mauna Loa Lava Flow Modeling Lab w/ MOLASSES & MrLavaLoba (lab assignment)

Mauna Loa Lava Flow Modeling Mini Lab w/ MOLASSES (lab assignment)

Iceland Problem-Solving in Lava Flow Modeling w/ MOLASSES & Lava2D (lab assignment)

Eruption on Campus Sample Activity (lab by Arianna Soldati)

MOLASSES Algorithm Game (classroom activity, in testing, created in collaboration with Arianna Soldati)

IMEX--Lava Step-by-Step Guide (procedural guide)

Lava2D Step-by-Step Guide (procedural guide)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Lava Flows (lecture recording)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Ordinary Differential Equations (lecture recording)

Melts Crystallization Lab: ALPHAMelts and Thermobar on VICTOR (lab assignment)

Melts Crystallization Lab: ALPHAMelts and Thermobar on VICTOR with Mt. Spurr Application (lab assignment)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Magma Storage w/ Thermobar on VICTOR (lecture recording)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Magma Ascent w/ Confort on VICTOR (lecture recording)

Titan2D Step-by-Step Guide (procedural guide)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Pyroclastic Density Currents (lecture recording)

 

Introduction to Remote Sensing Analysis of Eruption Events (lab, in testing stage)

Spring 2026 Volcanology Course: Remote Sensing (lecture recording)

Intro to Remote Sensing on VICTOR  (procedural guide)

Impact in the Classroom:

This lab was so awesome! I really enjoyed doing this assignment and hope to work with it some more in the future. I appreciate all the hard work that the people put into making this available. I want to try to modify this model to do testing for cryo-volcanos. It was my favorite assignment of the whole course. Thank you all, and I will be in touch about those tests! Everyone was so helpful, even though I did not really have time to reach out to anyone, yet!

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