By Nick Harmon and Saikiran Tharimena: This is the final part of our blog chronicling our seismic deployment in Papua New Guinea which is part of a collaborative project with colleagues at JAMSTEC, University of Tokyo, University of Southampton, University of Rhode Island and Stanford University. Click here to read the first part of our… Read More Papua New Guinea Seismic Deployment – 2014 (Part 3)
Last week, Kate Rychert had a news and views piece published in the journal Nature discussing the recent discovery of a sharp base to the lithosphere (<1km) beneath New Zealand (Nature Letter: A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate). Surprisingly, a 10 km thick low-seismic-velocity channel was also found at the base of… Read More Kate Rychert features in Nature on “The slippery base of a tectonic plate”
By Nick Harmon and Saikiran Tharimena: This is the second part of the blog chronicling our seismic deployment in Papua New Guinea which is part of a collaborative project with colleagues at JAMSTEC, University of Tokyo, University of Southampton, University of Rhode Island and Stanford University. Click here to read the first part of our… Read More Papua New Guinea Seismic Deployment â 2014 (Part 2)
Starting September 2014, PhD student Chen Chen and post-docs Louise Watremez and Manel Prada (DIAS, Dublin) are working together to define the crustal structure across Porcupine Basin, which is located offshore SW Ireland. The degree of crustal thinning increases from North to South, allowing us to observe the structures of the crustal thinning at different… Read More The Porcupine Basin project
Gas hydrates are currently positioned in the centre of a âtriple-junction interestâ from both the industry and academic point of view, due to their potential as an unconventional energy resource, geohazard to marine infrastructures and possible role in climate change. The aim of this study is to detect, quantify and characterize the distribution of methane… Read More Marine CSEM and seismic joint-interpretation for the characterization of methane hydrates and free gas deposits at deep-sea pockmarks
Kate Rychert has just been announced as the 2015 winner of the Fowler Award of the Royal Astronomical Society. This award is given to an individual who has made a particularly noteworthy contribution to Astronomy or Geophysics at an early stage of their research career. Kate has been recognised for her work on developing a… Read More Kate Rychert Awarded the 2015 Fowler Award by the Royal Astronomical Society
The results of the REF2014 exercise (Research Excellence Framework – the periodic national assessment of the quality of research being produced in Universities) were released today and Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton have been ranked 4th overall in the country in our Unit of Assessment: “Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences” and… Read More REF2014 – A success for Ocean and Earth Science
At the end of 2014, a number of the Geology and Geophysics Research Group made the annual migration to San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union fall meeting. With nearly 24,000 attendees, and 23,000 poster and oral presentations, AGU is the worldâs largest Earth and Space science meeting, providing an excellent stage to communicate and… Read More Strong presence by G&G Group at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting
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, âActive fault kinematics during non-volcanic rifting in East Africaâ, is in collaboration with Beach Petroleum (Tanzania) Ltd., the… Read More G&G pgr students complete seismic service run at Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania
G&G postgraduate research student Amelia Astley reports on her recent trip to Perth, to present at the ICSE2014 conference: Held every two years the International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE) is the mecca for all soil and sediment engineers worldwide. This year the conference was held from the 2nd to the 4th December, at… Read More Sun, sea and scour: The International Conference on Scour and Erosion â 7, Perth â by Amelia Astley