Dr. Marion Miensopust – Research Scientist

  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
  Geophysics Section
  5 Merrion Square
  Dublin 2
  Ireland

  Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x243
  Fax: +353-1-443-0575
  Email: marion-at-cp.dias.ie

Research Interests

• 3D modelling and inversion of magnetotelluric data (including approaches dealing with distortion)
• MT studies in southern Africa (as part of SAMTEX); especially the Zimbabwe craton region including the Okavango Dyke Swarm
• Investigation of the resistivity structure of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano, Iceland

Qualifications

1998 – 2004:
Geophysics (and Physics). Institut fuer Geophysik, Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster, Germany

2004 – 2005:
Scientific Assistant. Institut fuer Geophysik, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany.
2005 -2010:
PhD at Dublin Institute for Advance Studies. Registered at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

2010 – Present:
 Post-Doctoral scholarship at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and graduate teaching assistant at Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany

See personal homepage for further details

Publications

• Colin G. Farquharson and Marion P. Miensopust (2011) Three-dimensional finite-element modelling of magnetotelluric data with a divergence correction. Journal of Applied Geophysics 75, 699 – 710.
• Miensopust, M., and A.G. Jones (2011).  Artefacts of isotropic inversion applied to magnetotelluric data from an anisotropic Earth, Geophysical Journal International 187, 677 – 689, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05157.x
• Miensopust, M. P., A. G. Jones, M. R. Muller, X. Garcia, and R. L. Evans (2011), Lithospheric structures and Precambrian terrane boundaries in northeastern Botswana revealed through magnetotelluric profiling as part of the Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 116, B02401, doi:10.1029/2010JB007740.
• Muller, M.R., A.G. Jones, R.L. Evans, H.S. Grütter, C. Hatton, X. Garcia, M.P. Hamilton, M.P. Miensopust, P. Cole, T. Ngwisanyi, D. Hutchins, C.J. Fourie, H. A. Jelsma, T. Aravanis, W. Pettit,S.J. Webb, J. Wasborg and The SAMTEX Team (2009). Lithospheric structure, evolution and diamond prospectivity of the Rehoboth Terrane and western Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: constraints from broadband magnetotellurics. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.023.
• Jones, A.G., R.L. Evans, M.R. Muller, M.P. Hamilton, M.P. Miensopust, X. Garcia, P. Cole, T. Ngwisanyi, D. Hutchins, C.J.S Fourie, H. Jelsma, T. Aravanis, W. Pettit, S. Webb, J. Wasborg, and The SAMTEX Team (2009). Area selection for diamonds using magnetotellurics: Examples from southern Africa. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.011.

Dr. Celine Tirel – Research Scientist

  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
  Geophysics Section
  5 Merrion Square
  Dublin 2
  Ireland

  Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x210
  Fax: +353-1-443-0575
  Email: celine-at-cp.dias.ie

Qualifications

Ph.D., Earth Sciences, Géosciences Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, France

DEA (M.Sc.) in Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP).

Research Interests

• Numerical modelling
• Subduction and accretion processes
• Continental deformation
• Seismic anisotropy

Recent Publications

• Tirel C., Brun J.P., Burov E. & Sokoutis D. Numerical and analogue modelling of metamorphic core complex development. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata, v. 45, Supp. 1, p. 156-160, 2004.
• Tirel C., Brun, J-P. and Burov, E., 2004. Thermo-mechanical modeling of extensional gneiss domes. In Gneiss Domes in Orogeny, Whitney, D.L., Teyssier, C., and Siddoway, C.S., editors. Geological Society of America Special Paper, v380, p67-78
• Tirel C., Gueydan, F., Tiberi, C., and Brun, J-P.,2004, Aegean crustal thickness inferred from gravity inversion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v228, p267-280
• Tirel C., 2004. Dynamique de l’extension des domaines continentaux épaissis: dômes métamorphiques et écoulement de la croûte ductile. Phd manuscript. Mémoires de Géosciences Rennes nº 115, 252 p. (2005) – ISBN : 2-914375-29-8
• Tirel C., Brun, J-P. and Sokoutis, D., 2006. Extension of thickened and hot lithospheres, inferences from laboratory modeling. Tectonics, vol. 25, doi:10.1029/2005TC001804
• Tirel C., Brun, J-P. and Burov, E., 2008. Dynamics and structural development of metamorphic core complexes. Journal of Geophysical Research. 113, B04403, doi:10.1029/2005JB003694
• Tirel C., Gautier P., van Hinsbergen D. J. J., and Wortel M. J. R., 2009. Sequential development of interfering metamorphic core complexes: numerical experiments and comparison with the Cyclades, Greece. In Collision and Collapse at the Africa–Arabia–Eurasia Subduction Zone, editors: van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Edwards, M.A. and Govers, R. The Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 257–292. DOI: 10.1144/SP311.10
• Endrun, B., S. Lebedev, T. Meier, C. Tirel, W. Friederich. Complex layered deformation within the Aegean crust and mantle revealed by seismic anisotropy, Nature Geoscience, 4, 203-207, 2011.

