Back in June, a team of researchers form the Coastal Group at University of Southampton (UoS), comprising Prof Carl Amos, Prof Ian Townend, Dr Charlie Thompson and Dr Hachem Kassem completed a 10 day trip to China. The team were invited by the College of Harbor, Coastal & Offshore Engineering at Hohai University (HHU), Nanjing,… Read More OES G&G Coastal team visits China
Four of our very own PhD students here at the University of Southampton won an award or honorary mention at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2017, and the other week we had the pleasure of hearing the exciting research that they each presented at the conference in December. Aude Lavayssiere was awarded an honorary… Read More Congratulations to our AGU Award Winners
The global population is rising at an alarming rate, and is expected to reach 9.8 billion (UN Website, population database) by the year 2050. The demand for resources such as food, energy and metals will soar as a result. While technological advances in renewables and food production may be sufficient to satisfy future demand, maintaining… Read More Marine electromagnetics for the investigation of deep water massive sulphide deposits
Article by Vanessa Monteleone The GeoPRISMS (Geodynamic Processes of Rifting and Subducting Margins) Theoretical and Experimental Institute (TEI) organised a three-day  workshop (8th – 10th February 2017) on the thematic of Rifting Initiation and Evolution (RIE) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The aim was to summarise progress and recent scientific advances related to the RIE… Read More 2017 GeoPRISMS Theoretical and Experimental Institute – Rift Initiation and Evolution (RIE) workshop and field trip – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Back in November last year,12 months after its start in 2014, the NERC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Oil & Gas held its first annual conference at Heriot-Watt University. Â The morning of the conference gave the chance for a number of notable individuals such as Fergus Ewing (MSP for Business, Energy and… Read More NERC CDT in Oil & Gas Annual Conference 2015
Congratulations to Southampton undergraduate Isabel Hodgson who has won two awards to present her research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015 in San Francisco. Isabel showed excellence in two highly competitive processes and was awarded both the AGU travel grant and a Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) grant. Isabel is a fourth year… Read More Undergraduate student Isabel Hodgson receives awards to present work at AGU
The University of Southampton/NOCS recently hosted the 2015 British Geophysical Association Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting. The meeting brought together 43 postgraduate students to present their research across a wide range of fields, including: passive and active seismology, geomagnetism, resistivity, numerical modeling, CO2 storage and crater formation. Attendees commented on the high standard of… Read More BGA Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting 2015
Back at the end of June, PhD student Tim Hughes attended the Jicable’15 conference, held in Versailles, France with a number of colleagues from the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory, situated on the Highfield campus of the University. The quandrennial Jicable meetings provide an international forum for discussion of research regarding insulated power cables. The… Read More Jicable’15 Conference
This week two PhD students (Amelia Astley and Clementine Chirol) from the Geology and Geophysics group were in attendance and presented posters at the British Society for Geomorphology’s annual meeting. This year the meeting was hosted by the University ov Southampton Geography Department at Highfield Campus and drew attendees in from far and wide; including… Read More British Society for Geomorphology (BSG) Annual Meeting
Postdoctoral research fellow Caroline Eakin and professor Tim Minshull recently returned from New England where they were attending the latest GRC on the Earth’s Interior. Here Caroline tells us more. Gordon conferences are known for close-knit (~150 attendees), and high quality research meetings, designed to foster interaction and discussion between scientists. There are hundreds of… Read More Southampton represent at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC): Interior of the Earth 2015