ESE April Newsletter

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An overview of the recent publications, events and exciting work that's been happening in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering.

Contents

Publications
Conferences, Talks, Lectures, Seminars
Awards
Grants

Publications

Angus, L., Hampson, G.J., Palci, F., & Fraser, A.J. (2020). Characteristics and context of high-energy, tidally modulated, barred shoreface deposits: Kimmeridgian–Tithonian sandstones, Weald Basin, southern UK and northern France. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 90, 313-335. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2020.19.

Genge, M.J., van Ginneken, M., and Suttle, M.D, 2020. Micrometeorites: Insights into the Flux, Sources and Atmospheric Entry of Extraterrestrial Dust at Earth. Planetary and Space Sciences, DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.104900.

Lacassin, R., Devès, M., Hicks, S. P., Ampuero, J.-P., Bossu, R., Bruhat, L., Daryono, Wibisono, D. F., Fallou, L., Fielding, E. J., Gabriel, A.-A., Gurney, J., Krippner, J., Lomax, A., Sudibyo, Muh. M., Pamumpuni, A., Patton, J. R., Robinson, H., Tingay, M., and Valkaniotis, S. (2020). Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events, Geoscience Communication. DOI: 10.5194/gc-2019-23.

Lluis Guasch, Oscar Calderon Agudo, Meng-Xing Tang, Parashkev Nachev & Michael Warner (2020). Full-waveform inversion imaging of the human brain: npj Digital Medicine, 3, 28, DOI: 10.1038/s41746-020-0240-8.

Thomas, R. N., Paluszny, A., & Zimmerman, R. W. ( 2020). Permeability of three-dimensional numerically grown geomechanical discrete fracture networks with evolving geometry and mechanical apertures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018899 DOI: 10.1029/2019JB018899

Conferences, Talks, Lectures, Seminars

The PGE group has organised two successful stay-at-home seminars in April. The first online PGE seminar was given on 7^th April by PhD student Mutlaq Alarouj, who presented his research on Waterfront Imaging using Self-Potential: Feasibility Assessment for a Kuwaiti Oil Reservoir. The second remote seminar took place on 28^th April, when Professor Ann Muggeridge presented a novel advanced EOR screening approach.

Both online seminars have been very successful, attracting a large audience. The PGE seminars organisers are currently looking for potential speakers who would like to present their research to the group. If you are interested in holding a talk, please do get in touch with Robin Thomas!

Awards

Gabriela Salomao Martins (PhD student, Basins Research Group) has received the CASP Andrew Whitham fieldwork award worth of £1800 to support her field research about salt tectonics in Morocco next year. 

CASP is a charitable trust that conducts and publishes research into regional geology through fieldwork and related analytical studies. CASP offers annually five awards specifically to promote fieldwork for early career geologists. These awards are named in honour of Andrew Whitham, formerly Chief Geologist of CASP.

Oscar Calderon Agudo has been selected amongst the highly commended entries for the World Engineering Day Young Engineers’ Competition 2020 organised by UNESCO for his contribution towards brain imaging with ultrasound and geophysical imaging techniques.

Grants

The UK Goverment’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) have awarded 21 contracts worth £2m to small and medium businesses and research groups, for improving autonomous vehicles and systems operating in challenging environments. 

ESE is included in the list of funded organisations under this first phase of the call. Jian Guo Liu, Philippa Mason and PDRA Zhencong Zhao have now started their project ‘Real-time 3D Vision for UAS Awareness in Challenging Environments’ and will be competing for the next phase of funding in Sept/Oct 2020.