Fidel COSTA is a Principal Investigator with the Volcano group at EOS. He
is an igneous petrologist and geochemist specializing in volcanic
processes. He studied Earth Sciences at the University of Barcelona (Spain), and
received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He was
Marie Curie Fellow (CNRS, Orleans), and subsequently held positions as a
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ruhr-University, Bochum (Germany), and at the CSIC
in Barcelona (Ramon y Cajal Fellow). He has been involved in developing
new geochronological methods to determine the rates of volcanic and
magmatic processes occurring on human time scales. |
I'm interested in understanding the formation, transport, and eruption of magmas
(silicate melt, gas and crystals) on the Earth's surface. Main focus are the conditions
(pressure, temperature, volatile contents) at which magmas are stored prior to
eruption, the processes that lead to the erupted magma compositions
(magma mixing, crystallization), the rates and time scales at which these
processes occur, and, finally how all this information relate to volcanic monitoring
data and unrest phenomena. I have expertise and use a large variety of geochemical
(SEM, electron microprobe, SIMS, FTIR, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, INAA), experimental
(high pressure and temperature apparatus for phase equilibria),
and modeling (finite differences for kinetics in solid state) approaches. |
- Understanding the Rates of Magmatic Processes and Their Relationship to Volcanic Unrest and Monitoring Signals
| Selected Publications | - Druitt, T., Costa, F., Deloule, E., Dungan, M., Scaillet, B. (2012). Decadal to monthly timescales of magma transfer and reservoir growth at a caldera volcano. Nature, 4 8 2, 77-80.
- Costa, F. and Chakraborty, S. (2008). The effect of water on Si and O diffusion rates in mantle olivine and implications for transport properties and processes in the upper mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors , 166, 11-29.
- Pichavant, M., Costa, F., Burgisser, A., Scaillet, B., Martel, C., and Poussineau, S. (2007). Equilibration scales in silicic to intermediate magmas - Implications for phase equilibrium studies.. Journal of Petrology, 48, 1955-1972.
- Costa F, and Dungan M. (2005). Short time scales of magmatic assimilation from diffusion modeling of multiple elements in olivine. Geology, 33, 837-840.
- Costa, F., and Chakraborty, S. (2004). Decadal time gaps between mafic intrusion and silicic eruption obtained from chemical zoning patterns in olivine. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , (227), 517-530.
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