Dr. Mark Muller – Schröedinger Fellow

  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
  Geophysics Section
  5 Merrion Square
  Dublin 2
  Ireland

  Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x245
  Fax: +353-1-443-0575
  Email: mark.muller-at-dias.ie

Research interests

• Geophysical imaging for renewable and sustainable energy applications.
• Geophysical imaging of crustal and lithospheric-mantle structure.
• Relationship between geophysical and geological properties of the crust and lithosphere.
• Processes of lithospheric evolution through time.

Qualifications

• Ph.D.  1998.  Geophysics. St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. U.K.
• M.Sc.  1991. Geophysics. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• B.Sc. (Hons)  1988.  Geophysics. University of the Witwatersrand.
• B.Sc.  1987.  Geology and Geophysics. University of the Witwatersrand.

Ongoing and past research

• Magnetotelluric and CSEM investigations of shallow crustal targets in Ireland within several different geological and sustainable energy contexts:

(i.) Mourne Mountain Granites: to assess the geothermal energy potential and style of magmatic emplacement (with GSNI and Birmingham University).

(ii.) Clare Basin: to investigate the variation in porosity of the Ross Sandstone Formation to assess Carbon Capture and Sequestration potential (with GSI).

(iii.) Larne Basin: to assess the potential of Triassic halite deposits to support Compressed Air Energy Storage (with Gaelectric).

(iv.) Saltwater incursions into shallow freshwater aquifers, Galway (with NUIG).

• Lithospheric imaging of southern African Archaean and Proterozoic terranes using magnetotellurics (within the SAMTEX project). Integration of subsurface resistivity models with mantle xenolith chemistry and thermobarometry to determine temporal and spatial variations in the lithospheric-mantle geotherm and composition, to constrain models of lithospheric evolution.

• Modelling of heat-flow and surface elevation observations (using the LitMod approach) to define lithospheric evolution and modification.

• Magnetotelluric imaging of shallow-crustal Permian–Jurassic and Quaternary sediments in southern Africa to determine the uplift and subsidence history since 100 Ma, to assess the nature of lithospheric modification in response to kimberlite thermalism/magmatism.

• Investigation of the oceanic crustal structure of the Southwest Indian Ridge using controlled-source refraction/reflection seismic, gravity and magnetic data, to provide constraints on mid-ocean ridge mantle melting processes.

