Neuquen river canyon, Argentina. Photograph: Andarin2.
This month, research activities take ESE scientists around the world!
Publications
Conference Talks and Lectures
Awards
Impact and Media
Outreach Activities
Fieldwork
PhD vivas
Other Announcements
Publications
Almeida, T.P., Muxworthy, A.R., Williams, W., Kasama, T. and Dunin-Borkowski, R. (2013). Magnetic characterization of synthetic titanomagnetites: quantifying the recording fidelity of ideal synthetic analogues. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. Doi: 10.1002/2013GC005047.
Almeida, T.P., Fay, M.W., Hansen, T.W., Zhu, Y. and Brown, P.D. (2014). Insights from in situ and environmental TEM on the oriented attachment of α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles during α-Fe2O3 nanorod formation. CrystEngComm. Doi: 10.1039/C3CE41866A.
Bastow, I.D., Eaton, D.W., Kendall, J-M., Helffrich, G., Snyder, D.B., Thompson, D.A., Wookey, J., Darbyshire, F.A. and Pawlak, A.E. (2014). The Hudson Bay Lithospheric Experiment (HuBLE): Insights into Pre-cambrian Plate Tectonics and the Development of Mantle Keels. Geological Society of London Special Publications. Doi:10.1144/SP389.7.
D’Arcy, M., Bullough, F., Moffatt, C., Borgomeo, E., Teh, M., Vilar, R. and Weiss, D. (2013). Adsorption of Oxy-Anions in the Teaching Laboratory: An Experiment To Study a Fundamental Environmental Engineering Problem. Chemical Education. Doi: 10.1021/ed300220d.
Daniels, K.A., Bastow, I.D., Keir, D., Sparks, R.S.J. and Menand T. (2014). Thermal models of dyke intrusion during development of Continent-Ocean Transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.018.
Howard, K., Bailey, M.J., Berhanu, D., Bland, P.A., Cressey, G., Howard, L.E., Jeynes, C., Matthewman, R., Martins, Z., Sephton, M.A., Stolojan, V. and Verchovsky, S. (2013). Biomass preservation in impact melt ejecta. Nature Geoscience. Doi:10.1038/ngeo1996.
Magee, C., Jackson, C.A-L. and Briggs, F. (2013). Lithological controls on igneous intrusion-induced ground deformation. Journal of the Geological Society of London. Doi: 10.1144/jgs2013-029. The paper emanated from the MSci project of Freddie Briggs.
Maidment, S.C.R., Bates, K.T., Falkingham, P.L., VanBuren, C., Arbour, V. and Barrett, P. M. (2013) Locomotion in ornithischian dinosaurs: an assessment using three-dimensional computational modelling. Biological Reviews. Doi: 10.1111/brv.12071.
Mannion, P.D., Upchurch, P., Benson, R.B.J. and Goswami, A. (2013). The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution. Doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.09.012.
Michael, N.A., Whittaker, A.C. and Allen, P.A. (2013). The Functioning of Sediment Routing Systems Using a Mass Balance Approach: Example from the Eocene of the Southern Pyrenees. Journal of Geology. Doi: 10.1086/673176.
Muxworthy, A.R., Williams, W., Roberts, A.P., Winklhofer, M., Chang, L. and Pósfai, M. (2013).â¨Critical single domain grain sizes in chains of interacting greigite particles: Implications for magnetosome crystals. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Doi:10.1002/2013GC004973.
Trigo-Rodriguez, J.M., Moyano-Cambero, C.E., Llorca, J., Fornasier, S., Barucci, M.A., Belskaya, I., Martins, Z., Rivkin, A.S., Dotto, E., Madiedo, J.M. and Alonso-Azcarate, J. (2013). UV to far-IR reflectance spectra of carbonaceous chondrites – I. Implications for remote characterization of dark primitive asteroids targeted by sample-return missions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Doi: 10.1093/mnras/stt1873.
Sutton, M.D., Rahman, I.R. and Garwood, R.J. (2013). Techniques for Virtual Palaeontology. Wiley, 208pp. ISBN: 978-1-118-59113-0.
