February ESE Newsletter

Chris Jackson won the Bigsby Medal from The Geological Society and RSM won this year's bottle match!

Publications

Goes, S., Armitage, J., Harmon, N., Smith, H.E., Huismans, R. (2012). Low seismic velocities below mid-ocean ridges: Attenuation vs. melt retention. Journal of Geophysical Research. doi: 10.1029/2012JB009637. Article available online.

Magee, C., Jackson, C. A-L., Schofield, N. (2013). The influence of normal fault geometry on igneous sill emplacement and morphology. Geology. doi: 10.1130/G33824.1. Article available online.

Iglauer, S., Muggeridge A. H. (2013) .The impact of tides on the capillary transition zone. Transport in Porous Media. doi: 10.1007/s11242-012-0111-0. Article available online.

Almeida, T. P. (2012) .Hydrothermal Synthesis and Characterisation of Hematite Nanorods: A Closer Look at the One-dimensional Growth of Hematite Nanostructures. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. Online bookstore.

Ilankoon, I.M.S.K., Neethling, S.J. (2013). The effect of particle porosity on liquid holdup in heap leaching. Minerals Engineering. doi: 10.1016/j.mineng.2013.01.016. Article available online.

Research Awards

Chris Jackson was awarded the 2013 Bigsby Medal by the Geological Society of London as “an acknowledgement of eminent services in any area of Geology”.

Olly Duffy was recently awarded 1st place in the Midland Valley Postgraduate Student Structure Prize for a paper entitled 'Mobile Evaporite Controls on the Structural Style and Evolution of Rift Basins: Danish Central Graben, North Sea' which formed part of his PhD research at the University of Manchester. The Midland Valley Student Structural Prize is an annual international competition which seeks to reward excellence in structural geology by students. 

Research Activity

Craig Magee gave an invited lecture at University College Cork (Ireland) on the 7th February entitled, “Lateral magma flow in the upper crust: towards a paradigm shift in  understanding volcano evolution (?)”.

New Staff

Matthias van Ginneken joined the department as an STFC-funding PDRA to work with Matt Genge and Adrian Muxworthy.

PhD Vivas

Christopher Mark passed his viva, supervised by Sanjeev Gupta and examined by Alex Densmore (Durham) and Philip Allen. The thesis title was "Landscape evolution at a young rifted margin: The Loreto region of Baja California Sur, Mexico".

Claire Nunes Harrington Sena passed her viva, supervised by Cedric John and John Cosgrove, and examined by Al Fraser (internal) and Kathy Hollis (University of Manchester). The thesis title was "Facies control on diagenesis and fracturing. An outcrop based study of Lower Cretaceous carbonates from central east Oman." Claire will join Shell UK as an Exploration Geologist in the Russia (and ex-URSS) new ventures team starting in December. Until December she will wander around geological beauties such as the Himalayas, Krakatau, Uluru and the Andes.

Impact, Outreach, Media

Chris Jackson is currently serving as the Benninson Endowed Lecturer and is travelling the northern US as part of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Distinguished Lecturer tour. Read about it and follow him on his blog: http://cjackson2013.wordpress.com/.

RSM won this year's Bottle Match 24-8 against the Cambourne School of Mines, which was hosted in London. They also won the varsity football, squash, golf and netball.