Earth Sciences
and Geography
NEWS
No. 26
Autumn 2008
Earth Sciences and Geography – start of a new academic year
A
lmost a year has passed since
the publication of the last Earth
Sciences and Geography newsletter
and, as a new academic year gets into full
swing, it is timely to reflect on some of
the changes and events that have occurred
during the past twelve months. There have
been a number of staff changes and, in
particular, we say goodbye to Professor
John Winchester, who retired in January
of this year after a long and distinguished
career in geology teaching and research.
In addition, we will miss Nigel Mountney
who has left Keele to take up a lecturing
position at another institution. It is also
with great sadness that we have to report
the death of Brian ‘BK’ Holdsworth who
will be remembered by many ex-students
for his inspiring lectures on stratigraphy
and micropalaeontology as well as his
rather unique character!
On a happier note, we welcome the
arrival of several new colleagues; Stuart
Clarke (Lecturer in Basin Analysis and
Sedimentology), Deirdre McKay (Lecturer
in Social Geography and Environmental
Politics) and Brian O’Driscoll (Lecturer
in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology)
Daniel Allen and Julia Shin also join us
to cover for Deidre and Peter Adey whilst
they are on research leave. Although the
arrival of all of these new staff is a welcome
development, it has meant that we have
now run out of space in the William Smith
Building, so some creative thinking has
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Graduate’s trip to Beijing
Brian Holdsworth 1936 - 2007
Nigel Mountney heads for Leeds
Building Works in William Smith
Welcome to ...
Pulse or no pulse: unravelling the
secrets of Merapi’s block-and-ash flows
using ground penetrating radar
6 Prize for MGeoscience Student
7 Ninth International Conference on
Permafrost, 29th June – 4th July, 2008
7 CTBTO Integrated Field Exercise
8 Prestigious Award; Teaching Innovation
Awards; AEG in the media spotlight
9 The search for Apedale Drift no. 7 mine
shaft, Stoke-on-Trent; Grants, Awards
10 Conferences, Abstracts
11 Publications
had to take place to make new offices.
The start of the academic year saw
approximately 170 new students enter
on to the Geography, Geology, Applied
Environmental Science and Earth System
Science degree courses. All of these
programmes have managed to maintain
or enhance recruitment in an increasingly
challenging and competitive Higher
“... enhanced recruitment in an
increasingly challenging and
competitive HE environment”
Education environment. It was also
reassuring to see healthy recruitment on to
the new Single Honours Geography course.
We are also gearing up for the introduction
of two completely new degree programmes
in Environment and Sustainability, and
Geoscience. These Single Honours courses
will have their first intake of students in the
2009-10 academic year and are designed
for students who want to take full three
year degree courses in the environmental
studies and geology subject areas. It is
worth noting that several staff in the School
have recently received awards for their
learning and teaching activities, which is an
indication that all our degree programmes
are underpinned by high quality and
innovative teaching.
Finally, it has not been all work and no play
as a number of “memorable” social events
have taken place during the past year. A
reunion of Geology graduates took place
in May; a bigger event is planned in 2010
to celebrate 60 years of Geology at Keele.
The GeoSociety has done a fantastic job
this year in organising a varied programme
of social and educational events, the
highlight of which was the Annual Ball that
was based on a glaciers theme; well over
a hundred students, postgraduates and staff
attended this event. The success of these
social events reflects a unique atmosphere
within Earth Sciences and Geography that
is created by a combination of the “handson” nature of the ‘geo’ and environmental
subjects, the field courses, and, of course,
the students and staff.
John Winchester Retires
The retirement of Prof. John Winchester
at the end of 2007 truly marks the end of
an era in the history of the School, since
he was the last member of the current
academic staff to be appointed (in 1974)
by Prof. Wolverson Cope, founding Chair
of Geology at Keele. John came to Keele
with an impressive record of achievement
in both academic and economic aspects
of geology and significantly strengthened
geochemical research in the then Geology
Department. His collaboration with Peter
Floyd in developing techniques for the
chemical ‘fingerprinting’ of basaltic magma
types and processes resulted in a series of
seminal papers over a span of some 25 years
and won international recognition for Keele
across the geochemical community.
Collaboration with workers from other
institutions and countries enabled John to
extend his geochemical researches from the Scottish Highlands to other parts of the
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Caledonide orogen, including Ireland,
Newfoundland and eastern Canada,
and later into the Variscan and younger
orogenic zones of central and eastern
Europe. Simultaneously, a steady stream
of research students – many of whom
now hold senior academic and industrial
positions – were encouraged to address a
range of geological problems (petrogenetic,
tectonic,
sedimentological)
using
geochemical tools. John’s students were
expected to adhere to the high standards of
analytical accuracy, intellectual rigour and
scrupulous preparation that John routinely
displayed. These traits were apparent even
when he came for interview for the post at
Keele, when he was the only candidate to
demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the
research interests of all the existing staff in
the Department!
John’s research received a significant
fillip when, in the early 1990s, an EUfunded educational programme facilitated
fruitful contacts with Polish geologists
and institutions. This led to a much
larger, multinational research programme,
termed PACE (Palaeozoic Amalgamation
of Central Europe), that was led by John,
assisted by Tim Pharaoh of BGS. Running
over several years, the PACE project
placed heavy organisational demands upon
John, not least the efforts required both
to achieve scientific consensus amongst
the participants from some 14 different
European laboratories and to produce a
coherent synthesis of results from a range
of geoscientific disciplines and techniques.
This project resulted in numerous influential
publications and in a much improved
understanding of the diverse geotectonic
elements within the European domain and
of the crustal processes that led to their
assembly during the Palaeozoic era.
The personal chair awarded to John
at this time was a fitting recognition of his
scientific and organisational achievements.
Subsequently, John has extended these
magmatic and geotectonic studies
southeastwards into Turkey, the geological
jigsaw puzzle that has been a research focus
for several Keele geologists over the past
decade and more.
John Winchester will be remembered
for the quality of his teaching by many
former students, and especially by those
who took his Final Year option in Economic
Geology, a course liberally garnished by
tall tales from his time as an “ore-finder” in
the Australian outback. From a different
perspective, Peter Floyd recalls that during
the inception of Peer Review of teaching,
John agreed to review one of his lectures
(on experimental basalt systems) and
promptly fell asleep -- to the amusement
of the students, if not the lecturer!
