First Circular
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The Local Organizing Committee and the International Association of Volcanology and
Chemistry of Earth´s Interior (IAVCEI) will be pleased to welcome you to the 6th
International Maar Conference (IMC) in Changchun (China) in 30 July – 3 August, 2016.
The Conference will have 4 days of themed oral and poster sessions and an intra-meeting
field trip. The proposed sessions of the conference focus on Maar and Environment
Change, covering a wide spectrum of very interesting topics including characteristics,
mechanism, modeling and geological background of Monogenetic volcanic activities;
volcanic evolution and spatial distribution regulation, resources, disaster, detecting,
monitoring and societal responses of volcanic activity.
The aim of this First Circular is to provide the participants with more detailed information
on the program, organization, and logistics, and about travel and hotel reservation. A
Second Circular, with the Scientific Program and last-minute practical details, will be
distributed closer to the start of the conference.
Conference Language
The official language of the conference will be English.
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts must be in English. All abstracts must be submitted on-line before 30 April,
2016. The accepted abstracts will be placed on the homepage of the conference.
Outline of the Program
Registration: 30 July, 2016 (Saturday)
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Registration (8:30 – 21:30)
Welcome Reception (18:30 – 20:30)
Conference: 31 July – 3 August, 2016 (Sunday to Wednesday)
Session 1. Monogenetic volcanoes: growth, geomorphology and degradation
Session 2. Sedimentary sequence and paleoclimate record of Maar
Session 3. Experiment and modeling of physical and chemical phenomena of
volcanic eruption
Session 4. Monitoring and prevention of volcanic hazards
Session 5. Resources of Maars and volcanoes
Session 6. Maar volcano geopark: A spectacular engine for research and
geotourism development
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The location of Venue and Field Trip
Pre-conference Field Trip
Arxan-Chaihe Volcanic Field: Maar and Volcanic Geopark
Time：28 July - 30 July, 2016 (3 days, 2 nights, Thursday to Saturday)
Assembling place: the airport of Arxan city
Dissolution place: Changchun City
Vehicle: Bus
Chief guider: Prof. Jingtai Han (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS)
Registration fee: 400/500 US dollars
Arxan-Chaihe Volcanic Field is famous for its volcanic landscape and crater lakes,
located in the northeastern of Inner Mongolia, from 47º10'N to 47º40'N and from 120º10'E
to 120º50'E. The lava flows show a continuous strip along the major rivers, covering an
area of approximately 400km2. There are 35 Quaternary volcanoes，and the latest
eruption is dated about 2,000 years ago.
This field trip will take you into a vast, fantastic natural museum of volcanic field with a
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volcanic eruptions. The major stops of the trip include volcanic base surge accumulation
profiles, lava pitfall, ragged scoriaceous lava landscape, cater lakes, tumuli, gorges of
blocky volcanic rocks, basaltic mountain with columnar jointing, and a close view of a
caldera produced by vigorous eruption of recent geologic time. The region has been
established as a National Geopark in 2004.
Pyroclastic deposit near the lake Wusulangzi
Lava tumuli
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Weather: The local weather is a little cool during the meeting trip; normally, long shirt is a
suitably suggestive choice. Empirically the range of temperature is 10-22 C.
Items: Umbrella or raincoat.
Maximum altitude: about 1332m.
Working distance: This trip route is really smooth except about 30 minutes hiking to the
Lake Tuofengling.
Cancellation: When the number of participants is less than 8, this field trip route will be
cancelled.
Intra-conference Field Trip
Longgang Volcanic Field: Quaternary Volcanoes and Maar Lakes
Time: 2 August, 2016 (Tuesday)
Assembling place: Changchun City
Dissolution place: Changchun City
Vehicle: Bus
Chief guider: Prof. Jiaqi Liu and Prof. Guoqiang Chu (Institute of Geology and
Geophysics, CAS)
Registration fee: Free
In the field excursion, participants will travel across the Longgang Volcanic Field
(LVF). The LVF covers an area of 1700 km2 with more than 160 Quaternary craters and
calderas. In the area, basement complex (the Archeozoic Migmatite Group) is believed to
be a part of the North China Craton formed about 2,500 million years ago. The basement
rocks are mainly migmatitic gneiss, migmatitic granite and leptynite.
