CVL Co-Leaders
Agnes Mazot (2023-present, SC Member since 2010)
Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Wairakei, New Zealand
A.M. was the first to make the CO2 accumulation chamber float on active crater lakes. From Indonesia to Italy passing Mexico, since 2008 she makes her chamber float, and move fully indepently, on New Zealand’s volcanic lakes Rotomahana, Ruapehu, etc. A.M., together with B.W.C., organized CVL10-New Zealand in 2019. A.M. is a co-editor of the 2020-2021 FES-Volcanic Lake Topic Collection (together with D.R., C.C. and F.T.), and the 2023 FES-Volcanology “Everlasting sulfur” Topic Collection (together with D.R., Teresa Scolamacchia and Raúl Mora-Amador).
Jacopo Cabassi (2023-present, SC Member since 2016)
IGG-CNR, Florence, Italy
J.C. is the face of the “bio-activity lakes”, making CVL not only more “limno”, but also more “bio”. Together with F.T., J.C. tackles the European “Nyos-type” lakes one by one (Albano, Monticchio’s 2, Averno, Pavin, Laacher See, Azores’ many), in search for more than just inorganics. J.C. has organized Volcanic Lake summer schools in Italy.
The entousiasm, multi-disciplinarity and young spirit of the new Co-Leaders will certainly attract new researchers to our growing community.
CVL Secretary
Felipe Aguilera (2023-present)
Ckelar Volcanes, Antofagasta, Chile
F.A. is the new CVL Secretary since the CVL11-2023-Azores Workshop with his main task to guide CVL to the next CVL-12-2026 Workshop in the Philippines. Working from Chile, his research focuses on volcanic lakes and fumarolic degassing in the Andes (Peteroa, Copahue, Tupungatito).
CVL Webmaster
Dmitri Rouwet (2019-present, CVL Leader 2010-2019)
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
Together with Yuri Taran, D.R. studied the dynamic El Chichón crater lake (Chiapas, Mexico) during his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (2000-2006, UNAM, Mexico). In 2004, D.R. participated to his first CVL workshop at Copahue (CVL6-Argentina) and met with J.C. Varekamp. In 2006, Minoru Kusakabe asked D.R. to give a hand during his yearly Lake Nyos campaign. After his Ph.D. D.R. moved from Mexico to Italy, where he still works at INGV (Bologna). On request by J.C. Varekamp, D.R. co-organized CVL7-Costa Rica (2010) with R. Mora-Amador (UCR) and OVSICORI (M. Martínez), to get going with CVL_2.0. He is co-author of the first Monograph on Volcanic Lakes (Springer, 2015), and co-editor of the Special Issue on Lake Nyos (J. Afric. Earth Sci.), the 2020-2021 FES-Volcanic Lake Topic Collection (together with A.M., C.C. and F.T.), and the 2023 FES-Volcanology “Everlasting sulfur” Topic Collection (together with A.M., Teresa Scolamacchia and Raúl Mora-Amador).
CVL Steering Committee
Jennifer Lewicki (CVL Leader 2019-2023)
US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA
J.L.’s experience in the study of fluid geochemistry and gas and heat emissions of hydrothermal systems (e.g., Yellowstone, Newberry Caldera, Mammoth Mountain, Masaya) has permeated into the lake realm since the 2014 Kawah Ijen “Wet Volcanoes” Workshop. 
Corentin Caudron (CVL Leader 2019-2023, SC Member since 2013)
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
C.C. is CVL’s spearhead for geophysical research, that has made our community broader and more multi-disciplinary dering the last decade. Revealing secrets from the emblematic Kawah Ijen crater lake (East Java), the largest of the hyper-acidic ones, is his laboratory and master. C.C. recent work is on the “anatomy of phreatic eruptions”. He organized the unique “Wet Volcanoes” Workshop in September 2014 at Kawah Ijen. C.C. is, together with T. Ohba and B. Capaccioni, co-editor of the volume on volcanic lakes (Geological Society of London), and the 2020-2021 FES Volcanic Lakes Topic Collection (together with A.M., F.T. and D.R.) C.C. is a CVL SC member since 2013 and webmaster from 2016 to 2019.
