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Dr Gerald Roberts

Reader in Earthquake Geology

Contact details

Room 610D, Malet Street

tel: 020 3073 8033
fax: 020 7383 2867
email: gerald.roberts@ucl.ac.uk

Gerald in Field

Research news

Marsquakes

23rd February 2012

Dr Roberts has published a new paper on Marsquakes in Journal of Geophysical Research. This paper has been discussed in a Research Highlights section of Nature Geosciences, and is now the subject of articles on thousands of websites including Time Magazine, New Scientist, ABC news, Fox news etc.....(try a Google search for "Gerald Roberts Marsquakes").

http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2012/2012-09.shtml

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n2/full/ngeo1396.html

 

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NERC Grant award to Gerald Roberts on earthquake geology

31 October 2011

Dr Gerald Roberts has been awarded a £888,983 NERC Grant to study "Earthquake hazard from cosmogenic 36‐Cl exposure dating of elapsed time and Coulomb stress transfer".

Campo Felice

Gerald is the lead scientist and will conduct and manage the research in central Italy, which is to be spread across Birkbeck, UCL, Durham University, Leeds University, the University of Ulster, the Scottish Universities Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Facility, the National Institute of Geophysics in Rome (INGV), the Italian Geological Survey and the National Oceanographic and Geophysics Observatory in Trieste.

The project involves collaborators from UCL (Peter Sammonds), Leeds (Richard Phillips), Durham (Ken McCaffrey), Ulster (John McCloskey, Suleyman Nalbant), SUERC (Stewart Freeman) and partners from Bergen, Cologne, ISPRA (Rome), OGS (Trieste), Chieti and INGV (Rome).

 

 

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