Conference Talks and Lectures
Adam Booth served on the technical committee at the International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, in Al-Ain, UAE (24th-27th November). He also gave two presentations at this conference, entitled: ‘Ground Penetrating Radar surveys to detect ancient aflaj in the Hajar Region of Oman’ and ‘Simulation of time-lapse geophysical datasets, for application to cavity remediation’.
Adam Booth also gave the departmental seminar in University of Leeds’ School of Earth and Environment, on November 8th, presenting “Seismology in the Freezer: Quantitative Analysis of Glaciological Seismic Datasets”.
James Hammond gave an invited seminar at the University of Bristol titled ‘Seismically constraining melt storage and migration beneath the Afar Depression, Ethiopia’.
Chris Jackson presented the results of his one-year Research Fellowship at the 32nd annual Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL) Meeting at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), University of Texas at Austin. His talks were entitled: ‘Internal structure and kinematics of salt walls: enigmatic examples from the Santos Basin, Brazil" and "Understanding passive margins kinematics: a critical test of competing hypotheses for the origin of the Albian Gap, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil’.
Craig Magee presented an invited talk at the Geological Society of America Conference in Denver (Colorado, USA) entitled ‘Accommodating sill-complex emplacement’.
Julie Prytulak gave an invited Departmental seminar at ETH, Zurich (Switzerland) on ‘Natural and Experimental Stable Vanadium Isotope Variations at High Temperatures’.
Awards
Eduardo Aguirre won the 2nd prize (£1000) for the 2013 Neftex Earth Model Award. His thesis was entitled 'Stable Isotope Signature and Implication of Rhizocretions and Cemented Lags, Wessex Basin'.
In June 2013, Katie Cole was awarded the Arthur Holmes Centenary Research Grant of £975 to attend the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety, a widely recognised training course. This month, Katie passed the NEBOSH certificate with distinction. This involved sitting a series of examinations, as well as providing a throrough report about ESE lab LG08. The International Certificate is highly regarded and intended for anyone working in health and safety in an international environment.
Craig Magee has been awarded £1700 from the Arthur Holmes Centenary Research Grant to present two invited talks at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The talks will examine the ‘Lithological controls on shallow-level magma emplacement’ and ‘Magma rheology variation in sheet intrusions’.
Impact and Media
James Hammond has been invited to give an interview to Eddie Mair for the PM (Radio 4) end of year review. James will be talking about his work on understanding and monitoring Mt Paektu in North Korea. James led the deployment of 6 seismometers in North Korea to image the magma plumbing system beneath the volcano. His work has already appeared in a number of news outlets in September.
Zita Martins has appeared on the BBC documentary Horizon about comet ISON.
Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) seen from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter.
Dick Selley gave an interview at Denbies Vineyard on the impact of climate change on UK viticulture for the New York Times.
Dick Selley also gave an interview published in GeoExpro on the department's Oil Technology Centenary Celebrations.
Outreach Activities
Ian Bastow and Iain Stewart did a seismology presentation to 150 students at an A-level workshop in Plymouth University.
David Wilson gave a presentation at the Science Museum ‘Lates’ event at the Dana Centre on 20th November. The evening was centred around climate change and its impacts. David’s presentation was about the evidence for climate change recorded in ice cores and the perspective this provides for modern climate change.
Fieldwork
Chris Jackson undertook fieldwork in the Neuquen Basin, Argentina as part of Mariana Gomez O'Connell's PhD project, entitled ‘Early post-rift submarine lobes; the role of inherited syn-rift bathymetry and the stratigraphic occurrence of hydrid beds’. This project is based at the University of Leeds and is being co-supervised by Dave Hodgson.
PhD Vivas
Gaurav Singh passed his PhD viva on 6 November. His thesis was entitled ‘Discrete and continuum studies of some fundamental issues in brittle fracture mechanics’. He was examined by Ian Main (Edinburgh) and Lidia Lonergan. His PhD research was supervised by Robert Zimmerman and was sponsored by the Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Recovery.
Other Announcements
Neftex are now taking entries for the 2014 Neftex Earth Model Award. This is an individual award with a first prize of £2,000 and is open to all UK-based geoscience students currently working towards a Master’s degree in Earth Sciences. Interested students should simply register their interest at www.neftex.com/earthmodelaward. The next stage will be for them to send a copy of their Masters theses to Neftex in September 2014.</
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