COMET Publications

COMET Annual Reports

2025

Weber, G., Biggs, J. & Annen, C. Distinct patterns of volcano deformation for hot and cold magmatic systemsNat Commun 16, 532 (2025).10.1038/s41467-024-55443-z

Cindy S Y Lim, Sacha Lapins, Margarita Segou, Maximilian J Werner, Deep learning phase pickers: how well can existing models detect hydraulic-fracturing induced microseismicity from a borehole array?Geophysical Journal International, Volume 240, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 535–549, 10.1093/gji/ggae386

W. Hutchison, P. Sugden, A. Burke, P. Abbott, V.V. Ponomareva, O. Dirksen, M.V. Portnyagin, B. MacInnes, J. Bourgeois, B. Fitzhugh, M. Verkerk, T.J. Aubry, S.L. Engwell, A. Svensson, N.J. Chellman, J.R. McConnell, S. Davies,M. Sigl, & G. Plunkett, The 1831 CE mystery eruption identified as Zavaritskii caldera, Simushir Island (Kurils)Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (1) 10.1073/pnas.2416699122 (2025).

Sudholz, Z. J., & Copley, A. (2025). Xenolith constraints on the mantle potential temperature and thickness of cratonic roots through time. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, 10.1029/2024GL112851

Weller, O., Benson, J. and Copley, A. (2025), A Cautionary Tale About Not ‘Joining the Dots’ to Infer Anticlockwise P-T Paths. J Metamorph Geol.10.1111/jmg.12805

María Asensio-Ramos, Ana Pardo Cofrades, Mike Burton, Alessandro La Spina, Patrick Allard, José Barrancos, Catherine Hayer, Ben Esse, Luca D’Auria, Pedro A. Hernández, Eleazar Padrón, Gladys V. Melián, Nemesio M. Pérez, Insights into magma dynamics from daily OP-FTIR gas compositions throughout the 2021 Tajogaite eruption, La Palma, Canary Islands, Chemical Geology, Volume 676, 2025, 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122605

Adam M. Morley, Tamsin A. Mather, David M. Pyle, J-Michael Kendall, Detecting shallow subsurface anomalies with airborne and spaceborne remote sensing: A review, Science of Remote Sensing, Volume 11, 2025, 10.1016/j.srs.2024.100187.

Michelle Rygus, Marco Bianchi, Alessandro Novellino, Ekbal Hussain, Ahmad Taufiq, Steven Reinaldo Rusli, Dwi Sarah, Claudia Meisina, Permanent aquifer storage loss from long-term groundwater withdrawal: A case study of subsidence in Bandung (Indonesia), Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, Volume 57, 2025, 10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.102129.

2024

Wainman, L., Ilyinskaya, E., Pfeffer, M., Mandon, C., Bali, E., Edwards, B. A., et al. (2024). Trace element emissions vary with lava flow age and thermal evolution during the Fagradalsfjall 2021–2023 eruptions, Iceland. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, 10.1029/2024GC011822

Camila Novoa Lizama, D. Remy, J.C. Baez, A. Oyarzun, S. Bonvalot, A. Hooper, Modeling magma recharge dynamics during the 2016 Nevados de Chillan eruption: An interacting two-chamber system evidenced by petrology and geodesy, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 458, 2025, 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108253.

Barbara Hofmann, Craig Magee, Tim J. Wright; Throw distribution across the Dabbahu–Manda Hararo dike-induced fault array: Implications for rifting and faulting. Geology 2024;; 53 (2): 161–165. 10.1130/G52665.1

Barbara Hofmann, Craig Magee, Tim J. Wright; Throw distribution across the Dabbahu–Manda Hararo dike-induced fault array: Implications for rifting and faultingGeology 2024;; 53 (2): 161–165. 10.1130/G52665.1

Camilla Medici, Francesco Becattini, Claire Dashwood, Matteo Del Soldato, Silvia Bianchini, Luke Bateson, Kathryn Lee, Alessandro Novellino, Chapter three – On the use of the EGMS data for studying landslides in Great Britain, Editor(s): Ionut Șandric, Viorel Ilinca, Zenaida Chitu, In Earth Observation, Earth Observation Applications to Landslide Mapping, Monitoring and Modeling, Elsevier, 2025, Pages 71-86, 10.1016/B978-0-12-823868-4.00005-2.

Zhikun Ren, Olaf Zielke, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Richard Walker, High-resolution geological studies of seismogenic structures, Journal of Structural Geology, Volume 191, 2025, 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105306.

