Maria Perla Piña Varas

Adjunct part-time

Knowledge area: Física de la Terra

Grup de Geodinàmica i Anàlisi de Conques (GGAC)

Contact Information
Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
Centre for Exploration Targeting/University of Western Australia M006. 35 Stirling Highway. Crawley
659 03 31 65
ppinavaras(a)gmail.com

Teaching

Reservoir Geology and Geophysics

Academic Training

Licenciada en Geología . Universidad de Salamanca . 01/07/2005 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Master en Geofísica . Universitat de Barcelona . 30/06/2009 . (Official Master)

Posgrado en Sistemas de Información Geográfica . Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya . 01/09/2012 . (Specialized Training)

Curso Internacional de Hidrologia SUbterranea . Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya . 01/06/2006 . (Specialized Training)

Projects

Caracterización holística de las GIC en la península Ibérica: del análisis de corrientes magnetosféricas e ionosféricas a la influencias de la litosfera . 2018 - 2020 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Juan José Ledo Fernández; Pilar Neus Queralt Capdevila

Diseño y desarrollo experimental de una metodología multiparamétrica para la exploración de recursos geotérmicos ocultos de alta entalpía en Canarias - TERMOVOLCAN . 2018 - 2021 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Juan José Ledo Fernández

Identificación y evaluación de recursos GEOtérmicos en entornos URBANos difíciles . 2018 - 2021 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Pilar Neus Queralt Capdevila

PIXIL: Pyrenees Imaging eXperience: an InternationaL network . 2019 - 2021 . Unió Europea . PI: Pilar Neus Queralt Capdevila

The Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems Entidad financiadora: Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) . 2011 - 2019 . Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) . PI: Mike Dentith

Journal Publications

Ledo, J.; Jones, A. G.; Sinischalchi, A.; Rouais, M.; Campanyà, J.; Kiyan, D.; Moretti, P.; Piña, P.; Hogg, C.; Romano, G.; Picasso Team (2010). Crustal Scale Magnetotelluric Imaging of the Central Atlas in Moocco. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 185, pp. 82 - 88 . ISSN: 0031-9201

Piña-Varas, P.; Ledo, J.; Queralt, P.; Roca, E.; García-Lobón, J.L.; Ibarra, P.; Biete, C. (2013). Two-dimensional magnetotelluric characterization of the El Hito Anticline (Loranca Basin, Spain). Journal of Applied Geophysics, 95, pp. 121 - 134 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.06.002 . ISSN: 0926-9851

Piña-Varas, P.; Ledo, J.; Queralt, P.; Marcuello, A.; Bellmunt, F.; Hidalgo, R.; Messeiller, M. (2014). 3-D Magnetotelluric exploration of Tenerife geothermal system (Canary Islands, Spain). Surveys in Geophysics, 35, pp. 1045 - 1064 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-014-9280-4 . ISSN: 0169-3298

Piña‐Varas, P.; Ledo, J.; Queralt, P.; Marcuello, A.; Bellmunt, F.; Ogaya, X.; Pérez, N.; Rodriguez‐Losada, J.A. (2015). Vertical collapse origin of Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands) revealed by 3‐D magnetotelluric inversion. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(6), pp. 1710 - 1716 . https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063042 . ISSN: 0094-8276

Rodríguez, F.; Pérez, N.M.; Padrón, E.; Melián, G.; Piña-Varas, P.; Dionis, S.; Barrancos, J.; Padilla, G.D.; Hernández, P.A.; Marrero, R.; Ledo, J.; Bellmunt, F.; Queralt, P.; Marcuello, A.; Hidalgo, R. (2015). Surface geochemical and geophysical studies for geothermal exploration at the Southern Volcanic Rift Zone of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Geothermics, 55, pp. 195 - 206 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2015.02.007 . ISSN: 0375-6505

Araceli García-Yeguas; Juanjo Ledo; Perla Piña-Varas; Janire Prudencio; Pilar Queralt; Alex Marcuello; Jesús M. Ibañez; Beatriz Benjumea; Alberto Sánchez-Alzola; Nemesio Pérez (2017). A 3D joint interpretation of magnetotelluric and seismic tomographic models: The case of the volcanic island of Tenerife. Computers & Geosciences, 109, pp. 95 - 105 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.08.003 . ISSN: 0098-3004

Pina-Varas, Perla; Ledo, Juanjo; Queralt, Pilar; Marcuello, Alex; Perez, Nemesio (2018). On the detectability of Teide volcano magma chambers (Tenerife, Canary Islands) with magnetotelluric data. Earth, Planets and Space, 70, p. 14 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1343-8832

Michael Dentith; Huaiyu Yuan; Ruth Elaine Murdie; Perla Piña-Varas; Simon P. Johnson; Klaus Gessner; Fawna J. Korhonen. (2018). Improved Interpretation of Deep Seismic Reflection Data in Areas of Complex Geology Through Integration with Passive Seismic Datasets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123 . https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015795 . ISSN: 2169-9313

Michael Dentith; Huaiyu Yuan; Simon Johnson; Ruth Murdie; Perla Piña-Varas. (2018). Application of deep-penetrating geophysical methods to mineral exploration: Examples from Western Australia. Geophysics, 83 (3) . https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0482.1 . ISSN: 0016-8033

Perla Piña-Varas & Michael Dentith (2018). Magnetotelluric Data from the Southeastern Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia: An Example of Widespread Out-of-Quadrant Phase Responses. Geophysical Journal International, 212(2) . https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx459 . ISSN: 0956-540X

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