María Charco Romero
Researcher
Work address: Instituto de Geociencias - IGEO (CSIC-UCM). C/Doctor Severo Ochoa 7. Edificio Entrepabellones 7 y 8, planta 4ª. 28040 Madrid (España).
Email: m.charco@csic.es
Telephone: +34 913 944 586
Department: Earth Dynamics and Observation
Research group: Physics of the Earth’s Interior: simulation, modelling and observation (PESO)
Keywords: Earth Science System Sciences, Volcano Geodesy, Numerical Modeling, HPC, Digital Twins for volcano deformation, Data integration and Assimilation, volcanic hazard mitigation
Identifiers
- Scopus ID: 6506675185
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ORCID: 0000-0002-2791-9522
Professional background
Her research focuses on developing numerical models in the field of Volcano Geodesy, leveraging her strong mathematical expertise. She is particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms driving Earth’s surface deformation in volcanic regions. This is achieved by integrating large volumes of remote sensing data, including GPS, differential InSAR, and gravity data, to provide critical insights into the nature and extent of deformation. Her work also includes refining numerical models geological and geophysically meaningful, with significant contributions to the development of effective inversion methods for identifying surface deformation sources associated with volcanic unrest. Her expertise in advanced numerical modeling and inverse problem-solving has also led to valuable collaborations in lithospheric structure and dynamics modeling. Looking ahead, she is highly motivated to further advance her research by integrating innovative computational modeling techniques, massive data assimilation, and physically consistent approaches to enhance actionable early warning forecasts for volcanic eruptions.
Relevant publications
- Charco, M., González, P.J., Pallero, J.L.G., García-Cañada, L., del Fresno, C. and Rodríguez-Ortega, A., 2024, The 2021 La Palma (Canary Islands) eruption ending forecast through magma pressure drop. Geophys. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008389.
- Domínguez Cerdeña I., Charco M., González-Alonso, E., del Fresno, C. Benito-Saz, M.A. and García-Cañada, L., 2023, Magma storage and migration in El Hierro during the period 2011-2014. In: González P.J. (Ed.) El Hierro. Series Active Volcanoes in the World. Springer Nature Switzerland AG2023, 91-110.
- Babault, J., Van Den Driessche J. and Charco, M. Plateau uplift, regional warping and subsidence In: Shroder, J. (Editor in Chief), Owen L. (Ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology 2022 (2nd ed.) pp. 46 doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00119-X
- Rodriguez-Molina, S., González, P.J., Charco, M., Negredo, A.M. and Schmidt, D.A., 2021, Time-scales of Intereruptive Volcano Uplift Signals: Three Sisters Volcanic center, Oregon (USA), Frontiers is Earth Science, 8, 645:1-30, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.577588.
- Fullea, J., Negredo, A.M., Charco, M., Palomeras, I., Villaseñor, A. and Afonso, J., 2021, The topography of the Iberian Peninsula from integrated geophysical-petrological multi-data inversion, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106691.
- Benito-Saz, M.A., Sigmundsson, F., Charco, M., Hooper, A., and Parks, M., 2019, Magma flow rates and temporal evolution of the 2012-2014 post-eruptive intrusions at El Hierro, Canary Islands, J. Geophys. Res., 124(12), 12576-12592, doi.: 10.1029/2019JB018219.
- Fullea J., Rodríguez-González J., Charco M. Martinec Z., Negredo A.M. and Villaseñor, A., 2015, Perturbing effects of sub-lithospheric mass anomalies in GOCE gravity gradient and other potential field data modelling...,Int. J. of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 35, 54-69.
- Charco M. and Galán del Sastre P., 2014, Efficient inversion of 3D Finite Element models of volcano deformation, Geophysical Journal International, 196(3), 1441-1454, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt490.