Summary
Biography
- Professor, Imperial College London 2011- date
- Reader, Imperial College London 2004-2011
- Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London 2000-2004
- PhD Marine Geophysics, Cambridge, UK 1984-1988
- Schlumberger wireline engineer, Italy 1982-1984
- Field geophysics, Australia 1980-1982
- BSc Geophysics, Southampton, UK 1980
Recent Measures of Esteem
- Barringer award, Meteoritical Society, 2020
- Morgan et al., 2016, Highest IODP altmetric score
- Runner up Science breakthrough of the year, 2019
- PESGB Stoneleigh Lectures, May 2018
- AGU 2017, Frontiers of Geophysics Keynote Lecture
- Co-chief scientist IODP/ICDP Chicxulub drilling, 2016.
Member IARC
Member Earth and Planets
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Goderis S, Sato H, Ferrière L, et al. , 2021, Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure., Science Advances, Vol:7, ISSN:2375-2548, Pages:1-14
Artemieva N, Morgan J, 2020, Global K‐Pg layer deposited from a dust cloud, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:47, ISSN:0094-8276, Pages:1-8
Schaefer B, Grice K, Coolen MJL, et al. , 2020, Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater, Geology, Vol:48, ISSN:0091-7613, Pages:328-332
Gulick SPS, Bralower T, Ormö J, et al. , 2019, The first day of the Cenozoic, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol:116, ISSN:0027-8424, Pages:19342-19351
Hooft EEE, Heath BA, Toomey DR, et al. , 2019, Seismic imaging of Santorini: subsurface constraints on caldera collapse and present-day magma recharge, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol:514, ISSN:0012-821X, Pages:48-61
Riller U, Poelchau MH, Rae A, et al. , 2018, Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact structures, Nature, Vol:562, ISSN:0028-0836, Pages:511-518
Lowery CM, Bralower TJ, Owens JD, et al. , 2018, Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, Nature, Vol:558, ISSN:0028-0836, Pages:288-291
Morgan JV, Artemieva N, Expedition 364 Science Party, 2017, Quantifying the release of climate-active gases by large meteorite impacts with a case study of Chicxulub, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:44, ISSN:0094-8276, Pages:10180-10188
Morgan JV, Gulick SPS, Bralower T, et al. , 2016, The formation of peak rings in large impact craters, Science, Vol:354, ISSN:0036-8075, Pages:878-882