2025:
• Eiden, E., Pritchard, M. E., Galetto, F., Byrne, P. K., Ganesh, I., Herrick, R., et al. (2025). Quantifying the eruptive flux on Venus with VenSAR informed by observations from Earth and Io. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130, e2025JE009435. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009435
•Gomez-Patrón, A., M. E. Pritchard, H. Peng, A. Downes, C. Crothers, J. Valenza, A. Wada, L. Way, and L. Zapata (2025) Are there thermal precursors to eruptions detectable by ASTER? Evaluating 22 years of global medium resolution satellite thermal observations at 200+ volcanoes, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB030427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030427.
•Galetto, F., Lobos, D., and M. E. Pritchard, The use of high-resolution satellite topographic data to quantify the volcanic activity at Raung volcano (Indonesia) from 2000 to 2021 (2025) Bulletin of Volcanology, 87:1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-024-01781-1.
• Mohan, A., A. Gomez-Patrón, M. Pritchard, H. Kerner (2025) Hotspotter: A Generalizable Pipeline for Automated Detection of Subtle Volcanic Thermal Features in Satellite Images. Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (peer reviewed), vol. 39, no. 28, pp. 28857-28863, https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i28.35151.
•Galetto, F., Reale, D., Coppola, D., Sansosti, E., & Pritchard, M. E. (2025). The application of remote sensing data (SAR, thermal and optical) and geodetic modeling to investigate the volcanic activity at Semeru Volcano (Indonesia). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2025JB031428. https://doi. org/10.1029/2025JB031428
• Liu, Y., J. M. Kendall, H. Zhang,, J. Blundy, M. E. Pritchard, T. Hudson, and P. MacQueen (2025) Anatomy of magmatic hydrothermal system beneath Uturuncu Volcano, Bolivia, by joint geophysical and petrophysical analysis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 122 (18) e2420996122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420996122.
This article was described in the Cornell Chronicle, BBC, CNN, Oxford University and others.
•Galetto, F., S. Miller, E. Eiden, R. Barris, A. V. Shevchenko, M. E. Pritchard (2025) The application of high resolution EarthDEM and ArcticDEM digital elevation models to detect and quantify volcanic activity: successes and challenges. Bulletin of Volcanology 87, 53, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-025-01838-9.
•Eiden, E., M. E. Pritchard, P. Lundgren, L. Córdova, C. Cardona, M. G. Bato, Y. Moussallam, A. Gomez-Patrón, T. Barnie, and A. Amigo. (2025) Understanding the Changing Dynamics of the 2016-2022 Nevados de Chillán, Chile, Eruption Through Erupted Volume and Surface Deformation, Bulletin of Volcanology, 87, 71, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-025-01861-w
2024:
• Galetto, F., Dualeh, E., Delgado, F., Pritchard, M. E., Poland, M., Ebmeier, S., Shreve, T., Biggs, J., Hamling, I., Wauthier, C., Gonzalez Santana, J., Froger, J.-L., and M. Bemelmans (2024) The utility of TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and PAZ for studying global volcanic activity: Successes, challenges, and future prospects, Volcanica, 7, https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.07.01.273301 [Link to article]
• Katz, Z. S., G.A. Abers, Y. Yang, A. Ferris, T.E. Jordan, M.E. Pritchard, P.M. Fulton, O. Gustafson (2024) Seismic Monitoring Near Ithaca, New York Reveals Nonuniform Distribution of Microseismicity in Intraplate Region, Seismological Research Letters, 95,3042-3054 https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240158
• Lobos, D., F. Delgado, M. E. Pritchard, P. R. Ruprecht, and C. Muñoz-Saez (2024) Multiple sources of elevation change during and after the 2011-2012 Cordón Caulle, Chile eruption measured by satellite topographic time series, Volcanica, 7, https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.07.02.541564
2023:
• Eiden, E., P. MacQueen, S. T. Henderson, M. E. Pritchard (2023) Multiple scales of deformation from geodetic monitoring point to active transcrustal magma system at Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia, Geosphere, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02520.1 [Link to article]
• Galetto, F., M. E. Pritchard, A. K. Hornby, N. M. Mahowald, E. Gazel (2023) Spatial and temporal quantification of subaerial volcanism from 1980 to 2019: solid products, masses and average eruptive rates, Reviews of Geophysics, 61, e2022RG000783, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000783 [Link to article] This article was described in blog post by Federico Galetto.
• Lobos, D., F. Delgado, M. E. Pritchard, C. Cardona, L. Franco, G. Pedreros, and A. Amigo (2023) Documenting surface deformation at the first geothermal power plant in South America (Cerro Pabellón, Chile) by satellite InSAR time-series, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, in press. [Link to article]
• Bisson, K. M., S. Gassó, N. Mahowald, S. Wagner, B. Koffman, S. A. Carn, S. Deutsch, E. Gazel, S. Kramer, N. Krotkov, C. Mitchell, M. E. Pritchard, K. Stamieszkin, and C. Wilson (2023) Observing volcanic ash responses in ocean ecosystems, Remote Sensing of Environment, 296, 113749, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113749. [Link to article]
• Hudson, T. S., J. M. Kendall, J. D. Blundy, M. E. Pritchard, P. MacQueen, S. Wei, J. Gottsmann, S. Lapins (2023) Hydrothermal fluids and where to find them: Using seismic attenuation and anisotropy to map fluids beneath Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100974. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100974 This article was described in an article in Eos.