For the past few years John has taken on
the onerous role of Head of Earth Sciences
and Geography, during and following the
process of amalgamation with Physical
Sciences, and has displayed the qualities
of leadership, integrity and wisdom that
have characterised his entire career. His
distinguished service both to Keele and to
the wider geological community is worthy
of warm acknowledgement by all of us who
have known him as colleague and friend
and we wish him well in his retirement.
Peter Floyd and Gilbert Kelling
2007 Graduate’s Trip to Beijing
I graduated from Keele University with a degree in Economics
and Human Geography in July (2007). As I was contemplating
a summer without commitments, I applied and was accepted as
one of 200 students from all over the UK (out of 1300) to attend
a Department for Education and Skills (now the Department
for Innovation, Universities and Skills) three-week Chinese
Summer School in Beijing. The University of Manchester
was appointed to co-ordinate the project and chose Beijing
Normal University (BNU) as its partner. The programme was
designed as an introduction to the language and culture as well
as to encourage participants to engage with China in the future.
Accommodation, transfers and cultural excursions were paid
for us - we only had to pay for the 12-hour flight!
What an incredible experience it was! I flew to Beijing on
10th August and was met by students from BNU. We stayed in
good standard accommodation on the university campus. We
had Mandarin lessons every weekday for 3 hours (beginning
at 8am!!). Then, in the afternoons, we were taken sightseeing
to locations such as Tiannamen Square, the Great Wall and the
Hutongs (traditional/back streets). We were also taken to watch
Acrobatics, the Peking Opera and went to a teahouse (which
George Bush has been to). There were opportunities to practice
Stephanie (centre) and friends in Tiennamen Square
Tai ji, calligraphy and paper cutting. We had week-ends away to
Chengde (a city 4 hours north of Beijing, surrounded by mountains) to see Buddhist temples and, to a village (1 hours outside Beijing)
where we stayed with local families and danced with local people around a bonfire in the evening. The people we met in shops were very
friendly and we got used to bartering in markets. We could not believe how cheap everything was. For example, a full body massage was
£3; a substantial meal was £3; 15 minutes in a cyber café was 10 pence! I could go on..! One of my favourite memories was of a group
of us getting up at 6am to go to a local park where the local people were practising tai ji, playing badminton, playing ‘keep-me-up’ with
what I can best describe as a shuttle cock; aerobics and people just generally congregating.
At the end of the three weeks each class had to present a short Chinese song or dance (ours was a fan dance) and we were each given a
DVD of the trip. I had a fantastic time in Beijing and would one day love to go back. Since returning to the UK, I am continuing to learn
Mandarin at evening classes, which I thoroughly enjoy.
Stephanie Beggs
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Brian Holdsworth 1936 - 2007
Brian Holdsworth – BK to colleagues and
students, died on 5th August, 2007 after
a long battle against cancer. He was a
distinguished stratigrapher, internationally
acknowledged for his innovative and
influential researches in radiolarian
biostratigraphy, and a highly regarded
teacher.
BK was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in
1936. He attended Wolstanton
County Grammar School, where
his father was Head of Biology.
Except for some notable forays,
Brian spent most of his life in
and around North Staffordshire
but it would be difficult to
find anyone less parochial or
more eclectic in their interests
– scientific and cultural.
Brian
entered
University
College,
Oxford
as
an
Exhibitioner in 1956 and
graduated in geology in1959.
He was a major contributor
to ‘Isis’, the student newsmagazine, honing journalistic
skills that served him well in
later.
life. His geological
originality was demonstrated
during his finals mapping
project when he identified then
new-fangled turbidites in the
manifestly
non-geosynclinal
setting of the North Staffordshire
Basin.
Through Wolverson
Cope, Head of Geology at the
nascent Keele University, BK
undertook research for his PhD
on the Namurian of the South Pennines that
unravelled the stratigraphy and complex
provenance of the basinal deposits. Even
more significantly he discovered wellpreserved radiolaria in calcareous ‘bullions,
establishing the focus for nearly 40 years
of research.
He was appointed Demonstrator at Keele in
1963, then successively Assistant Lecturer
(1965), Lecturer (1966) and Senior
Lecturer (1973). Deteriorating health and
disenchantment with the changing ethos
of British higher education led him to take
early retirement in 1993.
Brian demonstrated the biostratigraphic
potential of radiolaria in the British
Carboniferous (and more widely) in a series
of influential publications - including a
paper on the oldest known radiolaria jointly
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authored with Richard Fortey. However, it
was his participation in a Leg of the Deep
Sea Drilling Project in the SW Pacific
(1973) that alerted the wider geological
community to his radiolarian expertise and
led to very fruitful research collaboration
over following decades with U.S. and
Canadian geologists working in Alaska and
the Cordilleran region of western North
America.
BK was a dedicated and effective
teacher whose attention to detail and
clarity of delivery were legendary. The
British Micropalaeontologist panegyric
on his retirement recounts how his
final year undergraduate courses in
Micropalaeontology
enthused
many
students to pursue postgraduate studies in
this topic. Eschewing modern technology,
Brian spent hours before lectures preparing
blackboards full of meticulous
chalk drawings in order, as
he put it, “to give the kids
the latest ‘gen’ “. His endof-fieldtrip syntheses were
exemplary in their lucidity and
scope, with students hanging
on every word – and betting
on the length of ash he could
sustain on a cigarette!
BK was fundamentally an
old-school naturalist with
interests ranging far beyond
geology.
Over many years
he meticulously recorded
butterflies and moths visiting
his garden. His home was
at the junction of Shropshire,
Staffordshire and Cheshire, and
he thus contributed important
lepidopteran records to the
archives of three counties.
Brian also greatly appreciated
the visual arts, organising
exhibitions at Keele for some
years and championing the
work of his brother-in-law, the
painter Douglas Swan.
Brian and his collaborators developed
acid-leaching techniques to extract delicate
and exquisitely preserved radiolaria from
Palaeozoic and Mesozoic cherts and he
won worldwide recognition as one of the
few exponents of this arcane art. This
approach produced a broadly applicable
radiolarian zonation for the later Palaeozoic
and facilitated accurate dating of hitherto
poorly constrained rock sequences. One
important result was the recognition of
discrete continental blocks in the Cordilleran
collage that had been juxtaposed by very
large-scale fault-movements – forming the
‘suspect terrains’ of modern jargon.
In
1980 BK documented arguably the first
application of this concept to British
geology, suggesting in a book review
that Anglesey was a Palaeozoic ‘suspect
terrain’.
