This month, ESE researchers take the centre stage at the Imperial Festival!
Publications
Conference Talks and Lectures
Awards
Research Activity
Impact and Media
Outreach Activities
Fieldwork
PhD Vivas
Other Announcements
Publications
Benson, R.B.J., Campione, N.E., Carrano, M.T., Mannion, P.D., Sullivan, C., Upchurch, P. and Evans, D.C. (2014) Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage. PLOS Biology. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001853.
Crocket, K., Lambelet, M., van de Flierdt, T., Rehkämper, M. and Robinson, L. (2014). Measurement of fossil deep-sea coral Nd isotopic compositions and concentrations by TIMS as NdO+, with evaluation of cleaning protocols. Chemical Geology. Doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.03.011.
Henry, L.-A., Frank, N., Hebbeln, D., Wienberg, C., Robinson, L., van de Flierdt, T., Dahl, M., Douarin, M., Morrison, C.L., Lopez-Correa, M., Rogers, A.D., Ruckelshausen, J. and Roberts, J.M. (2014). Global ocean conveyor lowers extinction risk in the deep sea. Deep-Sea Research I. Doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2014.03.004.
Ilankoon, I.M.S.K. and Neethling, S.J. (2014). Transient liquid holdup and drainage variations in gravity dominated non-porous and porous packed Beds. Chemical Engineering Science. Doi: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.05.017.
Jones, G.A., Kendall, J-M., Bastow, I.D., Raymer, D. and Wuestefeld, A. (in press). Imaging of fractures and faults: A microseismic study from the Ekofisk reservoir. Geophysical Prospecting. Doi: 10.1111/1365-2478.12139.
Margolin, A.R., Robinson, L.F., Burke, A., Waller, R.G., Scanlon, K.M., Roberts, M.L., Auro, M.E. and van de Flierdt, T. (2014). Temporal and spatial distributions of cold-water corals in the Drake Passage: Insights from the last 35,000 years. Deep Sea Research II. Doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.06.008.
Mateus, O., Mannion, P.D. and Upchurch, P. (2014) Zby atlanticus, a new turiasaurian sauropod (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Doi: 10.1080/02724634.2013.822875.
Mijic, A., LaForce, T.C. and Muggeridge A.H. (2014). CO2 injectivity in saline aquifers: The impact of non-Darcy flow, phase miscibility and gas compressibility. Water Resources Research. Doi:10.1002/2013WR014893. An all female cast!
Mostaghimi, P., Ilankoon, I.M.S.K. and Neethling, S.J. (2014). Use of mesh adaptivity in simulation of flow in packed beds – A case study. Minerals Engineering. Doi: 10.1016/j.mineng.2014.04.019.
Murphy, K., Rehkämper, M. and van de Flierdt, T. (2014). Comment on ‘The isotopic composition of cadmium in the water column of the South China Sea’. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.11.027.
Palucis, M. C., Dietrich, W. E., Hayes, A. G., Williams, R. M. E., Gupta, S., Mangold, N., Newsom, H., Hardgrove, C., Calef III, F. and Sumner, D. Y. (2014). The origin and evolution of the Peace Vallis fan system that drains to the Curiosity landing area, Gale Crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. Doi:10.1002/2013JE004583.
Poropat, S.F., Upchurch, P., Mannion, P.D., Hocknull, S.A., Kear, B.P., Sloan, T., Sinapius, G.H.K. and Elliott, D.A. (2014) Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the middle Cretaceous of Australia: implications for Gondwanan titanosauriform dispersal. Gondwana Research. Doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.03.014.
Prytulak, J., Avanzinelli, R., Koetsier, G., Kreissig, K., Beier, C. and Elliott, T. (2014). Melting versus contamination control on238U-230Th-226Ra and 235U-231Pa disequilibria in lavas from São Miguel, Azores. Chemical Geology. Doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.04.0.
Robinson, L.F., Adkins, J.F., Frank, N., Gagnon, A.C., Prouty, N., Roark, B. and van de Flierdt, T. (2014). The geochemistry of deep-sea coral skeletons: A review of vital effects and applications for palaeoceanography. Special issue, Deep Sea Research II. Doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.06.005.
Tariq, F., Yufit, V., Kishimoto, M., Shearing, P.R., Menkin, S., Golodnitsky, D., Gelb, J., Peled, E. and Brandon, N.P. (2014). Three-dimensional high resolution X-ray imaging and quantification of lithium ion battery mesocarbon microbead anodes. Journal of Power Sources. Doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.08.147.
