Dr. Derek Keir and PhD student Ryan Gallacher have recently completed a two and a half week seismic deployment around the South of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. This work was completed in collaboration with Beach Petroleum (Tanzania) Ltd. and the University of Rochester (USA) with the approval of the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation. The project… Read More Lake Tanganyika Seismic Deployment
Derek Keir has recently been awarded a little over half a million pounds through a NERC large grant. Project Rift Volcanism: Past, Present and Future aims to use various geophysical techniques, petrology and geology to understand volcano behavior and hazards in the Ethiopian rift. Derek will be leading the seismology component in collaboration with the… Read More NERC grant awarded to Dr Derek Keir for project: Rift Volcanism: Past, Present and Future
Volcanoes commonly form on the flanks of young continental rifts, whereas in more evolved rifts the volcanism is more commonly in the rift centre. Derek Keir, Lecturer in Earth Science from the Geology and Geophysics research Group, contributed to a team that modelled the stress field below rift grabens of varying width and depth caused… Read More Off-rift volcanism in rift zones determined by crustal unloading, new paper in nature Geoscience
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
The highlight of this year’s British Geophysical Association (BGA) Postgraduate Research in Progress meeting, hosted by the University of Cambridge, was undoubtedly the annual Bullerwell Lecture. The 2013 Bullerwell Lectureship (presented each year by the Royal Astronomical Society to ‘an outstanding, young British Geophysicist’) was awarded to Dr. Derek Keir, lecturer in Earth Science at the… Read More Bullerwell Lecture 2013 – Magmatism and deformation during continental breakup