Seminar: The environments of deposition of the Lambeth Group and their effects on engineering properties

On Wednesday 19th February The Solent Group of the Geological Society will be holding an evening lecture with Dr Jackie Skipper from the Geotechnical Consulting Group. This will be held at the NOC (Seminar Room), Southampton (6pm for refreshments with lecture from 6.30 – 7.30pm). This lecture is a brief ‘walk through’ the highly variable… Read More Seminar: The environments of deposition of the Lambeth Group and their effects on engineering properties

February 18, 2014 Shari Gallop

Are large submarine landslides temporally random or do uncertainties in available age constraints make it impossible to tell?

Are large submarine landslides temporally random or do uncertainties in available age constraints make it impossible to tell? by PhD student Ed Pope Large submarine landslides can potentially generate very destructive tsunamis and damage expensive seafloor infrastructure. Understanding their frequency and triggers is therefore important especially if it is likely to change significantly due to… Read More Are large submarine landslides temporally random or do uncertainties in available age constraints make it impossible to tell?

February 13, 2014February 14, 2014 Hachem Kassem

Upcoming G&G Seminars

For regular updates of upcoming G&G seminars, see the relevant pages here

February 10, 2014 Shari Gallop

Western Australian rip currents in the media

Rip currents cause 68% of surf-related incidents reported by the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) in the UK (Scott et al., 2008). Last summer, 70 people were rescued from rip currents in Cornwall in just one week in July (read more at the BBC). Recently, Dr Rob Brander (‘Dr Rip’) visited Western Australia, where he… Read More Western Australian rip currents in the media

February 4, 2014February 4, 2014 Shari Gallop

Do Large Submarine Landslides Occur Randomly?

The results of a recent study which analyses the timing of large submarine landslides have been published in the Journal of Geology. Submarine landslides can be far larger than those on land, and are one of the mostimportant processes for moving sediment across our planet. Landslides that are fast enough to disintegrate can generate potentially very… Read More Do Large Submarine Landslides Occur Randomly?

January 28, 2014 Michael Clare

Seismic imaging of lithospheric structure and the onset of melting beneath Galapagos

Kate Rychert and Nick Harmon have a new paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters about seismic imaging of crust and mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Galapagos Archipelago. They image a lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary that is too thick to be consistent with a thermally defined plate, indicating a compositional component. They also image discontinuities related… Read More Seismic imaging of lithospheric structure and the onset of melting beneath Galapagos

January 27, 2014January 30, 2014 Catherine Rychert

GSNOCS part of NERC funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Oil & Gas Research

Today we can announce the Graduate School of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton’s (GSNOCS) participation in a new, NERC co-funded £8 million Centre for Doctoral Training in geological and environmental research relevant to the oil and gas sector (see the full press announcement). As a consequence we have three funded PhD studentships on offer every… Read More GSNOCS part of NERC funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Oil & Gas Research

January 21, 2014January 22, 2014 Justin Dix

Cross-disciplinary Conferencing

Cross-disciplinary Conferencing 11/01/14 The Society of Historical Archaeology (SHA) holds an annual conference for the sharing of research spanning across both terrestrial and underwater archaeological themes. This year the conference was held in the city of Quebéc from the 8th – 12th January. The call for papers closed back in July 2013 and I was… Read More Cross-disciplinary Conferencing

January 20, 2014January 20, 2014 Amelia Astley

7th annual Universities High Voltage Network Colloquium UHVNet 2013

John Emeana and Tim Hughes are two second year PhD students in the Geology and Geophysics group here at the University of Southampton. Both John and Tim’s work is focused on investigating how thermal properties of marine sediments affects the performance of high voltage (HV) cables that are buried under the seafloor. Both work as… Read More 7th annual Universities High Voltage Network Colloquium UHVNet 2013

January 17, 2014February 26, 2014 Tim Hughes

G&G at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco: Climate Change and Cryospheric Systems

At the recent AGU Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco (9th to 13th December), Dr Mark E. Vardy, a Research Fellow in the Geology and Geophysics research group, was a co-convener of a session entitled ‘Climate Change and Cryospheric Systems’. Run in collaboration with Professor Neil Glasser (University of Aberystwyth) and Dr Carol Cotterill (British… Read More G&G at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco: Climate Change and Cryospheric Systems

December 22, 2013 Shari Gallop

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