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Luke Jackson

Postgraduate Student

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 35634
Email address: ear5lpj@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.153

Biography

Project details

Supervisors: Jon Mound

Project title: Modelling Future Caribbean Sea-Level Trends

Start date: 1 January 2010

Qualifications

1.0 (Hons): Master of Geophysics (International) - University of Leeds (2005-2009)

A-levels in Maths (A), Physics (B) and French (B) - Ringwood School, Hampshire (2003-2005)

Memberships/Fellowships

Student member of AGU (American Geophysical Union)

Research Interests

Holocene sea level indicators and how these can be best used to constrain sea level change through time

Tide gauge and satellite altimetry observation and what these can tell us about modern sea level change

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, the long term ice loading cycle that affects sea level and Earth deformation

The Earth's magnetic field and the range of timescale variations, particularly yearly to decadal oscillations, their temporal and spatial character and the implications for fluid core dynamics (eg. torsional oscillations)

Support duties

Demonstrate various laboratory (computer based) practicals to undergraduates and postgraduates (eg. Time series analysis, Inverse Theory)

Project details

Project title

(Provisional) Caribbean Sea Level Trends: from past to present

Supervisors

Dr Jon Mound and Prof Greg Houseman

Research support chair: Prof Andrew Shepherd

Funding

Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) Doctoral Grant

Project outline

This project can be thought of as three mini-projects:

  1. Late Pleistocene and Holocene observations of sea level change in the Caribbean region
  2. Modelling Sea level change and uplift (due to Glacial Isostatic Adjustment) in the Caribbean
  3. How far can modern sea level observations help us in looking to future sea level change?

Publications

L. P. Jackson and J. E. Mound (2010), Geomagnetic variation on decadal time scales: What can we learn from Empirical Mode Decomposition?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L14307, doi:10.1029/2010GL043455.