Alex Whittaker was awarded the President and Rector's Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence at the 2013 Commemoration day ceremony

Publications
Conference talks and lectures
Awards
Impact and media
Outreach activities
Rio Tinto Scholarships
Fieldwork

Publications

Benson, S., Pini, R., Reynolds, C.  and Krevor, S. (2013). Relative permeability analyses to describe multi-phase flow in CO2 storage reservoirs  Global CCS Institute The report is available here. 

David, E.C., Fortin, J., Schubnel, A., GuÈguen, Y., Zimmerman, R.W. (2013) New laboratory measurements of low and high-frequency elastic moduli in Fontainebleau sandstone. Geophysics. Doi: 10.1002/nme.4537.

Jones, G.A., Kendall, J-M., Bastow, I.D. and Raymer, D. (2013). On locating microseismic events using borehole data. Geophysical Prospecting. Doi: 10.1111/1365-2478.12076.

Keir, D., Bastow, I.D., Pagli, C. and Chambers, E.L. (2013). The development of extension and magmatism in the Red Sea rift of Afar. Tectonophysics. Doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.10.015.

Morgan, J., Warner, M., Bell, R., Ashley, J., Barnes, D., Little, R., Roele, K. and Jones, C. (2013). Next-Generation Seismic Experiments: Wide-Angle, Multi-Azimuth, Three-Dimensional, Full-Waveform Inversion. Geophysical Journal International. Doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt345.

Reeve, M.T., Bell, R.E. and Jackson, C.A.-L. (2013). Origin and Significance of Intra-Basement Seismic Reflections Offshore Western Norway. Journal of the Geological Society. Doi: 10.1144/jgs2013-020.

Tang, X.H., Paluszny, A., Zimmerman, R.W. (2013)        Energy conservative property of impulse-based methods for collision resolution. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Doi: 10.1002/nme.4537.

Conference talks and lectures

David Cronan gave a paper on developmental aspects of South Pacific manganese nodule resources at a meeting of the South Pacific Commission in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on October 8th.

Lidia Lonergan was invited to give a talk by the Italian Government Ministry for Foreign Affairs on "The Geology and Scenery of Italy: the Role of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonic Plates" at the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin on 17 October 2013,  as part of the 13th week of the Italian Language in the World: Research, Discovery, Innovation: Italian Expertise.

Adriana Paluszny was a guest speaker at the Annual Petrophysics Community of Practice (Cop) Forum, organised by Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd. She was also an invited speaker at the Applied Mathematics and Analysis Seminar of the Mathematics Department at Brunel University, London. On both occasions she presented advances in the numerical simulation of fracture propagation and fragmentation using energy-based methods.

Awards

Dawn Brooks won the poster prize at the Geology for Global Development National Conference, Burlington House, for her poster "Bangladesh - sustainability of the Flood Action Plan (FAP)?".

Chandra Taposeea was awarded the John Archer scholarship.

Alex Whittaker was awarded the President and Rector's Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence at the 2013 Commemoration day ceremony.

Matt Reeve was a finalist in the SET Student of the Year awards for Earth Sciences. 

Thilo Wrona has been awarded a $2000 grant by the AAPG Grants-in-Aid Committee for his research. The  committee received 494 applications and grants were awarded to the 90 highest qualified candidates.

Robert Zimmerman has been appointed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to be a member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the study of the long-term subsidence of the Wadden Sea region.

Impact and media

The website for Sam Krevor's research group has gone live at www.krevorlab.co.uk. 

Outreach activities

Ian Bastow spent a day at Thomas Hardye School on Monday 21st October. The school is the biggest A-level college in the country. Ian gave an A-level seismology outreach class to around 40 students there. He then gave a community lecture in the evening as part of their series at the school.

Rio Tinto Scholarships

Twelve new Rio Tinto scholars were appointed in October as part of ESE's ongoing Educational Partnership with Rio Tinto. Six of these twelve undergraduates are from ESE: Reece Broome, Sarah Howarth, James Jeary, Nina Jones, Kimberley Mason and Christopher Ogden. The scholars have already had an introduction to the RTCAMR with Kathryn Hadler, and will attend a scholarship award ceremony in November. Congratulations to the new scholars!

Fieldwork

ESE first year undergraduate students on the Charnwood fieldtrip.

On Friday 4th October, the entire first year attended the Charnwood fieldtrip, which was for many their first experience of fieldwork. The trip was led by Mark Sutton and assisted by staff and PhD demonstrators. Despite a damp (and early) start, the students still managed to smile and strike a pose with their RSM notebooks!