Acknowledgements

The organizing committee thanks the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI), the Climate Risk & Early Warning Systems (CREWS), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Faculty of Science of the University of Geneva, the UK Met Office, the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) for supporting this important and timely endeavour.