New Nature Geoscience paper by our team in the Rock Mechanics Laboratory, including Giacomo Pozzi, Nicola De Paola, Stefan Nielsen, Bob Holdsworth and Telemaco Tesei, shows that viscous deformation is a potentially prevalent mechanism of fault lubrication during earthquakes.

New Nature paper by a team including Fred Worrall, shows the dominant importance of controlling the water table in developing CO2 sinks on peatlands. 

Jeroen van Hunen has been elected as President for the Geodynamics division of the European Geoscience Union Geodynamics.

Jenny Jenkins one of new Assistant Professors sent several days in Iceland working with her husband collecting seismic data about the recent Fagradalsfjall volcano eruption.

Professor Jon Gluyas (Director of Durham Energy Institute) is leading a new initiative bringing Industry and Academia together to advance the role of geothermal energy in the energy transition: the newly formed Geothermal Energy Advancement Association (GEAA).

We are excited to announce the launch of our new 3 year Climate Science degree course!

Two scholarships available for UK students to undertake MSc by research projects in Durham Earth Sciences.

Madeleine Stow received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) for a presentation given at the annual AGU Meeting in December 2020

Postdoctoral Research Associate Martin Mangler has received the 2021 Geochemistry Group’s Early Career Researchers Prominent Lecturer award.

After a long wait, Tom Phillips received the 2020 Presidents Award from the Geological Society in a virtual ceremony held on the Feb 25, 2021 .

Technical support has been critical to the safe reopening of the department and its preparations for both online and face-to-face teaching, and for lab-based research.

The department is delighted to announce that Kit Hardman, a recently completed PhD student in Durham, has been voted the winner of the JGS Early Career Award (2020) by the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Geological Society for his paper.