Month: March 2015

Fieldwork mapping sea-grasses and sediment sampling for grain trend analysis at Ryde, IoW

Ryde, Isle of Wight boasts one of the largest seagrass meadows in the United Kingdom’s southern region. In order to understand the influence of the seagrass meadow on sediment transport and intertidal flats stability, a two-day fieldwork (18th – 19th March 2015) was conducted. The fieldwork is part of a G&G postgraduate student, Anas Annuar’s… Read More Fieldwork mapping sea-grasses and sediment sampling for grain trend analysis at Ryde, IoW

Hachem Kassem

Understanding the earthquake and tsunami hazards of the western Indian Ocean

Former Southampton PhD student Gemma Smith and Lisa McNeill, Tim Henstock and Jon Bull have been studying a poorly understood subduction zone in the western Indian Ocean – the Makran, offshore southern Iran and Pakistan. At a subduction zone, one plate slides beneath another creating compressional deformation. The resulting major fault zone generates the largest… Read More Understanding the earthquake and tsunami hazards of the western Indian Ocean

Leigh Marsh

Ocean Drilling Scheduled for the Sumatran Subduction Margin – Source of the 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami

An ocean drilling expedition has been scheduled for 2016 offshore Sumatra – this will be the first time this subduction zone margin has been drilled for scientific purposes. The expedition will take place more than 10 years after the 2004 Boxing Day Earthquake and tsunami that ruptured more than 1200 km of the Indonesian-Indian margin,… Read More Ocean Drilling Scheduled for the Sumatran Subduction Margin – Source of the 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami

Leigh Marsh

Fieldwork at the Steart managed realignment scheme, Somerset

Clementine Chirol, first year PhD student in Geology and Geophysics reports on her latest field campaign (19th and 23rd February, 2015): Managed Realignment (MR), the process of deliberately removing flood defences to restore intertidal habitats, is undertaken to compensate for coastal developments such as ports, but also as a mean of improving flood defences. Such… Read More Fieldwork at the Steart managed realignment scheme, Somerset

Hachem Kassem