Past Research projects
A LiDAR and field study of surface rupture and post-seismic slip for the 6th April 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake (M6.3)
- Investigators: Dr K. McCaffrey, Dr. G. Roberts, Professor P. Cowie
- Funded by: NERC Urgency Grant NE/H003266/1
- Dates: April 2009-May 2010
Airless Micro-Penetrometers
- Principal investigator: Dr Ian Crawford
- Funded by: Science & Technology Facilities Council
- Dates: 1 April 2007 to 31 December 2010
Astrobiological studies of volcano-ice interactions on Earth and Mars
- Principal investigator: Dr Ian Crawford
- Funded by: Leverhulme Trust
- Dates: 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2013
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Dating the ‘Taung Child’ Australopithecus africanus type specimen through U-Pb measurement of associated calcite crystals'
- Principal investigators: Philip Hopley and Randy Parrish (NIGL)
- Funded by: NERC Small Grant (£26,000)
- Dates: 2010-2011
Development of Chronology of High Magnitude Storm Events and Sea Level Rise for NW Wales
- Principal investigator: Dr Charlie Bristow
- Funded by: Countryside Council for Wales
- Dates: 11 August 2009 to 15 March 2010
Environmental and Chronological context of the Taung Child, South Africa
- Principal investigator: Philip Hopley
- Funded by: National Geographic Fieldwork Grant ($18,000)
- Dates: 2010-2011
Exploring Hoogland, Haasgat and the Plio-Pleistocene landscape of the Schurveberg Mountain Region, South Africa
- Principal investigators: Philip Hopley and Justin Adams (GVSU)
- Funded by: NSF Grant ($84,939)
- Dates: 2010-2012
Hominins, Climate Change and Thermo-regulation: Temperature reconstruction using speleothem fluid-inclusions
- Principal investigator: Philip Hopley
- Funded by: Leakey Foundation Grant ($22,000)
- Dates: 2009-2010
Linear dunes, their structure, age and migration (Namibia and Australia)
- Investigator: Charlie Bristow
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Monitoring dune celerities in the Bodele Depression (northern Chad), using Foremosat-2 imagery
- Principal investigator: Dr Pieter Vermeesch
- Funded by: University of London
- Dates: 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2011
Origin and diversity of basaltic soils at the Apollo 12 landing site on the moon
- Principal investigator: Dr Ian Crawford
- Funded by: University of London Central Research Fund
- Dates: 1 October 2009 to 31 July 2010
Origin and environmental impact of vanadium-bearing concretions at Budleigh Salterton, UK
- Principal investigator: Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards
- Funded by: University of London Central Research Fund
- Dates: 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011
Palaeolake Megachad research project
- Investigator: Charlie Bristow
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Reorganisation of river systems and climate change as controls on the Harappan
- Principal investigator: Dr Andy Carter
- Funded by: Leverhulme Trust
- Dates: 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2010
- Project web site
- Read the report on the Harappan collapse in Geoscientist 19.9 September 2009.
Sand dunes in Antarctica
- Investigator: Charlie Bristow
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Testing Theoretical Models for Earthquake Clustering using CI-36 Cosmogenic Exposure Dating of Active Normal Faults in Central Italy.
- Principal investigator: Dr Gerald Roberts
- Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
- Dates: 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2010
Uranium-lead dating of an oxygen isotope monsoon rainfall record from South Africa
- Principal investigator: Philip Hopley
- Funded by: NERC NIGL facilities grant (£23,000)
- Dates: 2009-2010
Deformation and diagenetic histories around neotectonic and ancient extensional fault zones
- Investigator: Dr. G. Roberts
- Funded by: NERC Research Fellowship GTS/F/90/GS/8.
- Dates: 1990-1992
Deformation processes in transfer zones along active normal faults
- Investigator: Dr. G. Roberts
- Funded by: NERC Small Grant GR9/01034.
- Dates: July 1993-July 1995
Do Palaeogene marine sediments in the Andaman Flysch, Sylhet Trough and Iranian Makran record early erosion of Himalayas?
- Principal investigator: Dr Andrew Carter
- Funded by: NERC Research Grant NE/B503192/1
- Dates: 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2010
Erosion history of the northern margin of the South China Sea and East Tibet
- Principal investigator: Dr Andrew Carter
- Funded by: Royal Society
- Dates: 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2010
Integrated field and numerical test of stream erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing
- Investigators: Dr P. Cowie, Dr. G. Roberts
- Funded by: NERC Standard Grant NE/B504165/1
- Dates: October 2004-2007 with a one-year no-cost extension
Testing Theoretical models for Earthquake Clustering using 36Cl Cosmogenic Exposure Dating of Active Normal Faults in Central Italy
- Investigators: Dr P. Cowie, Dr. G. Roberts, Dr K. McCaffrey
- Funded by: NERC Standard Grant NE/E01545X/1.
- Dates: October 2007-2010
Understanding non-uniform earthquake recurrence intervals associated with rupture of small portions of larger faults: implications for evaluating seismic risk
- Investigator: Dr. G. Roberts
- Funded by: NERC Small Grant GR9/02995.
- Dates: July 1997-July 1999
