GeoHazard, Risk Reduction and Uncertainty Management

The management and forecasting of GeoHazards requires scientific understanding of both underlying process and statistics. The School of GeoSciences successfully attracts research funding ~£1.5M per year to undertake field, laboratory and theoretical studies that underpin the science of natural hazards in an inherently uncertain world.

Earthquakes

Modelling earthquake occurrence
Rock mechanics and brittle deformation
Earthquake interferometry
Increasing resilience to earthquakes

Volcanoes

Seismic activity at Katla volcano
Explosive eruption fragmentation
Lava flow during effusive eruptions
Magma degassing
Fingerprinting and dating ash deposits

Surface Processes

Icelandic Megafloods
Indus Valley floods in 2010, Ladakh, India

GeoHazards Enhanced by Climate Change

Salt marsh inundation

Induced GeoHazards and Risks

Health risks from natural CO2 seeps [BBC news]

Edinburgh Led Projects

Hazard Forecasting in Real Time EFFORT
Edinburgh Collaborative of Subsurface Science and Engineering ECOSSE

Science to Policy

enhancing learning and research for humanitarian assistance LRHA

International Projects

Localizing signatures of catastrophic failure LOCAT
Increased Community Resilience through Integrated Earthquake Science ICRIES
Increasing the Resilience to Volcanic Eruptions VOLCANOSCOPE
Quantifying and Monitoring Potential Ecosystem Impacts of Geological Carbon Storage QICS
Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability CSEP
Community Online Resource for Statistical Seismicity Analysis CORSSA
Towards Improving Groundwater Vulnerability Network IMVUL

Completed projects

Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology NERIES
Novel Approaches to Networks of Interacting Autonomes NANIA
Innovation in forecasting volcanic eruptions VOLCALERT