School of Earth and Environment
Current projects
Applied Geophysics
Deep Earth Research
- Rapid Dynamics in the Earth's core
- Deep crustal structure of the North Anatolian Fault Zone and the earthquake cycle
- A New Generation of Geodynamo Models
- Core-mantle driving in geodynamo models
- Origin of Ultra-Low Velocity Zones at the Core-Mantle Boundary
- Three-Dimensional Rotational Dynamics and Coupling of the Core-Mantle System
Geodynamics and tectonics
- Earthquake hazard from 36-Cl exposure dating
- Faroe Islands Passive Seismic Experiment
- Tectonic Evolution and Seismic Hazard of the South Carpathians
- Lithospheric Stability in a Convergent Zone
- Dynamic Earth
- How does the Earth's crust grow at divergent boundaries? A unique opportunity in Afar, Ethiopia
High Temperature Geochemistry
- Hydrothermal systems, thermal boundary layers and detachment faults in slow-spread ocean crust
- Supercritical CO2 in porous media
- Biologically-Mediated Weathering of Minerals at the Nanometre Scale
- CO2 fate prediction
Volcanology
- VUELCO consortium
- Reconstructing magma storage and transport prior to giant Icelandic fissure eruptions
- Crystal Exchange and Magma Mixing
- Magma forensics at New Zealand's supervolcanoes
Completed Projects
2011
- GESER
- Continental and oceanic upper mantle structure from seismic array data
- Ruskin Rocks, with Natural England
- Upper Mantle Structure
2010
- Geospace
- Carpathian Basin Project
- Fluid Penetration into Gabbroic Crust
- Multiple Aperture Interferometric Syntheric Aperture Radar
- Leeds FIRC - World University Network for Geomagnetism
- Influence of turbulence on geomagnetic morphology and time variations
2009
- UK Carbon Capture & Storage Consortium
- Aegean Geochronology
- Constraining the dynamics of continental collisions using InSAR
2008
- Pannonian Basin Project
- Viscoelastic (EPSRC)
- The Virtual Seismic Atlas Project
- BEAMS
- Integrated Petroleum Engineering (IPEGG)
- Punctuated or continous deformation during exhumation of subducted crust? A linked tectonometamorphic and geochronological study
- Equatorial dynamics of Earth's core
Pre-2008
- Satellite-derived gravity studies of the Equatorial and South Atlantic Oceans
- CRONUS-EU
- 3-d Magmatic Architecture and Thermal Evolution of Volcanic Passive Continental Margins
- New Spectral Methods for Fluid Dynamical Applications on the Sphere
- MULTIMO
- Understanding the origin of low frequency earthquakes - the key to forcasting volcanic hazard
- The EAGLE Experiment (EAGLE - The Ethiopian Afar Geophysical Lithospheric Experiment)
- €RUPT: European Research on Understanding Processes & Timescales in magma systems
- Geodynamic setting of Potassic Magmatism in the Northern Tibetan Plateau
- Mantle Dynamics
- Permo-Carboniferous Rifting and Magmatism in Europe (PCR)
- BLISS: Blind Identification of Seismic Signals
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