May ESE Newsletter

David Legg's research received a lot of press coverage as he named a fossil anthopod with scissor hands after Johnny Depp!

Publications

Magee, C., Hunt-Stewart, E., Jackson, C. A-L. (2013) Volcano growth mechanism and the role of sub-volcanic intrusions: Insights from 2D seismic reflection data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:  10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.041. Article available online.

Paluszny, A., Tang, X.H., Zimmerman, R.W. (2013) Fracture and impulse based finite-discrete element modeling of fragmentation. Computational Mechanics. doi: 10.1007/s00466-013-0864-5. Article available online.

Paluszny, A., Zimmerman, R.W. (2013) Numerical fracture growth modeling using smooth surface geometric deformation. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. doi: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2013.04.012. Article available online.

Holgate, N.E., Jackson, C.A-L., Hampson, G.J., Dreyer, T. (2013) Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Middle-to-Upper Jurassic Krossfjord and Fensfjord formations, Troll Field, northern North Sea. Petroleum Geoscience. doi: 10.1144/petgeo2012-039. Article available online.

Legg, D.A. (2013) Multi-segmented arthropods from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia. Journal of Paleontology. doi: 10.1666/12-112.1. Article available online.

Ma, X., Edgecombe, G.D., Legg, D.A., Hou, X.-G. (2013) The morphology and phylogenetic position of the Cambrian lobopodian Diania cactiformis. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2013.770418. Article available online.

Legg, D.A. (2013) Fossil arthropod with scissor hands. Nature. doi: 10.1038/497539b. Article available online.

Zakaria, A.A.*, Johnson, H.D., Jackson, C.A-L., Tongkul, F. (2013) Sedimentary facies analysis and depositional model for the Palaeogene West Crocker submarine fan system, NW Borneo. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.05.002. Article available online. *Adli Zakaria completed a PhD in the Basins Research Group in 2011. He was co-supervised by Howard Johnson and Chris Jackson.

Pacey, A., Macpherson, C.G., McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2013) Linear volcanic segments identified in the central Sunda Arc, Indonesia, identified using Hough Transform analysis: Implications for arc lithosphere control upon volcano distribution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.040. Article available online.

Warner, N.H., Sowe, M., Gupta, S., Dumke, A., Goddard, K. (2013) Fill and spill of giant lakes in the eastern Valles Marineris region of Mars. Geology. doi:10.1130/G34172.1. Article available online.

Williams, R.M.E., Grotzinger, J.P., Dietrich, W.E., Gupta, S., Sumner, D.Y., et al. (2013) Martian fluvial conglomerates at Gale crater. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.1237317. Article available online.

Research Grants

Adriana Paluszny and Robert Zimmerman were awarded an EPSRC Project grant, EP/K036025/1 “The impaCt of hydrOcarbon depletioN on the Treatment of cAprocks within performance (CONTAIN)”.

Adriana Paluszny was awarded a Mobility Grant for an academic visit to the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, “Convocatoria Programa de Apoyo a la Movilidad de Doble Via para docentes e investigadores (British Council)”

Richard Court has been awarded a three-year UK Space Agency Aurora Science Research Fellowship, to begin on 1st October 2013. The project title is “Preservation and detection of organic matter in the martian subsurface”.

Teaching Awards

Rebecca Bell has been awarded the first ever Imperial College Student Choice award for ‘Best Feedback’. This award was nominated by students though the Student Union.

Impact, Outreach, Media

Richard Selley gave an interview on UK shale gas for BBC Radio 4's News at One on 12th May. His research on the impact of geology & climate change on English wine was cited in the Guardian on 7th May. He also gave an interview on the impact of geology & climate change on English wine for BBC Radio Cambridge on 26th May, following a lecture & practical workshop on this topic at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.

David Legg's article naming a new species after Johnny Depp received a lot of press including: the Imperial website, The Sun, msn news,
the front page of The Irish Times, OK! Magazine, The Wiltshire Times (David's local paper, with his picture), The Daily Express, and The Mail online.

Research Activity

Mark Sutton has an academic visitor, Catalina Perales Raya, who will be here for six months studying Cephalopod evolution.

Julie Prytulak will be a visiting researcher at Australia National University (Canberra) from June 1st to August 21st as part of an Australian Research Council grant she Co-I’s with Professor Hugh O’Neill. The grant (Experimental investigation of the fractionation of non-traditional stable isotopes by planetary process) merges the fields of isotope geochemistry and experimental petrology. As part of her Australian tour, she will also give a keynote talk (Non-traditional stable isotope investigation of subduction zones) in July at the biannual meeting of the Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology section of the Geological Society of Australia.

James Hammond was invited to speak at the Royal Society on Science Diplomacy in North Korea.

Adrian Muxworthy led a 3rd year undergraduate field trip to Morocco. See below for some photos of the trip: