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
Researcher Steve Hicks felt an earthquake on last Saturday when in Swansea and describes here his experience: Visiting family in Bristol on Saturday, at around 2.30 pm, I started to notice the structure of my partnerâs parentsâ house move slightly backwards and forwards for a few seconds. I initially thought that it was the washing… Read More Swansea’s earthquake
By Dr Thomas Gernon – Associate Professor in Earth Science (Thomas.Gernon@noc.soton.ac.uk) Last month, Ocean and Earth Science welcomed Professor Paul Hoffman from Harvard University for a three-day visit. Paul is famous for developing the theory of âSnowball Earthâ, when in the late Proterozoic (~700 Ma) the oceans froze and our whole planet was covered… Read More A 3-day visit by Professor Paul Hoffman with a short-course on Snowball Earth
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 â Rift Initiation and Evolution (RIE) workshop and field trip â Albuquerque, New Mexico
A team of seismologists from the University of Southampton are currently on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery sailing across the Mid-Atlantic Ocean. They are out for the second phase of the PI-LAB (Passive Imaging of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary) project, this time recovering ocean bottom stations that were deployed last year. Their scientific mission is… Read More PI-LAB phase II: The recovery
As part of Southampton Science and Engineering Festival, a team from Geology&Geophysics research group put on a large, and largely popular display on Sediment Dynamics at the new Bolderwood Innovation Campus.  The University’s Science and Engineering Day 2016 took place on Saturday 12th March. This free event was part of British Science Week www.britishscienceweek.org and was previously awarded Best… Read More Sediment Dynamics from the beach to Mars – Science and Engineering Day 2016
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
We are delighted to announce that Dr Kieran Westley has joined Coastal and Offshore Archaeological Research Services (COARS). Kieran is a widely published specialist in maritime and coastal archaeology with over 10 years of experience as well as being an alumni of the University of Southampton. Kieran’s research experience is focused in two principal areas: The investigation… Read More Expansion at COARS
This article was published in The Conversation by Ivan Haigh (Physical Oceanography) and Shari Gallop (Geology and Geophysics) from Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton. Coastal floods are a major global hazard. In 2008, Cyclone Nargis generated a five-metre storm surge along the coast of southern Myanmar. This swept seawater 50km inland, killing a… Read More SurgeWatch: New database on coastal flooding in the UK