The intellectual rigour, perfectionism
and acerbic wit that underpinned Brian’s
research and teaching also engendered
wariness, even trepidation, in some --although good students always found in
him a ready ear and wise counsel. Those
who penetrated his rather daunting carapace
delighted in his wide knowledge, humanity
and deep insights into the worlds of science
and the mind.
He will be greatly missed by his wife,
Sheila, son Douglas, daughter Claire and
grand-daughter Amy and also by his many
friend across in the wider community.
Gilbert Kelling, with thanks to John Collinson, David Emley, Colin Exley, Tony
Phillips and Hugh Torrens
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Nigel Mountney heads for Leeds
It is with sadness that we bade farewell to Nigel Mountney at the end of
December 2007. Nigel has accepted a Senior Lectureship at Leeds and, in
joining the influential sedimentology research group at that university, has
clearly made a good move in a career full of promise.
After obtaining his first degree at Nottingham, Nigel first encountered Keele
when he came to do an MSc in Computing in Earth Sciences in1991-2. After
obtaining a pass with distinction, he did a PhD at Birmingham (1992-5) and
then became a postdoctoral research assistant to Steve Flint in Liverpool (19958). By this time expert in both sedimentology and computer modelling, he then
returned to Keele as a lecturer on 1 January1999 and has spent the nine years
since on the academic staff, obtaining promotion to Senior Lecturer early in
2007.
During these years he has made a name for himself as a sedimentologist, largely
specialising in deposition in arid regimes (deserts). Areas of his research study
ranged from such diverse regions as Namibia and Utah to the Triassic of the
Cheshire and southern. North Sea basins. During this time he supervised
several research students and wrote over thirty scientific articles. He also
became a co-author with John Collinson and David Thompson in the third
edition of their classic text. “Sedimentary Structures”. A major collaborator
at the BSRG British Sedimentology Research Group), Nigel’s work has been
publicized across Earth Science & Geography by the immaculately-produced
and highly colourful diagrams of prizewinning quality which have appeared on
numerous posters at conferences and subsequently in the public spaces of the
William Smith Building.
Colleagues will remember Nigel as an expert field geologist, brilliant at
explaining sedimentology on field trips, and also as a keen and expert rockclimber, who often bore scars from his more demanding routes, proving that gritstone is harder than flesh. Also, courtesy of a former
research student, the new verb “nigelling” was introduced to the English language. To nigel meant: to meander independently around
the outcrops, checking for the occasional boulder problem, while instruction may happen elsewhere.
In summary, Nigel Mountney has been a great colleague, who brought kudos to Keele’s reputation. His move to Leeds is clearly a loss
to Geology at Keele, but he goes with our good wishes and hopes that he will keep in touch with the former colleagues who remain.
John Winchester
Building Works in William Smith
There has been a lot of activity in the
Building since the last newletter.
In December we held our first fire
drill following the commissioning of a
completely new fire alarm system which
involved the installation of smoke detectors
in all rooms and corridors.
Anyone that has been in the William
Smith Building for any length of time will
be familiar with vagaries of the heating
system. The two halves of the building are
each on a separate heating supply making
for interesting temperature gradients!
This summer a complete overhaul was
carried out involving the replacement
of the majority of the radiators and the
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fitting of thermostatic valves to all of
them. Hopefully this will provide a more
comfortable working environment for staff
and students.
The William Smith Building ranks as one of
the most disabled-unfriendly on campus! Its
many changes in level and manual opening
doors do not make for easy access.
This summer also saw a programme
of works designed to ease access for
wheelchair users and those with mobility
problems. This includes, on the ground
floor, the installation of a disabled toilet,
chair lifts, new fire doors, automatically
opening front doors, a wheelchair friendly
access ramp and a new disabled parking
bay at the front.
In order to accommodate two new members
of staff it was decided to divide the current
underused tearoom into two new offices
and a small kitchenette. A consequence of
this has been the removal of the old boxedin fumecupboards left over from the days
when this and the adjacent research students’
lab. housed the original geochemistry lab.
This has freed up more space in the research
lab, which was getting a bit crowded, and
allowed us to install more power and data
sockets.
The erection of shelving, left over from the
Woodlands lab restructuring, in the garage
has made more space for rocks in the
moving store and for the storage of survey
equipment. As space becomes tight we are
having to be ever more inventive!
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Deirdre McKay
Dublin, Ireland, for which he studied the
petrogenesis of Platinum-group element
and Cr-spinel bearing horizons in various
layered mafic intrusions from around the
world. His primary research interests lie in
the field of petrology and volcanology.
Stuart Clarke
followed by a MA (Econ) in Development
Studies, which was obtained from the
Department of Sociology, University
of Manchester in 2001. Her principal
research interests are in interdisciplinary
and gender sensitive approaches to the
study of international migration and the
transnational division of labour.
Daniel Allen
Deirdre joined us in January 2008 as
a Lecturer in Social Geography and
Environmental Politics, having previously
held appointments as Postdoctoral Fellow
and then Research Fellow in the School
of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian
National University. Her research draws
on both social/cultural geography and
social anthropology to explore people’s
place-based experiences of globalisation
and development. She does fieldwork in
the global South and also with migrant
communities from developing areas who
have moved into the world’s global cities.
Brian O’Driscoll
Stu first came to Keele in 1992 as an
undergraduate student studying Geology
and Electronic Engineering. Following
graduation with a doctorate in 2001, he
joined the British Geological Survey
in Edinburgh as a survey geologist and
numerical modeller and spent 6 years as a
field geologist mapping the Carboniferous
sediments of the Northumberland Trough
and Aston Block in Northern England. He
returned to Keele as a Lecturer in Basin
Analysis and Sedimentology in 2008.
Julia Shin
Daniel joined us in September 2008 as a
human geographer with a background
in cultural and historical geography. His
undergraduate degree, BSc Geography,
was completed at the University of Central
Lancashire in 2001. After graduating
with first class honours, he moved to
The University of Nottingham and there
obtained an MA in Landscape and Culture
in 2002, and a PhD in Human Geography in
2006. Awards from the Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) funded his
postgraduate degrees.
Rachel Westwood
Brian joined us in 2008 as a Lecturer in
igneous and metamorphic petrology having
studied Geology at University College
Cork, Ireland, where he graduated with a
BSc in 2003. He went on to complete my
PhD in 2006 at Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland, which was concerned with the
petrogenesis of layered mafic intrusions.
