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G&G Staff awarded Royal Astronomical Society Bullerwell Award for Second Year in a Row

The Royal Astronomical Society has recently announced that Dr. Kate Rychert will be the 2014 recipient of the Bullerwell award, which is given annually to “An outstanding young British Geophysicist”. As part of this award Kate will be giving an honorary lecture at EGU and the BGA research in progress meeting, both in 2014. This… Read More G&G Staff awarded Royal Astronomical Society Bullerwell Award for Second Year in a Row

Justin Dix

Understanding the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system

A workshop on the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system was organized at the College de France, Paris, from 19-20 November 2013. The primary focus of the workshop was to enhance understanding of the dynamics interaction between the colder, more brittle lithosphere and the warmer, more ductile asthenosphere by combining constraints from observations and… Read More Understanding the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system

Saikiran Tharimena

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

Fieldwork in Cabras Lagoon, Sardinia, Italy

  Prof Carl L. Amos and PhD student Hachem Kassem, from the coastal processes research theme within Geology and Geophysics at NOCS/University of Southampton, have recently participated in a scientific field campaign in the Cabras Lagoon, Sardinia, Italy. The work was undertaken within  RITMARE, the Italian National programme of scientific and technological marine research; through… Read More Fieldwork in Cabras Lagoon, Sardinia, Italy

Hachem Kassem

The influence of coastal reefs on spatial variability in seasonal sand fluxes

A new paper led by G&G Research Fellow, Shari Gallop, has just been published in Marine Geology. The focus of the paper was on how the topography of coastal reefs drives alongshore variation in the mode and magnitude of erosion and accretion on a sandy beach in southwestern Australia. To achieve this, sub aerial beach surveys were… Read More The influence of coastal reefs on spatial variability in seasonal sand fluxes

Shari Gallop