Tariq, F., Kishimoto, M., Yufit, V., Cui, G., Somalu, M. and Brandon, N.P. (2014). 3D imaging and quantification of interfaces in SOFC anodes. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. Doi: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2014.05.003.
Tariq, F., Yuï¬t, V., Eastwood, D.S., Merla, Y., Biton, M., Wu, B., Chen, Z., Freedman, K., Offer, G., Peled, E., Lee, P.D., Golodnitsky, D. and Brandon, N. (2014). In-Operando X-ray Tomography Study of Lithiation Induced Delamination of Si Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries. ECS Electrochemistry Letters. Doi: 10.1149/2.0081407eel.
Vasavada, A. R., Grotzinger, J. P., Arvidson, R. E., Calef, F. J., Crisp, J. A., Gupta, S., Hurowitz, J., Mangold, N., Maurice, S., Schmidt, M. E., Wiens, R. C., Williams, R. M. E. and Yingst, R. A. (2014). Overview of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission: Bradbury Landing to Yellowknife Bay and Beyond. Journal Geophysical Research Planets. Doi: 10.1002/2014JE004622.
Voight, B., Sparks, R.S.J., Shalev, E., Minshull, T.A., Paulatto, M., Annen, C., Kenedi, C., Hammond, J.O.S.,Henstock, T., Brown, L., Kiddle, E., Malin, P., Mattioli, G., Carothers, C., Belousov, A., Clarke, A., Ellet, L., Elsworth, D., Hidayat, D., Herd, R., Johnson, M., Lee, A., Miller, V., Murphy, B., Pierce, C., Ryan, G., Saldana, S., Snelson, C., Stewart, R., Syers, R., Widiwijayanti, C., Young, S.R., Zamora, W. (2014). The SEA-CALIPSO volcano imaging experiment at Montserrat: plans, campaigns at sea and on land, scientific results and lessons learned, in The Eruption of Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat from 2000 to 2010, edited by G. Wadge, R. E. A. Robertson and B. Voight, Geological Society of London Memoirs, No 39, 253-289.
Conference Talks and Lectures
Adam Booth gave an invited lecture at a Geological Society student symposium, organised by its Near Surface Geophysics Group. The symposium was held on 13th May at the British Geological Survey’s Keyworth centre. Adam’s lecture was entitled “Geophysics in the Freezer” and discussed the role of seismology in glaciological research.
Christian Jacobs presented a poster entitled "Multiphase flow modelling of explosive volcanic eruptions using adaptive unstructured meshes" at the EGU 2014 General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.
Zita Martins was an invited speaker at the Fermor Meeting 2014: Comparative Planetology.
Awards
Undergraduate students Harry Fisher and Luke James collected a £100 prize for their report based on the resource estimation exercise using Micromine software, which was part of the Earth Resources module. The prize money was donated by Micromine, who also selected the winning report. (Stuart MacGowan was unable to attend). (photo 1)
PhD student Tarik Saif won the 2014 Royal School of Mines Essay Competition, with an essay entitled "Bleeding Oil: Nigeria's Curse in Disguise". He will receive an engraved medal and cheque for the prize money at the RSMA Annual dinner on 28 November.
Mark Sephton was awarded the Best Supervision Award at the Student Academic Choice Awards.
Three of ESE’s PhD/EngD students were awarded 2014 Janet Watson Centenary Memorial Prizes this year. Myriam Lambelet, who recently completed her PhD in geochemistry under the supervision of Tina van de Flierdt and Mark Rehkamper, received the 2014 Janet Watson Centenary Memorial Prize for research excellence. Mark Goffin and Chris Moffat were each awarded Janet Watson Centenary Memorial Prizes for good citizenship. Mark is currently finishing his EngD in nuclear engineering under the supervision of Chris Pain and Matthew Eaton (Mech Eng), and Chris is finishing his PhD in environmental chemistry under the supervision of Dominik Weiss and Ramon Vilar (Chemistry). The awards were given out during the reception following the Postgraduate Awards Ceremony on 7th May. Congratulations to Myriam, Mark and Chris!
Research Activity
As part of his Visiting Scientist position, Chris Jackson spent two weeks at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), University of Texas at Austin, working with members of the Applied Geodynamic Laboratory (AGL). Together they focused on the use of 3D seismic reflection data to image complex internal structures within salt diapirs. Ongoing work will use scaled physical models to investigate the controls on salt diapir growth and internal deformation.