Prior to his appointment he held a
postdoctoral position at University College
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Julia joined us in September 2008, after
obtaining a Ph.D. in Sociology at the
University of Warwick in July 2008. Her
first degree, BA (Hons) in Politics and
International Studies, was obtained from
the University of Warwick in 2000. It was
Rachel arrived in September to study for
a PhD on Application of mathematical
analysis and numerical modelling in the
field of environmental geophysics part
supervised by Prof. Peter Styles.
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Prize for MGeoscience Student
Congratulations to Amy Brennan (year 4 MGeoscience) for winning 2nd prize in the Midland Valley Exploration (MVE) Student
Structural Geology competition. Amy’s year 3 project ‘Structural and Geomorphological Mapping in the Suez Rift: a GIS Approach’,
supervised by Graham Williams, was the successful piece of independent work submitted to the MVE competition.
The competition is an annual event that boasts past winners from all over the world. Amy wins a prize of $500 and additionally, her
efforts have won for the School 5 licences for MVE’s flagship ‘2D Move’ software for a 3 year period; the commercial value of these
licences is $200,000.
Pulse or no pulse: unravelling the secrets of Merapi’s block-and-ash flows using
ground penetrating radar
In August 2008, a group of five Keele
scientists (Ralf Gertisser, Nigel Cassidy,
Luigia Nuzzo, Sylvain Charbonnier and
Katie Preece) spent four weeks at Merapi
volcano investigating the three-dimensional
deposit architecture of the 2006 block-andash flows (BAF) using ground penetrating
radar (GPR).
Merapi, a 2911-m-high basaltic andesite
volcanic complex in Central Java is one
of the most frequently erupting volcanoes
in Indonesia and best known for its nearly
persistent activity characterized by the
extrusion of viscous lava domes and
collapse of these domes to produce BAFs.
During the most recent eruptive episode in
2006, BAFs affected the densely populated
areas on the volcano’s southern flank and
were the first major flows in this area for
over a century. More importantly, the flows
were not confined to the existing river
valleys but spilled over the valley sides
to create overbank flows that resulted in
fatalities in the village of Kaliadem about 5
km away from Merapi.
Funded through a NERC
New Investigator grant to
Ralf Gertisser, our GPR
survey concentrated on the
large-scale (deposit) and
small-scale (intra-deposit)
structures of the valleyfilling BAF deposits in the
Gendol river valley and the
overbank deposits in the
Kaliadem area on Merapi’s
southern flank, so that the
results could be directly
linked into Sylvain’s PhD
work on the transport and
depositional mechanisms
of the 2006 Merapi flows.
Preliminary results, recently presented by
Luigia at the 27th National Meeting of
the Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della
Terra Solida (GNGTS) in Trieste, suggest
that GPR is a useful, non-invasive tool for
developing new, improved interpretations
on the transport and emplacement dynamics
associated with BAF deposits.
Ralf Gertisser and the Keele Merapi
Team
GPR section of the Kaliadem overbank deposits (lower region). 200MHz Cross-Flow GPR Section
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Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, 29th June – 4th July, 2008
The Ninth International Conference on Permafrost was
held over the summer in the University of Fairbanks
in central Alaska. I was lucky enough to attend the
conference as part of a small contingent of U.K.
scientists, although the event as a whole was attended by
800 delegates from 35 nations, reflecting the importance
of “frozen ground” in high-latitude and high-altitude
nations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the focus of this year’s
conference related to the current and future impact of
global warming on all aspects of permafrost. A series of
presentations documenting research developments since
the last ICOP in Zurich in 2003 served to illustrate the
many and varied impacts of recent global warming on
permafrost environments. Rapid warming over the past 30
years coupled with the thermal sensitivity of permafrost,
has lead to increased thaw depths and associated changes
in permafrost hydrology, geomorphology and biology.
Perhaps most alarmingly, a series of talks highlighted
grave concerns about the influence warming on slope
Aerial view of the oil field infrastructure in Prudhoe Bay, northern Alaska.
stability associated the recession of mountain glaciers and
the thaw of ice within newly exposed, heavily fractured
slope materials. This has caused a series of major mass movement events in recent years, such as the large rock-ice avalanche occurring
on Mt. Stella, Alaska in September 2005, which had an estimated volume of 40-60 million m3 that generated a seismic response of
M3.8-5.2. It has also necessitated increased investment in mountain-side infrastructure as increased creep rates result in significantly
reduced design lives.
The conference concluded with a series of field excursions and I attended a six-day trip to the Arctic Coastal Plain that provided a
fascinating insight into the environment, way of life and contemporary issues associated with the state’s northernmost territory. A
tour around the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay was a particular highlight that demonstrated both the challenge and expense of extracting
hydrocarbons from such a hostile environment, as well as the increasing regulation of these activities that has led to a welcome reduction
in their environmental impact.
Richard Waller
CTBTO Integrated Field Exercise, Kazakhstan, 2nd – 30th September 2008
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) held its first
Integrated Field Exercise (IFE08) for OnSite Inspection (OSI) during September
2008. The exercise was carried out at
the former Soviet Nuclear Test site near
Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. Over 450
nuclear explosions were conducted at the
site between 1945 and 1989. This factor and
the remote location made the conditions
for the exercise as real as possible. The
exercise involved over 200 people, 40
members of the Inspection Team, plus the
control and evaluation teams and the local
Kazakh hosts and the transportation of over
50 tonnes of equipment from Vienna to a
very remote site in Kazakhstan (photo).
The object of the exercise was to
evaluate the readiness of OSI for when
the treaty enters into force. This involved
testing the procedures and making sure
that we have the correct equipment to
carry out an inspection. The exercise
started with one week of planning at the
CTBTO HQ in Vienna. We then moved
on to Almaty in Kazakhstan for the Point
of Entry procedures. Following two days
in Almaty, we then had a 22 hour train
journey to Semipalatinsk and 7 hours by
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bus to arrive at the base
camp which was located just
outside the inspection area.
The inspection activities
then began the following
day. For the initial phase of
the inspection I was involved
with the Seismic Aftershock
Monitoring System (SAMS).
The SAMS involved setting
up a network of 30 seismic
stations within the 1000
km2 Inspection Area in the
first four days in the field
and then processing the
data to look for possible
aftershocks of a nuclear
explosion. Other activities taking place
included radionuclide monitoring and
visual observation including overflights in
a helicopter. These initial phase techniques
are supposed to narrow down the search
area and define specific targets of interest
for the second half of the inspection – the
Continuation Phase. For the continuation
phase I was involved with the Continuation
Phase Techniques which are basically the
shallow geophysical techniques such as
magnetics, conductivity and GPR that
may find artefacts pointing to the site of an
underground nuclear explosion.