• Molan, Y., R. B. Lohman, and M. E. Pritchard (2023) Ground displacements in NY using Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and comparison of X- and C-band data, Remote Sensing, 15(7), 1815; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15071815 [Link to article]
• Phelps, P., H. Gonnermann, H. Winslow, P. Ruprecht, M. E. Pritchard, F. Delgado, Y. Liao (2023) Feasibility of melt segregation from a crystal mush in response to the 2011-12 eruption at Cordón Caulle, Chile, Geophysical Journal International, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad259 [Link to article]
• Eiden, E., M. E. Pritchard, and P. Lundgren, Spatial and Temporal Resolution Needs for Volcano Topography Change Datasets based on Past Eruptions (1980-2019), Earth and Space Sciences, 10, e2023EA003054. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003054. [Link to article] Datasets available at Open Science Foundation: https://osf.io/ahfj3/
• Howcutt, S., M. Spagnolo, B. Rea, J. Jaszewski, I. Barr, D. Coppola, L. de Siena, T. Girona, A. Gomez-Patrón, D. Mullan, M. E. Pritchard (2023) Icy thermometers: quantifying the impact of volcanic heat on glacier elevation, Geology, 51, https://doi.org/10.1130/G51411.1. [Link to article] This article was described in an article and video by collaborators at the University of Aberdeen: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/22257 and in the Cornell Chronicle
• In Memorium: Muawia Barazangi (1941-2022), M. E. Pritchard, Seismological Research Letters, 2023. [Link to article]
2022:
• Gottsmann, J., E. Eiden, M. E. Pritchard (2022) Transcrustal compressible fluid flow explains the Altiplano-Puna gravity and deformation anomalies, Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099487, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099487 [Link to article]
• Way, L., M. E. Pritchard, L. Wike, K. Reath, H. Gunawan, O. Prambada, and D. Syahbana. (2022). Detection of thermal features from space at Indonesian volcanoes from 2000-2020 using ASTER. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 430, 107627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107627. [Link to article]
• Winslow, H., Ruprecht, P., Gonnermann, H. M.,Phelps, P. R., Muñoz-Saez, C., Delgado, F., Pritchard, M., and A. Amigo (2022) Insights for crystal mush storage utilizing mafic enclaves from the 2011–12 Cordón Caulle eruption. Sci Rep 12, 9734 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13305-y. [Link to article]
• Pritchard, M.E., Poland, M., Reath, K., Andrews, B., Bagnardi, M., Biggs, J., Carn, S., Coppola, D., Ebmeier, S.K., Furtney, M.A., Girona, T., Griswold, J., Lopez, T., Lundgren, P., Ogburn, S., Pavolonis, M., Rumpf, E., Vaughan, G., Wauthier, C., Wessels, R., Wright, R., Anderson, K.R., Bato, M.G., and Roman, A., 2022, Optimizing satellite resources for the global assessment and mitigation of volcanic hazards—Suggestions from the USGS Powell Center Volcano Remote Sensing Working Group: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022–5116, 69 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20225116. [Access the most updated table of volcanoes to target with remote sensing in the Open Science Framework]
• Hudson, T. S., Kendall, M., Pritchard, M., Blundy, J. D., & Gottsmann, J. H. (2022). From slab to surface: Earthquake evidence for fluid migration at Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 577, 117268, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117268
•Molan, Y. E., M. E. Pritchard, and R. B. Lohman (2022) Proof-of-concept for monitoring ground displacements in Tompkins County, NY using Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar from the TerraSAR-X and Sentinel-1 satellites. Cornell ecommons, 26 pp. (plus supplemental materials) https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/111250
2021:
•MacQueen P, Gottsmann J, Pritchard ME, Young N, Ticona J F, Ticona E(T) and Tintaya R (2021) Dissecting a Zombie: Joint Analysis of Density and Resistivity Models Reveals Shallow Structure and Possible Sulfide Deposition at Uturuncu Volcano, Bolivia. Front. Earth Sci. 9:725917. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.725917 [Link to article]
• Suhey, J., Z. Katz, M. Zhang, A. Ferris, M. E. Pritchard, J. Salerno, P. Hubbard, and J. O. Gustafson (2021). Analysis of Cornell University’s Seismic Networks for the Earth Source Heat Initiative, Cornell ecommons, 46 pp. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/103518
• Reath, K., M. E. Pritchard, D. C. Roman, S. Carn, T. P. Fischer, T. Lopez, Z. Lu, M. Poland, R. G. Vaughan, R. Wessels, L. L. Wike, H. K. Tran (2021) Quantifying Background and Eruptive Seismicity, Deformation, Degassing, and Thermal Emissions at Volcanoes in the United States During 1978-2020, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, e2021JB021684, dot: 10.1029/2021JB021684. [Link to article]
• Pritchard, M. E. (2021) Report on Workshop on volcano monitoring infrastructure on the ground and in space (Online February 18-23, 2021), IAVCEI Newsletter, April, 2021, https://www.iavceivolcano.org/content/uploads/2021/04/iavcei_newsno5_april2021-1.pdf
2020:
• Reath, K., J. Biggs, B. Andrews, S. K. Ebmeier, M. Bagnardi, T. Girona, P. Lundgren, T. Lopez, M. Poland, and M. Pritchard (2020) Using Conceptual Models to relate multi-parameter satellite data to sub-surface volcanic processes in Latin America, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi: 10.1029/2019GC008494. [Link to article] This article was described in a Cornell Chronicle article.