Christian Jacobs, Alexandros Avdis, Gerard Gorman and Matthew Piggott released version 0.1 of their software library, PyRDM (Research Data Management with Python) on 27 May 2014. The library facilitates the automated publication of scientific software and data on citable online repository services such as Figshare. A paper describing the software and its application to AMCG's computational fluid dynamics code, Fluidity, has been submitted to the Journal of Open Research Software. A preprint is available on arXiv.
Philip Mannion was awarded a three year Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to study “The impact of climate on macroevolutionary patterns in Paleogene tetrapods”. This will be held in the department and will commence on the 1st December 2014.
Ann Muggeridge and Chris Jackson, along with colleagues in Civil (Chris Swan) and Chemical (Martin Trusler) Engineering, hosted visitors from Statoil to discuss further ways of increasing collaboration within and between the departments, and to investigate ways of further strengthening the relationship between Statoil and Imperial College. Statoil currently fund a number of MSc and PhD scholarships in the three departments, in addition to Chris Jackson's position, and are keen to develop research links with Imperial College via provision of further research funding. In the first instance there is likely to be 1-3 PhD studentships across the three departments but are we are hopeful this will develop into a fully funded 'Grand Challenge' project in due course. The meeting was ably organised and chaired by Victoria Harding (Corporate Relations).
Julie Prytulak gave an invited departmental seminar at the National Oceanography Center (NOCS), University of Southampton titled "Veritas in vanadium: do stable vanadium isotopes reflect oxygen fugacity?"
Impact and Media
Dennis Buchanan led 23 students from ESE on an underground mine visit at Thorncliff in South Africa, which was reported in Mining Weekly and Engineering News.
Gareth Morris featured on the Imperial Festival podcast, talking about froth flotation.
Outreach Activities
Rebecca Bell gave a talk entitled “Did the Earth move for you?” as part of the “Pint of Science” event in the Hoop and Toy. The talk introduced members of the public to the recent discovery of slow slip seismic events at subduction zones.
Zita Martins gave a talk at the Imperial Festival about Meteorites.
Foamtastic Froths at the Imperial Festival! Kathryn Hadler, Stephen Neethling, Pablo Brito Parada, Gareth Morris, Gaurav Bhutani, Angus Morrison, Dan Barker, Lewis Lin, William Hu, Saman Ilankoon and Gopal Parameswaran, from the Flotation and Leaching groups, were on hand for the Imperial festival on 9 and 10 May. The exhibit included their Guinness foam wall, flotation in a test tube, soap films and 3D-printed foam “jigsaw”. These allowed them to tell the public how their metals are extracted and display the beauty of foams. It really was ‘foam’ for all the family!
Fieldwork
Ian Bastow and Laura Petrescu spent two weeks in the field in SE Canada servicing seismograph stations that form part of the QM-III (Quebec-to-Maine crossing three sutures) experiment, a major international collaboration between the Universities of Quebec at Montreal, Rutgers, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, and Imperial College, London. The QM-III stations are recording data that will enable the imaging of the deep seismic structure of the crust and mantle beneath eastern North America.
Susie Maidment and Christopher Dean are currently doing fieldwork in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. They are attempting to correlate the formation across its outcrop using magnetostratigraphy and terrestrial sequence stratigraphy.
ESE first years spent two weeks on the Urra field trip in Spain.
ESE second years have returned from their fieldtrip in Scotland.
PhD Vivas
Jasmin Ambrose passed his PhD viva on 19 May. His thesis, entitled "Failure of Anisotropic Shales under Triaxial Stress Conditions", was supervised by Robert Zimmerman. His examiners were Phil Meredith (UCL) and John-Paul Latham. Jasmin will now be returning to work at Schlumberger TerraTek in Salt Lake City.
Myriam Lambelet successfully completed her PhD on ‘Cadmium and Neodymium Geochemical Cycles in the Marine Environment’ following viva examination on 4 April by Professors Mark Sephton and Catherine Jeandel (Toulouse). Myriam has since been awarded the Janet Watson Centenary Memorial Prize for excellence in research achievement by a PhD student. Congratulations!
Other Anouncements
The class of 2014 MSci geoscience have just taken their final exams and following ESE tradition, students have sat this exam in fancy dress!
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