Information Contacts: C. McKee, R. Stewart, and I. Itikarai, Rabaul
Volcano Observatory, P.O. Box 386, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea; Jim
Lynch, NOAA/NESDIS Synoptic Analysis Branch, Room 401, 5200 Auth
Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 USA; George Stephens, NOAA/NESDIS,
Room 510, 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 USA; Ian Sprod,
Code 921, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
(Email: ian@skye.gsfc.nasa.gov); Cindy Evans, Space Shuttle Earth
Observations Office, Mail Code C102, Lockheed Engineering &
Sciences, P.O. Box 58561, Houston, TX 77258 USA (Email:
evans@sn.dnet.nasa.gov); Graeme Wheller, Volcanex International Pty
Ltd, 521 Tinderbox Bay, TAS 7052 Australia (Email:
g.wheller@geol.utas.edu.au); Kevin Vang, School of Earth Sciences,
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2019 Australia (Email:
kevin.vang@mq.edu.au); International Civil Aviation Organization,
Air Navigation Bureau, 1000 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 400,
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2R2 Canada; U.N. Department of Humanitarian
Affairs, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland;
Associated Press; United Press International; Reuters; Papua New
Guinea Post-Courier.