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Sophie Pailot Bonnétat PhD

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a Post doctorate in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science. I completed my PhD in France at the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV) from Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA). My PhD project dealt with thermal satellite remote sensing and ground measurements to assess heat budget on low temperature volcanic systems. I am interested in volcanic processes and the way to detect and quantify them remotely.

    Education & Training

  • PhD 2024, Fundamental Sciences, Clermont-Auvergne University in Clermont-Ferrand (France)
  • M.S., 2019, Earth Sciences: Geology and planets, Clermont-Auvergne University in Clermont-Ferrand (France)
  • M.S., 2019, Geosciences, Institut Polytechnique UniLasalle in Beauvais (France)
  • B.S., 2016, Earth Science, Polytech’Paris UPMC in Paris (France)
Representative Publications
  • [in review at Bulletin of Volcanology] Pailot-Bonnétat S., Harris A. J. L., Rafflin V., Bonnetain C. Serravalli A., Vanderklyusen L., Brauner J., Liu C., Ramsey M. (2025) “Internal and external processes driving heat transfer at volcanic hydrothermal systems’
  • [in review at Geophysical Research Letters] Aveni S., Pailot-Bonnétat S., Harris A. J. L., Rouwet D., Coppola D. (2025) “Volcanic Radiative Power retrieval from moderate-to-low-temperature features using a single TIR band: validation using volcanic crater lakes and hydrothermal systems“
  • Giannoulis M., Pailot-Bonnétat S., Barra V. and Harris A. J. L. (2024) “External factors driving surface temperature changes above geothermal systems: answers from deep learning”, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 12:1372621. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1372621
  • Harris A.J.L., Pailot-Bonnétat S. (2024) “Inversion of heat loss to obtain conductivity, density, and permeability at bottom-heated surfaces: the case of the hydrothermal system at Vulcano between 2019 and 2023”, Bulletin of Volcanology 86, 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-024-01746-4
  • Pailot-Bonnétat S., Harris A. J. L. (2024) “A Thermal Record for Unrest at Vulcano 2020–2022: In Situ Meteorological Data and Soil Temperature Recorded at High Temporal Resolution”, Bull Volcanol 86, 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-023-01696-3
  • Pailot-Bonnétat S., Rafflin V., Harris A. J. L. et al. (2023) “Anatomy of thermal unrest at a hydrothermal system: case study of the 2021–2022 crisis at Vulcano”, Earth Planets Space 75, 159. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-023-01913-5
  • Corradino C., Ramsey M. S., Pailot-Bonnétat S., Harris A. J. L. and Negro C. D. (2023) "Detection of Subtle Thermal Anomalies: Deep Learning Applied to the ASTER Global Volcano Dataset", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61:1-15 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3241085
  • Tadini A., Harris A. J. L., Morin J., et al. (2022) “Structured elicitation of expert judgement in real-time eruption scenarios: an exercise for Piton de la Fournaise volcano, La Réunion island”, Volcanica, 5(1), pp. 105–131. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.01.105131
  • Pailot-Bonnétat S., Harris A. J. L., Calvari S., De Michele M., and Gurioli L. (2020) "Plume Height Time-Series Retrieval Using Shadow in Single Spatial Resolution Satellite Images" Remote Sensing 12(23):3951. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12233951
Research Interests