• Elliott, J., and M. E. Pritchard (2020) Historic photographs of glaciers and glacial landforms from the Ralph Stockman Tarr collection at Cornell University, Earth System Science Data, 12, 771-787, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-771-2020 [Link to article]
• Tester, J., S. Beyers, J. O. Gustafson, T. E. Jordan, J. D. Smith, J. Al Aswad, K. F. Beckers, R. Allmendinger, L. Brown, F. Horowitz, D. May, T. M. Khan, and M. Pritchard (2020) District Geothermal Heating Using EGS Technology to Meet Carbon Neutrality Goals: A Case Study of Earth Source Heat for the Cornell University Campus, Proceedings World Geothermal Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 26 – May 2, 2020. [Link to article]
• MacQueen, P., F. Delgado, K. Reath, M. E Pritchard, M. Bagnardi, P. Milillo, P. Lundgren, O. Macedo, V. Aguilar, I. A. Lazarte Zerpa, R. Miranda (2020) Volcano-tectonic interactions at Sabancaya volcano, Peru: Eruptions, magmatic inflation, moderate earthquakes, and fault creep, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2019JB019281. [Link to article]
• Pritchard, M. E., R. M. Allen, T. W. Becker, M. D. Behn, E. E. Brodsky, R. Bürgmann, C. Ebinger, J. T. Freymueller, M. Gerstenberger, B. Haines, Y. Kaneko, S. D. Jacobsen, N. Lindsey, J. J. McGuire, M. Page, S. Ruiz, M. Tolstoy; L. Wallace; W. R. Walter, W. Wilcock, H. Vincent, New Opportunities to Study Earthquake Precursors, Seismological Research Letters, doi: 10.1785/0220200089 [Link to article]
• Zheng, W., S. J. Oliva, C. J. Ebinger, M. E. Pritchard (2020) Aseismic deformation during extension: InSAR and seismic evidence from the 2014 Mw 5.2 earthquake near Karonga, Malawi, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e90930. Doi: 10.1029/2020GL090930 [Link to article]
2019:
• Zheng, W., M. E. Pritchard, M. J. Willis, L. A. Stearns (2019) The possible transition from glacial surge to ice stream on Vavilov Ice Cap, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2019GL084948 [Link to article] This article was described in a Cornell Chronicle article, video, Scientific American, and featured by AGU.
• Durkin W. J. IV, S. Kachuck, and M. E. Pritchard (2019) The importance of the inelastic and elastic structure of the crust in constraining glacial density, mass change, and isostatic adjustment from geodetic observations in southeast Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 124, 1106-1119, doi: 10.1029/2018jb016399. [Link to article]
• Reath, K., M. Pritchard, S. Moruzzi, A. Alcott, D. Coppola, and D. Pieri (2019) The AVTOD (ASTER Volcano Thermal Output Database) Latin America Archive, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 376, p. 62-76, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.03.019. [Link to article]
• Pritchard, M. E., T. A. Mather, S. R. McNutt, F. J. Delgado, and K. Reath (2019) Thoughts on the criteria to determine the origin of volcanic unrest as magmatic or non-magmatic, Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, A377:2018008, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0008. [Link to article].
• Reath, K., M. Pritchard, M. Poland, F. Delgado, S. Carn, D. Coppola, B Andrews, S. K. Ebmeier, E. Rumpf, S. Henderson, S. Baker, P. Lundgren, R. Wright, J. Biggs, T. Lopez, C. Wauthier, S. Moruzzi, A. Alcott, R. Wessels, J. Griswold, S. Ogburn, S. Loughlin, F. Meyer, G. Vaughan, and M. Bagnardi (2019) Thermal, deformation, and degassing remote sensing time series (A.D. 2000-2017) at the 47 most active volcanoes in Latin America: Implications for Volcanic Systems, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016199 [Link to article]. This article was described in a Cornell press release, video, and featured in Eos.
