Dr Tom Mitchell (UCL) gives this year’s Bullerwell Lecture at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna at 7 pm on Thursday 12 April, in room 2.15 of the Austria Centre.
The Bullerwell Lecture is the British Geophysical Association’s prestigious named lecture awarded to an early-career UK-based geophysicist.
We hope to see many people there.
Earthquake fracture damage and healing: feedback on rupture dynamics
In an ever changing and evolving political environment, global security will remain at the forefront of international discourse for many years to come. High-resolution monitoring, timely assessment and accurate interpretation of security-relevant events in the geosphere will be vital for building and maintaining trust between peoples and nations. The application and development of a diverse range of geophysical techniques to this global challenge is the focus of the 2018 New Advances in Geophysics (NAG) conference, which will be jointly organised by the British Geophysical Association and the Near Surface Geophysics Group of the Geological Society.
Evolution of new technologies and threats, and advances in covert operations mean that we need novel methods of monitoring the geosphere, and intelligent ways of analysing and interpreting geophysical data. There is a diverse toolbox of techniques that we, as a scientific community, can use to address relevant questions and issues:
On behalf of the BGA and the NSGG, the conveners invite you to contribute papers on this theme to the 2018 NAG meeting. We also welcome contributions with a different scientific focus, but which use methods or techniques that may have potential for application to this topic.
Congratulations to our 2017 PGRiP presentation winners:
Best Talk
1st Oliver Sanford (Durham) “Modelling Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering within Extrusive Basalt Sequences”
2nd Alistair Boyce (Imperial) “Insights into the Tectonics of the Eastern North American Shield at the Macro-scale: A new Absolute P-wave Tomographic Model for North America”
Best Poster
1st Guy Paxman (Durham) “Lithospheric Flexure in East Antarctica: the Origin and Evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin”
2nd Daniel Possee (Southampton) “Seismicity and Local Earthquake Tomography from Haiti”
Congratulations to Professor Willy Aspinall, Cabot Professor in Natural Hazards and Risk Science at the University of Bristol, who was appointed a companion to the Order of St Michael and St George for his services to the Government and community in Montserrat in the New Year Honours. More details here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/december/willy-aspinall.html
Congratulations to our 2016 PGRiP presentation winners
Best Talk
1st Adam Robinson – Durham
Construction and Subduction of the Louisville Ridge Seamount Chain – Insights from Wide-Angle Seismic Imaging
2nd Rebecca Coats – Liverpool
Lava dome eruptions: testing the strain rate dependence of porous lava rheology
Best Poster
1st Jennifer Jenkins – Cambridge
Converted phases from sharp mid-mantle heterogeneity beneath Western Europe
2nd Aude Lavayssiere – Southampton
Imaging lithospheric discontinuities using S to P receiver functions
Congratulations to Anton Ziolkowski for winning this year’s EAGE Erasmus award!
Details on the award and Dr Ziolkowski’s work can be found here on the EAGE website.
Postdoctoral Researcher on modelling global volatile cycling and mantle dynamics
Durham
21st May 2016
We seek a postdoctoral researcher with geodynamical modelling experience to study the volatile exchange between the deep Earth and the exosphere and the related secular evolution of mantle dynamics using spherical numerical 3D mantle dynamics models.
This post is part of a NERC funded consortium on “The Feedback Between Volatiles and Mantle Dynamics”, which includes team members from UCL, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Durham. The aim of this consortium is to understand the role of water and other volatiles on the mantle dynamics of the Earth and the operation of plate tectonics through time. This consortium is one of three funded consortia on “Volatiles, Geodynamics & Solid Earth Controls on the Habitable Planet”. More information on the consortia is available at http://www.deepvolatiles.org.
The postdoctoral research position will be full-time, fixed term (3 years), based at Durham University, UK, with summer 2016 as preferred start date. The successful applicant will closely collaborate with several team members of the consortium, in particular Dr Jeroen van Hunen (Durham) and Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (UCL), and will interact with the other consortia members in NERC’s Deep Volatile Programme.
The closing date for applications is 21st May 2016. Further job details and application information can be found via http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/geoscience/durham16042.html . For any further questions, please contact me atjeroen.van-hunen@durham.ac.uk.
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