There are many different stakeholders involved in civil aviation management during explosive volcanic eruption. For this reason, managing the information flow and, in particular, providing right information to aviation stakeholders is a very difficult task for scientific institutions.

 

Together with my co-authors, I designed a Web-based survey to understand the priorities and needs of the involved stakeholders, and to ask their opinion on cutting-edge techniques.

 

The survey was developed using the surveymonkey tool (https://es.surveymonkey.com/) and is available for downloading in the download section. We distributed the link among our contacts, and collected more than a hundred responses, which allowed underlining some aspects that may be improved in information management.

 

Results were published in an international Journal (Scaini et al., 2015, see "publications" subsection for details). Results were also presented at the 26th IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) General Assembly (Prague, June 2015).

 

This in an example of the survey results. The picture shows the differences in the use of model and preferred model output between aviation stakehooders and other groups (field scientists, modelers and territorial planners).