Odysseas Pappas, Juliet Biggs, Pau Prats-Iraola, Andrea Pulella, Adam Stinton, Alin Achim,
Measuring topographic change after volcanic eruptions using multistatic SAR satellites: Simulations in preparation for ESA’s Harmony mission, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 317, 2025, 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114528.

Lucas, N., Weller, O., Copley, A., Mottram, C., Chapman, G. and McMahon, W. (2025), The Diverse Habitats of Eclogite Formation: Insights From the Mesoproterozoic Glenelg Inlier, Scotland. J Metamorph Geol, 43: 97-122. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12801

Diercks, M., Hussain, E., Mildon, Z. K., Boulton, S. J., & Lazecký, M. (2024). Active deformation across the Western Anatolian Extensional Province (Türkiye) from Sentinel-1 InSARTectonics, 43, 10.1029/2023TC008086

B.T. McCormick Kilbride, P.H. Barry, T.P. Fischer, G. Holland, M. Hudak, S. Nowicki, C. Ballentine, M.D. Fox, M. Höhn, I. Itikarai, M.D. Johnson, K. Mulina, E.J. Nicholson, Helium, carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence for slab influence on volcanic gas emissions at Rabaul caldera, Papua New Guinea, Chemical Geology, Volume 670, 2024, 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122434.

M.L. Udy, S.K. Ebmeier, S.F.L. Watt, A. Hooper, A. Paredes, Satellite measurement of forest disturbance, recovery and deposit distribution following explosive volcanic eruptions, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 455, 2024, 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108204.

Šakić Trogrlić, R., Thompson, H. E., Menteşe, E. Y., Hussain, E., Gill, J. C., Taylor, F. E., et al. (2024). Multi-hazard interrelationships and risk scenarios in urban areas: A case of Nairobi and IstanbulEarth’s Future, 12,10.1029/2023EF004413

Mildon, Z. K., Diercks, M., Roberts, G. P., Faure Walker, J. P., Ganas, A., Papanikolaou, I., et al. (2024). Transient aseismic vertical deformation across the steeply-dipping Pisia-Skinos normal fault (Gulf of Corinth, Greece)Tectonics, 43, 10.1029/2024TC008276

Black, B.A., Karlstrom, L., Mills, B.J.W. et al. Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events. Nat. Geosci. 17, 1162–1168 (2024). 10.1038/s41561-024-01574-3

Gittins, D. B., & Hawthorne, J. C. (2024). Scattered M3–4 slip bursts within creep events on the San Andreas Fault. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB028187.10.1029/2023JB028187

Wainman, L. Using drones to sample volcanic plumes (2024) Nat Rev Earth Environ 5, 484.10.1038/s43017-024-00570-w

Watson, A. R., Elliott, J. R., Lazecký, M., Maghsoudi, Y., McGrath, J. D., & Walters, R. J. (2024). An InSAR-GNSS velocity field for Iran. Geophysical Research Letters10.1029/2024GL108440

Mann, S.; Novellino, A.; Hussain, E.; Grebby, S.; Bateson, L.; Capsey, A.; Marsh, S. (2024) Coastal Sediment Grain Size Estimates on Gravel Beaches Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)Remote Sens. 10.3390/rs16101763

Vernier, J.-P., Aubry, T. J., Timmreck, C., Schmidt, A., Clarisse, L., Prata, F., Theys, N., Prata, A. T., Mann, G., Choi, H., Carn, S., Rigby, R., Loughlin, S. C., and Stevenson, J. A (2024).: The 2019 Raikoke eruption as a testbed used by the Volcano Response group for rapid assessment of volcanic atmospheric impacts, Atmos. Chem. Phys.,10.5194/acp-24-5765-2024

Wimpenny, S., Watson, S., Brown, H. et al. (2024) Progressing towards safe, inclusive and equitable field researchNat. Geosci. 10.1038/s41561-024-01462-w

Robbins, D. J. V., Poulsen, C. A., Siems, S. T., Proud, S. R., Prata, A. T., Grainger, R. G., and Povey, A. C. (2024) Geostationary aerosol retrievals of extreme biomass burning plumes during the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10.5194/amt-17-3279-2024

Marsh, J., Edmonds, M., Houghton, B. et al. (2024) Magma mingling during the 1959 eruption of Kīlauea Iki, Hawaiʻi. Bull Volcanol, 10.1007/s00445-024-01748-2

