the writer visited indonesia from september 21, 1981 until januari 18, 1982, during wihich time he advised the volcanological survey of indonesia (vSI) on the scientific management of the merapi volcano observatory. In addition, he and other merapi team members havemade some volcano-stratigraphic studies at merapi and, briefly, at lawu volcano. The writer made this visit as the first of approxi…
The post-meeting trips arranged for a guided by VSI sci- entists were a great success, and at the outset I'd like to convey the thanks from my colleagues, and from myself, for extending this considerable hospitality and courtesy to us. Each and every one of the participants: Fiske, Simkin, Stoiber, Williams, Glicken, Yokoyama, Punongbayan the Banks, Rosengren, and of course Mary Ann and I, were…