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G-VEWERS

2025

  • Way, L., Biggs, J., Zheng, W., Lazecky, M., Dualeh, E. W., Wright, T., … & Lewi, E. (2025). Real-time satellite monitoring of the 2024–2025 dyke intrusion sequence at Fentale-Dofen volcanoes, Ethiopia. Bulletin of Volcanology, 87(11), 100.

Volcano Demonstrator

2020

  • Hickey, J., Lloyd, R., Biggs, J., Arnold, D., Mothes, P., & Muller, C. (2020). Rapid localized flank inflation and implications for potential slope instability at Tungurahua volcano, Ecuador. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 534, 116104.
  • Poland, M. P., Lopez, T., Wright, R., & Pavolonis, M. J. (2020). Forecasting, detecting, and tracking volcanic eruptions from space. Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, 3(1), 55–94.
  • Stephens, K. J., Wauthier, C., Bussard, R. C., Higgins, M., & LaFemina, P. C. (2020). Assessment of mitigation strategies for tropospheric phase contributions to InSAR time-series datasets over two Nicaraguan volcanoes. Remote Sensing, 12(5), 782.

2021

  • Stephens, K. (2021). Eyes from the Sky: Using Radar Satellites to Image Surface Displacements in Volcanic Regions (Doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University).
  • Kubanek, J., Poland, M. P., & Biggs, J. (2021). Applications of bistatic radar to volcano topography—a review of ten years of TanDEM-X. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 3282–3302.
  • Hunt, J. E., Tappin, D. R., Watt, S. F. L., Susilohadi, S., Novellino, A., Ebmeier, S. K., Cassidy, M., Engwell, S. L., Grilli, S. T., Hanif, M., & Priyanto, W. S. (2021). Submarine landslide megablocks show half of Anak Krakatau island failed on December 22nd, 2018. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2827.
  • Boichu, M., & Grandin, R. (2021). La télédétection épaule la surveillance de l’éruption de la Soufrière de Saint-Vincent. La Météorologie, (114), 002.
  • Imperatore, P., & Sansosti, E. (2021). Multithreading based parallel processing for image geometric coregistration in SAR interferometry. Remote Sensing, 13(10), 1963.
  • Grilli, S. T., Zhang, C., Kirby, J. T., Grilli, A. R., Tappin, D. R., Watt, S. F. L., Hunt, J. E., Novellino, A., Engwell, S., Nurshal, M. E. M., & Abdurrachman, M. (2021). Modeling of the Dec. 22nd 2018 Anak Krakatau volcano lateral collapse and tsunami based on recent field surveys: Comparison with observed tsunami impact. Marine Geology, 440, 106566.
  • Gonzalez-Santana, J., & Wauthier, C. (2021). Unraveling long-term volcano flank instability at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala, using satellite geodesy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 410, 107147.
  • Fornaro, G., Noviello, C., Pauciullo, A., Reale, D., Sansosti, E., Verde, S., Zamparelli, V., Cascini, L., D’Agostino, N., & Di Maio, C. (2021, March). Very High Resolution and Frequent Revisiting SAR Systems Applied to the Environmental Protection: A contribution based on the use of COSMO-SkyMed Interferometric Data. In EUSAR 2021; 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (pp. 1–5). VDE.
  • Dualeh, E. W., Ebmeier, S. K., Wright, T. J., Albino, F., Naismith, A., Biggs, J., Ordoñez, P. A., Boogher, R. M., & Roca, A. (2021). Analyzing explosive volcanic deposits from satellite-based radar backscatter, Volcán de Fuego, 2018. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(9), e2021JB022250.

2022

  • Gonzalez-Santana, J., Wauthier, C., & Burns, M. (2022). Links between volcanic activity and flank creep behavior at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala. Bulletin of Volcanology, 84(9), 84.
  • La Rosa, A., Pagli, C., Hurman, G. L., & Keir, D. (2022). Strain accommodation by intrusion and faulting in a rift linkage zone: Evidences from high-resolution topography data of the Afrera Plain (Afar, East Africa). Tectonics, 41(6), e2021TC007115.
  • Muñoz, V., Walter, T. R., Zorn, E. U., Shevchenko, A. V., González, P. J., Reale, D., & Sansosti, E. (2022). Satellite radar and camera time series reveal transition from aligned to distributed crater arrangement during the 2021 eruption of Cumbre Vieja, La Palma (Spain). Remote Sensing, 14(23), 6168.
  • Joseph, E. P., Camejo-Harry, M., Christopher, T., Contreras-Arratia, R., Edwards, S., Graham, O., Johnson, M., Juman, A., Latchman, J. L., Lynch, L., & Miller, V. L. (2022). Responding to eruptive transitions during the 2020–2021 eruption of La Soufrière volcano, St. Vincent. Nature Communications, 13(1), 4129.
  • Poland, M. P., & Zebker, H. A. (2022). Volcano geodesy using InSAR in 2020: The past and next decades. Bulletin of Volcanology, 84(3), 27.
  • Pritchard, M. E., Poland, M., Reath, K., Andrews, B., Bagnardi, M., Biggs, J., Carn, S., Coppola, D., Ebmeier, S. K., Furtney, M. A., Girona, T., Griswold, J., Lopez, T., Lundgren, P., Ogburn, S., Pavolonis, M., Rumpf, E., Vaughan, G., Wauthier, C., Wessels, R., Wright, R., Anderson, K. R., Bato, M. G., & Roman, A. (2022). Optimizing satellite resources for the global assessment and mitigation of volcanic hazards—Suggestions from the USGS Powell Center Volcano Remote Sensing Working Group. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022–5116, 69 p. https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20225116
  • Delgado, F., Contreras-Arratia, R., & Samsonov, S. (2022). Magma buoyancy drives rhyolitic eruptions: A tale from the VEI 5 2008–2009 Chaitén eruption (Chile) from seismological and geodetic data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 590, 117564.

