Winners of British Geophysical Association annual "Postgraduate
Research in Progress" meeting prizes
2014 (Liverpool)
talk - Tim Hughes, University of Southampton, "Environmental controls on the thermal performance of submarine high-voltage cables"
Runner-up - Laura Petrescu, Imperial College, London,
"Probabilistic inversion and H-k stacking of receiver functions"
Poster - Laura Parisi, University of East Anglia, "Waveform modelling of high-frequency body waves of 3-D Earth structure"
Runner-up - Michael Allen, University of Liverpool,
"Laboratory permeability and seismic velocity anisotropy measurements
across the Alpine Fault, New Zealand"
2013 (Cambridge)
Talk - Ross Parnell-Turner, University of Cambridge, "Time
dependent mantle plume behaviour beneath the North Atlantic Ocean"
First Runner-up - David Schlaphorst, University of Bristol,
"Seismological insights into the structure of the Lesser Antilles Arc"
Second Runner-up - Zoe Watson, University of Cambridge,
"Non-double-couple earthquakes in Krafla caldera, Iceland"
Poster - Karen Lythgoe, University of Cambridge,
"Earth's enigmatic inner core"
Runner-up - Grace Cox, University of Leeds, "Forward
models of torsional waves: dispersion and geometric effects"
2012 (Leeds)
Talk - Tom Garth, University of Liverpool,
"Slab structure associated with Wadati-Benioff zone seismicity"
Poster - Megan Thomas, University of Liverpool,
"Middle Eastern archaeomagnetic jerks and their potential
link with climate change"
2011 (Oxford)
Talk - Richard Walters, University of Oxford,
"Interseismic strain accumulation across the Ashkabad fault (NE Iran) from
MERIS-corrected InSAR data"
Poster - Colette Couves, University of Southampton ,
"Investigating the controls on porosity and permeability development
in igneous oil and gas reservoirs"
2010 (Bristol)
Talk - James Verdon, University of Bristol,
"Linking microseismic event ovservations with geomechanical models
to minimise the risks of storing CO2 in geological formations"
Poster - Frances Beckett, University of Bristol,
"Bi-directional flow experiments and implications for degassing processes
at Stromboli volcano (Aeolian archipelago)"
2009 (Imperial College, London)
Talk - Richard Walters, University of Oxford,
"The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (central Italy): a source mechanism and
implications for seismic hazard"
Poster - Victoria Ridley, University of Liverpool,
"Jovimagnetic secular variation"
2008 (Durham)
Talk - Othman Al-Harrasi, University of Bristol,
"Measuring Anisotropy in Hydracarbon Reservoirs using Passive
Seismic"
Poster - Dean J. Wilson, Durham University, "Seismic
constraints on the structure of the Cape Verde swell"
2007 (Cardiff)
Talk - Rhodri Davies, Cardiff University, "Adaptive finite
element methods in geodynamics; convection dominated mid-ocean ridge
and subduction zone simulations"
Talk - Ricardo Ramalho, University of Bristol,
"Testing the depleted swell root model for the Cape
Verde hotspot swell"
Poster - Chris Mallows, University of Durham,
"Deep-towed magnetic studies of amagmatic spreading centres: the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 13 degrees N."
2006 (Edinburgh)
Talk - Kirsty Styles, University of Leeds, "Seismic Anisotropy from
local earthquakes in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, North Island, New
Zealand"
Talk - Rebecca Bell, University of Southampton, "Structural
Evolution of the western Gulf of Corinth Rift"
Talk - Max Moorkamp, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,
"Joint Inversion of MT and seismic receiver function data using a
Genetic Algorithm"
Talk - Mark E. Vardy, University of Southampton,
"High-resolution 3D seismic volumes: a case study in Small Object
Detection"
Poster - Ceri Davies, University of Liverpool, "A
comparative invesitgation of Late Cretaceous basalts from Madagascar.
Palaeointensities as determined with the Microwave Technique"
Poster - Caroline Graham, University of Edinburgh,
"Source Mechanisms of Acoustic Emissions in Triaxially Loaded
Granite"
2005 (U.C. Galway)
Talk - David Cornwell, University of Leicester, "Lithospheric
Structure from EAGLE Teleseismic
and Gravity studies across the Northern Main Ethiopian Rift"
Poster - ??
2004 (Liverpool)
Talk - Ian Bastow, University of Leeds, "Upper Mantle Seismic
Structure of the Northern Ethiopian Rift - a Region of Incipient
Continental Breakup"
Poster - Alastair C. Belson, University of Leeds,
"Seismic Source Characteristics of Volcanic Low-frequency Earthquakes"
2003 (Leeds)
Talk - David Green, University of Leeds, "Waveform Analysis of
Low-frequency earthquakes associated with Volcanic Activity on
Montserrat"
Talk - Jennifer Inwood, University of Plymouth,
"First Palaeomagnetic
results from the Hatay (Kizil Dag) Ophiolite of Turkey and their
implication for the Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean Tethys"
Poster - Sylvana Pilidou, University of Cambridge,
"Upper Mantle Sv-wave speed heterogeneity beneath the North Atlantic and the
surrounding region from Regional Surface-wave Tomography"
2002 (Southampton)
Talk - ??
Poster - Philip M. Benson, University College, London,
"Comparative Anisotropy of Sedimentary Rocks"