• Gaherty, J. B., W. Zheng, D. J. Shillington, M. E. Pritchard, S. T. Henderson, P. R. Chindandali, H. Mdala, A. Shuler, N. Lindsey, S. J. Oliva, S. Nooner, J. Muirhead, C. A. Scholz, D. Schaff, G. Ekström, and M. Nettles (2019) Faulting processes during early-stage rifting: seismic and geodetic analysis of the 2009-2010 northern Malawi earthquake sequence, Geophysical Journal International, 217, 1767–1782, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz119 [Link to article].
•Delgado, F., J. Kubanek, K. Anderson, P. L. Lundgren, and M. E. Pritchard (2019) Physicochemical models of effusive rhyolitic eruptions constrained with InSAR and DEM data: A case study of the 2011-2012 Cordón Caulle eruption, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 524, 115736, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115736 [Link to article]
• Henderson, S. T., M. E. Pritchard, J. R. Cooper, and Y. Aoki (2019) Remotely sensed deformation and thermal anomalies at Mount Pagan, Mariana Islands, Front. Earth Sci. 7:238. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00238 [Link to article]
2018:
• Delgado, F., M. E. Pritchard, S. Samsonov, and L. Córdova (2018). Renewed post-eruptive uplift following the 2011-2012 rhyolitic eruption of Cordón Caulle (Southern Andes, Chile): evidence for transient episodes of magma reservoir recharge during 2012-2018, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 123, 9407-9429, Doi: 10.1029/2018JB016240 [Link to article]
• Pritchard, M. E., and S.-H. Yun (2018) Satellite radar imaging and its application to natural hazards, Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Landslides, edited by R. S. Singh and D. Bartlett, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 95-114. [Link to abstract] Note: If you do not have access, please email me for a reprint.
• Pritchard, M. E., S. L. de Silva, G. Michelfelder, G. Zandt, S. R. McNutt, J. Gottsmann, M. E. West, J. Blundy, D. H. Christensen, N. J. Finnegan, E. Minaya, R. S. J. Sparks, M. Sunagua, M. J. Unsworth, C. Alvizuri, M. J. Comeau, R. del Potro, D. Díaz, M. Diez, A. Farrell, S. T. Henderson, J. A. Jay, T. Lopez, D. Legrand, J. A. Naranjo, H. McFarlin, D. Muir, J. P. Perkins, Z. Spica, A. Wilder, K. M. Ward (2018) Introduction: PLUTONS: Investigating the relationship between pluton growth and volcanism in the central Andes, Geosphere, 14, p. 1–29, doi:10.1130/GES01578.1. [Link to open access article]
• Willis, M. J., W. Zheng, W. J. Durkin IV, M. E. Pritchard, J. M. Ramage, J. A. Dowdeswell, T. J. Benham, R. P. Bassford, L. A. Stearns, A. F. Glazovsky, Y. Y. Macheret, C. C. Porter (2018) Massive destabilization of an Arctic ice cap, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 502, p. 146-155. [Link to article] This article was described in a press releases from Colorado and Cornell as well as a video with over 210k views on youtube.
•Ebmeier, S.K., Andrews, B., Araya, M. C., Arnold, D. W. D., Biggs, J., Cooper, C., Cottrell, E., Furtney, M., Hickey, J., Jay, J., Lloyd, R., Parker, A. L., Pritchard, M., Robertson, E., Venzke, E., & Williamson, J.L. (2018) Synthesis of global volcano deformation observations: implications for volcano monitoring and the lateral extent of magmatic systems, Journal of Applied Volcanology, 7, DOI 10.1186/s13617-018-0071-3. [Link to article]
• Furtney, M. A., M. E. Pritchard, S. K. Ebmeier, J. A. Jay, S. A. Carn, B. T. McCormick and K. Reath (2018) Synthesizing multi-sensor, multi-satellite, multi-decadal data sets for global volcano monitoring, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 365, p. 38-56, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.10.002. [Link to article]
• Pritchard, M. E., J. Biggs, C. Wauthier, E. Sansosti, D. W. D. Arnold, F. Delgado, S. K. Ebmeier, S. T. Henderson, K. Stephens, C. Cooper, K. Wnuk, F. Amelung, V. Aguilar, P. Mothes, O. Macedo, L. E. Lara, M. P. Poland, and S. Zoffoli (2018) Towards coordinated regional multi-satellite InSAR volcano observations: Results from the Latin America pilot project, Journal of Applied Volcanology, 7, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-018-0074-0 [Link to open access article].
• Zheng, W., M. E. Pritchard, M. J. Willis, P. Tepes, N. Gourmelen, T. J. Benham, and J. A. Dowdeswell (2018) Accelerating glacier mass loss on Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 211, p. 357-375 doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.004. [Link to article] This article was described in a press release.