2023

  • Dualeh, E. W., Ebmeier, S. K., Wright, T. J., Poland, M. P., Grandin, R., Stinton, A. J., Camejo-Harry, M., Esse, B., & Burton, M. (2023). Rapid pre-explosion increase in dome extrusion rate at La Soufrière, St. Vincent quantified from synthetic aperture radar backscatter. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 603, 117980.
  • Shreve, T., & Delgado, F. (2023). Trapdoor fault activation: A step toward caldera collapse at Sierra Negra, Galápagos, Ecuador. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(5), e2023JB026437.
  • Bemelmans, M. J., Biggs, J., Poland, M., Wookey, J., Ebmeier, S. K., Diefenbach, A. K., & Syahbana, D. (2023). High-resolution InSAR reveals localized pre-eruptive deformation inside the crater of Agung Volcano, Indonesia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(5), e2022JB025669.
  • Shreve, T., Zhan, Y., Le Mével, H., Roman, D., & Moussallam, Y. (2023). Two distinct magma storage regions at Ambrym volcano detected by satellite geodesy. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(15), e2023GL102925.
  • Galetto, F., Reale, D., Sansosti, E., & Acocella, V. (2023). Implications for shallow magma transfer during the 2017 and 2018 eruptions at Fernandina (Galápagos) inferred from InSAR data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(6), e2022JB026174.
  • Watson, C. S., Elliott, J. R., Ebmeier, S. K., Biggs, J., Albino, F., Brown, S. K., Burns, H., Hooper, A., Lazecky, M., Maghsoudi, Y., & Rigby, R. (2023). Strategies for improving the communication of satellite-derived InSAR data for geohazards through the analysis of Twitter and online data portals. Geoscience Communication, 6(2), 75–96.

2024

  • Wauthier, C., & Ho, C. (2024). Satellite geodesy unveils a decade of summit subsidence at Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano, Tanzania. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(11), e2023GL107673.
  • Galetto, F., Dualeh, E., Delgado, F., Pritchard, M. E., Poland, M., Ebmeier, S., Shreve, T., Biggs, J., Hamling, I., Wauthier, C., Gonzalez-Santana, J., Froger, J.-L., & Bemelmans, M. (2024). The utility of TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and PAZ for studying global volcanic activity: Successes, challenges, and future prospects. Volcanica, 7. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.07.01.273301
  • Gonzalez-Santana, J., Wauthier, C., & Waite, G. (2024). The 2021 eruption of Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala—Geophysical analysis through satellite geodesy and seismic noise correlations. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 447, 108027.
  • Gueugneau, V., Charbonnier, S., Miller, V. L., Cole, P., Grandin, R., & Dualeh, E. W. (2024). Modelling pyroclastic density currents of the April 2021 La Soufrière, St Vincent eruption: From rapid invasion maps to field-constrained numerical simulations.
  • Eiden, E. M. (2024). Characterizing magma and volatile movement in volcanic systems using remote sensing techniques (Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University).
  • Kim, Y. C., Wauthier, C., & Walter, T. R. (2024). Satellite geodesy uncovers 15 m of slip on a detachment fault prior to the 2018 collapse at Anak Krakatau, Indonesia. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(22), e2024GL112296.

2025

  • Pappas, O., Biggs, J., Prats-Iraola, P., Pulella, A., Stinton, A., & Achim, A. (2025). Measuring topographic change after volcanic eruptions using multistatic SAR satellites: Simulations in preparation for ESA’s Harmony mission. Remote Sensing of Environment, 317, 114528.