Publications

• Fullea, J., Muller, M.R. and A.G. Jones, 2011. Electrical conductivity of continental lithospheric mantle from integrated geophysical and petrological modeling: application to the Kaapvaal Craton and Rehoboth Terrane, southern Africa. J. Geophys. Res. – Solid Earth, accepted, 29 June, 2011.
• Evans, R.L., Jones, A.G., Garcia, X., Muller, M.R., Hamilton, M., Evans, S., Fourie, S., Spratt, J., Webb, S., Jelsma, H. and Hutchins, D., 2011. The electrical lithosphere beneath the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa. J. Geophys. Res. – Solid Earth, 116, B04105, doi:10.1029/2010JB007883.
• Miensopust, M.P., Jones, A.G., Muller, M.R., Garcia, X. and Evans, R.L., 2011. Lithospheric structures and Precambrian terrane boundaries in northeastern Botswana revealed through magnetotelluric profiling as part of the Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment. J. Geophys. Res. – Solid Earth, 116, B02401, doi:10.1029/2010JB007740.
• Muller, M.R., Jones, A.G., Evans, R.L., Grütter, H.S., Hatton, C., Garcia, X., Hamilton, M.P., Miensopust, M.P., Cole, P., Ngwisanyi, T., Hutchins, D., Fourie, C.J., Jelsma, H.A., Aravanis, T., Webb, S.J., Wasborg, J. and the SAMTEX Team, 2009. Lithospheric structure, evolution and diamond prospectivity of the Rehoboth Terrane and western Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: constraints from broadband magnetotellurics. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.023.
• Jones, A.G., Evans, R.L., Muller, M.R., Hamilton, M.P., Miensopust, M.P., Garcia, X., Cole, P., Ngwisanyi, T., Hutchins, D., Fourie, C.J., Doucouré, C.M., Aravanis, T., Pettit, W., Webb, S.J., Wasborg, J. and the SAMTEX Team. Area selection for diamonds using magnetotellurics: examples from southern Africa. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.011.
• Minshull, T.A., Muller, M.R. and White, R.S., 2006. Crustal structure of the Southwest Indian Ridge at 66°E: seismic constraints. Geophys. J. Int., 166, 135-147.
• Pretorius, C.C., Muller, M.R., Larroque, M. and Wilkens, C., 2003. A review of 16 years of hard-rock seismics on the Kaapvaal Craton. In: Hardrock Seismic Exploration, eds. D.W. Eaton, B. Milkereit, and M.H. Salisbury, SEG Spec. Publ., Geophys. Developments, 10, 247-268.
• Muller, M.R., Minshull, T.A. and White, R.S., 2000. Crustal structure of the Southwest Indian Ridge at the Atlantis II Fracture Zone. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 25,809-25,828.
• Cannat, M., Briais A., Deplus, C., Escartin, J., Georgen, J., Lin, J., Mercouriev, S., Meyzen, C., Muller, M., Pouliquen, G., Rabain, A. and da Silva, P., 1999. Mid-Atlantic Ridge – Azores hotspot interactions: Along-axis migration of a hotspot-derived event of enhanced magmatism 10 to 4 Ma ago. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 173, 257-269.
• Muller, M.R., Minshull, T.A. and White, R.S., 1999. Segmentation and melt supply at the Southwest Indian Ridge. Geology, 27, 867-870.
• Minshull, T.A., Muller, M.R., Robinson, C.J., White, R.S. and Bickle, M.J., 1998. Is the oceanic Moho a serpentinization front? Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 148, 71-80.
• Muller, M.R., Robinson, C.J., Minshull, T.A., White, R.S. and Bickle, M.J., 1997. Thin crust beneath Ocean Drilling Program borehole 735B at the Southwest Indian Ridge? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 148, 93-107.

Professor Peter Readman – Emeritus Professor

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Geophysics Section
5 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
Ireland

Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x225
Fax: +353-1-4430575
Email: pr-at-cp.dias.ie

Research interests

Recent work has included a seismic study in the southwest of Ireland (the VARNET project), gravity studies in the Irish Midlands, and a seismic and gravity study over the Leinster Granite (LEGS). Over the last few years he has also undertaken, in collaboration with colleagues from UCD, the large-scale AIRS (Atlantic Irish Margins) and TRIM (TOBI Rockall Irish Margins) projects involving the collection and interpretation of surface and deep-tow sidescan sonar data in the Rockall Trough.

He is currently interested in applying seismological and potential field methods to the investigation of crustal and upper mantle structure and development in Ireland and the NE Atlantic region. Current work is mainly centred on the following projects:

• ISLE – Irish Seismological Lithospheric Experiment.
• HADES – HAtton DEep Seismic
• RAPIDS – Rockall And Porcupine Irish Deep Seismic

Background

Peter W. Readman graduated with a B.Sc. in Physics from Durham and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. This was followed by a Royal Society Fellowship at the Laboratoire de Magnétisme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Grenoble, France. After this he joined Ken Creer at Edinburgh for some years before coming to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in the 1980s. His early research was in rock and mineral magnetism, but during the last ten years or so his interest has moved to interdisciplinary studies using mainly seismic and potential field techniques as a means to investigate crustal and upper mantle structures onshore and offshore Ireland, and in the North Atlantic. He has a broad interest in geodynamic processes.

