DrMichele Paulatto

I am a NERC Independent Research Fellow and I study active volcanic and tectonic processes at plate margins. I am currently working on a project to study magma/water interaction in the oceanic lithosphere integrating geophysical imaging, rock physics, and laboratory experiments.

Expertise: Marine Geophysics, Tectonics, Volcano seismology, Seismic Tomography

Short bio. After graduating in Physics of the Earth and Environment from the University of Trieste (Italy), I obtained a PhD in Marine Geophysics at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (UK). This was followed by three years as a PostDoc at The University of Oxford working on a NERC-funded project to study seamount subduction. From January 2014 to October 2016 I was based at Géoazur (Nice, France) supported by an AXA Postdoctoral Fellowship.

NEW 2023 PhD opportunity:

Teleseismic full waveform imaging of active volcanoes with massive arrays of seismic nodes.

This is a PhD project within our SSCP DTP with CASE partner funding from SmartSolo. More info here:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/grantham-institute/public/dtp/2023-projects/2023_40_ESE_Paulatto.pdf

All the information on how to apply can be found on the SSCP webpages

Recent publications:

Paulatto, M., Hooft, E., Chrapkiewicz, K., Heath, B., Toomey, D., & Morgan, J. (2022). Advances in seismic imaging of magma and crystal mush. Frontiers in Earth Science, .

Schmid, F., Petersen, G., Hooft, E., Paulatto, M., Chrapkiewicz, K., Hensch, M., & Dahm, T. (2022). Heralds of Future Volcanism: Swarms of Microseismicity Beneath the Submarine Kolumbo Volcano Indicate Opening of Near‐Vertical Fractures Exploited by Ascending Melts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(7), e2022GC010420, .

Paulatto et al. (2019), Vertically Extensive Magma Reservoir Revealed From Joint Inversion and Quantitative Interpretation of Seismic and Gravity Data, JGR, .

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3D Earth models

A bird's eye view of the Santorini seismic experiment

Watch it with 3D red/cyan glasses

3D animation of the island of Montserat in the Lesser Antilles. The animation shows the topography and slices from the tomography model.

Tomography slices at 3, 5 and 7 km depth. The Location of the low-velocity volume is highlighted with a red ellipsoid.

Read the associated G-cubed paper to learn about the underlying science:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011GC003892/full