Volcano Pilot

2015

  • Jay, J. A., Delgado, F. J., Torres, J. L., Pritchard, M. E., Macedo, O., & Aguilar, V. (2015). Deformation and seismicity near Sabancaya volcano, southern Peru, from 2002 to 2015. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(8), 2780–2788. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063589
  • Muller, C., del Potro, R., Biggs, J., Gottsmann, J., Ebmeier, S. K., Guillaume, S., Cattin, P.-H., & van der Laat, R. (2015). Integrated velocity field from ground and satellite geodetic monitoring: Insights from Arenal volcano. Geophysical Journal International, 200(2), 863–879. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu444
  • Poland, M. (2015). Volcano monitoring from space. In Loughlin, S. C., Sparks, R. S. J., Brown, S. K., Jenkins, S. F., & Vye-Brown, C. (Eds.), Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk (pp. 311–316).

2016

  • Delgado, F., Pritchard, M., Basualto, D., Lazo, J., Cordova, L., & Lara, L. (2016). Rapid re-inflation following the 2011–2012 rhyodacite eruption at Cordón Caulle volcano (Southern Andes) imaged by InSAR: Evidence for magma reservoir refill. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070066
  • Naranjo, M. F., Ebmeier, S. K., Vallejo, S., Ramón, P., Mothes, P., Biggs, J., & Herrera, F. (2016). Mapping and measuring lava volumes from 2002 to 2009 at El Reventador Volcano, Ecuador, from field measurements and satellite remote sensing. Journal of Applied Volcanology, 5(1), 8.
  • Ebmeier, S. K., Elliott, J. R., Nocquet, J. M., Biggs, J., Mothes, P., Jarrín, P., Yépez, M., Aguaiza, S., Lundgren, P., & Samsonov, S. V. (2016). Shallow earthquake inhibits unrest near Chiles–Cerro Negro volcanoes, Ecuador–Colombian border. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 283–291.
  • Arnold, D. W. D., Biggs, J., Wadge, G., Ebmeier, S. K., Odbert, H. M., & Poland, M. P. (2016). Dome growth, collapse, and valley fill at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, from 1995 to 2013: Contributions from satellite radar measurements of topographic change. Geosphere.
  • Morales Rivera, A., Amelung, F., & Mothes, P. (2016). Volcano deformation survey over the Northern and Central Andes with ALOS InSAR time series. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(7), 2869–2883.

2017

  • Henderson, S. T., Delgado, F., Elliott, J., Pritchard, M. E., & Lundgren, P. R. (2017). Decelerating uplift at Lazufre volcanic center, Central Andes, from AD 2010 to 2016, and implications for geodetic models. Geosphere, 13(5), 1489–1505.
  • Delgado, F., Pritchard, M. E., Ebmeier, S., Gonzalez, P., & Lara, L. (2017). Recent unrest (2003–2015) imaged by space geodesy at the highest risk Chilean volcanoes: Llaima, Villarrica and Calbuco (Southern Andes). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 344, 270–288.
  • Henderson, S. T., & Pritchard, M. E. (2017). Time-dependent deformation of Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia, constrained by GPS and InSAR measurements and implications for source models. Geosphere, 13(6), 1834–1854.
  • Arnold, D. W. D., Biggs, J., Anderson, K., Vallejo Vargas, S., Wadge, G., Ebmeier, S. K., Naranjo, M. F., & Mothes, P. (2017). Decaying lava extrusion rate at El Reventador Volcano, Ecuador, measured using high-resolution satellite radar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(12), 9966–9988.
  • Stephens, K. J., Ebmeier, S. K., Young, N. K., & Biggs, J. (2017). Transient deformation associated with explosive eruption measured at Masaya volcano (Nicaragua) using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 344, 212–223.
  • Pepe, S., Castaldo, R., De Novellis, V., D’Auria, L., De Luca, C., Casu, F., Sansosti, E., & Tizzani, P. (2017). New insights on the 2012–2013 uplift episode at Fernandina Volcano (Galapagos). Geophysical Journal International, 211(2), 673–685.
  • Wnuk, K., & Wauthier, C. (2017). Surface deformation induced by magmatic processes at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala revealed by InSAR. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.06.024
  • Morales-Rivera, A., Amelung, F., Mothes, P., Hong, S.-H., & Nocquet, J.-M. (2017). Ground deformation before the 2015 eruptions of Cotopaxi volcano detected by InSAR. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073720