Recent publications

• Proto-Iceland plume caused thinning of Irish lithosphere.
  Landes, M., J.R.R. Ritter and P.W. Readman, 2007. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 255, 32-40.
• Shelf to slope sedimentation processes in the northeast Atlantic, off NW Ireland, and the impact of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations.
  O’Reilly, B.M., Readman, P.W. and Shannon P.M. 2007. Marine Geology, vol 238, 21-44.
• A rheological weak zone intensified by the post-rift thermal relaxation as a possible origin of strain localization associated with the reactivation of rifting.
  Yamasaki, T., O’Reilly, B.M. and Readman, P.W., 2006. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 248, 119-131.
• A N-S receiver function profile across the Variscides and Caledonides of SW Ireland.
  Landes, M., Ritter, J.R.R., O’Reilly, B.M., Readman, P.W. and Do, V.C. 2006. Geophysical Journal International, 166, 814-824.
• A rheological weak zone intensified by the post-rift thermal relaxation as a possible origin of strain localization associated with the reactivation of rifting.
  Yamasaki, T., O’Reilly, B.M. and Readman, P.W. 2006. Tectonophysics, 248, 119-131.
• A review of the Irish crustal structure and its signatures from the Caledonian and Variscan orogenies.
  Landes, M., J.R.R. Ritter, P.W. Readman and B.M. O’Reilly, 2005. Terra Nova, 17, 111-120.
• Crustal thinning, mantle exhumation and serpentinisation in the Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland: Evidence from wide-angle seismic data.
  O’Reilly, B. M., F. Hauser, C. Revaut, P.M. Shannon & P.W. Readman. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 263, 775-787.
• Shear-wave splitting observation across South-West Ireland.
  V.C. Do, P.W. Readman, B.M. O’Reilly, 2005. Geophysical Journal Letters, 33, L03309, doi:10.1029/2005GL024496.
• The deep structure of the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland, from gravity and magnetic studies.
  P.W. Readman, B.M. O’Reilly, P.M. Shannon & D. Naylor, 2005. In: Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 6th Conference, The Geological Society, London, 1047-1056.
• A N-S receiver function profile across the Variscides and Caledonides in SW Ireland.
  M. Landes, J.R.R. Ritter, B.M. O’Reilly, P.W. Readman & V.C. Do, 2005. Submitted to Geophysical Journal International.
• The crustal structure and regional development of the Irish Atlantic Margin region.
  N.C. Morewood, P.M. Shannon, G.D. Mackenzie, P.W. Readman, B.M. O’Reilly & J. Makris, 2005. In: Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 6 th Conference, The Geological Society, London, 1023-1033.
• ISLE 2002/3: Search for the Iapetus Suture Zone in Ireland.
  M. Landes, V.C. Do, J.R.R. Ritter, P.W. Readman & B.M. O’Reilly, 2004. EOS, Transactions 85, 337,341.
• Cold-water coral mounds: evidence for early Holocene climate change and slope failure.
  B.M. O’Reilly, P.W. Readman & P.M. Shannon, 2004. Geophysical Research Letters31, no 7, Lo7204 10.1029/2003GL018619.
• A review of the Irish crustal structure and its signatures from the Caledonian and Variscan Orogenies.
  M. Landes, J.R.R. Ritter, P.W. Readman & B.M. O’Reilly, 2004. Terra Nova17, 111-120.
• A gravity map of the Irish western seaboard.
  P.W. Readman, B.M. O’Reilly, T. Murphy & J. Makris, 2003. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences21, 133-142.
• VARNET-96: Three-dimensional upper-crustal velocity structure of SW Ireland.
  M. Landes, B.M. O’Reilly, P.W. Readman, P.M. Shannon and C. Prodehl, 2003. Geophysical Journal International153, 424-442.
• A model for the development of a carbonate mound population in the Rockall Trough based on deep-towed sidescan sonar data
  B.M. O’Reilly, P.W. Readman, P.M. Shannon & A.W.B. Jacob, 2003. Marine Geology198, 55-66.
• Interpretation of transverse gravity lineaments in the Rockall Basin
  K. McGrane, P.W. Readman & B.M. O’Reilly, 2001. In : P.M. Shannon, P.D.W. Haughton & D.V. Corcoran (eds) The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland’s Offshore Basins. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 188, 393-399.
• The LEGS (Leinster Granite Seismic) experiment.
  P.W. Readman. The Irish Scientist 2001 Year Book (2001) 77.
• Slope failure features on the margins of the Rockall Trough.
  P.M. Shannon, B.M. O’Reilly, P.W. Readman, A.W.B. Jacob & N.H. Kenyon, 2001. In: P.M. Shannon, P.D.W. Haughton and D.V. Corcoran (eds) The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland’s Offshore Basins, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 188, 455-464.
• Slope stability and sediment redistribution in the Rockall trough: constraints from GLORIA
  V. Unnithan, P.M. Shannon, K. McGrane, P.W. Readman, A.W.B. Jacob, R. Keary & N.H. Kenyon, 2001. In: P.M. Shannon, P.D.W. Haughton and D.V. Corcoran (eds) The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland’s Offshore Basins, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 188, 439-454.