Sepúlveda-Araya, J. (2024) Monitoring volcanoes with microgravity surveys. Nat Rev Earth Environ.10.1038/s43017-024-00563-9

Gantayat, P., Sattar, A., Haritashya, U. K., Watson, C. S., & Kargel, J. S. (2024). Bayesian approach to estimate proglacial lake volume (BE-GLAV)Earth and Space Science10.1029/2024EA003542

Smekens, J.-F., Mather, T. A., Burton, M. R., Varnam, M., & Pfeffer, M. A. (2024). Rapid primary sulfate aerosol generation observed with OP-FTIR in the eruptive plume of the Fagradalsfjall basaltic eruption, Iceland, 2021. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres10.1029/2023JD040574

Indraswari, A. O., Frieling, J., Mather, T. A., Dickson, A. J., Jenkyns, H. C., & Idiz, E. (2024). Investigating the behavior of sedimentary mercury (Hg) during burial-related thermal maturationGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems10.1029/2024GC011555

Beckett, F., Barsotti, S., Burton, R. et al.(2024) Conducting volcanic ash cloud exercises: practising forecast evaluation procedures and the pull-through of scientific advice to the London VAACBull Volcanol, 10.1007/s00445-024-01717-9

Tierz, P., Spiller, E. T., Clarke, B. A., Dessalegn, F., Bekele, Y., Lewi, E., et al. (2024). Topographic controls on pyroclastic density current hazard at Aluto volcano (Ethiopia) identified using a novel zero-censored Gaussian Process emulatorJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth10.1029/2023JB028645

Gaddes, M., Hooper, A., & Albino, F. (2024). Simultaneous classification and location of volcanic deformation in SAR interferograms using a convolutional neural network. Earth and Space Science10.1029/2024EA003679

Fang, J., Houseman, G. A., Wright, T. J., Evans, L. A., Craig, T. J., Elliott, J. R., & Hooper, A. (2024). The dynamics of the India-Eurasia collision: Faulted viscous continuum models constrained by high-resolution Sentinel-1 InSAR and GNSS velocitiesJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth10.1029/2023JB028571

Galetto, F., Dualeh, E., Delgado, F., Pritchard, M., Poland, M., Ebmeier, S., Shreve, T., Biggs, J., Hamling, I., Wauthier, C., Gonzalez Santana, J., Froger, J.-L. and Bemelmans, M. (2024) The utility of TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and PAZ for studying global volcanic activity: Successes, challenges, and future prospectsVolcanica, 10.30909/vol.07.01.273301.

Charlie Peach, Stuart E J Nippress, David N Green, Kevin Mayeda, James M Wookey, Maximilian J Werner (2024), A UK Mw catalogue derived from coda envelopesGeophysical Journal International10.1093/gji/ggae180

Engwell, S., Mastin, L.G., Bonadonna, C. et al. (2024) Characterising, quantifying, and accessing eruption source parameters of explosive volcanic eruptions for operational simulation of tephra dispersion: a current view and future perspectives. Bull Volcanol, 10.1007/s00445-024-01706-y

Joshua R Brown, Iris Buisman, Maria P Castellanos Melendez, John B Dikaung, Léa Dumon Steenssens, Marie Edmonds, Ben S Ellis, Margaret E Hartley, Ima Itikarai, Kila Mulina, David A Neave, Gautier Nicoli, Lois C Salem, Zoja Vukmanovic, Brendan T McCormick Kilbride (2024) Petrographic and Geochemical Evidence for a Complex Magmatic Plumbing System beneath Bagana Volcano, Papua New Guinea, Journal of Petrology10.1093/petrology/egae065

B.T. McCormick Kilbride, P.H. Barry, T.P. Fischer, G. Holland, M. Hudak, S. Nowicki, C. Ballentine, M.D. Fox, M. Höhn, I. Itikarai, M.D. Johnson, K. Mulina, E.J. Nicholson, Helium, carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence for slab influence on volcanic gas emissions at Rabaul caldera, Papua New Guinea, Chemical Geology, Volume 670, 2024, 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122434.

Ping He, Yangmao Wen, Xiaohang Wang, Jianfeng Cai,(2024) The N-S direction strike-slip activities in the Pamir hinterland under oblique convergence: the 2015 and 2023 earthquakesGeophysical Journal International10.1093/gji/ggae214

S.F. Jenkins, K. Mee, S.L. Engwell, S.C. Loughlin, B.V.E. Faria, G. Yirgu, Y. Bekele, E. Lewi, C. Vye-Brown, S.A. Fraser, S.J. Day, R.M. Lark, C. Huyck, J. Crummy, (2024) Assessing volcanic hazard and exposure in a data poor context: Case study for Ethiopia, Kenya, and Cabo Verde, Progress in Disaster Science, 10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100350.

