PUBLICATIONS


Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Kettlety T, Kendall J-M, Roman DC. Self‐similarity of seismic moment release to volume change scaling for volcanoes: A Comparison With Injection‐Induced Seismicity. Geophysical Research Letters 49(23), e2022GL099369.


  • McKee KF, Roman DC, Fee D, Waite GP. Silent VLPs at Stromboli Volcano, Italy. Geophysical Research Letters 49(23), e2022GL100735.


  • Hilley GE (ed), Brodsky EE, Roman DC, Shillington DJ, Brudzinski M, Behn M, Tobin H and the SZ4D RCN (2022). SZ4D Implementation Plan. Stanford Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.25740/hy589fc7561


  • Matoza RS, Roman DC (2022). One-hundred-year advances in volcano seismology and acoustics. Bulletin of Volcanology, 84, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-022-01586


  • Lanza F, Roman DC, Power JA, Thurber CH, Hudson T (2022). Complex magmatic-tectonic interactions during the 2020 Makushin Volcano, Alaska, earthquake swarm. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 587, 117538.


  • Zhan Y, Roman DC, Le Mével H, Power JA (2022). Earthquakes Indicated Stress Field Change during the 2006 unrest of Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters, e2022GL097958.


  • Zhan Y, Le Mével H, Roman DC, Girona T, Gregg PM (2022). Modeling deformation, seismicity, and thermal anomalies driven by degassing during the 2005-2006 pre-eruptive unrest of Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 585, 117524.


  • Arora B, Currin A, Dwivedi D, Fru MI, Kumar N, McLeod CL, Roman DC (2022). Volcanology, geochemistry, and petrology perspectives on integrated, coordinated, open, networked (ICON) science. Earth and Space Science, 9(4), e2021EA002120.


  • Rasmussen DJ*, Plank TA, Roman DC, Zimmer MM (2022) Magmatic water content controls the pre-eruptive depth of arc magmas. Science, 375(6585), 1169-1172.


  • Manley GF*, Mather TA, Pyle DM, Clifton DA, Rodgers M, Thompson G, Roman DC (2021). Machine learning approaches to identifying changes in eruptive state using multi‐parameter datasets from the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB022323.


  • McKee K, Smith CM, Reath K, Snee E, Maher S, Matoza RS, Carn S, Roman DC, Mastin L, Anderson K, Damby D (2021) Evaluating the state-of-the-art in remote volcanic eruption characterization part II: Ulawun volcano, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 420, p.107381.


  • McKee KF, Smith CM, Reath K, Snee E, Maher S, Matoza RS, Carn S, Mastin L, Anderson K, Damby D, Roman DC, Degterev A, Rybin A, Chibisova M, Assink JD, de Negri Leiva R, Perttu A (2021). Evaluating the state-of-the-art in remote volcanic eruption characterization Part I: Raikoke volcano, Kuril Islands. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 419 (2021): 107354.


  • Fischer T, Moran S, Cooper K, Roman DC, LaFemina P (2021). Making the most of volcanic eruption responses. Eos 102.


  • Reath K, Pritchard M, Roman DC, Lopez T, Carn S, Fischer T, Lu Z, Poland M, Vaughn R, Wessels R, Wike L, Tran H (2021) Quantifying Seismicity, Deformation, Degassing, and Thermal Emissions at Volcanoes in the United States During 1978-2020. Journal of Geophysical Research, 126(6), e2021JB021684



  • Power, J. A., Roman, D. C., Lyons, J. J., Haney, M. M., Rasmussen, D. J., Plank, T., ... & Kaufman, A. M. (2021). Volcanic seismicity beneath Chuginadak Island, Alaska (Cleveland and Tana volcanoes): Implications for magma dynamics and eruption forecasting. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 412, 107182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107182


  • Portner DE, Wagner LS, Janiszewski HA, Roman DC, Power JA. (2020). Ps‐P tomography of a mid‐crustal magma reservoir beneath Cleveland Volcano, Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL090406. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090406


  • Werner C, Rasmussen DJ, Plank T, Kelly PJ, Kern C, Lopez T, Gliss J, Power J, Roman DC, Izbekov P, Lyons J. (2020) Linking Subsurface to Surface using Gas Emission and Melt Inclusion data at Mount Cleveland volcano, Alaska. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, e2019GC008882. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008882


  • Manley G*, Pyle D, Mather T, Rodgers M, Clifton DA, Stokell BG, Thompson G, Londono J, Roman DC . Understanding the timing of eruption end using a machine learning approach to classification of seismic time series. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 106917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106917



