Link to volcano societal risk mitigation: The session seeks to develop volcano forecasting methods which may improve safety for human populations and property near volcanoes.Session and workshop description: Volcanic systems are thought to evolve in a systematic manner with a range of observations that may be ascribed to unrest and eruption. Such a system is akin to the progression of illness in humans,where the evolution of symptoms may occur in a specific pattern which maybe exploited to improve patient health outcomes. For volcanic systems, the pattern may relate genetically to the upward migration of magma through constricted pathways and into the overlying groundwater/hydrothermal system. This systematic progression was first described as the Generic Volcanic Earthquake Swarm Model (GVESM) more than 2 decades ago and included the onset of volcano-tectonic activity > long-period earthquakes > shallow tremor and eruption. This session welcomes multidisciplinary contributions in geochemistry and geophysics (especially, but not limited to, ground deformation and seismo-acoustic monitoring) that can be used to critically assess the GVESM and other conceptual volcano forecast models. We are also interested in contributions utilizing sophisticated Machine Learning techniques which may enable identification and assessment for subtle evolutionary patterns in data. The session hopes to develop an improved multi-parameter “Generic Unrest Model”which may then be applied to hazards assessments of unrest globally.