ProfessorJoannaMorgan

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Emeritus Professor of Geophysics

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 6423j.v.morgan

Location

1.46CRoyal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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.Goderis S, Sato H, Ferrière L, Schmitz B, Burney D, Kaskes P, Vellekoop J, Wittmann A, Schulz T, Chernonozhkin SM, Claeys P, de Graaff SJ, Déhais T, de Winter NJ, Elfman M, Feignon J-G, Ishikawa A, Koeberl C, Kristiansson P, Neal CR, Owens JD, Schmieder M, Sinnesael M, Vanhaecke F, Van Malderen SJM, Bralower TJ, Gulick SPS, Kring DA, Lowery CM, Morgan JV, Smit J, Whalen MT, IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists close, 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.Schaefer B, Grice K, Coolen MJL, Summons RE, Cui X, Bauersachs T, Schwark L, Böttcher ME, Bralower TJ, Lyons SL, Freeman KH, Cockell CS, Gulick SPS, Morgan JV, Whalen MT, Lowery CM, Vajda V close, 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.Gulick SPS, Bralower T, Ormö J, Hall B, Grice K, Schaefer B, Lyons S, Freeman KH, Morgan J, Artemieva N, Kaskes P, de Graaff SJ, Whalen M, Collins G, Tikoo SM, Verhagen C, Christeson GL, Claeys P, Coolen M, Goderis S, Goto K, Grieve R, McCall N, Osinski G, Rae A, Riller U, Smit J, Vajda V, Wittmann A, and the Expedition 364 Scientists close, 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.Hooft EEE, Heath BA, Toomey DR, Paulatto M, Papazachos CB, Nomikou P, Morgan JV, Warner MR close, 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.Riller U, Poelchau MH, Rae A, Schulte FM, Collins GS, Melosh HJ, Grieve RAF, Morgan JV, Gulick SPS, Lofi J, Diaw A, McCall N, Kring DA close, 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.Lowery CM, Bralower TJ, Owens JD, Rodríguez-Tovar FJ, Jones H, Smit J, Whalen MT, Claeys P, Farley K, Gulick SPS, Morgan JV, Green S, Chenot E, Christeson GL, Cockell CS, Coolen MJL, Ferrière L, Gebhardt C, Goto K, Kring DA, Lofi J, Ocampo-Torres R, Perez-Cruz L, Pickersgill AE, Poelchau MH, Rae ASP, Rasmussen C, Rebolledo-Vieyra M, Riller U, Sato H, Tikoo SM, Tomioka N, Urrutia-Fucugauchi J, Vellekoop J, Wittmann A, Xiao L, Yamaguchi KE, Zylberman W close, 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.Morgan JV, Gulick SPS, Bralower T, Chenot E, Christeson G, Claeys P, Cockell C, Collins GS, Coolen MJL, Ferrière L, Gebhardt C, Goto K, Jones H, Kring DA, Le Ber E, Lofi J, Long X, Lowery C, Mellett C, Ocampo-Torres R, Osinski GR, Perez-Cruz L, Pickersgill A, Poelchau M, Rae A, Rasmussen C, Rebolledo-Vieyra M, Riller U, Sato H, Schmitt DR, Smit J, Tikoo S, Tomioka N, Urrutia-Fucugauchi J, Whalen M, Wittmann A, Yamaguchi KE, Zylberman W close, 2016, The formation of peak rings in large impact craters, Science, Vol:354, ISSN:0036-8075, Pages:878-882

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