Unfortunately the Erebus Cave and Fumarole Database is not online at the moment. Due to the end of the Mt Erebus Volcano Observatory (USAP G-081) grant it is not possible to maintain a running database. I hope that I will be able to re-launch the database under a future grant, or that others will volunteer to maintain it. However, you can download an archived copy of the database and run it on any machine. To do this:

  1. Download and install Vagrant from http://www.vagrantup.com
  2. Download and install Virtualbox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  3. Open a terminal, make a new directory, and run "vagrant init mevo/ecdb-nopersinfo" in it (allow more time for this step)
  4. Then run "vagrant up --provider virtualbox"
  5. The database is now running on your computer and you can interact with it by pointing your web browser to http://localhost:8000

Cave locations unfortunately do not display correctly on the front page map of the archived database versions due to a technical issue. However, you can go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/caves/ to access the list of caves.

More information is available at the Global Change Master Directory and the US Antarctic Program Data Center, which hosts a second copy of the database image (mevo_database.box).

-- Aaron Curtis, 5 February 2018