2018

  • Pritchard, M. E., Biggs, J., Wauthier, C., Sansosti, E., Arnold, D. W. D., Delgado, F., Ebmeier, S. K., Henderson, S. T., Stephens, K., Cooper, C., Wnuk, K., Amelung, F., Aguilar, V., Mothes, P., Macedo, O., Lara, L. E., Poland, M. P., & Zoffoli, S. (2018). Towards coordinated regional multi-satellite InSAR volcano observations: Results from the Latin America pilot project. Journal of Applied Volcanology, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-018-0071-3
  • Ebmeier, S. K., Andrews, B., Araya, M. C., Arnold, D. W. D., Biggs, J., Cooper, C., Cottrell, E., Furtney, M., Hickey, J., Jay, J., Lloyd, R., Parker, A. L., Pritchard, M. E., Robertson, E., Venzke, E., & Williamson, J. L. (2018). Synthesis of global volcano deformation observations: Implications for volcano monitoring and the lateral extent of magmatic systems. Journal of Applied Volcanology, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-018-0071-3
  • Stephens, K. J., & Wauthier, C. (2018). Satellite geodesy captures offset magma supply associated with lava lake appearance at Masaya volcano, Nicaragua. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(6), 2669–2678.
  • Muller, C., Biggs, J., Ebmeier, S. K., Mothes, P., Palacios, P. B., Jarrín, P., Edmonds, M., & Ruiz, M. (2018). Temporal evolution of the magmatic system at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador, detected by geodetic observations. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 368, 63–72.
  • Arnold, D. W. D., Biggs, J., Wadge, G., & Mothes, P. (2018). Using satellite radar amplitude imaging for monitoring syn-eruptive changes in surface morphology at an ice-capped stratovolcano. Remote Sensing of Environment, 209, 480–488.
  • Delgado, F., Pritchard, M. E., Samsonov, S., & Córdova, L. (2018). Renewed post-eruptive uplift following the 2011–2012 rhyolitic eruption of Cordón Caulle (Southern Andes, Chile): Evidence for transient episodes of magma reservoir recharge during 2012–2018. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016240

2019

  • Reath, K., Pritchard, M., Poland, M., Delgado, F., Carn, S., Coppola, D., Andrews, B., Ebmeier, S. K., Rumpf, E., Henderson, S., Baker, S., Lundgren, P., Wright, R., Biggs, J., Lopez, T., Wauthier, C., Moruzzi, S., Alcott, A., Wessels, R., Griswold, J., Ogburn, S., Loughlin, S., Meyer, F., Vaughan, G., & Bagnardi, M. (2019). Thermal, deformation, and degassing remote sensing time series (A.D. 2000–2017) at the 47 most active volcanoes in Latin America: Implications for volcanic systems. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016199
  • Roman, D. C., LaFemina, P. C., Bussard, R., Stephens, K., Wauthier, C., Higgins, M., Feineman, M., Arellano, S., de Moor, J. M., Avard, G., & Cruz, M. M. (2019). Mechanisms of unrest and eruption at persistently restless volcanoes: Insights from the 2015 eruption of Telica Volcano, Nicaragua. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(8), 4162–4183.
  • Henderson, S. T., Pritchard, M. E., Cooper, J. R., & Aoki, Y. (2019). Remotely sensed deformation and thermal anomalies at Mount Pagan, Mariana Islands. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 238.
  • Delgado, F., Kubanek, J., Anderson, K., Lundgren, P. R., & Pritchard, M. E. (2019). Physicochemical models of effusive rhyolitic eruptions constrained with InSAR and DEM data: A case study of the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle eruption. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 524, 115736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115736
  • Arnold, D. W., Biggs, J., Dietterich, H. R., Vargas, S. V., Wadge, G., & Mothes, P. (2019). Lava flow morphology at an erupting andesitic stratovolcano: A satellite perspective on El Reventador, Ecuador. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 372, 34–47.

2020

  • Albino, F., Biggs, J., Escobar-Wolf, R., Naismith, A., Watson, M., Phillips, J. C., & Marroquin, G. C. (2020). Using TanDEM-X to measure pyroclastic flow source location, thickness and volume: Application to the 3rd June 2018 eruption of Fuego volcano, Guatemala. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 406, 107063.
  • MacQueen, P., Delgado, F., Reath, K., Pritchard, M. E., Bagnardi, M., Milillo, P., Lundgren, P., Macedo, O., Aguilar, V., Ortega, M., & Anccasi, R. (2020). Volcano-tectonic interactions at Sabancaya volcano, Peru: Eruptions, magmatic inflation, moderate earthquakes, and fault creep. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(5), e2019JB019281.
  • Araya, M. C., & Biggs, J. (2020). Episodic ground deformation associated with geothermal energy production at the Guayabo Caldera, Costa Rica. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 407, 107110.

2021

  • Delgado, F. (2021). Rhyolitic volcano dynamics in the Southern Andes: Contributions from 17 years of InSAR observations at Cordón Caulle volcano from 2003 to 2020. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 106, 102841.

2023

  • Bravo, F., Peyrat, S., Delgado, F., Fuentes, M., Derode, B., Perez, A., & Campos, J. (2023). Fully joint inversion of the 2016 Mw 7.6 Chiloé earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 232(3), 2001–2016.