By PhD students Aude Lavayssiere and Finn Illsley-Kemp. As part of the RiftVolc project aiming to understand magmatism and rifting in the East African Rift System, Dr Derek Keir and two PhD students, Finn Illsley-Kemp and Aude Lavayssiere, went to Ethiopia last month to deploy seismic stations. RiftVolc is a project that started in September… Read More Seismic deployment in the Main Ethiopian Rift
The G&G research group was recently (March 2015) joined by new PhD student Melanie Siegburg who will study the Boset-Bericha volcano complex in Ethiopia. Together with PhD supervisors Jon Bull, Tom Gernon and Derek Keir, and fellow PhD student Finn Illsley-Kemp, Melanie completed reconnaissance fieldwork, including some field sampling, in April-May 2015. “Boset” is the… Read More Southampton Geologists/Geophysicists study Boset-Bericha Volcano Complex, East African Rift
PhD students Ryan Gallacher and Finn Illsley-Kemp have recently completed a two week trip to Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. They were performing a service run on the seismic network that was deployed earlier in the year. The project, “Active fault kinematics during non-volcanic rifting in East Africa”, is in collaboration with Beach Petroleum (Tanzania) Ltd., the… Read More G&G pgr students complete seismic service run at Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania