Pablo Saunders-Shultz
Pablo maintains the Geologic Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA), which supports the monitoring efforts of the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Education
M.S. 2024, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geology
B.A. 2019, Amherst College, Geology
Selected Publications
- Loewen, M.W., Gomez-Patron, Andrea, Fee, David, Lopez, T.M., Mota, Rui, Saunders-Shultz, Pablo, Merritt, Karenna, Dietterich, H.R., Brewster, Israel, and Wallace, K.L., 2026, Shishaldin Volcano 2019-2020 and 2023 eruption chronology data: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2026-15, 7 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/32077
- Angarita, Mario, Grapenthin, Ronni, Tan, Darren, Saunders-Shultz, Pablo, Girona, Társilo, Parameswaran, R.M., Lopez, T.M., Izbekov, P.E., Fee, David, Burgos, Vanesa, Moshrefzadeh, J.A., Shreve, Tara, and Larsen, J.F., 2026, Multidisciplinary perspectives on Shishaldin Volcano: an open-system, deforming volcano (in press): Bulletin of Volcanology.https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/12468/
- Tan, Darren, Fee, David, Izbekov, P.E., Lopez, T.M., Girona, Társilo, Burgos, Vanesa, McNutt, S.R., Haney, M.M., Wasser, V.K., Larsen, J.F., Grapenthin, Ronni, Angarita, Mario, Saunders-Shultz, Pablo, Shreve, Tara, and Moshrefzadeh, J.A., 2025, Vent-specific unrest at Pavlof Volcano, Alaska: Insights from multidisciplinary data: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 468, p. 108465, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108465.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108465
- Orr, T.R., Dietterich, H.R., Grapenthin, Ronni, Haney, M.M., Loewen, M.W., Saunders-Shultz, Pablo, Tan, Darren, Waythomas, C.F., and Wech, A.G., 2025, 2022 Volcanic activity in Alaska and the Northern Mariana Islands—Summary of events and response of the Alaska Volcano Observatory: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5108, 46 p.https://dggs.alaska.gov/pubs/id/31540
- Saunders-Shultz, Pablo, Lopez, Taryn, Dietterich, H.R., and Girona, Társilo, 2024, Automatic identification and quantification of volcanic hotspots in Alaska using HotLINK: the hotspot learning and identification network: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 12, no. 1345104.https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1345104
- Saunders-Shultz, Pablo, 2024, Deep learning detection and quantification of volcanic thermal signals in infrared satellite data: University of Alaska Fairbanks, M.S. Thesis.https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaf_grad_geosci/317/