Name:  Dr Brian M O’Reilly

Title:  Assistant Professor

E-Mail:  bor@cp.dias.ie

Phone:  653 5147 ext. 200

Address: 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

Research Interests: marine geophysics, seismology, potential fields

Biographical Sketch:

Brian O’ Reilly is a science graduate of UCD and has a PhD in Geophysics from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He has been with DIAS since 1996 and his research interests span Seismology and Marine Geophysics with a focus on the lithospheric structure of continents and development of continental margins and sedimentary basins in the North Atlantic region.

Selected Publications:

• B.M. O’Reilly., P.M. Shannon, and P.W. Readman. Shelf to slope sedimentation processes and the impact of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations in the northeast Atlantic, west of Ireland. Marine Geology, 238, 21-44, 2007.
• B.M.  O’Reilly., Hauser, F., Ravaut, C., Readman, P.W. and Shannon, P.M.. Crustal thinning, mantle exhumation and serpentinisation in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: Evidence from wide-angle seismic data. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 263, 775-787, 2006.
• P.W.  Readman., Hauser, F., O’Reilly, B.M. and Do, V.C. Crustal anisotropy in southwest Ireland from analysis of controlled source shear-wave data, Tectonophysics, 474, 571-583, 2009.
• B.M. O’Reilly., F. Hauser, F. and Readman, P.W. The fine-scale structure of upper continental lithosphere from seismic waveform methods: insights into Phanerozoic crustal formation processes. Geophysical Journal International, 180 :101-124. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04420.x, 2010.
• Kim, Welford , P. M. Shannon, B. M. O’Reilly, J. Hall. Comparison of lithospheric density and Moho structure variations across the Orphan Basin/Flemish Cap and Irish Atlantic conjugate continental margins from constrained 3-D gravity inversions. Geological Society of London, 169, 405-420, 2012.
• B.M. O’Reilly, F. Hauser, P.W. Readman. The fine-scale seismic structure of the upper lithosphere within accreted Caledonian lithosphere: implications for the origins of the “Newer Granites”.  Journal of the Geological Society of London, 169, 561-573, 2012.

Name:  Florian Le Pape

Title(s): Research Scientist

Email: flepape@cp.dias.ie

Phone: +353-1-653-5147 x213

Address: Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square Dublin 2, Ireland

 

Ocean related acoustic/seismic noise, crust and lithosphere imaging, magnetotellurics, physical properties, rheology

Biographical Sketch

Florian graduated in geophysics from Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Strasbourg in 2008. He then moved to DIAS, Ireland to study the Tibetan Plateau using magnetotellurics as part of his PhD which he concluded in 2012 under the supervision of Prof A.G. Jones. Between 2013 and 2015, he continued working with Prof Jones to investigate the lithosphere structure of the Leo-man shield in West Africa. He has now joined Prof C. Bean’s seismology group to study ocean generated microseisms in NE Atlantic.

Selected Publications

F. Le Pape, A.G. Jones, M.J. Unsworth, J. Vozar, W. Wei, S. Jin, G. Ye, J. Jing, H. Dong, L. Zhang, C. Xie. (2015) Constraints on the evolution of crustal flow beneath Northern Tibet, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16 (12), 4237-4260.