Volcanic activity began in the area about 2.1 million years ago when trachybasalt lava
flows covered this area. It suggested that the region was under the most recent
encroachment by the West Pacific Plate. Phreatomagmatic eruptions burst into activity
starting 1.23 million years ago. The volcanic activity continued until approximately several
hundred years ago. Several types of volcanic eruptions such as basaltic flood eruption
and explosive eruption (Phreatomagmatic, Strombolian and Plinian) can be observed in
the LVF.
One of the most distinguishing features of the region is phreatomagmatic eruptions
and maar lakes. There are ten maar lakes with surface area ranging from 0.1 km2 to 1.0
km2, and maximum water depth from 0.2 m to 127 m. The distribution of maar lakes is
along north-east direction that could be controlled by a north-east lithospheric–scale fault.
Maar lake has been recognized as an ideal document for the preservation of
paleoclimatic archives because of their close morphology, relatively simple hydrological
system, annually laminated sediment and a variety of proxy records in the sediment. Maar
lakes in the LVF have been the subjects of numerous studies focused on reconstructing
paleoclimatic changes at high resolution. In 1998, a joint Chinese-German Maar Drilling
Program has been launched to reconstruct high-resolution (decadal to annual)
paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes. A series of sediment cores (frozen,
gravity and piston cores) have been recovered from maar lakes (Sihailongwan,
Xiaolongwan, Dalongwan,etc) since 1998. Many valuable achievements have been
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anthropogenic influences in this data-sparse area.
The main viewing sites will focus on Maar Lake Dalongwan, pyroclastic
phreatomagmatic sequence, lava tree moulds, Jinglongdingzi Tephra and Maar Lake
Sihailongwan .
Notes:
Weather: The local weather is a little hot during the meeting trip; normally, T-shirt is a
suitably suggestive choice. Empirically the range of temperature is 19-26 C.
Items: Umbrella or raincoat.
Maximum altitude: about 1000m.
Working distance: This trip route is really smooth with no requirements for long road on
foot.
Dalongwan maar lake
Post-conference Field Trip
Changbai Volcanic Field: Huge Volcano and Volcanology
Time: 4-7 August, 2016 (4 days, 3 nights, Thursday to Sunday)
Assembling place: Changchun City
Dissolution place: Changchun City
Vehicle: Bus
Chief guider: Prof. Zhengfu Guo (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS)
Registration fee: 500/600 US dollars
The Changbai Volcano is a significantly active stratovolcano straddling the border
between China and North Korea. Its strongest eruption in the historical record occurred in
about 1000 years ago, which is thought to release near100 km3 rhyolitic tephra (Fig. 1).
The latest eruption occur in 1903 AD. The semi-continuous sequences of the volcanic
activities range in age from Early Pleistocene to the present (i.e. 1903 AD). On the basis
of the temporal-spatial characteristics of the volcanic activities, we may widely sub-divide
the eruption products into following three stages: (1) early-stage basalts (2.77–1.20 Ma)
outcropped in the underlying shield of the volcanic platform (Fig. 2), (2) mid-stage
trachytes (1.12–0.04 Ma) composed of main body of the volcanic cone and (3) late-stage
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neighboring areas. The giant caldera of the Changbai Volcano (Fig. 1), which was mainly
filled by rainwater, resulted from the explosive eruptions of the trachytic and alkaline
rhyolitic magmas, forming the Heaven Lake with 204 m in depth of the water (in average)
and ~5 km in diameter.
