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Fidel Costa is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, contributing extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Geology. The work primarily focuses on geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geology and paleoclimatology research, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and geological and geophysical studies.

Frequently publishing in respected venues, Costa has contributed to the following journals multiple times:

  • Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Frequent co-authors in Costa's research include Christina Widiwijayanti, Weiran Li, Thomas Shea, Teresa Ubide, and Damià Benet, reflecting collaborations with scholars who often contribute to overlapping scientific interests.

Among recent publications, notable papers authored or co-authored by Costa include:

  • Diffusion chronometry and the timescales of magmatic processes, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Clocks in Magmatic Rocks, 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Other relevant research papers in their sphere of interest, though authored by collaborators, help frame the context of Costa's work:

  • Synoptic analysis of a decade of daily measurements of SO 2 emission in the troposphere from volcanoes of the global ground-based Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • Multicomponent diffusion of F, Cl and OH in apatite with application to magma ascent rates, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Crystals reveal magma convection and melt transport in dyke-fed eruptions, 2020, Scientific Reports

Costa's research output indicates a strong emphasis on chronological and chemical processes related to magmatic activity, placing emphasis on timescales and diffusion phenomena within geological materials.

Best Publications

  • The 2010 explosive eruption of Java's Merapi volcano—A ‘100-year’ event

    Surono;Philippe Jousset;John S Pallister;Marie Boichu

  • Decadal to monthly timescales of magma transfer and reservoir growth at a caldera volcano

    Tim H Druitt;Fidel Costa;Etienne Deloule;Michael A Dungan

  • Time Scales of Magmatic Processes from Modeling the Zoning Patterns of Crystals

    Fidel Costa;Ralf Dohmen;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Diffusion coupling between trace and major elements and a model for calculation of magma residence times using plagioclase

    Fidel Costa;Fidel Costa;Sumit Chakraborty;Ralf Dohmen

  • Petrological and Experimental Constraints on the Pre-eruption Conditions of Holocene Dacite from Volcan San Pedro (36 S, Chilean Andes) and the Importance of Sulphur in Silicic Subduction-related Magmas

    Fidel Costa;Bruno Scaillet;Michel Pichavant

  • Short time scales of magmatic assimilation from diffusion modeling of multiple elements in olivine

    Fidel Costa;Michael A. Dungan

  • Diffusion chronometry and the timescales of magmatic processes

    Fidel Costa;Thomas Shea;Teresa Ubide

  • Dynamic plumbing system beneath volcanoes revealed by kinetic modeling, and the connection to monitoring data: An example from Mt. Etna

    Maren Kahl;Sumit Chakraborty;Fidel Costa;Massimo Pompilio

  • Decadal time gaps between mafic intrusion and silicic eruption obtained from chemical zoning patterns in olivine

    Fidel Costa;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Petrological insights into the storage conditions, and magmatic processes that yielded the centennial 2010 Merapi explosive eruption

    Fidel Costa;Supriyati Andreastuti;Caroline Bouvet de la Maisonneuve;John S. Pallister

  • Rapid cooling and cold storage in a silicic magma reservoir recorded in individual crystals

    Allison E. Rubin;Kari M. Cooper;Christy B. Till;Adam J. R. Kent

  • The effect of water on Si and O diffusion rates in olivine and implications for transport properties and processes in the upper mantle

    Fidel Costa;Fidel Costa;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Time Constraints from Chemical Equilibration in Magmatic Crystals

    Fidel Costa;Fidel Costa;Daniel Morgan

  • Measuring Timescales of Magmatic Evolution

    Simon Turner;Fidel Costa

  • Compositionally zoned crystals and real-time degassing data reveal changes in magma transfer dynamics during the 2006 summit eruptive episodes of Mt. Etna

    Maren Kahl;Maren Kahl;Sumit Chakraborty;Fidel Costa;Massimo Pompilio

  • Accuracy of timescales retrieved from diffusion modeling in olivine: A 3D perspective

    Thomas Shea;Fidel Costa;Daniel Krimer;Julia Eve Hammer

  • Locating magma reservoirs using InSAR and petrology before and during the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle silicic eruption

    Jennifer Jay;Fidel Costa;Matthew E Pritchard;Luis Lara

  • Equilibration Scales in Silicic to Intermediate Magmas—Implications for Experimental Studies

    Michel Pichavant;Fidel Costa;Alain Burgisser;Bruno Scaillet

  • The time scales of magma mixing and mingling involving primitive melts and melt–mush interaction at mid-ocean ridges

    Fidel Costa;Fidel Costa;Laurence A. Coogan;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Correlation of Magma Evolution and Geophysical Monitoring during the 2011^2012 El Hierro (Canary Islands) Submarine Eruption

    Joan Martí;Joan Martí;Antonio Castro;Carmen Rodríguez;Fidel Costa

  • Constraints on the Nature and Evolution of the Magma Plumbing System of Mt. Etna Volcano (1991-2008) from a Combined Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modelling of the Compositional Record of Minerals

    Maren Kahl;Maren Kahl;Sumit Chakraborty;Massimo Pompilio;Fidel Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Sumit Chakraborty
Sumit Chakraborty Ruhr University Bochum
Christopher G Newhall
Christopher G Newhall United States Geological Survey
Joan Martí
Joan Martí Spanish National Research Council
Michael A. Dungan
Michael A. Dungan University of Geneva
Bruno Scaillet
Bruno Scaillet University of Orléans
Laurence A. Coogan
Laurence A. Coogan University of Victoria
Timothy H. Druitt
Timothy H. Druitt University of Clermont Auvergne
Massimo Pompilio
Massimo Pompilio National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Matthew E. Pritchard
Matthew E. Pritchard Cornell University
Eric Hellebrand
Eric Hellebrand University of Hawaii at Manoa

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