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The Marine Geophysics Group

Introduction

The Marine Geophysics research group of the School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at SOC includes five lecturing staff (Prof Martin Sinha, Dr Jonathan Bull, Dr Justin Dix, Dr Tim Henstock, Dr Andrew Roberts), three independent research fellows (Dr Lucy MacGregor, Dr Lisa McNeill, Dr Tim Minshull) and an honorary visiting professor (Prof Bob Whitmarsh); seven of these staff have been appointed since 1999 to create a national and international centre of excellence in marine geophysics. The group has attracted funding from the NERC, the EPSRC, the Royal Society, the European Union, US national agencies, and industrial partners from the UK and overseas, including a recent European award specifically recognizing the quality of PhD training provided. In 2000-2001 the group will also include three postdoctoral researchers, fourteen PhD students, two experimental officers, and a technician. The group's interests are focused on the following broad areas:

Lithospheric extension and associated magmatism, including seismic, electromagnetic and potential field studies of mid-ocean ridges and rifted continental margins; studies of rift stratigraphy and rift propagation; numerical modelling of rifting processes

Active faulting and fault interaction, including studies of neotectonics and fault propagation from outcrop to whole crustal scales

Exploration geophysics, including electromagnetic exploration for sub-basalt sediments, joint effective medium methods, normal-incidence and wide-angle seismic imaging, seismic wave propagation, and waveform inversion

High-resolution marine geophysics, including the acquisition, processing and interpretation of high-resolution marine geophysical data focusing on the top 100 m of material beneath the seabed, applied to shallow gas, gas hydrates, marine archaeology, geomorphology and roughness

Palaeomagnetism and environmental magnetism including palaeoceanographic studies of sediment cores, environmental studies of palaeoclimate and diagenesis, studies of geodynamics in zones of continental deformation, and geomagnetic field behaviour

The group works worldwide using extensive facilities within SOC, including Chirp and high-resolution sidescan sonar, active source marine electromagnetic sounding equipment, long-core cryogenic magnetometer in a magnetically shielded laboratory and high-performance computing resources.


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Author: Simon DeanLast Updated: September 2005

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