The four-day trip in the Changbai Volcanic Field will dominantly include observations
of the stratovolcanic eruption sequences, crater lake, volcanic ash layer, lava flow,
pyroclastic deposits, volcanic lahar, hot springs and a close view of natural scene of the
Changbai Volcano in summer.
Fig. 1 The Heaven Lake on top of the Changbaishan volcano Fig. 2 Outcrop of the shield basalt in Manjiang, northern part of the volcanic field
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products and the types of their accumulation from the Baiyun (White Cloud) Peak to the
Tianwen (Astronomy) Peak along the north slope of the Changbai Volcano, and
investigate the features of the volcanic activity in different periods. You will also observe
the whole aspect of the Changbai Volcano, and have a complete concept on its geologic
features and regularity of volcanic activity.
Notes:
Weather: The local weather is a little cool during the meeting trip; normally, T-shirt is
suitable and jacket is a suitably suggestive choice for the top of the mountain. Empirically
the range of temperature is 15-25 C.
Items: Umbrella or raincoat.
Maximum altitude: about 2691m.
Working distance: This trip route is really smooth with no requirements for long road on
foot.
Cancellation: When the number of participants is less than 8, this field trip route will be
cancelled.
Scientific Committee
Chair:
• Jiaqi Liu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China ([email protected])
Co-Chairs:
• Jörg Negendank, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany ([email protected])
• Gerardo Carrasco Núñez, UNAM Juriquilla, Mexico ([email protected])
• Joan Martí Molist, Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera, Spain
([email protected], [email protected])
• Yigang Xu, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
([email protected])
Members (in the alphabetical order):
• Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand, France
([email protected])
• Bernd Zimanowski, University of Wuerzburg, Germany ([email protected])
• Bernd Zolitschka, University of Bremen, Germany ([email protected])
• Fraser Goff, The University of New Mexico, USA ([email protected])
• Greg Valentine, University of Buffalo, USA ([email protected])
• Guoqiang Chu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China
([email protected])
• Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Graduate School of Enviromental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
([email protected])
• Ian Smith, University of Auckland, New Zealand ([email protected])
• Jingtai Han, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China ([email protected])
• Karoly Nemeth, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
([email protected])
• Marie-Noëlle Guilbaud, Ciudad Universitaria, México ([email protected])
• Martin Koziol, Maarmuseum, Germany ([email protected])
• Michael Ort, Northern Arizona University, USA ([email protected])
• Mordechai Stein, Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Israel
([email protected])
• Patrick Rioual, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China
([email protected])
• Ray Cas, Monash University, Australia ([email protected])
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Sciences, Russian ([email protected])
• Suzanne Leroy, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, UK
([email protected])
• Yigal Erel, Geochemist, Institute of Earth Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel ([email protected])
• Youn Soo Lee, Geological Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral
Resources (KIGAM), Korea ([email protected])
• Young Kwan Sohn, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea ([email protected])
• Youxue Zhang, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA ([email protected])
Organizing Committee
Chair:
• Jiaqi Liu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China ([email protected])
Co-Chair:
• Xiaofeng Han, Jilin University, China
• Fengyue Sun, Jilin University, China
• Yucheng Chai, National Natural Science Foundation of China, China
• Fuyuan Wu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China
([email protected])
• Karoly Nemeth, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
([email protected])
• Bo Zhou, Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone of Jilin Province, China
Members (in the alphabetical order):
• Jule Xiao, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China ([email protected])
• Qiang Liu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China ([email protected])
• Qingfu Yang, Earthquake Administration of Jilin Province, China
• Wenliang Xu, Jilin University, China ([email protected])
• Yongwei Zhao, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China
([email protected])
• Zhengfu Guo, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China
([email protected])
• Zhongxia Zhou, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China
([email protected])
Secretary:
• Jing Wu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China ([email protected])
• Cuiling Lan, Center for International Scientific Exchanges, CAS, China
([email protected])
• Jianguo Che, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, Beijing
([email protected])
Sponsors
Chinese Academy of Sciences
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth´s Interior (IAVCEI)
International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
Jilin University
National Natural Science Foundation of China
The Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Registration Information
For early planning purposes, all attendees of the Conference are requested to finish your
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On-site registration desk will be open from 10:30 to 21:30 on July 30, 2016 and from
08:30~18:00 on other meeting days.