  • Alemseged Z, Wynn J, Geraads D, Reed D, Barr W, Bobe McPherron S, Deino A, Alene M, Sier M, Roman D, Mohan J (2020). Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. Nature Communications 11, 2480 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16060-8


  • Golden S, Wagner LS, Schleigh B, Power D, Roman DC, Sacks SI, Janiszewski H (2019) Digitization of the Carnegie analogue broadband instruments tape records (1965-1996). Seismological Research Letters 91 (3), 1441-1451. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190334


  • Lapins S., Roman DC, Rougier J, De Angelis S, Cashman KV, Kendall J-M (2019) An Examination of the Continuous Wavelet Transform for Volcano-Seismic Spectral Analysis. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 389, 106728 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106728


  • DeGrandpre K, Pesicek J, Lu Z, DeShon H, Roman DC (2019). Anomalously high rates of inflation during a non-eruptive episode of seismic unrest at Semisopochnoi Volcano, Alaska in 2014-2015. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(12) 6163-6186. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008720


  • Mannen K, Roman DC, Leonard G, Prejean S, Nakagawa M (2019) Special issue "Towards forecasting phreatic eruptions: examples from Hakone volcano and some global equivalents". Earth, Planets, Space 71(91). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-019-1068-9


  • Roman DC, LaFemina PC, Bussard R, Stephens K, Wauthier C, Higgins, M, Feineman M, Arellano S, de Moor JM, Avard G, Martinez Cruz M, Burton M, Varnam M, Saballos A, Ibarra M, Strauch W, Tenorio V (2019). Mechanisms of unrest and eruption at persistently restless volcanoes: Insights from the 2015 eruption of Telica Volcano, Nicaragua. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008450


  • Wauthier C, Roman DC, Poland MP (2019). Modulation of seismic activity in Kīlauea’s Upper East Rift Zone by summit pressurization. Geology 47(9), 820-824. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46000.1


  • Roman DC, Cashman KV (2018) Top-down precursory volcanic seismicity: Implications for ‘stealth’ magma ascent and long-term eruption forecasting. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00124


  • Cameron CE, Prejean SG, Coombs ML, Wallace KL, Power JA, Roman DC (2018) Alaska Volcano Observatory Alert and Forecasting Timeliness: 1989–2017. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00086


  • Kim W-Y, Gold M, Ramsay J, Meltzer A, Wunsch D, Baxter S, Lekic V, Goodling P, Pearson K, Wagner L, Roman DC (2018) The M w 4.2 Delaware Earthquake of 30 November 2017. Seismological Research Letters 89(6), 2447-2460. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180124


  • Rasmussen DJ, Plank TA, Roman DC, Power JA, Bodnar RJ, Hauri EH (2017) When does eruption run-up begin? Multidisciplinary insight from the 1999 eruption of Shishaldin Volcano. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 486, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.01.001


  • Manga M, Carn SA, Cashman KV, Clarke AB, Connor CB, Cooper KM, Fischer T, Houghton B, Johnson JB, Plank TA, Roman DC, Segall P (2017). Volcanic Eruptions, and their Unrest, Repose, Precurors, and Timing. National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24650



  • Wauthier C, Roman DC, Poland MP (2016). Joint analysis of InSAR and earthquake FPS data to constrain magmatic sources: A case study from Kilauea Volcano. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 455: 38-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.011


  • Roman DC, Rodgers MJ, Geirsson H, LaFemina PC, Tenorio V (2016). Assessing the likelihood and magnitude of volcanic explosions based on seismic quiescence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 450: 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.020



  • Rodgers MJ, Rodgers S, Roman DC (2015). 'PeakMatch': A Java program for multiplet analysis of large seismic datasets. Seismological Research Letters 86: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220150125


  • Johnson JH, Swanson, DA, Roman DC, Poland MP, Thelen W (2015). Crustal stress and structure at Kilauea Volcano inferred from seismic anisotropy. In: Carey R, Poland MP, Cayol V, Weis D (Eds.) Hawaiian Volcanoes: From Source to Surface, AGU Geophysical Monograph, 251-268.


