February 2018 ESE Newsletter
Students and staff from ESE went to New Zealand to install seismometers
Contents
Publications
Conferences, Lectures and Seminars
Awards
Research Grants
Research Activity
Workshops and Courses
Impact and Media
Fieldwork
Publications
Derrick, J.G., LaJeunesse, J.W., Davison, T.M., Borg, J.P. and Collins, G.S. (2018). Mesoscale simulations of shock compaction of a granular ceramic: effects of mesostructure and mixed-cell strength treatment. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 26, Number 3. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-651X/aaab7e
Strullu-Derrien C., Spencer A.R.T., Goral T., Dee J., Honegger R., Kenrick P., Longcore J.E. and Berbee M.L. (2017). New insights into the evolutionary history of Fungi from a 407 million year old Blastocladiomycota-like fossil showing a complex hyphal thallus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Science 373 (1739) 20160502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0502
Smalley, P.C., Walker, C.D. and Belvedere, P.G. (2018). A practical approach for applying Bayesian logic to determine the probabilities of subsurface scenarios: Example from an offshore oil?eld. AAPG Bulletin 102, 429-445. DOI:10.1306/06051717018
Tennant J.P., Chiarenza A.A. and Baron M. (2018). How has our knowledge of dinosaur diversity through geologic time changed through research history? PeerJ 6:e4417. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4417
Neethling, S.J. and Brito-Parada, P.R. (2018). Predicting flotation behaviour – The interaction between froth stability and performance. Minerals Engineering, 120, 60–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2018.02.002
Conferences, Lectures and Seminars
Carl Jacquemyn gave an invited presentation ‘My geology is too complex for my grid: Grid-free geological modelling of the lower Arab-D’ at the research conference on ‘Recovery of Difficulty Hydrocarbons’. This cross-discipline conference was held at KAUST University (Saudi Arabia) and hosted a discussion with former OPEC president Ali Al-Naimi.
During the closing ceremony, Diego said: “As researchers, it is our collective efforts that might bring science closer to solve the real societal challenges in Latin America. This symposium was not meant to be a single event, but a starting point to unite researchers and spread their results in a vibrant and interdisciplinary way.”
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Awards
PhD student Mitch Liddell recently discovered he was a winner in the seismology section of the Outstanding Paper Awards (OSPA) competition for his poster at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Conference in New Orleans. Congratulations Mitch! https://seismology.agu.org/congratulations-2017-outstanding-student-paper-award-winners/
Recently completed PhD student, Tom Phillips, who undertook his project in the Basin Research Group (BRG) under the supervision of Rebecca Bell, Oliver Duffy (UT Austin), and Chris Jackson, won the ‘Carlos Walter M. Campos Memorial Award’ for Best International Student ‘Paper’ at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) International Convention and Exhibition, London (15th-18th October). His presentation, which was entitled, “3-D Seismic Geomorphological Mapping of Clastic and Carbonate Reservoirs – The Farsund Basin, Offshore Southern Norway”, arose as a ‘side-project’ from his main project (“The role of pre-existing structure in determining the geometry and evolution of rift systems”).
Research Grants
PhD student Jonathan Rio was awarded a grant of £1,500 from the Universities' China Committee London, to help fund conservation fieldwork on the Critically Endangered wild Chinese alligator in southern Anhui Province, China.
Research Activity
Workshops and Courses
Chris Jackson was an invited panelist for “The turning tide: A new culture of research metrics” workshop, convened by UK Universities ‘UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics’ and supported by HEFCE (8th February 2018). Over the last 5 years the use, and abuse, of metrics in research assessment has been in sharp focus, with three major contributions – the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) (which Imperial College signed in 2017, and the principals of which are currently being implemented across the full range of Imperial College’s hiring and promotion processes; see here and here), the Leiden Manifesto and the Metric Tide – all calling for a step change in the culture of metrics use. This workshop brought together stakeholders from across the Higher Education sector to explore the emerging culture of responsible metrics in research, and to identify and share good practice and practical advice for the sector. If you wish to discuss any issues arising from this workshop, particularly as pertains to REF2012, please do not hesitate to contact Chris.
Impact and Media
Media coverage on the research done by Jonathan Tennant, Alessandro Chiarenza and Matthew Baron in their paper: "How has our knowledge of dinosaur diversity through geologic time changed through research history?"
https://www.cnet.com/news/dinosaurs-fossils-science-decade/
Fieldwork
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