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Virginie Pinel is affiliated with Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France and has a broad research portfolio within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work mainly spans geophysics, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, geology, and topics related to management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's publication record includes more than one hundred works focused on various subfields, with 55 publications in geophysics and 33 in atmospheric science. Environmental chemistry and geology also form significant areas of their research output, as do studies in management and policy related to earth sciences.

Key topics addressed in their research include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, cryospheric studies and observations, landslides and related hazards, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. These topics reveal a concentration on both fundamental earth processes and environmental dynamics.

Frequent coauthors in their work are Joaquín M. C. Belart, Étienne Berthier, Sydney R. Gunnarson, Birgir V. Óskarsson, and Magnús T. Guðmundsson, indicating collaborative research efforts in geoscience domains.

The scientist has contributed regularly to several publication venues, most notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Virginie Pinel include:

  • Volume, Effusion Rate, and Lava Transport During the 2021 Fagradalsfjall Eruption: Results From Near Real-Time Photogrammetric Monitoring (2022), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Unexpected large eruptions from buoyant magma bodies within viscoelastic crust (2020), Nature Communications
  • The 2020 Eruption and Large Lateral Dike Emplacement at Taal Volcano, Philippines: Insights From Satellite Radar Data (2021), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Impact of climate change on volcanic processes: current understanding and future challenges (2022), Bulletin of Volcanology
  • What Triggers Caldera Ring-Fault Subsidence at Ambrym Volcano? Insights From the 2015 Dike Intrusion and Eruption (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Best Publications

  • The effect of edifice load on magma ascent beneath a volcano

    Virginie Pinel;Claude Jaupart

  • Presentation Of The Small Baseline NSBAS Processing Chain On A Case Example: The ETNA Deformation Monitoring From 2003 to 2010 Using ENVISAT Data

    Marie-Pierre Doin;Felicity Lodge;Stephane Guillaso;Romain Jolivet

  • Frequency and magnitude of volcanic eruptions controlled by magma injection and buoyancy

    Luca Caricchi;Luca Caricchi;Catherine J Annen;Jon D Blundy;Guy Simpson

  • Magma storage and horizontal dyke injection beneath a volcanic edifice

    V. Pinel;C. Jaupart

  • Volcanology: lessons learned from synthetic aperture radar imagery

    Virginie Pinel;Michael P. Poland;Andy Hooper

  • Mexico City Subsidence Measured by InSAR Time Series: Joint Analysis Using PS and SBAS Approaches

    Yajing Yan;M. P. Doin;P. Lopez-Quiroz;F. Tupin

  • Magma chamber behavior beneath a volcanic edifice

    Virginie Pinel;Claude Jaupart

  • Causes and mechanisms of the 2011–2012 El Hierro (Canary Islands) submarine eruption

    Joan Martí;Virginie Pinel;Carmen López;Adelina Geyer

  • Climate effects on volcanism: influence on magmatic systems of loading and unloading from ice mass variations, with examples from Iceland

    Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Virginie Pinel;Björn Lund;Fabien Albino

  • Volume, Effusion Rate, and Lava Transport During the 2021 Fagradalsfjall Eruption: Results From Near Real‐Time Photogrammetric Monitoring

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  • The challenging retrieval of the displacement field from InSAR data for andesitic stratovolcanoes: Case study of Popocatepetl and Colima Volcano, Mexico

    V. Pinel;A. Hooper;S. De la Cruz-Reyna;G. Reyes-Davila

  • Influence of surface load variations on eruption likelihood: application to two Icelandic subglacial volcanoes, Grímsvötn and Katla

    F. Albino;V. Pinel;F. Sigmundsson

  • How caldera collapse shapes the shallow emplacement and transfer of magma in active volcanoes

    Fabio Corbi;E. Rivalta;V. Pinel;F. Maccaferri

  • Icelandic rhythmics: Annual modulation of land elevation and plate spreading by snow load

    Ronni Grapenthin;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Halldór Geirsson;Thóra Árnadóttir

  • Discriminating volcano deformation due to magma movements and variable surface loads: application to Katla subglacial volcano, Iceland

    V. Pinel;F. Sigmundsson;E. Sturkell;H. Geirsson

  • A two-magma chamber model as a source of deformation at Grímsvötn Volcano, Iceland

    Thomas Reverso;Thomas Reverso;Jean Vandemeulebrouck;Jean Vandemeulebrouck;François Jouanne;François Jouanne;Virginie Pinel;Virginie Pinel

  • Seismicity and deformation induced by magma accumulation at three basaltic volcanoes

    O. Lengline;David Marsan;J.-L. Got;Virginie Pinel;Virginie Pinel

  • Some consequences of volcanic edifice destruction for eruption conditions

    V. Pinel;V. Pinel;C. Jaupart

  • Unexpected large eruptions from buoyant magma bodies within viscoelastic crust.

    Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Virginie Pinel;Ronni Grapenthin;Andrew Hooper

  • A constant influx model for dike propagation: Implications for magma reservoir dynamics

    P. Traversa;Virginie Pinel;J. R. Grasso

  • Seismic and geodetic insights into magma accumulation at Katla subglacial volcano, Iceland: 1999 to 2005

    Erik Sturkell;Páll Einarsson;Matthew J. Roberts;Halldór Geirsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Freysteinn Sigmundsson
Freysteinn Sigmundsson University of Iceland
Andrew Hooper
Andrew Hooper University of Leeds
Páll Einarsson
Páll Einarsson University of Iceland
Marie-Pierre Doin
Marie-Pierre Doin Grenoble Alpes University
Eleonora Rivalta
Eleonora Rivalta Universität Hamburg
Magnús T. Gudmundsson
Magnús T. Gudmundsson University of Iceland
Claude Jaupart
Claude Jaupart Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Erik Sturkell
Erik Sturkell University of Gothenburg
Kurt L. Feigl
Kurt L. Feigl University of Wisconsin–Madison
Valerio Acocella
Valerio Acocella Roma Tre University

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