People

Group Coordinators

GeoSciences

• Mark Naylor
• Ian Main
• Andy Bell
  Earthquake interactions, triggering and forecasting.
• Andrew Curtis
• Sabine Lennartz

British Geological Survey

• Brian Baptie
• Roger Musson

GeoSciences

• Thor Thordarson
  Explosive volcanism, magma fragmentation, magma degassing, flood basalt eruptions, igneous geochemistry, planetary volcanism
• Andy Dugmore
  Tephra deposition, jökulhlaups, past social vulnerability to climate change; primary area of interest, North Atlantic Islands
• Anthony Newton
  Cataloguing tephra deposits (Tephrabase), impact of tephra in proximal and distal environments, mapping jökulhlaup flood routes
• Chris Hayward
  Magmatic degassing, geochemistry, magma fragmentation
• John A Stevenson [volcan01010 blog]
  Subglacial volcanism, explosive volcanism, magma-water interactions, GIS in volcanology
• Andy Bell
  Volcanic seismicity, deformation and eruption forecasting. Linking field, laboratory and statistical studies
• Kate T Smith
  Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and hazard assessments at Icelandic volcanoes

British Geological Survey

• Susan Loughlin
  Head of Volcanology. Volcano monitoring, communicating hazard and risk to official bodies and communities.

Snow Avalanche and Winter Hazards

• Michael Zaiser
  Mechanics of Snow, Skiing, and Snow Avalanches; Fracture and Failure of Heterogeneous Materials
• Jane Blackford
  Fundamentals of ice mechanics to develop material surfaces to give controlled friction on ice and snow

Weather hazard

• David Stevenson
• Gabi Hegerl
• Simon Tett

Climate change enhanced hazard

• Dick Kroon
  Sea level
• Gabi Hegerl
• Ruth D
  Heat wave frequency
• David Sugden
• Pete Ninow
  Ice sheet collapse
• Rachel: Ocean acidification, context of global warming
• Simon M

Mathematical description of hazard, uncertainty and risk

• Mark Naylor
• Ian Main
• Andrew Curtis
• Andy Bell
  Developing physical and statistical models for hazard occurrence and testing their predictive power in real-time

Expert elicitation; how to handle qualitative expert judgement

• Andrew Curtis
• Debbie Polson

Surface process hazard; landsliding, impact of flood (sedimentology side)

• Hugh Sinclair
• Simon Mudd
• Mikael Attal
• Linda Kirstein

Derisking geological storage of CO2

• Debbie Polson
• Mark Naylor
  Managing risk and uncertainty for the geological storage of CO2; quantifying security.
• Stuart Haszeldine
  Scottish Power Professor of Carbon Capture & Storage & Sedimentary Geology - CO2 Aquifer-seal interactions, natural analogues, UK and EU activities, UK Energy Research Centre
• Arash JafarGandomi
  Geophysical Monitoring of Subsurface CO2 Storage Sites
• Mark Wilkinson
  Programme director of MSc in CCS; and natural analogues for geological carbon storage.

Derisking Nuclear waste storage

• Simon Harley

Contaminated land and remediation

• Ian Butler
• Bryne
• Chris McDermott

The human dimension

• Andrea Nightingale