The creation of this database “Geysers of Kamchatka” within the GESKA Information System (IS) was included in the work plan for the grant of the Russian Science Foundation #23-27-00318 «The mechanism of periodic action of geysers, the evolution of the dynamics of their eruptions under changes in the environment and geological setting».

The authors

Project Manager (project idea) – Belousov Alexander, PhD (Geology and Mineralogy), Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Active Volcanism and Eruption Dynamics (LAVDI), Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (IVS), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS);

Project executor (selection of material for the IS and data entry) – Belousova Marina, PhD (Geology and Mineralogy), Senior Researcher, LAVDI, IVS FEB RAS;

Project executor (web development, design, and administering of the IS, data entry) – Romanova Iraida, Leading Programmer of the Information and Computing Center of the IVS FEB RAS).

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful:

to our colleagues at the IVS FEB RAS and other scientists for their scientific information, accumulated over many decades of research on Kamchatka geysers. It would have been impossible to create this system without this info.

to Andrey Leonov, who made a huge contribution to the systematization and description of these unique natural objects in the Catalogue of Geysers of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve (Leonov, 2017), as well as for the materials we used to create the Geoservice - an interactive map of geysers in Kamchatka.

to many people (A. Sokorenko, N. Smelov, V. Sugrobov, D. Melnikov, I. Nuzhdaev, V. Leonov, V. Droznin, E.Grib, A. Leonov, A. Nechaev, A. Kirilenko, P. Shpilenok and others) for the photographs and videos from their personal archives.

Contacts

Contacts Address:
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Piip Boulevard, 9, Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Emails:
Belousov A.and Belousova M.: belousov@mail.ru
Romanova I.: roman@kscnet.ru