Bruce W. Christenson (CVL Secretary 2016-2023, SC member since 2010)
Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
B.W.C. is probably the most active researcher among the crater lake pioneers. His long-term experience, innovating and revolutionary ideas on Ruapehu and White Island, among many other volcanoes, are always illuminating and scientific corner-stones for our community. He is our guide in the acid lake business. Bruce witnessed and monitored the 1995-1996, 2006 and 2007 Ruapehu eruptions, Tongariro’s 2011 eruption and the recent eruption dynamics of White Island, which he started studying together with “the” fluid pioneer Werner F. Giggenbach. B.W.C. is co-author of the first Monograph on Volcanic Lakes (Springer, 2015). B.W.C., together with Agnes Mazot, organized CVL10-New Zealand in 2019. B.W.C. is the 2023 Kusakabe Award winner.
Franco Tassi (SC Member since 2010)
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
F.T. put many unstudied volcanoes -with or without lakes- on the map with his complete fluid geochemical approach and style. F.T. is the most “limnological” and “wet” among the gas geochemists. Besides being a key CVL SC member, F.T. was a long-term Leader of our “Sister Commission” IAVCEI-CCVG (2013-2022). F.T. is tutor of many Italian, Chilean (including F.A.) and Argentinan youngsters, creating a steady flux from below of great scientists to assure the future of both CVL and CCVG. F.T. is co-author of the first Monograph on Volcanic Lakes (Springer, 2015), of the Copahue volume, together with R. Mora-Amador and O. Vaselli of the Poás volume (2019) of the Springer IAVCEI Series Active volcanoes of the world, and the 2020-2021 FES Volcanic Lakes Topic Collection (together with A.M., F.T. and D.R.)
Cynthia Werner (SC Member since 2023)
Research Geologist and Volcano Geochemist, New Zealand
C.W. initial work at Ruapehu’s T cyclicity is pioneering and examplary on how lake heat dissipation should be coped with. C.W. was one of the researchers at the multi-disciplinary “Wet Volcanoes” Workshop at Kawah Ijen, September 2014. From New Zealand again, she now guides students and is keen on using ROVs in volcanic lake environments.
Guendalina Pecoraino (SC Member since 2023)
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Palermo, Italy
G.P. has been working on Specchio di Venere lake at Pantelleria Island, Sicily, since at least two decades. As a loyal CVL workshop participant she took the lead in the various CVL sampling campaigns. G.P. has co-organized the Summer Schools in Italy, at Monticchio (2018) and Lake Albano (2022).
Stefano Fazi (SC Member since 2023)
Water Research Institute, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IRSA-CNR), Rome, Italy
S.F. hooked up with the Italian “volcano limnologists”, F.T. and J.C., to render CVL research more bio-oriented. The new stimulus and views provided by S.F.’s research lines out a novel strategy for CVL. His main research interests focus on the relation between geochemical and microbial community characteristic in stratified volcanic lakes. Among others, he is studying the Sonachi Lake, an endorheic meromictic volcanic soda lake within the Eastern Rift Valley in central Kenya, one of the highest, if not the highest lake emitter of biogenic CH4, never recorded (Comm. Biol . 4, 845 – 2021). S.F. has co-organized the Summer Schools in Italy, at Monticchio (2018) and Lake Albano (2022), and attended the CVL11-2023-Azores workshop.
César Andrade (SC Member since 2023)
IVAR-CIVISA, University of the Azores, São Miguel, Portugal
C.A. owns the record of CO2 flux measurements executed with the floating accumulation chamber in a single campaign on any volcanic lake in the world (2577!). Moreover, C.A. was the chief organizer of the CVL11-2023-Azores workshop.
Zachary Smith (SC Member since 2023)
Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, California, USA
Z.S.’s research focuses on probing big volcanic lakes to decipher the lake’s history on a fine scale of time and space. His novel approaches are a new “inlet vent” for the CVL community.
IAVCEI Commission on Volcanic lakes 