Registration Fee
Payment received
Payment received
Payment received
until Apr 30, 2016
until June 30, 2016 until July 20, 2016
IAVCEI Donor member
Regular Participant
USD 380
USD 430
USD 480
USD 150
USD 200
USD 250
USD 400
USD 450
USD 500
USD 170
USD 200
USD 250
USD 200 (each)
USD 200 (each)
USD 250 (each)
Student Participant
(up to PhD. Level)
IAVCEI Non-Donor member
Regular Participant
Student Participant
(up to PhD. Level)
Accompanying Person
* All incurred fees charged by the processing banks prior to the arrival to our account should
be borne by participants themselves.
* The conference registration must be submitted with the payment, or the registration will not
be processed.
*Students must provide a photocopy of student's identity card or relevant certificates to confirm
that they are currently enrolled at a university or college.
Full payment of the registration fee covers:
Registration fee includes:
1. Conference registration, abstract volume,
2. Ice breaker (on Jul 30),
3. Mid-conference field trip (lunch, dinner, transportation and guidebook; Aug 2),
4. Coffee breaks,
5. Congress bag and materials (not for accompanying persons).
Accompanying Person’s fee includes:
1. Ice breaker (on Jul 30),
2. Mid-conference field trip (lunch, dinner and transportation; Aug 2),
3. Coffee breaks,
4. Special program with discounted fares.
Confirmation
Confirmations will be sent to registrants within 15 days of receipt.
Cancellation charge
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Registration Secretary, Ms. Cuiling LAN ([email protected]).
Registration fees are refundable as specified below. Please kindly note that all refunds will
be made after the conference.
Refund
Cancellation/Refund Request Date
(Registration, accompanying person’s
registration, congress dinner and excursions)
Before May 31, 2016
70% of the fee
Before Jun 30, 2016
50% of the fee
After Jun 30, 2016
No refund
*If your payment has been made through a bank transfer, refund will be also made in the
same manner, and any handling charges will be paid by the participant (no costs to the
organizers).
Fees for field trip
Participant
(per person for double occupancy)
Participant
(per person for single occupancy)
Accompanying Person
(per person for double occupancy)
Accompanying Person
(per person for single occupancy)
Pre-conference field trip
Post-conference field trip
(28-30 Jul)
(4-7Aug)
USD 400
USD 500
USD 500
USD 600
USD 400 (each)
USD 500 (each)
USD 500 (each)
USD 600 (each)
Including travel, meals, and hotel.
General information
Conference Venue
The conference will be held in the Room 516 (on the fifth floor), Yifu Education Bldg,
Nanling Campus, Jilin University, Nanguan District, Changchun City, Jilin Province,
China. Sessions will take place in a meeting room equipped with video projectors that can
link to PC. A dedicated area will be provided for poster sessions.
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The photo of Yifu Education Bldg
The photo of the venue for 6IMC (Room 516 in Yifu Education Bldg)
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Location of the venue and hotels
We will provide the hotel booking before June 30, 2016.
Recommended Hotel: South Lake Hotel of Jilin Province (1. in the map)
Address: No. 3798, Nanhu Road, Chaoyang District, 130022, Changchun, China
The hotel is about 3.0 km away from the venue. We will provide a shuttle bus.
Here is a link with which you can find more information about the hotel:
http://en.ccslh.com/
We also list some other hotels as the following map shown to facilitate your choice.
