Workshops
Upcoming Workshops:
VICTOR Workshop at AGU26
Date: Tuesday, December 8th, 2026
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: Marriott Marquis San Francisco, Room: Pacific D
RSVP Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnSzsgfLjdmHXpJ3ZDUsIKgLAL5KbnJhumXoZsfFRKfilXqg/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Description:
The VICTOR team will be hosting an introductory workshop during AGU 2026 in San Francisco. This event is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the platform and discuss any questions or needs specific to your own teaching and research with our team. Please note that this is not an official AGU26 event.
Past Workshops:
This free workshop, hosted by some of our collaborators at Goldschmidt 2026, provided an interactive learning opportunity for modeling volatile behaviors in magmas.
The workshop began with an overview of natural volcanic degassing processes and the current state of in situ and satellite‑based monitoring techniques. A series of structured presentations provided insights into case studies from natural volcanic systems. Topics included gas measurements during monitoring, experimental approaches (including melt and fluid inclusion analyses), sulfur partitioning, Raman‑based SO₂/CO₂ speciation, current challenges in calibrating and applying numerical models, as well as modelling chlorine and hydrothermal systems.
Participants engaged in guided group exercises run through VICTOR designed to reproduce benchmarking results, compare methodological approaches, and identify priorities for improving data quality and model performance. Outcomes from these activities contributed to an updated Workshop White Paper, helping to shape collective standards and future directions.
This workshop was supported by a Catalyst: Seeding grant from the Royal Society Te Apārangi (Aotearoa New Zealand).
Watch exercises from the workshop on our YouTube Channel here.
Workshop exercises are available on the hub platform under the 'Education' folder.
The VICTOR team hosted two free, virtual workshops for educators, on June 29th and July 30th, 2026. These sessions were designed for educators interested in incorporating modeling volcanic processes on VICTOR into their undergraduate or graduate coursework. Participants received an overview of the platform, learned about our available educational materials, and had an opportunity to discuss their needs with our team.
Please find a recording of the presentation portion of the July workshop linked here.
The VICTOR team hosted a week-long workshop from August 11-15, 2025 at USF's Field Station in Mackay, Idaho. The workshop included two days of visiting volcanic field sites, and three days of computational exercises using VICTOR. Participants simulated a variety of magmatic and volcanic processes as well as accessed and analyzed remote-sensing data from recent eruptions.
The VICTOR Team hosted a webinar on June 2nd and July 8th 2025 to demonstrate the content available to support educators in incorporating VICTOR into their courses to teach about volcanic processes.
Watch the June 2nd webinar here , or the July 8th webinar here. (links open a new YouTube tab)
IAVCEI25 - VICTOR Workshop
July 2, 2025
Saturday, 15 February 2025
Information about the workshop can be found here.
The 2024 VICTOR workshop was specifically planned for community members to create, hone, standardize, and publish their programs.
The workshop was located at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Workshop resources:
Workshop Agenda:
The overarching goal of the workshop was to work with participants toward integrating their software tools into the VICTOR platform.
Day 1 began with an introduction to VICTOR and a hands-on activity using it, followed by short (5-7 minute) presentations by each participant about the tools they brought to the workshop. Participants then defined their goals and plans for the rest of the workshop. A keynote lecture was given on topics related to open science.
Day 2 focused on working towards the participants' goals, with brainstorming, coding, testing, and fun altogether. Another keynote lecture was held about computation and data science.
On Day 3, participants presented progress towards their goals, demonstrated the use of their tools, and made plans for follow-up developments.
The inaugural VICTOR workshop was held on August 9th-11th 2023 at Tufts University.
Resources from this workshop:
Participant Preparation Slides
Presentation:
Frontiers and Challenges in Computational Volcanology
by Joseph Dufek, University of Oregon
(link will open Youtube in a new tab)
