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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

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)

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

Reorganisation of river systems and climate change as controls on the Harappan

Sand dunes in Antarctica

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
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