MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS
Tony Watts, Professor of Marine Geology and GeophysicsResearch Students: Tiago Cunha, Matt Rodger, Lara Kalnins
Recent collaborators: Christine Peirce (Durham), Ingo Grevemeyer (IFM-GEOMAR), Doug Masson (NSOC), David Sandwell (Scripps)
Formed in 1991 as a result of the University Grants Committee (UGC) review of UK Geology Departments, we are a small group who are interested in the structure and evolution of the world's ocean basins and their margins.
To date, we have participated in four research cruises on the RRS Charles Darwin, one on the RRS James Clark Ross, one on RRS Discovery, one on MV Meteor, and two on the commercial ships, MV GECO Prakla and MV SONNE. The cruises, which have been collaborative efforts with scientists from the Universities of Birmingham and Durham, the Southampton Oceanography Centre, the British Antarctic Survey, the Institute of Earth Sciences in Barcelona, and IFM-GEOMAR in Kiel, has involved field work in the vicinity of Gibraltar, Spain, Morocco, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, French Guiana, NE Brazil, Surinam, Amazon River, Tonga Islands, and Fiji. The cruise data have been the subject of six Ph.D theses and several publications.
The group maintains a small network of SUN workstations and has access to the ProMax, Seismic Unix, GeoMapApp, ERDAS, ErMapper, GMT and MB software systems for the processing and display of underway marine geological and geophysical data.
This web site offers an overview of some of the group's research activities.
