Department of Earth Sciences
About this community
Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography
Earth Sciences is the most multidisciplinary of the Natural Sciences. Our understanding of the Earth and other planets is based on research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences and includes the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, Palaeoceanography. We focus on particular aspects of the earth; its internal structure and evolution, the behaviour and properties of minerals as natural materials, oil, gas and other natural resources, Earth history as recorded in rocks and fossils, the origin of life and global climate change. We draw on the expertise of the neighbouring sciences, mathematics, chemistry, physics, material sciences, geography and the biological sciences.
Sub-communities within this community
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Mineral Science
Research focusing on elucidating the properties and behaviour of minerals and fluids at a fundamental level
Collections in this community
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Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems
Using chemical, isotopic and sedimentary proxies of critical parameters to explore the causes and consequences of rapid climate changes in the last glacial cycle -
Geodynamics, Geophysics and Tectonics
Investigation of a very broad spectrum of structural, tectonic and geodynamical processes using quantitative physical models based on land-, marine- and space-based observations -
Palaeobiology
Straddles Earth Sciences and Biology; aims to investigate whether evolution is open-ended and indeterminate, or highly constrained by physico-chemical factors -
Petrology: Igneous, Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies
Research of igneous, metamorphic and volcanic processes to enhance understanding of global tectonics as well as their more immediate impacts on our surficial environment
Recent Submissions
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Geochemical Insights into Earth Materials from Quantum Mechanical Computation
The application of predictive and illustrative geochemistry, via ab initio structure cal- culation, is explored. These examples span from applications relevant to understanding geochemical proxies in biogenic carbonates, ... -
Theoretical and computational studies in seismic tomography
Seismic tomography allows us to study the interior structure of the Earth on a range of lengthscales, with the method of waveform inversion being a promising and relatively recent development. In this work, we present new ... -
Reduced-Order Modelling and Observations of Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage
Worldwide carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions targets are unlikely to be met without large scale geological CO2 storage, with much of the storage capacity found in saline aquifers. The key aim of carbon sequestration is the ... -
Diatoms in Antarctic ice cores, a novel proxy for reconstructing past wind variability in the Pacific sector of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind belt
The Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds play a critical role in the global climate system by modulating the upwelling and the transfer of heat and carbon between the atmosphere and the ocean. Since observations started, the ...