Overall the exercise was a success and
hopefully we learnt some valuable lessons
for the future. We now have to hope that
the Treaty enters into force within the next
few years and that we have proven that it
is verifiable so that no one will attempt to
carry out a nuclear explosion. Hopefully
we never have to carry out a real On-Site
Inspection.
Sam Toon
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Prestigious Award for Peter Knight
Dr Peter Knight, Senior Lecturer in
Geography and Course Director for
Physical Geography, has been awarded
a highly prestigious National Teaching
Fellowship by the UK Higher Education
Academy.
The Higher Education Academy describes
the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme
Individual Awards as aiming to: raise the
profile of learning and teaching; recognise
and celebrate individuals who make an
outstanding impact on the student learning
experience; and provide a national focus
for institutional teaching and learning
excellence schemes. The Awards are
funded by the Higher Education Funding
Council for England (HEFCE) and the
Department for Employment and Learning
in Northern Ireland (DELNI). Under the
individual strand of the scheme awards
of £10,000 are made to staff to be used
for personal development in learning and
teaching. The winners receive their awards
at a ceremony and dinner in London.
Peter Knight’s award recognises an
expertise and enthusiasm in teaching
underpinned by an international research
reputation in glaciology. He has written
several well-known textbooks for Alevel and undergraduate students that
combine scientific rigour with a contagious
enthusiasm for learning about the world. One
A-level teacher reviewed Peter’s textbook
“Glaciers and Glacial Landscapes” as: “…
the best book for my AS / A2 teaching
I’ve so far seen in 17 years of teaching Alevel Physical Geography,” and his Book
“Glaciers” was reviewed as “unsurpassed”
as an introductory text for undergraduates.
Peter’s goal is to inspire, motivate, and
enthuse students to recognise, aspire to and
achieve their fullest potential. He wants to
help students to see the world differently,
and to allow them to help him to see it
differently too. Recognised by the institution
for his success in this goal, Peter has won
Keele University’s “Individual Award for
Excellence in Learning and Teaching”, and
led the Physical Geography course team
to win the “Team Award for Excellence
in Learning and Teaching”. He has also
won two Keele “Teaching Innovation
Awards”, and has published several papers
on innovative teaching techniques. As
well as developing innovative course
structures and teaching methods, Peter has
played a leading role in the application and
monitoring of quality assurance processes
and in the dissemination of good practice
through his work as a quality auditor,
examiner and mentor both at Keele and
in external roles. The award of a National
Teaching Fellowship will allow him to
develop and extend that work.
Teaching Innovation Awards
All five applications from staff in the
ES&G for Teaching Innovation Awards,
listed below, have been successful.
These successes further enhance our leading reputation within the university for innovation in teaching, as well as being an
important part of continuously improving
and enhancing our courses, and providing additional funding (just over £10k in
total) on top of the core teaching budget
to help fund these developments and innovations.
I very much hope that the findings from
these and the three Innovation Projects
funded earlier in the year can be externally
disseminated via meetings, conferences
and papers of teaching innovations,
including through the Physical Sciences
and GEES HEA subject centres, to further
raise our external profile for teaching
innovations and developments in the
physical and geo-sciences, and be used as
a basis for bids for external funding.
Falko Drijfhout, Mark Ormerod and
Vladimir
Zholobenko,
‘Advanced
Spectroscopy and Forensic Analysis:
Enhancing Student Engagement, Skills
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and Practical Experience through ProjectBased Learning’, £ 1,950
Stefan Krause, ‘Modelling in the
Environmental Sciences: Enhancing
employability for the environmental
sector’, £ 3,536
Jamie Pringle, Ian Stimpson, Peter Styles,
Nigel Cassidy, ‘Development of a highresolution geoscience field-derived dataset for teaching and learning’, £1,350
TIQUE: Mobility Impaired Students:
Teaching In Quite Unsuitable Environments -Multi-scale Geological Outcrop
Visualisation for Mobility Impaired Students’, £ 1,760
Rich Waller, Pete Adey, Peter Knight,
‘Exploring the Attitude of Geography Students to Information Resources & Journal
Literature’, £ 1,950
Mark Ormerod
Ian Stimpson, Ralf Gertisser, Michael
Montenari, Brian O’Driscoll,
‘MIS:
AEG in the media spotlight
Forensic geophysical research, conducted by the
Applied & Environmental Geophysics Group, was the
focus of a short filmed piece for the BBC’s Countryfile
programme with Michaela Strachan asking the
questions.
Research is focusing on improving the detection rates
of clandestine burials of murder victims by using
simulated burials, finding optimal detection techniques
and if these change over time.
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The search for Apedale Drift no. 7 mine shaft, Stoke-on-Trent
Jamie Pringle was approached by
trustees of the Apedale Heritage Museum
in Stoke-on-Trent in 2008, with the aim
of locating a filled-in entrance to a stillexisting mine-shaft that may pose a
structural hazard to the museum itself, as
old plans suggest the no. 7 access shaft
lies only ~20 m below the surface.
This mine is a drift one, which means that
the coal strata was originally exposed
at the surface unlike most UK mines;
miners therefore extracted the coal and
then followed the rich coal seams down
into the ground. The local structural dips
here of 1 in 3 to 1 in 4 made the shafts
and mine faces themselves very steep!
There have been numerous access and
now-disused mine workings at various
levels and orientations still present
here which made the potential location
of the targeted no. 7 access shaft quite
difficult.
Nevertheless, this problem was solved
through ES&G staff members and in
particular Steve Banham, a 4th year M.
Geoscience student who was using this
study for his final year research project.
A variety of near-surface geophysical
techniques
were
used
(including
micro-gravity, Electrical Resistivity
Tomography (or ERT) and GPR) to try
and detect the No. 7 shaft (Figures 1&2).
Collecting GPR data down the existing No. 4 shaft used for public tours. The targeted No. 7 should be
crossing this shaft at right angles ~4m below the floor of this shaft!
It was subsequently found that an extra
2m+ of top soil had been tipped onto the
old working surface which made things
even more difficult!
area. JCB kindly donated a digger for 3
days to locate and excavate the entrance.
It was then possible to inspect both the
existing shaft and determine whether it
would be possible to extract more coal on
a charitable basis for the UK steam train
enthusiasts. Watch this space!
