Overview
- Ocean modelling, modern and ancient
- Palaeobiology
- Fossil preservation
- Evolutionary change in benthic faunas
- Sedimentation in epicontinental seas
Research Grants Since 2005
1. Finite-Element Modelling of Tides in Ancient Epicontinental Seas. 2005-2009. Value £205,325. Awarded by Leverhulme Trust to Peter A. Allison (PI), Chris Pain, Gary Hampson and Matthew Piggott. Funds Dr. Hedong Liu and a postgraduate student. 2005-2009. (http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/recent/Aug_2005.pdf
2. Next-Generation Unstructured Mesh Ocean Global Circulation Modelling. 2005-2009. Value £1,068,178 (plus extension). Awarded by NERC to Chris Pain (PI), Matthew Piggott, Tony Goddard, and Peter Allison. Funds Dr. David Ham, Dr. Fangxin Fang, Dr. Tim Bond, Dr. Gerard Gorman and Stefan Kramer. 2005-20011. http://gotw.nerc.ac.uk/list_full.asp?pcode=NE/C52101X/1
3. NERC Grant NE/F004184/1. FInite eLement Adaptive grid Modelling of Ecosystems and Nutrient Transport. 307k 2008-2011. http://gotw.nerc.ac.uk/list_full.asp?pcode=NE/F004184/1
4. NERC Grant NE/F012594/1. Global Ocean Modelling with Adaptive Unstructured Grid Methods. 312k. 2008-2011. http://gotw.nerc.ac.uk/list_full.asp?pcode=NE/F012594/1
5. Grantham Institute for Climate Change studentship. The Role of Southern Ocean Gateways on the Evolution of the ACC and cooling in the Palaeogene. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/climatechange/courses/phds/gateways
6. EPSRC Grant EP/I00405X/1. Advanced new methods for multi-scale free surface regional ocean modelling with adjoint data assimilation. 789k. 2010-2013. http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/I00405X/1
7. Grantham Institute for Climate Change Studentship. Funds tuition and salary, 2011-2014.
8. NERC grant NE/J015938/1. UK - China Initiative to Develop Predictive Multi-Scale Ocean Modelling as a Key Aspect of a Joint Environmental Modelling Centre. 232k. http://gotw.nerc.ac.uk/list_full.asp?pcode=NE%2FJ015938%2F1
9. EPSRC grant EP/J010065/1. Large scale interactive coupled modelling of environmental impacts of marine renewable energy farms . £1.020k http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/J010065/1
10. NERC grant NE/K000047/1. Will climate change in the arctic increase the landslide-tsunami risk to the UK? £437k. http://gotw.nerc.ac.uk/list_full.asp?pcode=NE%2FK000047%2F1
11. Active industrial research contracts. £200k.
Collaborators
Dave Bottjer, University of Southern California, Palaeontology, Taphonomy
Carlton E. Brett, University of Cincinnatti, Palaeontology, Taphonomy
Prof. Christopher C. Pain, AMCG (ESE, Imperial)
Dr. Matthew Piggott (NERC Fellow), AMCG (ESE, Imperial)
Dr Gary Hampson
Dr. Gerard J. Gorman
Research Staff
Research Student Supervision
Aguilera-Franco,N, High resolution stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian of southern Mexico
Collins,DS, Palaeotidal evolution of the South China Seas: Impact on Neogene Reservoirs
Croskell,M, Modelling the Chicxclub impact
Cullen,MA, Heterogeneity of the fossilization process
Funke,SW, Flow Control and Optimization
Hassan,MA, Sedimentary facies, sequence stratigraphy and basin hydrodynamics: Miocene coastal and coastal plain
Hernandes-Romano,U, Facies, stratigraphy and diagenesis of the Cenomanian-Turonian of the Guerrero-Morelos platform
Hiester,HR, The application of adaptive mesh techniques to numerical simulations of gravity current flows
Jordan,N, Jurassic Epicontinental Seas
Kenyon-Roberts,SK, The petrography and distrubution of some calcite sea hardgrounds
McVicar,AJ, Numerical simulations of flow–topography interaction using unstructured grids
Mitchell,A, Palaeocirculation in the Jurassic epicontinental seaway
Parkinson,S, Sediment-laden density currents
Perry,CP, Controls on reef framework and sediment preservation:examples from the Holocene and Pleistocene of J
Wells,M, Modelling Tides in Ancient Epicontinental Seas