Department research activity spans diverse topics designed to investigate the past, present and future of Planet Earth and its resources. Our research work ranges from ground-breaking blue-sky research, to very applied projects with high societal impact deliverables for industrial and government sponsors.
For convenience, our research activities have been divided into the three main themes highlighted below. As in any successful research environment, as well as the research done under these simple groupings, much research happens as internal collaborations between members of these groups and external collaborations at many other high-ranking research institutes globally.
Geodynamics and Sedimentary Systems
- Unravelling historic earthquakes - I.Watkinson
- Where did it come from, where did it go? - A.Gough
- Depositional Processes and reservoir characterisation - D.Chiarella
- Giant landslides - N.Scarselli
- Deep Marine Environments - J.Hernández-Molina
- Subduction systems - Paola Vannucchi
- Geodynamic modeling - Jason Morgan
Physical and Chemical Earth processes
- Is Earth Special? - D.Waltham
- Earth Resources & Meteorites - G.Solferino
- The landscapes of the deep Earth - P.Koelemeijer
Global Environmental Change
We also have a number of individual research groups within the department
- The Drifters Research Group
- Greenhouse Gas Research Group
- Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow Research Group
- SE Asia Research Group
- Continental Margin Research Group (COMPASS)
- Fault Dynamics Research Group
