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Earth Systems Research Group
Our interdisciplinary research group aims to develop an integrated understanding of the evolution of the Earth's surface and near-surface environments. We collaborate very closely in this mission with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC).
The bulk of the ESRG research is built around the themes outlined below:
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Earth-life processes:
This theme addresses the physical and biological processes, feedbacks and dependencies that develop in response to primary climatic and tectonic forcing. We study biominerals and biomarkers, and use techniques including stable isotope and trace element analyses and organic geochemistry.
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Surface processes:
We study the evolution of the Earth's surface and its environments over all spatial and temporal scales, including the interaction of tectonic and surface processes in coastal, glacial and fluvial settings.
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Shallow crustal processes:
Here we examine the primary geodynamic and tectonic processes responsible for creating and modifying topography. Processes include interactions in the shallow crust between heat and fluid flows, diagenesis, low-grade metamorphism, thermochronology, seismogenic structures, and volcanism.
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Extra-terrestrial and mantle processes:
Topics of this theme include application of noble gas isotope geochemistry to early Earth processes, integration of noble gases and other “lithophile” isotope tracers to quantify sources of magmatism and to constrain modes of mantle convection, diamond genesis and chemistry, and early solar system evolutuion and meteorite impacts.
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Earth
Technology: Advanced analytical and numerical modelling tools for quantifying processes operating at or near the Earth's surface, including Development and application of geochronology
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