1. End of an Arc: The Remarkable Life & Death of a Volcanic Arc
A Canada – France Research & Training Consortium
Glyn Williams-Jones
Department of Earth Sciences
Simon Fraser University

2. End of an Arc: The Remarkable Life & Death of a Volcanic Arc
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End of an Arc: The Remarkable Life & Death of a Volcanic Arc
A research and training partnership to investigate the Canadian segment of the Northern Cascade Arc or Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
Characterise the evolution of a continental volcanic arc in space and time and develop an understanding of this evolution in terms of links among mantle, magmatic, tectonic and surface processes

3. End of an Arc: The Remarkable Life & Death of a Volcanic Arc
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End of an Arc: The Remarkable Life & Death of a Volcanic Arc
Assemble and support a team of researchers spanning a range of fields in Earth Science over an extended period through a formal long-term (> 10 yrs) collaboration among established scientists, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students

4. Partners & Support
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Dr. Mathieu Leporini
Science & Technology Attaché
Ambassade de France, Vancouver
Dr. Virginie Squizzato
Research, Training & Innovation
Région Auvergne
VP-Research: Dr. Joy Johnson, SFU & Dr. John Hepburn, UBC
Dr. Mathias Bernard, UBP President
Seed funding (Univ. & regionals grants) for preliminary workshops
Principle funding for consortium
Potential sources for research & mobility

5. Workshops March, 2014 – First Preliminary Meeting (SFU Vancouver)
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March, 2014 – First Preliminary Meeting (SFU Vancouver)
10 researchers from LMV
Set groundwork for a proposal to the Region Auvergne
Success lead to launch of Research Consortium with funding for 2 Postdocs & 1 PhD
June, 2015 – Second follow-on Meeting (LMV, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
5 researchers, 2 grad students & VPs Res. from SFU & UBC
Presentations of current research
MOUs signed between
Success led to funding for 4 more PhDs (2 each from SFU & UBC)
August, 2017 – Conference in Portland, Oregon

6. “Management” One institutional PI from each partner
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One institutional PI from each partner
Facilitates coordination & communication between partners
Point person to work with University administration
PIs to represent teams on future funding proposals

7. Joint-PhDs & PDFs Dr. David Jessop LMV/UBC PDF Dr. Emily Mullen
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Dr. David Jessop LMV/UBC PDF
Dr. Emily Mullen
LMV/UBC PDF
Why do pyroclastic density currents occur?
Characterization of magmatism at the termination of an arc
Mr. Gioachino Roberti LMV/SFU PhD
Miss Swetha Venugopal SFU/LMV PhD
How does uplift and glacial erosion influence the stability and longevity of volcanic edifices?
Magmatic volatile fluxes through two subduction zones
Mr. Alexander Wilson UBC/LMV PhD
Mr. Yannick Le Moigne SFU/LMV PhD
Glaciovolcanism in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
Investigating the Canada's deadliest volcanic eruption & mitigating future hazards
+ 1 more UBC/LMV PhD TBD

8. Joint-PhDs & PDFs Easier to quickly launch with PDFs & PhDs than MSc
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PhDs & PDFs
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Easier to quickly launch with PDFs & PhDs than MSc
Different funding expectations, benefits, etc.
Be clear on source of research costs, overhead, etc.
Cotutelles / Joint-PhDs
Different cotutelle agreements depending on institutions
Very different tuition fees, cost of living, etc.
Different length of PhDs (3 vs 4-5 yrs)
Agreed to a “hard” 4 year PhD
Funding for mobility
Language training

9. Considerations Balance between Partners
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Balance between Partners
SFU much smaller than LMV, so combined with UBC
Expanding partnerships / programs
New institutions, new MOUs needed
Professional Masters
Administratively much more complicated but greater number of students

10. Considerations Long-term funding
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PhDs & PDFs
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Long-term funding
Currently, most research costs funded by supervisors
Sources of further scholarships
Internal vs External
Mobility funding for researchers & students/PDFs
National vs International funding for collaborative research & training
e.g., NSERC CREATE, Networks of Centres of Excellence, Horizons 2020)

11. Merci!