Fidel Costa
Chair
Asian School of the Envinornment

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.

Research Statement

Fidel Costa studies the dynamics of the processes that occur inside volcanoes’ guts to understand how they may lead to volcanic eruptions. This includes the magma reservoir, magma intrusion, crystallization and convection, and volatile degassing in volcanic conduits. His main background is in the study of minerals and rocks but he is also interested in linking these to volcano monitoring time series data (seismicity, deformation, gas fluxes), and making models for better anticipating volcanic eruptions. He has worked in volcanoes in South America (Volcan San Pedro, Cordon Caulle), Europe (Etna, Pico Teide), and South East Asia (Merapi, Gede, Mayon, Rabaul).

Publications
  • Salman, R., E. O. Lindsey, K. H. Lythgoe, K. E. Bradley, M. Muzli, S.-H. Yun, S. T. Chin, C. W. Tay, F. R. Costa, S. Wei, and E. M. Hill. (2020). Cascading partial rupture of the Flores thrust during the 2018 Lombok earthquake sequence, Indonesia. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, in press.
  • Fidel Costa Rodriguez, Riko I Made, Jason S Herrin. (2019, December). Nano Scale Mineral Observations and The Geo-thermo-barometry of Volcanic Systems (Invited). Paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco.
  • Dayana Schonwalder‐Angel Helena Albert Lam Ngoc Tuan Nguyen Xuan Phi Sri Budhi Utami Weiran Li Phung Minh Khanh Christina Widiwijayanti Fidel Costa. (2019). PWD: A Petrological Workspace and Database tool. G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 6095– 6105.
  • RIKO I MADE1, FIDEL COSTA 1, 2, OLEG MELNIK3. (2019, August). Magma Thermal Histories from Volcanic Pyroxenes Nano Scale Chemical Profiles. Paper presented at Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  • R I Made, JS Herrin, YY Tay, F Costa Rodriguez. (2017). Exsolution lamellae in volcanic pyroxene; Single phenocryst thermometry for long-lived magmatic reservoir. AGU Fall Meeting.
Latest Projects
Other affiliation(s)

Associate Professor, The Asian School of the Environment, College of Science

Expertise
Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Natural disasters

Research Interests

Research Category
Earth Sciences & Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
Potential NISTH Challenge Statements
Towards greener environment
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Future of Industry
Related RIE2025 Domains
Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity (MTC)
Related Humanity Grand Challenges
Addressing technology’s impact on humanity
Affiliated Sustainable Development Goals
GOAL 15: LIFE ON LAND – Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
Last Updated
21 Apr 2020
Last Updated
06 Jan 2023