• Berthier, E., C. Larsen, W. J. Durkin, M. J. Willis and M. E. Pritchard (2018) Brief communication: Unabated wastage of the Juneau and Stikine icefields (southeast Alaska) in the early 21st century, The Cryosphere, 12, p. 1523-1530, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1523-2018. [Link to article]
• Till, C. B., M. E. Pritchard, C. Miller, K. K. Brugman, and J. Ryan-Davis, Super-volcanic investigations (News & Views). Nature Geosciences, April, 2018. [Link to article]
2017:
• Henderson, S. T., and M. E. Pritchard (2017) Time dependent deformation of Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia constrained by GPS and InSAR measurements and implications for source models, Geosphere, 13 (6): 1834-1854, doi: 10.1130/GES01203.1 [Link to article]
• Biggs, J. and M. E. Pritchard (2017) Global volcano monitoring -- What does it mean when volcanoes deform? Elements, v. 13, p. 17-22, DOI: 10.2113/gselements.13.1.17 [Link to article] Note: If you do not have access, please email me for a reprint.
• Henderson, S. T., F. Delgado, J. Elliott, M. E. Pritchard, and P. R. Lundgren (2017) Decelerating uplift at Lazufre volcanic center, central Andes, from 2010-2016, and implications for geodetic models, Geosphere, 13, no. 5, p. 1–17, doi:10.1130/GES01441.1 [Link to article]
• Delgado F., M. E. Pritchard, S. Ebmeier, P. Gonzalez, L. Lara (2017) Recent unrest (2002-2015) imaged by space geodesy at the highest risk Chilean volcanoes: Villarrica, Llaima, and Calbuco (southern Andes), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 344, Pages 270-288, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.05.020 [Link to article]
• Durkin, W. J., T. C. Bartholomaus, M. J. Willis, and M. E. Pritchard (2017) Seasonal and interannual dynamics of Yahtse Glacier -- Alaska’s fastest advancing tidewater glacier, Frontiers in Earth Science, 5:21. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00021 [Link to article]. This article was described on this website.
• Gottsmann, J., Blundy, J., Henderson, S. T., Sparks, R. S. J., and M. E. Pritchard (2017) Thermomechanical modeling of the Altiplano-Puna deformation anomaly: Multiparameter insights into magma mush reorganization, Geosphere, 13, 1042-1065, doi: 10.1130/GES01420.1 [Link to article]
• Sepulveda, I., P. L-F. Liu, M. Grigoriu, and M. E. Pritchard (2017) Tsunami Hazard Assessments with Consideration of Uncertain Earthquake Characteristics, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, Volume 122, Issue 9, 7252–7271, doi: 10.1002/2017JB014430 [Link to article].
• Semple, A. G., M. E. Pritchard, and R. B. Lohman (2017) An incomplete inventory of human-induced surface deformation in North America detected by satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, Remote Sensing, 9, 1296 [Link to open access article].
2016:
• Pritchard, M. E. and P. M. Gregg (2016) Geophysical evidence for crustal melt: Where, what kind, and how much?, Elements, v. 12, p. 121-127, DOI: 10.2113/gselements.12.2.121 [Link to Mineralogical Society of America] Note: If you do not have access, please email me for a reprint.
• Melkonian, A. K., M. J Willis, Pritchard, M. E., and A. J. Stewart (2016) Recent glacier velocities and thinning at the Novaya Zemlya Icefield, Remote Sensing of Environment, 174, 244-257, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.11.001 [Link to Elsevier].
• Shillington, D. J., J. B. Gaherty, C. J. Ebinger, C. A. Scholz, K. Selway, A. A. Nyblade, P. Bedrosian, C. Class, S. L. Nooner, M. E. Pritchard, J. Elliott, P. Chindandali, G. Mbogoni, R. Ferdinand-Wambura, N. Boniface, S. Manya, G. Kamihanda, S. Elifuraha, G. Mulibo, J. Salima, A. Mruma, L. Kalindekafe, N. J. Accardo, D. Ntambila, Marsella Kachingwe, Gary T. Mesko, T. McCartney, M. Maquay, J.P. O’Donnell, G. Tepp, K. Mtelela, P. Trinhammer, D. Wood, E. Aaron, M. Gibaud, Martin Rapa, C. Pfeifer, F. Mphepo, D. Gondwe, G. Arroyo, C. Eddy, B. Kamoga, M. Moshi (2016) Acquisition of a unique onshore/offshore geophysical and geochemical dataset in the northern Malawi (Nyassa) Rift, Seismological Research Letters, 87, doi: 10.1785/0220160112
• Melkonian, A. K., M. J Willis, and Pritchard, M. E., Stikine Icefield Mass Loss between 2000 and 2013/2014 (2016) Frontiers in Earth Sciences 4, Cryospheric Sciences, doi: 10.3389/feart.2016.00089 [Link to article]
• Delgado, F., M. E. Pritchard, D. Basualto, J. Lazo, L. Cordova, L. Lara (2016) Rapid re-inflation following the 2011-2012 rhyodacite eruption at Cordón Caulle volcano (southern Andes) imaged by InSAR: evidence for magma chamber refill, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 9552–9562, doi: 10.1002/2016GL070066 [Link to AGU]
2015:
• Jay, J. A., F. J. Delgado, J. L. Torres, M. E. Pritchard, O. Macedo, V. Aguilar (2015) Deformation and seismicity near Sabancaya volcano, southern Peru, from 2002-2014, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 2780-2788, doi:10.1002/2015GL063589 [Link to AGU]
• Willis, M. J., A. K. Melkonian, and M. E. Pritchard (2015) Outlet Glacier Response to the 2012 Collapse of the Matusevich Ice Shelf, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 120, 2040–2055, doi: 10.1002/2015JF003544 [Link to AGU]
2014:
• Scott, C., R. B. Lohman, M. E. Pritchard, P. Alvarado, and G. Sánchez (2014) Andean earthquakes triggered by the 2010 Maule, Chile (Mw 8.8) earthquake: Comparisons of geodetic, seismic and geologic constraints, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 50, p. 27-39 [Link to Science Direct].