Once locating the mine shaft using 2D
profiles progressively away from the
Museum, it was then possible to trace
the suspected entrance down to a small
Jamie Pringle
Volcanoes and climate: Volatile emissions
and climatic effects of the 1993 eruption
of Lascar volcano, Chile (Charlie May).
Environmental Sciences: Enhancing
employability for the environmental
sector.
Aidan Parkes won a Postgraduate
Research Grant for Physical Geography
from the Royal Geographical Society
(with Institute of British Geographers)
in January worth £2000. The funds have
been allocated to the opening of a series
of excavations and Optically Stimulated
Luminescence dating.
Linda Austin was awarded a funded
place on the British Geological Survey’s
School of Field Geology course entitled
‘Extensional tectonics in the field: Utah’,
which took place in September 2008.
Grants and Awards
Katie Szkornik received £1020 from the
Royal Society conference grants scheme
towards attendance at the XVII INQUA
Congress, Cairns, Australia. July 2007.
Katie was also awarded a small
research grant of £2500 from the Royal
Geographical Society (with the Institute of
British Geographers) for a project entitled:
Middle to late Holocene sea-level changes
in the Dyfi Estuary, West Wales, UK.
Ian Stimpson, Ralf Gertisser, Michael
Montenari, Brian O’Driscoll received
£1760 from Keele University Innovation
Project Funding 2008/09 for Project
title: MIS:TIQUE – Mobility Impaired
Students: Teaching In Quite Unsuitable
Environments.
Ralf also received a 2008 Nuffield
Foundation Undergraduate Research
Bursary of £1400 for a project entitled:
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Stefan Krause received £970 from
the Royal Society to attend the IAHS
HydroPredict conference in Prague.
Also £400 from the British Hydrological
Society to attend the IAHR Groundwater
Symposium in Istanbul, £400 Advances
West Midlands to attend ERC-FP7 grant
coordination meetings and, together
with Zoe Robinson, £3,539 Teaching
Innovation Grant for Modelling in the
Drs Ian Stimpson and Richard Waller,
in conjunction with the Staffordshire
Regionally
Important
Geological/
Geomorphological Sites (SRIGS) group,
have been awarded a grant totalling
£25,004 to produce a geotrail for
CannockChase.
This geotrail, to be launched in February
next year, follows the highly successful
Hamps & Manifold Geotrail, and Churnet
Valley Geotrail launched in previous years
(available free from Richard Waller).
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Conferences Attended
Processes.
Richard Waller attended the Ninth
International Conference on Permafrost,
29th June – 4th July, 2008 in University of
Fairbanks in central Alaska.
BGS conference ‘Hydro-Ecology meets
Geo-Hydrology’ Burlington House,
London, 22/05/2008
Stefan Krause was invited to give a
presentation on:
“Nitrogen transport and transformation at
the groundwater - surface water interface
- How important is the Hyporheic Zone?”
European Geosciences Union General
Assembly in Vienna, Austria (April
2008)
Ralf Gertisser convened session on
“Magmatic
differentiation:
theory,
experiments, and examples” together with
Valentin R. Troll (University of Uppsala)
and Lilli C. Freda (INGV Rome)
Stefan Krause organised and convened of
two sessions:
HS10.12 “Hydrological measurements:
new technologies for characterising
hydrological
and
hydrochemical
behaviour” (Conveners: Wouter Buytaert,
Stefan Krause, Jim Freer) and
HS7.4 “Hydro-ecology of riparian zones:
hyporheic controls at the groundwater
- surface water interface“ (Conveners:
Stefan Krause, Jan Fleckenstein, David
Hannah).
As a result of the very popular session that
attracted a good number of high quality
abstracts, a special issue in the journal
Hydrological Processes is going to be
published in 2009 including papers from
Zoe Robinson and Stefan Krause.
A town hall meeting which had been
organised by Stefan Krause and Wouter
Buytaert (Universty of Bristol) attracted an
overwhelming crowd on at the Wednesday
evening which saw a very controversial
discussion on “Is modelling more than a
fashionable indoor sport?”
Stefan presented a talk on “Scale dependent
efficiency of predicting nitrogen attenuation
in the riparian and hyporheic corridor”
and two posters “Nutrient transformation
in the hyporheic zone - A panacea for river
restauration or a ticking time bomb”, “The
impact of hyporheic connectivity on the
nitrogen metabolism as the groundwater surface water interface”.
NERC Hyporheic Network and
Groundwater
Modeller’s
Forum,
12/03/2008
Stefan Krause was invited to give a
presentation on: Ecological Challenges
for the Modeling of Hyporheic Zone
Hydrological
and
Biogeochemical
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IAHR
International
Groundwater
Symposium, Istanbul, 18-20/06/2008
Stefan Krause gave a presentation on: The
impact of nutrient transformation along the
groundwater – surface water interface on
surface water and groundwater quality”
IAHS HydroPredict conference, Prague,
15-18/09/2008
Stefan convened a session on and gave an
oral and a poster presentation on: Nutrient
transformation in the hyporheic zone – A
panacea for river restoration or a ticking
time bomb.
Underground
Coal
Gasification
workshop, Imperial College, 23/09/2008
Stefan has been invited to give a lecture
on: Hydro-geological implications of
underground coal gasification.
International Symposium on Middle
East Basins Evolution University of
Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris.
Stuart Egan was an invited speaker at the
and presented a paper entitled ‘Subsidence
and Uplift Mechanisms Within The South
Caspian Basin: Insights From The Onshore
And Offshore Azerbaijan Region’.
Conference Abstracts
Calder, E. S., Cassidy, N. J., Pavez,
A. and Wooller, L. K. 2008. Surface
wave instabilities and pyroclastic flow
emplacement inferred from GRP-derived
facies architectures. IAVCEI General
Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Charbonnier, S. & Gertisser, R. (2008):
Generation, transport and deposition
mechanisms of the 2006 block-and-ash
flows of Merapi Volcano, Java, Indonesia.
IAVCEI General Assembly, Reykjavik,
Iceland, Aug. 2008.
Charbonnier, S. & Gertisser, R. (2008):
Computational modelling of pyroclastic
density currents using the TITAN2D
simulation code: examples from Merapi
Volcano, Indonesia. European Geosciences
Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,
Apr. 2008.
