The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, or IAVCEI, is an association that represents the primary international focus for research in volcanology, efforts to mitigate volcanic disasters, and research into closely related disciplines, such as igneous geochemistry and petrology, geochronology, volcanogenic mineral deposits, and the physics of the generation and ascent of magmas in the upper mantle and crust.
IAVCEI is run by an Executive Committee whose membership changes every four years. The Executive determines policies for the Association, enacting them through a series of commissions and task groups. IAVCEI publishes the Bulletin of Volcanology journal.
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The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) is a non-governmental organisation that was established in 1919. IUGG consists of eight Associations of which IAVCEI is one.
The volcanology section of the IUGG was the forerunner of the IAVCEI and was founded in 1919. It was formally constituted at the First General Assembly of the IUGG (Rome, 1922). The name was changed to International Association of Volcanology (IAV) at the Fourth General Assembly of the IUGG (Stockholm, 1930). IAV statutes and by-laws were adopted in Helsinki in 1960 and were revised in Zurich in 1967 and in Canberra in 1979. 'Chemistry of the Earth's Interior' (CEI) was appended to 'IAV' in 1967 in order to harmonise with the name of the International Association of Seismology and the Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI).[1]
The statutes of IAVCEI include four objectives:
Countries are members of IUGG. After 1996 individuals have been able to become members of IAVCEI.
The Bulletin of Volcanology is the journal of IAVCEI. Earlier it was called the Bulletin Volcanologique which first started publication in 1922. The annual volume consists of eight issues.
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