• Jay, J. A., F. Costa, M. E. Pritchard, L. E. Lara, B. Singer, and J. Herrin (2014), Locating magma reservoirs using InSAR and petrology before and during the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle silicic eruption, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 295, p. 254-266 [Link to Science Direct].
• Melkonian, A. K., M. J. Willis, and M. E. Pritchard (2014) Satellite-derived volume loss rates and glacier speeds for the Juneau Icefield, Alaska, Journal of Glaciology, 60, 222, doi:10.3189/2014JoG13J181, p. 743-760.
• Pritchard, M. E., S. T. Henderson, J. A. Jay, V. Soler, D. A. Krzesni, N. E. Button, M. D. Welch, A. G. Semple, B. Glass, M. Sunagua, E. Minaya, A. Amigo, J. Clavero (2014) Reconnaissance earthquake studies at nine volcanic areas of the central Andes with coincident satellite thermal and InSAR observations, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 280, p. 90-103, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.05.004 [Link to Science Direct].
• Delgado, Francisco, M. E. Pritchard, M. E., R. B. Lohman and J. A. Naranjo, (2014) The 2011 Hudson volcano eruption (southern Andes, Chile): Pre-eruptive inflation and hotspots observed with InSAR and thermal imagery, Bulletin of Volcanology, 76:815 [Link to Springer].
• Biggs, J., S. K. Ebmeier, W. P. Aspinall, Z. Lu, M. E. Pritchard, R. S. J. Sparks, T. A. Mather (2014) Global link between deformation and volcanic eruption quantified by satellite imagery, Nature Communications, 5, doi:10.1038/ncomms4471 [Link to Nature].
This article was described on livescience.com, and a press release. It also received the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Prize
2013:
• Pritchard, M. E., J. A. Jay, F. Aron, S. T. Henderson, and L. E. Lara (2013) Subsidence at southern Andes volcanoes induced by the 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake, Nature Geoscience, 6, p. 632-636, doi:10.1038/ngeo1855, [Link to Nature].
This article was described in the LA Times, Cornell Chronicle, New Scientist, livescience.com, Discovery News, UNAVCO, and other places.
• Henderson, S. T., and M. E. Pritchard (2013) Decadal volcanic deformation in the Central Andes Volcanic Zone revealed by InSAR time series, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 14, DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20074 [Link to AGU page].
• Jay, J. A., M. Welch, M. E. Pritchard, P. J. Mares, M. E. Mnich, A. K. Melkonian, F. Aguilera, J. A. Naranjo, M. Sunagua, and J. Clavero (2013) Volcanic hotspots of the central and southern Andes as seen from space by ASTER and MODVOLC between the years 2000-2010, Remote Sensing of Volcanoes and Volcanic Processes: Integrating Observation and Modelling, Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 380, p 161-185, dpi: 10.1144/SP380.1 [Link to Lyell collection]
• Williams, N. R., T. R. Watters , M. E. Pritchard , M. Banks , J. F. Bell (2013) Fault Dislocation Modeled Structure of Lobate Scarps from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Digital Terrain Models, Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 118, 224-233, DOI: 10.1002/jgre.20051 [Link to AGU].
• Melkonian, A. K., M. J. Willis, M. E. Pritchard, A. Rivera, F. Bown, and S. Bernstein (2013) Satellite-Derived Volume Loss Rates and Glacier Speeds for the Cordillera Darwin Icefield, Chile, The Cryosphere, 7, 823-839 [Link to open access]
2012:
• Willis, M. J., A. K. Melkonian, M. E. Pritchard, and A. Rivera (2012) Ice mass loss from the Southern Patagonian Icefield, South America, between 2000 and 2012, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L17501, doi:10.1029/2012GL053136 [Link to AGU page].
Press stories about this article are available from AGU and Cornell.
• Jay, J. A., M. E. Pritchard, M. E. West, D. Christensen, M. Haney, E. Minaya, M. Sunagua, S. R. McNutt, and M. Zabala (2012) Shallow seismicity, triggered seismicity, and ambient noise tomography at the long-dormant Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia, Bulletin of Volcanology, doi: 10.1007/s00445-011-0568-7 [Link to PDF] [Link to Bull Volc.]
