Charles A. Wood (P.I.) is a volcanologist with 25 years of experience using remote sensing and other techniques to study volcanoes. His PhD is in Planetary Science (Brown University, 1979). In addition to having published 180 professional papers an d abstracts on volcanoes and other geologic topics he is a member of the NASA EOS Interdisciplinary Team on Volcanology and a volcano P.I. on the SIR-C Shuttle radar mission. Chuck has previously pioneered a variety of techniques in volcanological outreac h including founding the first volcanic computer bulletin board system (1986), publishing Volcano News, a quarterly newsletter, and scripting a Hypercard stack on Kilauea volcano. He has also applied more traditional methods such as contributing the Volcanoes entry to the 1995 edition of New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia, compiling (with Jurgen Kienle) Volcanoes of North America, and he is currently writing a children's book on vo lcanoes entitled America's Volcanoes. Chuck will manage the team's work, and contribute to its overall design and the content of many modules.


Chuck Wood and team members at Galeras.


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