Charbonnier, S. & Gertisser, R. (2008):
Numerical simulations of pyroclastic flows
using the TITAN2D simulation code:
an example from Merapi Volcano, Java,
Indonesia. Volcanic and Magmatic Studies
Group Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland,
Jan. 2008.
Egan, S.S., Mosar, J., Brunet, M-F. and
Kangarli, T. 2007. Subsidence and uplift
mechanisms within the South Caspian
Basin: Insights from the onshore and
offshore Azerbaijan region. International
Symposium on Middle East Basins
Evolution. December 4-5, 2007, Paris,
France.
Goodwin, R. A. and Cassidy, N. J., 2008.
Apparent Permittivity Characteristics of
Magnetite-Rich Layered Igneous Bodies
: Implications for GPR Attenuation and
velocity, EIGG Research Symposium,
BGS, Nottingham, U.K.
Jones, O. & Gertisser, R. (2008): A
breadcrust-bomb-rich
pyroclastic-flow
deposit from Merapi volcano, Central Java,
Indonesia. Volcanic and Magmatic Studies
Group Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland,
Jan. 2008.
Kelly, M., Charbonnier, S. & Gertisser,
R. (2008): Volume and extent of lahar
reworking of the pristine 2006 pyroclastic
flow deposits at Merapi Volcano, Java,
Indonesia. Volcanic and Magmatic Studies
Group Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland,
Jan. 2008.
Lion, M., Cassidy, N. J., Haycock P.
W. and Hocking M. J., 2008. Corrosion
Survey Methodology, European Corrosion
Congress (EUROCORR), Edinburgh.
Mosar, J., Kangarli, T., Bochud, M.,
Brunet, M-F., Egan, S.S. and Sosson, M.
2007. Tectonics of the Greater Caucasus
(Azerbaijan): A proxy to the North South
Caspian basin. International Symposium
on Middle East Basins Evolution Abstract.
December 4-5, 2007, Paris, France.
Nuzzo, L., Gertisser, R., Cassidy, N.J.,
Charbonnier, S. & Preece, K. (2008):
GPR facies analysis of block-and-ash flows,
Merapi volcano, Central Java (Indonesia):
new insights into deposit architecture
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and emplacement mechanisms. GNGTS
(Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra
Solida) - 27th National Meeting, Trieste,
Italy, Oct. 2008. (Extended abstract).
Nuzzo L., Millington T. M., Cassidy N.
J. and Pringle J. K., 2008. A modelling/
inverse-scattering approach to investigate
the potential of GPR for the location of
archaeological human remains. Advances
in Remote Sensing for Archaeology and
Cultural Heritage Management, Rome.
Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sedimentology, vol. 55, 939-964.
Publications
Jervis, J.P., Pringle, J.K., Cassella, J.P.
& Tuckwell, G.T. 2008. Using soil and
groundwater to understand resistance
surveys over a simulated clandestine
grave. In: Ritz K, Dawson L, Miller D,
(editors), Criminal and environmental soil
forensics. Springer Publishing, Dortrecht,
The Netherlands, 271-284.
Bennett, M. R., Cassidy, N. J. and Pile, J.,
2008. Internal structure of a barrier beach
as revealed by Ground Penetrating Radar
(GPR): Chesil Beach, UK, Geomorphology
doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.08.015.
Cassidy, N. J., Dods, S. and Eddies,
R., 2008. High-frequency, in-pipe,
borehole GPR: analysis of performance
through FDTD modelling, Proceedings
of the 12th International Conference on
Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR2008,
Birmingham, UK, 1-7.
Kelling, G., Walton, E.K. & Simpson,
F., 2007. The contribution of Stanislaw
Dzulynski to flysch sedimentology: A
‘western’ perspective. Annales Societatis
Geologorum Poloniae, vol. 77, pp.93103.
Russell, A. J., Carrivick, J. L., Cassidy,
N. J. and Marren , P. M., 2008. Holocene
jökulhlaup impact within the middle reaches
of Jökulsá á Fjöllum, NE Iceland, IAVCEI
General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Cassidy, N. J and Goodwin, R. A., 2008.
GPR Characteristics of Magnetite-Rich
Layered Igneous Bodies, Proceedings
of the 12th International Conference on
Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR2008,
Birmingham, UK, 1-7.
Cronin, B.T., Kelling, G., Gurbuz, K., Gul,
M., Celik, H., & Hurst, A., 2008. Evolution
of multiphase, winged, coarse-grained
deep-water canyons: Alikayasi Canyon,
Turkey. Amer Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Studies
in Geology, 56, pp. 357-362.
Sherratt, S. L., North, L. J., Cassidy N.
J., Haycock P. W. and Hoon S. R., 2008.
Ferromagnetic resonance as a tool for the
detection of corrosion on steel reinforcing
bars. EIGG Research Symposium, BGS,
Nottingham, U.K.
Cassidy, N. J., 2008. Characterizing GPR
Signal Attenuation and Scattering in a
Mature LNAPL Spill: A FDTD Modeling
and Dielectric Analysis Study. Vadoze
Zone Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, 140-159.
Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R. and Charman,
D. J. 2008. Using diatom-based transfer
functions to reconstruct middle to late
Holocene changes in relative sea level:
problems, pitfalls and potential solutions.
William Smith Meeting 2008: Observations
and causes of sea-level changes on millennial
to decadal timescales. The Geological
Society, London. 1 - 2nd September 2008.
Cassidy, N. J. 2008. A Geochemical
Characterisation of the tile from the
Wroxeter Hinterland Area, in Gaffney,
V.L., White, R. H., and Goodchild, H.,
(eds), Wroxeter, The Cornovii, and the
Urban Process, Final report on the Wroxeter
Hinterland Project 1994-1997 Volume
1, Researching the Hinterland, Journal
of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary
Series No. 68, 220-227.
Krause S., Heathwaite A.L., Miller F.,
Hulme P., Crowe A. (2008) Groundwaterdependent wetlands in the UK and Ireland:
controls,
eco-hydrological
functions
and assessing the likelihood of damage
from human activities. Journal of Water
Resources and Management. 21 (12), 20152025, doi:10.1007/s11269-007-9192
Szkornik, K. and Marshall, W.A. 2008.
Holocene sea-level changes in the Dyfi
Estuary, west Wales, UK. International
Geoscience Programme Project 495 and the
INQUA Commission on Coastal and Marine
Processes Joint Meeting, Faro, Portugal.
27th October - 1st November 2008.