A popular summary of the article is available at this blog.
• Willis, M. J., A. K. Melkonian, M. E. Pritchard and J. M. Ramage (2012) Ice loss rates at the Northern Patagonian Icefield derived using a decade of satellite remote sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, 117, p 184-198, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.09.017 [Link to RSE page].
• Whelley, P. L., J. Jay, E. S. Calder, M. E. Pritchard, N. J. Cassidy, S. Alcaraz, and A. Pavez (2012) Post-depositional fracturing and subsidence of pumice flow deposits: Lascar volcano, Chile, Bulletin of Volcanology, 74, p. 511-531, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0545-1 [Link to article].
• Devlin, S., B. L. Isacks, M. E. Pritchard, W. D. Barnhart, and R. B. Lohman (2012), Depths and focal mechanisms of crustal earthquakes in the central Andes determined from teleseismic waveform analysis and InSAR, Tectonics, TC2002, doi:10.1029/2011TC002914 [Link to AGU page].
• Pritchard, M. E. (2012), Opening wide the magma spigot, Nature Geoscience, 5, p. 238-239 [Link to article].
• Pritchard, M. E., S. Owen, S. Anandakrishnan, W. E. Holt, R. A. Bennett, P. LaFemina, P. Jansma, I. MacGregor, C. Raymond, S. Schwartz, S. Stein, and M. M. Miller (2012) Open access to PI-led geophysical datasets requires community responsibility, Eos, 93, p. 243, doi:10.1029/2012EO260006 [Link to AGU page].
• Davis, J. L., Y. Fialko, W. E. Holt, M. M. Miller, S. E. Owen, and M. E. Pritchard (Eds.), A Foundation for Innovation: Grand Challenges in Geodesy, Report from the Long-Range Science Goals for Geodesy Community Workshop, UNAVCO, Boulder, Colorado, 79 pp., 2012 [PDF]
2011:
• Holtkamp, S. G., M. E. Pritchard and R. B. Lohman (2011) Earthquake swarms in South America, Geophysical Journal International, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05137.x [Link to GJI page].
• Fournier, T. J., M. E. Pritchard and N. J. Finnegan (2011) Accounting for atmospheric delays in InSAR data in a search for long wavelength deformation in South America, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 49, p. 3856 - 3867, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2139217 [Link to IEEE].
2010:
• Fournier, T. J., M. E. Pritchard, and S. N. Riddick (2010) The duration, magnitude, and frequency of subaerial volcano deformation events: New InSAR results from Latin America and a global synthesis, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q01003, doi:10.1029/2009GC002558, [Link to AGU Page]
Click here for an updated version of Table 1: Global compilation of deforming volcanoes.
• Loveless, J. P., R. W. Allmendinger, M. E. Pritchard, and G. Gonzalez (2010) Normal and reverse faulting driven by the subduction zone earthquake cycle in the northern Chilean forearc, Tectonics, 29, TC2001, doi:10.1029/2009TC002465, [Link to AGU Page]
• Pritchard, M. E. (2010) Deformation explained: Book
review of Paul Segall's "Earthquake and Volcano Deformation," Nature
Geosciences, 3, p. 515 [link to Nature Geosciences]
• Loveless, J. P., M. E. Pritchard, and N. Kukowski
(2010) Testing mechanisms of subduction zone segmentation and
seismogenesis with slip distributions from recent Andean earthquakes,
Tectonophysics, 495, p. 15-33, [link to Science Direct]
• Watters, T. R., M. S. Robinson, R. A. Beyer, M. E.
Banks, J. F. Bell III, M. E. Pritchard, H. Hiessinger, C. van der
Bogert, P. C. Thomas, E. P. Turtle, N. R. Williams (2010) New evidence
of recent thrust faulting on the Moon revealed by the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, Science, 329, p. 936-940. [link to Science].
Press articles from Cornell and Fox News.
2009:
• Allmendinger, R. W., J. P. Loveless, M. E. Pritchard, and B. Meade (2009) From decades to epochs: Spanning the gap between geodesy and structural geology of active mountain belts, Journal of Structural Geology, 11, p. 1409-1422 [Link to Science Direct]
• Finnegan, N. J., and M. E. Pritchard (2009) Magnitude and duration of surface uplift above the Socorro magma body, Geology, 37, 231-234. [Link to GSA Page]
A nice description of this article for the general public is on this blog.
• Loveless, J. P., R. W. Allmendinger, M. E. Pritchard, J. L. Garroway and G. Gonzalez (2009) Surface cracks record long-term seismic segmentation of the Andean margin, Geology, 37, 23-26. [Link to GSA Page]
2008:
• Loveless, J. P., and M. E. Pritchard (2008) Motion on upper-plate faults during subduction zone earthquakes: Case of the Atacama Fault System, northern Chile, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q12017, doi:10.1029/2008GC002155, [Link to AGU Page]
• Finnegan, N. J., M. E. Pritchard, R. B. Lohman, and P. R. Lundgren (2008) Constraints on surface deformation in the Seattle, WA urban corridor from satellite radar interferometry time series analysis, Geophys. J. Int., 174, 29-41. [PDF Reprint] The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
• Pritchard, M. E. and E. J. Fielding (2008) A study of the 2006 and 2007 earthquake sequence of Pisco, Peru, with InSAR and teleseismic data. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, doi:10.1029/2008GL033374, [Link to AGU Page]. Supplemental information available as a PDF.
