Month: November 2013

PhD position vacant: Morphological evolution of managed realignment schemes

Applications are currently being taken for a PhD in Morphological evolution of managed realignment schemes. This exciting project is multidisciplinary between coastal morphodynamics and engineering. Supervisors are Dr Shari Gallop (G&G), Dr Ivan Haigh (Physical Oceanography) and Dr Nigel Pontee from Halcrow – a CH2M Hill company. For more details on the project see: http://noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/project/morphological-evolution-managed-realignment-schemes… Read More PhD position vacant: Morphological evolution of managed realignment schemes

Shari Gallop

How to define extreme sea level scenarios in the Pacific Islands?

The second technical workshop on Best Practices for the Formulation of Localized Sea Level Rise/Coastal inundation ‘Extremes’ Scenarios in the Pacific Islands was held in November at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. The key aims were to outline: (1) best practices and methodologies for the formulation of probabilistic estimates of extreme water levels under a… Read More How to define extreme sea level scenarios in the Pacific Islands?

Shari Gallop

Seb Pitman awarded best first year PhD presentation

In November the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, hosted the annual Postgraduate Research in Marine and Earth Science Conference. This conference is primarily aimed at PhD and early-career researchers in a broad range of earth and marine disciplines, providing a platform to practice presentation skills and poster production. The event was a huge success… Read More Seb Pitman awarded best first year PhD presentation

Shari Gallop

First Applied Shallow Marine Geophysics Conference

Dr Mark E. Vardy, a Research Fellow in the Geology and Geophysics research group, is a member of the technical committee for the First Applied Shallow Marine Geophysics Conference, which will he held in Athens on 14-17 September 2014. Sponsored by EAGE, the conference aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from industry and academia… Read More First Applied Shallow Marine Geophysics Conference

Shari Gallop

British Geophysical Association Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting 2013

Five PhD students from the Geology and Geophysics research group presented their work at the annual British Geophysical Association Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting, hosted by the University of Cambridge. Seismologists, Ryan Gallacher, Thomas Hall and Saikiran Tharimena, and exploration geophysicists Kelvin Amalokwu and Melis Cevatoglu presented a broad range of work from imaging deep… Read More British Geophysical Association Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting 2013

Saikiran Tharimena

New PhD Cohort Geology and Geophysics Research Group

  Millie Watts My PhD studies “Submarine Mega-landslides and their relationship to climate change”. It will be looking into the palaeoclimate signals from an existing core from the Eirik drift to constrain the date of an anomalous turbidite-like layer from c. 8000 cal yr. BP and determine whether it is sourced from the Storegga Slide… Read More New PhD Cohort Geology and Geophysics Research Group

Hachem Kassem