Research projects

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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
The Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) NERC 1 April 2002 31 March 2029
Mapping the coupling properties of the subduction megathrust using seismic data Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2022 30 September 2026
Monitoring and characterising three subglacial Lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet (SLIDE) NERC 1 January 2023 31 December 2025
Smart assessment, management and optimisation of urban geothermal resources (SmartRes) NERC 1 December 2022 30 November 2025
Earth's core as a layered system NERC 1 April 2021 31 March 2025

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
MC2: Mantle Convection Constrained NERC 1 October 2020 30 September 2024
Time-varying behaviour of fault systems and seismicity Royal Society 9 November 2018 8 November 2023
Resolving the Inner Core Nucleation Paradox NERC 8 June 2020 1 October 2023
NSFGEO-NERC: On the origin of extreme variations in Earth's magnetic field NERC 1 July 2020 30 June 2023
Volcano Monitoring using Deep Learning European Space Agency 1 July 2020 30 June 2022
NSFGEO-NERC:Integrated Experimental and Dynamical Modeling of Top-down Crystallization in Terrestrial Cores:Implications for Core Cooling in the Earth NERC 1 April 2020 31 March 2022
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics in Earth's core -- the agenda for the next decade NERC 1 January 2020 31 December 2021
EUROVOLC: Bringing the European volcanological community closer together EU Horizon 2020 1 February 2018 31 January 2021
Quantifying the variability and migration of active normal faulting during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene using 36Cl cosmogenic nuclide techniques 1 February 2016 31 January 2021
Reliable Earthquake Magnitudes for Induced Seismicity (REMIS) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 December 2017 1 November 2020
A new energy budget for the Earth's core Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 January 2015 1 January 2020
Rift Volcanism (RiftVolc): Past, Present and Future 1 September 2014 31 August 2019
The Feedback between Volatiles and Mantle Dynamics Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 September 2014 31 August 2019
SoS Rare project (Security of Supply) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 May 2015 30 April 2019
Rheological control of the dynamics of Earth's transition zone Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 October 2013 1 October 2018
Paradoxes, conundrums and gaps: ancient Pb and Os in refractory mantle domains Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 February 2013 31 January 2018
Strengthen Resilience in Volcanic Areas (STREVA) 1 September 2012 21 August 2017
Earthquakes without Frontiers: A Partnership for Increasing Resilience to Seismic Hazard in the Continents Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 July 2012 30 June 2017
Volcano-hydrologic hazards associated with the April 2015 eruption of Calbuco volcano, Chile 1 July 2015 30 September 2016