Song, R., Povey, A., and Grainger, R. G. (2024) Characterization of dust aerosols from ALADIN and CALIOP measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 2521–2538, 10.5194/amt-17-2521-2024

Reddin, E., Ebmeier, S., Bagnardi, M., Bell, A. F. and Espín Bedón, P. (2024) Craters of habit: Patterns of deformation in the western GalápagosVolcanica, 7(1), pp. 181–227. 10.30909/vol.07.01.181227.

Juliette Delbrel, Mike Burton, Ben Esse, Catherine Hayer, Matthew Varnam (2024) TROPOMI/PlumeTraj SO2 fluxes consistent with partially degassed magma supplying the 2018 Kīlauea eruption, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research,
Volume 450, 108066, ISSN 0377-0273, 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108066.

Zhang, Y., Wimpenny, S., Dal Zilio, L., & Shan, X. (2024). Strain partitioning and fault kinematics in the northern Qilian Shan (NE Tibet) determined from Bayesian inference of geodetic data. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107324. 10.1029/2023GL107324

Moualla, L.; Rucci, A.; Naletto, G.; Anantrasirichai, N. (2024) Learning Ground Displacement Signals Directly from InSAR-Wrapped InterferogramsSensors24, 2637.10.3390/s24082637

Bos, R., Zheng, W., Lindström, S. et al. (2024) Climate-forced Hg-remobilization associated with fern mutagenesis in the aftermath of the end-Triassic extinctionNat Commun 15, 3596. 10.1038/s41467-024-47922-0

Atalay Ayele, Richard Luckett, Brian Baptie, Kathy Whaler (2024) The 2015 earthquake swarm in the Fentale volcanic complex (FVC): A geohazard risk for Ethiopia’s commercial route to the Djibouti port., Journal of African Earth Sciences, 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105236.

Nicholson, E.J., Wieser, P.E., Hartley, M.E. et al. (2024) Sulfide saturation and resorption modulates sulfur and metal availability during the 2014–15 Holuhraun eruption, IcelandCommun Earth Environ, 10.1038/s43247-024-01249-2

Jenkins, A., Rust, A. and Biggs, J. (2024) The relationship between large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions: A global statistical studyVolcanica10.30909/vol.07.01.165179

Holmgren JM, Werner MJ, Goda K, Villani M, Silva V, Chindandali P. (2024) Ranking and developing ground-motion models for Southeastern Africa. Earthquake Spectra.10.1177/87552930241236765

Barsotti, S., Scollo, S., Macedonio, G. et al. The European Volcano Observatories and their use of the aviation colour code systemBull Volcanol 86, 23 (2024). 10.1007/s00445-024-01712-0

Frieling, J., Fendley, I. M., Nawaz, M. A., & Mather, T. A. (2024). Assessment of Hg speciation changes in the sedimentary rock record from thermal desorption characteristics. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems10.1029/2024GC011502

Pierce, I., Guliyev, I., Yetirmishli, G., Muradov, R., Kazimova, S., Javanshir, R., et al. (2024). Surface rupturing earthquakes of the Greater Caucasus frontal thrusts, AzerbaijanTectonics10.1029/2023TC007758

Zhenjiang Liu, Zhenhong Li, Chen Yu, Xuesong Zhang, Jianbing Peng (2024) Stress triggering and future seismic hazards implied by four large earthquakes in the Pamir from 2015 to 2023 revealed by Sentinel-1 radar interferometry, Geophysical Journal International10.1093/gji/ggae079

Copley, A & Weller, O.M. (2024) Modern-style continental tectonics since the early ArcheanPrecambrian Research10.1016/j.precamres.2024.10732

Bonechi, B., Polacci, M., Arzilli, F., Romero, J., Fellowes, J. and Burton, M. (2024) Magma residence time, ascent rate and eruptive style of the November ash-laden activity during the 2021 Tajogaite eruption (La Palma, Spain)Volcanica10.30909/vol.07.01.5165