2. HNA Redbuds Hotel Changchun
Address: No. 5688 Renmin Street, Nan Guan, 130000 Changchun, China
The hotel is about 1.2 km away from the venue. No shuttle bus. About 15 minutes walking.
Here is a link with which you can find more information about the hotel:
http://www.booking.com/hotel/cn/hna-redbuds-changchun.html
3. Guoshen Hotel
Address: No. 7008, Renmin Street, Nan Guan, 130022 Changchun, China
The distance is about 2.0 km. No shuttle bus. About 20 minutes walking.
Here is a link with which you can find more information about the hotel:
http://www.booking.com/hotel/cn/guosheng-grand-hotel.html
Airport to Hotel
A) By Taxi: The distance is about 40 km, it takes about 50 minutes and costs about 200
RMB. We will send the shuttle bus to pick the participants up at 30 July, 2016.
B) By Bus: Take the airport shuttle bus Line 1/6 for 1h 19min (5 stops, 35 km) to People’s
Square, then take the city bus Line 6 (8 stops, 5 km) to the South Lake Hotel of Jilin
Province; take the city bus Line 112/111/307/306/312/66 (5 stops, 3 km) to HNA
Redbuds Hotel Changchun; take 111/66/112/306/312/307/124 (8 stops, 4 km)
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South Lake Hotel of HNA Redbuds Hotel
Jilin Province
Twin/Double Room
About USD 100
Changchun
About USD 60
Guoshen Hotel
About USD 60
Pay on the hotel reception.
Letter of Invitation
After the participant finish the registration, an invitation letter with the signature of
chairmen will be provided. This invitation letter can be used for Chinese visa application in
most countries and regions.
If not, we will provide the formal invitation letter from Chinese Academy of Sciences. The
participant need to provide the scan copy of the passport and fill the table on website to
the executive secretary ([email protected]). This invitation letter is intended to
assist participants in travel and visa arrangements and does not imply financial support.
Currency Exchange
In China, only RMB is used. However, exchange centers can be found at airports, most
hotels and large shopping centers. Visa, Master, American Express, Diners Club, and JCB
are accepted in many department stores and hotels. But it might be difficult to draw cash
with credit cards. The Bank of China and most hotels can cash travelers cheques issued
by any foreign bank or financial institution. Participants will need to show a passport and
pay a 3 percent commission. Travelers cheques signed over to a third party cannot be
cashed in China, but can be presented for collection through the Bank of China.
About Changchun
Changchun City is the capital of Jilin Province in the Northeast of China. It is the ninth
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City has pleasant weather, whose temperature is 3-5 degrees lower in summer than the
same latitude. It hosted the 6th Asian Winter Games in 2007. Changchun is also a base of
science and technology education, with 32 universities and more than 100 independent
research and technology development institutes.
Changchun City is the capital of Jilin Province in the Northeast of China, about 1000 km
north of Beijing with convenient transportation.
How to get to Changchun
1) By plane- Longjia International Airport is about 30 km east of Changchun city, offering
convenient domestic connections to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and
international connections to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai (Japan), Seoul, Busan,
Daegu, Cheju, Cheongju (South Korea), Vladivostok and Irkutsk (Russia). Regular bus
service connections are scheduled hourly between terminal of Longjia International Airport
and downtown of Changchun city.
2) By train- Regular train service connections are very convenient between Beijing and
Changchun. There are 21 trains from Beijing to Changchun from 6:00 am to 23:00 pm
every day, with the trip taking about 6-16 hours. There are also 7 trains from Shanghai to
Changchun every day, started from Shanghai Hongqiao high speed railway station from
9:00 am to 10:30 am taking about 12 hours.
3) By bus- There is only one regular bus service connection between Beijing and
Changchun, started from Bawangfen bus terminal in Beijing at 6:00 pm, with the trip taking
about 20 hours.
4) By car- Driving from the Beijing capital international airport to Campus Chaoyang of
Jilin University takes about 17 hours by federal toll Highway G1.
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