End users

List of organisms, institutes, and volcano observatories, having official responsibilities in volcano monitoring activities, with whom MOUNTS has interacted directly.
(This list does not include the research departments with whom scientific collaborations are active, but which do not have monitoring responsibilities).


North America
VDAP-USGS (USA) Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (United States Geological Survey, USGS)
Central America
CENAPRED (Mexico) Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres
INSIVUMEH (Guatemala) Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología
DGOA (El Salvador) Dirección General de Observatorio de Amenazas y Recursos Naturales - Area Vulcanología
INETER (Nicaragua) Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales
OVSICORI (Costa Rica) Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica
South America
SGC (Colombia) Servicio Geológico Colombiano
IG-EPN (Ecuador) Instituto Geofísico de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional
IGP (Peru) Instituto Geofísico del Perú
INGEMMET (Peru) Instituto Geológico, Minero y Metalúrgico
OVDAS (Chile) Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, SERNAGEOMIN)
West Indies
UWI-SRC (Trinidad and Tobago) University of the West Indies - Seismic Research Centre
MVO (Monserrat) Montserrat Volcano Observatory
Europe
GDACS (EU) Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
MIROVA (Italy) Middle InfraRed Observation of Volcanic Activity
LGS-UNIFI (Italy) Laboratorio di Geofisica Sperimentale (Università degli Studi di Firenze, UNIFI)
HOTVOLC-OPGC (France) HOTVOLC Observing System (Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, OPGC)
OVPF-IPGP (France) Observatoire volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, IPGP)
IMO (Iceland) Icelandic Meteorological Office
BGS (United Kingdom) British Geological Survey
Africa
OVG (D.R. Congo) Goma Volcano Observatory
Asia
CVGHM (Indonesia) Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation
PHIVOLCS (Philippines) Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
SVERT (Russia) Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team
Oceania
VAAC (Australia) Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Darwin
RVO (Papua New Guinea) Rabaul Volcano Observatory
VMGD (Vanuatu) Vanuatu Meteorology and Geohazards Department - Geohazards division
MLNR (Tonga) Tonga Geological Services - Natural Resources Division - Geohazard Section