This article was selected as an Editor's highlight.
• Sparks, R. S. J., C. B. Foulkes, M. C. S. Humphreys, D. Barford, J. Clavero, S. Mayel, S. R. McNutt, and M. E. Pritchard (2008) Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia: Volcanic unrest due to a mid-crustal magma instrusion, American Journal of Science, 308, 727-769. [PDF Reprint]
2007:
• Pritchard, M. E., A. M. Rubin, and C. J. Wolfe (2007) Do flexural stresses explain the mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea, Hawaii?, Geophys. J. Int., 168, 419-430. [PDF Reprint] The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
• Pritchard, M. E., E. O. Norabuena, C. Ji, R. Boroschek, D. Comte, M. Simons, T. Dixon, and P. A. Rosen (2007) Geodetic, teleseismic, and strong motion constraints on slip from recent southern Peru subduction zone earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 112, doi:10.1029/2006JB004294, [Link to AGU Page].
2006:
• Pritchard, M. E. (2006) InSAR, a tool for measuring Earth's surface deformation, Physics Today, July, pg. 68-69 [PDF Reprint] Copyright (2006) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.
• Wieczorek, M. A., B. L. Jolliff, A. Khan, M. E. Pritchard, B. P. Weiss, J. G. Williams, L. L. Hood, K. Righter, C. R. Neal, C. K. Shearer, I. S. McCallum, S. Thompkins, J. J. Gillis, and B. Bussey, (2006) The constitution and structure of the lunar interior, in New Views of the Moon, eds. B. L. Joliff, M. A. Wieczorek, C. K. Shearer, and C. R. Neal, Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, Vol. 60, 221-364, [Reprint].
• Shearer, C. K., P. C. Hess, M. A. Wieczorek, M. E. Pritchard, E. M. Parmentier, L. Borg, J. Longhi, L. T. Elkins-Tanton, C. R. Neal, I. Antonenko, R. M. Canup, A. N. Halliday, T. L. Grove, B. H. Hager, D.-C. Lee, and U. Wiechert (2006) Thermal and magmatic evolution of the Moon, in New Views of the Moon, eds. B. L. Joliff, M. A. Wieczorek, C. K. Shearer, and C. R. Neal, Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, Vol. 60, 365-518, [Reprint].
• Pritchard, M. E. and M. Simons (2006) An aseismic fault slip pulse in northern Chile and along-strike variations in seismogenic behavior, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2006JB004258, [Link to AGU Page].
• Pritchard, M. E., C. Ji, and M. Simons (2006) Distribution of slip from 11 Mw > 6 earthquakes in the northern Chile subduction zone, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JB004013, [Link to AGU Page].
2004:
• Pritchard, M. E. and M. Simons (2004) An InSAR-based survey of volcanic deformation in the southern Andes. Geophys . Res. Lett. 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL020545 [Link to AGU Page]. Supplemental information available as a PDF.
• Pritchard, M. E. and M. Simons (2004) Surveying volcanic arcs with satellite radar interferometry: The central Andes, Kamchatka, and beyond. GSA Today 14, 4-10 [PDF Reprint]. Supplemental information available as a PDF.
• Pritchard, M. E. and M. Simons (2004) An InSAR-based survey of volcanic deformation in the central Andes. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 5, 10.1029/2003GC000610. [PDF Reprint]
2003:
• Pritchard, M. E., (2003) Recent crustal deformation in west central South America, Ph.D. thesis, Calif. Inst. Technol., Pasadena. available online. Thesis appendix with interferograms of potentially active volcanoes and many calderas in the cental Andes.
2002:
• Pritchard, M. E., M. Simons (2002) A satellite geodetic survey of large-scale deformation of volcanic centres in the central Andes. Nature 418, 167-171. [PDF Reprint]
• Pritchard, M. E., M. Simons, P. A. Rosen, S. Hensley and F. H. Webb (2002) Coseismic slip from the July 30, 1995, Mw = 8.1 Antofagasta, Chile, earthquake as constrained by InSAR and GPS observations. Geophysical Journal International 150, 362-376. [Link to Blackwell Page]
2000:
• Pritchard, M. E. and D. J. Stevenson (2000) Thermal aspects of a lunar origin by giant impact. In Origin of the Earth and Moon, eds. R. Canup and K. Righter, University of Arizona Press. Please send an email to request an electonic reprint
1997:
• Pritchard, M. E., V. L. Hansen, and J. J. Willis (1997) Structural evolution of western Fortuna Tessera, Venus. Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 2339-2342. [Link to AGU Page