Category: Research Projects

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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

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

Justin Dix

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

Tim Hughes

Magma fluxes at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat

Catherine Annen from Bristol University,  with Tim Minshull and former PhD student Michele Paulatto from G&G, have published a paper in the Journal of Petrology in which they estimate on different timescales the rate that magma flows into the magma storage region beneath the active Soufriere Hills Volcano.  They use computer models of magma chamber… Read More Magma fluxes at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat

Timothy Minshull

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

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