Catapano, I., Crocco, L., Soldovieri F.
and Cassidy, N. J., 2008. A feasibility
study of two non-linear imaging methods
for GPR surveys, Proceedings of the
12th International Conference on
Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR2008,
Birmingham, UK, 1-7.
Whelley, P. L., Calder, E. S., Alcaraz, S.,
Prichard, M., Cassidy, N. J. and Pavez,
A. 2008. Post-depositional deformation of
the 1993 pumice flow deposits of Lascar
volcano, Chile. Conference on Natural
Disasters in Small Communities, How Can
We Help? University at Buffalo, USA.
Charbonnier, S., and Gertisser, R., Field
observations and surface characteristics of
pristine block-and-ash flow deposits from
the 2006 eruption of Merapi Volcano,
Java, Indonesia, J. Volcanol. Geotherm.
Res. (2008) doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.200
8.07.008.
Whelley, P. L., Calder, E. S., Alcaraz, S.,
Prichard, M., Cassidy, N. J. and Pavez,
A. 2008. Post-depositional deformation of
the 1993 pumice flow deposits of Lascar
volcano, Chile. IAVCEI General Assembly,
Duller, R. A., Mountney. N. P., Russell, A.
J., and Cassidy, N. J., 2008. Architectural
Analysis of a Volcaniclastic Jökulhlaup
Deposit, Southern Iceland: Sedimentary
Evidence
for
Supercritical
Flow,
Preece, K., Gertisser, R. & Keller, J.
(2008): The Lower Pumice 2 Eruption,
Santorini, Greece. Volcanic and Magmatic
Studies Group Annual Meeting, Dublin,
Ireland, Jan. 2008.
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Buytaert, W., Reusser, D., Krause, S.,
Renaud, J-P, (2008) Why can’t we do better
than Topmodel? Hydrological Processes.
22 (20), 4175-4179
Krause S., Jacobs J., Habeck A., Bronstert
A., Zehe E. (2008) Assessing the impact
of changes in landuse and management
practices on the diffusive pollution and
retention of nitrate in a riparian floodplain.
Science of the Total Environment. 389 (1),
149-164
Krause S., Bronstert A., Zehe (2007) E.
Groundwater - surface water interactions
in a North German lowland floodplain
- implications for the river discharge
dynamics and riparian water balance.
Journal of Hydrology. 47 (3-4), 404-417
Krause S., Bronstert A. (2007) Water
Balance Simulations and Groundwater Surface Water – Interactions in a Mesoscale
Lowland River Catchment. Hydrological
Processes, 21, 169 - 184, doi: 10.1002/
hyp.6182
Krause S., Jacobs J., Bronstert A. (2007)
Modelling the impacts of land-use and
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drainage density on the water balance
of a lowland–floodplain landscape in
northeast Germany, Ecological Modelling.
200
(3-4),
475-492,
doi:10.1016/
j.ecolmodel.2006.08.015
Krause S., Bronstert A., Zehe E. (2007)
Groundwater – surface water exchange
fluxes in a pleistocene lowland catchment
and the impacts on riparian zone water
balance and nitrate conditions. In: Water
Quality and Sediment Behaviour of the
Future: Predictions for the 21st Century.
IAHS Publication 314. Wallingford. 98
– 107
Millington, T. M. and Cassidy, N. J.,
2008. Optimising GPR Modelling: A
Practical, Multi-threaded Approach to 3D
FDTD Numerical Modeling, Proceedings
of the 12th International Conference on
Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR2008,
Birmingham, UK, 1-7.
Nuzzo, L. Pringle, J. K., Jervis, J., Cassella,
J. P. and Cassidy, N. J. 2008. Combined
time-lapse 3D
GPR and resistivity
investigations on simulated clandestine
burials in complex urban environments.
Proceedings of the 12th International
Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar,
GPR2008, Birmingham, UK, 1-8.
Nuzzo, L., Prisco G., Millington T. M.,
Cassidy, N. J., Crocco L. and Soldovieri
F., 2008. Advanced Modeling and
Inversion for Bistatic GPR Evaluation of
Incipient Pipeline Leakage, Proceedings
of the 12th International Conference on
Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR2008,
Birmingham, UK, 1-7.
Pringle, J.K., Stimpson, I.G., Toon, S.M.,
Caunt, S., Lane, V.S., Husband, C.R.,
Jones, G.M., Cassidy, N.J. & Styles, P.
2008. Geophysical characterisation of
derelict coalmine workings and mineshaft
detection: a case study from Shrewsbury,
UK. Near Surface Geophysics, 6(3), 185194.
Pringle, J.K., Jervis, J., Cassella, J.P.
& Cassidy, N.J.
2008. Time-lapse
geophysical investigations over a simulated
urban clandestine grave. Journal of
Forensic Sciences,53(6).
Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R. and Murray,
A.S. 2008. Aeolian sand movement and
relative sea-level rise in the Ho Bugt
embayment, western Denmark during the
Little Ice Age. The Holocene, 18 (6): 951
- 965.
Waller, R.I., van Dijk, T.A.G.P. &
Knudsen, O. 2007. Subglacial bedforms
and conditions associated with the 1991
surge of Skeiðarárjökull, Iceland. Boreas.
doi:10.1111j.1502-3885.2007.00017.x
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Waller, R.I.., Murton, J. & Whiteman,
C. 2008. Submarginal glaciotectonic
deformation of Pleistocene permafrost. In:
Kane, D.L. & Hinkel, K.M., Proceedings
of the Ninth International Conference
on Permafrost, Volume 2, University of
Alaska Fairbanks, pp1905-1910.
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Yigitbas, E., Winchester J.A. Ottley, C.J.
2008. The geochemistry and setting of
the Demerci paragneisses of the Sunnice
Massif, NW Turkey. Turkish Journal of
Earth Sciences, 17, 421-431.
Past newsletters on web:
Congratulations
Former postgraduate Chris Banks was awarded the Clough Memorial Award. This is a
monetary award, given to a geologist of British nationality and up to 35 years old whose
research on some aspect of the geology of Scotland or the north of England is considered
as having outstanding merit. It is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years.”
Graham Williams has taken over from Peter Styles as Director of EPSAM Research
Institute.
Good-bye
We say good-bye and
thank-you
for
your
excellent
work
to
Christina
Tecklenburg
and Matthias Munz from
Potsdam
University
(Germany) who from
March to October 2008
worked in a Leonardo
EU-Fellowship
with
Stefan
Krause
on
experimental and model
based investigations of
nutrient transport across groundwater – surface water interfaces.
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