  • Rodgers MJ, Roman DC, Geirsson H, LaFemina P, McNutt SR, Muñoz A, Tenorio V. (2015) Stable and unstable phases of elevated seismic activity at the persistently restless Telica Volcano, Nicaragua. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 290: 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.11.012


  • Geirsson, H, Rodgers MJ, LaFemina P, Witter M, Roman DC, Munoz A, Tenorio V, Alvarez J, Conde Jacobo V, Nilsson D, Galle B, Feineman MD, Furman T, Morales A (2014).Multidisciplinary observations of the 2011 explosive eruption of Telica volcano, Nicaragua: Implications for the dynamics of low-explosivity ash eruptions. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 271: 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2013.11.009


  • Wauthier C, Roman DC, Poland MP (2013) Moderate-magnitude earthquakes induced by magma reservoir inflation at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i. Geophysical Research Letters 40: 5366-5370. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058082


  • Bercovici, D, Jellinek AM, Michaut C, Roman DC, Morse R (2013) Volcanic tremors and magma wagging: Gas flux interactions and forcing mechanism. Geophysical Journal International 195(2): 1001-1022. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt277


  • Roman DC, Gardine MD (2013) Seismological evidence for long-term and rapidly accelerating magma pressurization preceding the 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 371: 226-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.040


  • Lehto HL, Roman DC, Moran SC (2013) Source mechanism of persistent shallow seismicity during eruptive and non-eruptive periods between 1981 and 2010 at Mount St. Helens, Washington. Journal of Volcanology and Geophysical Research 256: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2013.02.005


  • Buurman H, West ME,Roman DC (2013). Using repeating volcano-tectonic earthquakes to track post-eruptive activity in the conduit system at Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. Geology 41: 511-514. https://doi.org/10.1130/G34089.1

  • Rodgers M, Roman DC, Geirsson H, LaFemina P, Munoz A, Guzman C, Tenorio V (2013) Seismicity accompanying the 1999 eruptive episodes at Telica Volcano, Nicaragua. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 265: 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2013.08.010


  • O'Brien J, Roman DC, Dixon J, Power JA, Arnold R.(2012) Source processes and cause of the 2006 seismic swarm at Mt. Martin, Katmai Volcanic Cluster, Alaska. Journal of Volcanology and Geophysical Research 229-230: 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.03.011


  • Kilgore WW, Roman DC, Biggs J, Hansen R. (2011) Seismic and geodetic investigation of the 1996-1998 earthquake swarm at Strandline Lake, Alaska. Geophysical Journal International 186: 1365-1379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05115.x


  • Roman DC, Savage MK, Arnold R, Latchman JL, De Angelis S (2011). Analysis and forward modeling of seismic anisotropy during the ongoing eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat (1996-2007). Journal of Geophysical Research 116: B03201. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JB007667





  • Roman DC, DeAngelis S, Latchman J, White RA (2008) Patterns of volcanotectonic seismicity and stress during the ongoing eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat (1995-2007). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 173: 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.01.014


  • Roman DC, Campisano C, Quade J, DiMaggio E, Arrowsmith R, Feibel C (2008) Composite tephrostratigraphy of the Dikika, Gona, Hadar, and Ledi-Geraru Project Areas, Northern Awash, Ethiopia. In: "The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa" Geological Society of America Special Paper 446: 119-134.


  • Wynn JG, Roman DC, Alemseged Z, Reed D, Geraads D, Munro S (2008) Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and basin structure of the Hadar and Busidima Formations at Dikika. In: The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa (Quade J., Wynn JG, Eds.) Geological Society of America Special Paper 446: 10-42.


  • Roman DC, Heron P (2007) Effect of regional tectonic setting on local stress field response to magmatic activity. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L13310. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL030222


  • Roman DC, Neuberg J, Luckett RR (2006) Assessing the likelihood of eruption through analysis of VT earthquake fault-plane solutions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 248: 229-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.029


  • Wynn JG, Alemseged Z, Bobe R, Geraads D, Reed D, Roman D (2006) Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443: 332-336. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05048



  • Roman DC, Cashman KV, Gardner CA, Wallace PJ, Donovan JJ (2006) Storage and interaction of compositionally heterogeneous magmas from the 1986 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Bulletin of Volcanology 68: 240-254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-005-0003-z


  • Roman DC (2005) Numerical models of volcanotectonic earthquake triggering on non-ideally oriented faults. Geophysical Research Letters 32: L02304. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021549


  • Roman DC, Moran SC, Power JA, Cashman KV (2004) Temporal and spatial variation of local stress fields during the 1992 eruptions of Crater Peak vent, Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 94: 2366-2379. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120030259


  • Roman DC, Power JA, Moran SC, Cashman KV, Doukas MP, Neal CA, Gerlach TM (2004) Evidence for dike emplacement at Iliamna Volcano, Alaska in 1996. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 130: 265-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00302-0


Other Publications


  • Roman DC, Power JA (2014) Grand Challenges in U.S. Volcano Seismology. White paper, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5 pp. IAVCEI newsletter 2014 no. 3-4.


  • Roman DC (2004) Changes in local stress field orientation in response to magmatic activity. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 188 pp.


  • Roman DC (2001) The 1986 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska: Magma storage and ascent. M.S. Thesis, University of Oregon, 129 pp.