P.L. Smedley, G. Allen, B.J. Baptie, A.P. Fraser-Harris, R.S. Ward, R.M. Chambers, S.M.V. Gilfillan, J.A. Hall, A.G. Hughes, D.A.C. Manning, C.I. McDermott, S. Nagheli, J.T. Shaw, M.J. Werner, F. Worrall (2024) Equipping for risk: Lessons learnt from the UK shale-gas experience on assessing environmental risks for the future geoenergy use of the deep subsurfaceScience of The Total Environment10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171036

Ghorbani, Z., Khosravi, A., Maghsoudi, Y., Voosoghi, B.(2024) InSAR Measurements for Landslide-Induced Damage Assessment on Part of North Alabama Highway, Morgan CountyGeotechnical Special Publication, 10.1061/9780784485347.053

Freysteinn Sigmundsson et al. (2024) Fracturing and tectonic stress drives ultrarapid magma flow into dikes, Science10.1126/science.adn2838

Brock A. Edwards, Melissa A. Pfeffer, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Barbara I. Kleine-Marshall, Céline L. Mandon, Adam Cotterill, Alessandro Aiuppa, Peter M. Outridge, Feiyue Wang (2024) Exceptionally low mercury concentrations and fluxes from the 2021 and 2022 eruptions of Fagradalsfjall volcano, IcelandScience of The Total Environment, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170457.

Maria C Araya, Juliet Biggs (2024) Towards a geodetic earthquake catalogue for Central America: detecting coseismic deformation in Costa Rica using Sentinel-1 InSARGeophysical Journal International10.1093/gji/ggae021

England, P., Matsumoto, T., & Wallis, S. (2024). Implications of surface heat flux for shear stress and temperature on the plate interface beneath northern HonshuGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems10.1029/2023GC011285

Parks, M. M., Sigmundsson, F., Drouin, V., Hreinsdóttir, S., Hooper, A., Yang, Y., et al. (2024). 2021–2023 unrest and geodetic observations at Askja volcano, IcelandGeophysical Research Letters, 10.1029/2023GL106730

Fendley, I.M., Frieling, J., Mather, T.A. et al. (2024) Early Jurassic large igneous province carbon emissions constrained by sedimentary mercuryNat. Geosci10.1038/s41561-024-01378-5

Biggs, Juliet and Rafferty, Timothy and Macha, Jonny and Dualeh, Edna and Weber, Gregor and Burgisser, Alain and Carroll, Finbar and Hart, Lauren and Rust, Alison and Gilbertson, Mark (2024) Fracturing Around Magma Reservoirs Causes Variations in Surface Uplift Rates Even at Constant Volumetric Flux. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4744033 or 10.2139/ssrn.4744033

B Esse, M Burton, C Hayer, R Contreras-Arratia, T Christopher (2024) SO2 emissions during the 2021 eruption of La Soufrière, St Vincent, revealed with back-trajectory analysis of TROPOMI imagery, Geol Soc Special publication, 10.1144/SP539-2022-77

Paine, A. R., Fendley, I. M., Frieling, J., Mather, T. A., Lacey, J. H., Wagner, B., Robinson, S. A., Pyle, D. M., Francke, A., Them II, T. R., and Panagiotopoulos, K. (2024) Mercury records covering the past 90 000 years from lakes Prespa and Ohrid, SE Europe, Biogeosciences, 10.5194/bg-21-531-2024

Turner, A. R., Hawthorne, J. C., & Cattania, C. (2024) Partial ruptures cannot explain the long recurrence intervals of repeating earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 10.1029/2023JB027870

Lau, S., Grainger, R. G., & Taylor, I. A. (2024) Characterizing volcanic ash density and its implications on settling dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 10.1029/2023JD039903

Bamber, E.C., La Spina, G., Arzilli, F. et al. (2024) Outgassing behaviour during highly explosive basaltic eruptions, Commun Earth Environ, 10.1038/s4324 7-023-01182-w

Emily M. Mason, Marie Edmonds, Samantha Hammond, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Frances Jenner, Barbara Kunz, Emma J. Nicholson, Gabriela Velasquez (2024) Chalcophile element degassing at an active continental arc volcano, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 10.1016/j.gca.2023.12.014

Gueugneau, ValentinCharbonnier, Sylvain; Miller, Victoria L.,Cole, Paul., Grandin, Raphaël., Dualeh, Edna W. (2023) Modelling pyroclastic density currents of the April 2021 La Soufrière, St Vincent eruption: from rapid invasion maps to field-constrained numerical simulations, Geological Society Special Publication10.1144/SP539-2022-290

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