COMET Annual Meeting 2026

COMET Annual Meeting 2026

Welcome to the COMET Annual Meeting 2026!

Please register for each day of the meeting separately. You will find webinar links for each day below, which will be active during talk sessions. We will monitor questions asked via the chat function during presentations.

Monday 29th June, 12.00 – Wednesday 1st July 13.00

We have also provided links to posters that will be presented at the meeting – these pages currently display a holding image (a COMET webinar advert) but will be updated with the correct posters by the meeting start time. Please email poster presenters directly to ask them questions about their work.

Read the draft Membership Overview April 2025-March 2026 here: https://comet.nerc.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Draft-Membership-Overview_April-2025-March-2026.pdf

Oral Presentations

Join the talk sessions remotely.

Day 1 – Monday 29th June 2026

Online registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3a82fe2b-0924-47f3-9569-e4fe60ab0875@c152cb07-614e-4abb-818a-f035cfa91a77

13.00 – 13.15              Introduction: Juliet Biggs, COMET Co-Director
13.15 – 14.30              Science Talks 1 (Chair: Luke Bateson, COMET Executive, BGS Representative)
15.00 – 16.45              Poster session 1 (Chair: Tim Wright, COMET Co-Director)

Day 2 – Tuesday 30th June 2026

Online registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bb434371-3ecc-4885-8575-673292195769@c152cb07-614e-4abb-818a-f035cfa91a77

09.00 – 10.30           Science Talks 2 (Chair: Juliet Biggs, COMET Co-Director)
11.00 – 12.30             Poster session 2 (Chair: Tim Wright, COMET Co-Director)
13.30 – 15.00             Science Talks 3 (Chair: Alex Copley, COMET Deputy Director)

Day 3 – Wednesday 1st July 2026

Online registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e491ac54-58ae-4252-a2e5-3437146253d9@c152cb07-614e-4abb-818a-f035cfa91a77

09.00 – 10.00             Science Talks 4 (Chair: Susan Loughlin, COMET Executive)
10.00 – 10.15             COMET EDI and Organisational Update: Charlotte Royle (COMET Manager)

Poster Session 1 – Monday 29th June 15.00 – 16.45

1.1 Pedro Espin Bedon (University of Leeds)
Real-Time Global Volcano Monitoring with InSAR: Coherence-Guided Interferogram Networks, Optimized Sentinel-1 Time Series, and Dynamic Updates (2014–2025)

1.2 Julian Pahl (University of Cambridge)
Southwest Rift Zone eruptions of Mauna Loa, Island of Hawai‘i: lessons from the crystal cargo

1.3 Sawitree Luachapichatikul (University of Leeds)
Measuring Land Subsidence using Sentinel-1 Time-Series Techniques in Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand

1.4 Chee Jian Hao Denny (Nanyang Technological University, currently at: University of Bristol)
Pre-eruptive Deformation at Mount Agung Detected 7 Months Before the 2017 November Eruption Using Variational Bayesian ICA of InSAR

1.5 Hasan Efendi  (University of Edinburgh)
Mapping multiple subduction in Sulawesi, Indonesia with relocated earthquake

1.6 Rebecca Tichford (University of Oxford)
Volcanic Plume Rise: Combining Models and Observations

1.7 Donny Rio Wahyudi (University of Edinburgh)
Current result of ALOS-2 InSAR timeseries over the Palu-Koro and Matano faults system

1.8 Alexander Harris (University of Bristol)
Measuring the Global Variability in Afterslip

1.9 Constantijn Vleugels (University of Leeds)
Rapid earthquake damage assessment from SAR, optical and engineering perspectives

1.10 Alexander Riddell (University of Manchester)
SO2 flux measurements from ground, air and space before, during and after a lava fountain on Mt Etna

1.11 Yijia Song (University of Bristol)
Deep Learning-based InSAR Phase Unwrapping for Large-scale and Complex Deformation Monitoring

1.12 Jie Li (University of Leeds)
Orbit-specific tropospheric effects on Sentinel-1A/B InSAR observations

1.13 Muhammet Nergizci (University of Leeds)
Rheological Constraints on the Anatolian-Arabian Plate Boundary from Postseismic Deformation Following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes

1.14 Julia Johnson (University of Oxford)
Probing the Mechanics of Slow Slip with Low-Frequency Earthquakes

Poster Session 2 – Tuesday 30th June 11.00 – 12.30

2.1 Ayman Alhawamdeh (University of Nottingham)
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Multiple Hazards Following the 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes

2.2 Benjamin Kettleborough (University of Leeds)
Rapid Uplift and Thermal Anomalies at Bolivian Pliocene Caldera Pastos Grandes

2.3 Cariad Morgan (University of Manchester)
Joint analysis of volcanic degassing and deformation time series to understand transitions in unrest

2.4 Tianyuan Zhu (University of Bristol)
Monitoring Volcanic Deformation using InSAR: Time series at Seasonally Snow-covered Volcanoes

2.5 Eliot Eaton (University of Leeds)
Understanding Volcanic Processes with High-Resolution SAR and InSAR: Insights from CEOS Geohazard Supersites

2.6 Lin Way (University of Bristol)
Using volume changes to infer reservoir architecture during a dike cycle at Fentale volcano

2.7 Fengnian Chang (University of Leeds)
The Kinematics, Dynamics, and Seismic Potential of the Tianshan from Sentinel-1 InSAR & GNSS

2.8 Robert Popescu (University of Bristol)
Learning-Based Atmospheric Correction of Unwrapped InSAR Interferograms

2.9 Yuhao Xu (University of Leeds)
Co- and early post-seismic InSAR observations reveal complex rupture of the 2023 Herat earthquake sequence, NW Afghanistan

2.10 Jack Sidgwick (University of Leeds)
Who’s at fault? Disentangling the igneous-tectonic fracture network around the Kerguelen Islands

2.11 Ben Ireland (University of Bristol)
Towards improved characterisation of global volcano deformation patterns

2.12 Richard Harvey (University of Leeds)
Resolving complex landslide kinematics with high-resolution InSAR and DEMs across New Zealand

2.13 Siyuan Zhao (University of Leeds)
The interactions between the 2018 Lombok earthquake sequence, Indonesia, and the unrest Rinjani-Samalas volcanic complex

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