Planetary science
The department, together with the Natural History Museum, hosts the IARC planetary science group: One of the leading groups worldwide. If you are interested in one of the projects listed below please feel free to contact the associated staff. You can discover more about the IARC group from their website.
Projects
Determining paleointensities from chemical remanent magnetisations in rocks and meteorites [Info Sheet]
Adrian Muxworthy & David Heslop (ANU, Canberra)
Fluid dynamics of magma reservoirs at mid-ocean ridges [Info Sheet]
Prof. Matthew Jackson and Dr C. Johan Lissenberg (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University)
Mixing and volatile depletion of the early solar system [Info sheet]
Fluid dynamics of magma reservoirs at mid-ocean ridges [Info sheet]
Philippa Mason, Richard Ghail, Gareth Roberts
Extracting Records for Life on Mars [Life on Mars]
Rapid Assessment of Organic-rich Rocks for Astrobiology [Info sheet]
A next generation life detector [Info sheet]
Hydrocarbon gases and their biological or non-biological sources - recognising the fingerprint of life [Info sheet]
Mark Sephton & Craig P. Smalley
MIXING AND VOLATILE DEPLETION IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM [Info Sheet]
MICROSPHERULES IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD [Info Sheet]
Multiscale modeling of compaction of primitive solar system materials [Info Sheet]
Gareth Collins, Tom Davison and Phil Bland (Curtin)
Decoding inner solar system bombardment from impact crater populations [Info sheetInfo Sheet]
Impact Processing of Planetary Crust [Info Sheet]
Gareth Collins and Mark Wieczorek (IPGP)
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS ON THE FIDELITY OF MAGNETIC RECORDING IN NATURAL SYSTEMS [Info Sheet]
Adrian Muxworthy and Wyn Williams (University of Edinburgh)