L. Zhang, M.J. Unsworth, S. Jin, W. Wei, G. Ye, A.G. Jones, J. Jing, H. Dong, C. Xie, F. Le Pape, J. Vozar. (2015) Structure of the Central Altyn Tagh Fault revealed by magnetotelluric data: New insights into the structure of the northern margin of the India–Asia collision.

J. Vozar, A.G. Jones, J. Fullea, M.R. Agius, S. Lebedev, F. Le Pape, W. Wei. (2014) Integrated geophysical‐petrological modeling of lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary in central Tibet using electromagnetic and seismic data, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15 (10), 3965-3988.

W. Wei, F. Le Pape, A.G. Jones, J. Vozar, H. Dong, M.J. Unsworth, S. Jin, G. Ye, J. Jing, L. Zhang, C. Xie. (2014) Northward channel flow in northern Tibet revealed from 3D magnetotelluric modelling, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 235, 13-24.

F. Le Pape, A.G. Jones, J. Vozar, W. Wei. (2012) Penetration of crustal melt beyond the Kunlun fault into northern Tibet, Nature Geoscience 5 (5), 330-335.

Professor Zdeněk Martinec

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Geophysics Section
5 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
Ireland

Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x233
Fax: +353-1-443-0575
Email: zdenek-at-cp.dias.ie

Research interests

• Earth’s gravity field: geodetic boundary-value problems, inverse gravimetric problem, precise geoid determination,satellite geodesy, spatio-temporal gravity changes.
• Dynamics of the Earth’s interior: mantle convection, gravito-elastic free oscillations, viscoelastic relaxation, tidal and rotational deformation, theory of continuum mechanics.
• Earth’s electromagnetic field: global-scale electromagnetic induction, mantle electrical conductivity, satellite magnetometry, spectral processing of magnetic data.
• Applied mathematics: theory of spherical tensor harmonics, variational formulation of boundary-value problems for partial differential equations, geophysical and geodetic data processing.

Qualifications

1999: Professor, Charles University in Prague

1997: Dr.Sc., Charles University in Prague

1997: Professor, Charles University in Prague

1983: C.Sc., (equivalent to Ph.D.), Charles University in Prague

1971 – 1976: M.Sc., Charles University in Prague

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Sergei Lebedev – Mallet Assistant Professor of Seismology

   Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
   Geophysics Section
   5 Merrion Square
   Dublin 2, Ireland
   Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x240
   Fax: +353-1-443-0575
   Email: sergei-at-cp.dias.ie

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The Group

Qualifications

2000   Ph.D., Geophysics, Princeton University

1991   M.Sc., Physics and Geophysics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Research interests

• Development and application of methods for seismic imaging
  – Seismic tomography at regional and global scales, using surface and body waves
  – Waveform inversion
  – Seismic anisotropy
  – Broadband-array seismology

• Structure and evolution of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle
  – Dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system
  – Continental deformation
  – Deep mechanisms of continental tectonics and intra-plate volcanism
  – Structure and evolution of cratons
  – Dynamics and evolution of Tibet, E Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, N America, southern Africa, New Zealand, other regions

• Integrated seismic, petro-physical and geodynamic numerical modelling and inversion
• Structure and seismicity of Ireland’s crust
• Natural resource assessment using passive seismic methods

Selected Recent Publications

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• Schaeffer, A. J., S. Lebedev. Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.014, 2014.
• Becker, T. W., C. P. Conrad, A. J. Schaeffer, S. Lebedev. Origin of azimuthal seismic anisotropy in oceanic plates and mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 401, 236–250, 2014.
• Fry, B., F. Davey, D. Eberhart-Phillips, S. Lebedev. Depth variable crustal anisotropy, patterns of crustal weakness, and destructive earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 392, 50–57, 2014.
• Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev. Tibetan and Indian lithospheres in the upper mantle beneath Tibet: Evidence from broadband surface-wave dispersion. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 14, 4260–4281, 2013.
• Schaeffer, A. J., S. Lebedev. Global shear-speed structure of the upper mantle and transition zone. Geophys. J. Int., 194, 417–449, 2013. [WINNER, GJI Student Author Award for best paper, 2013 (A. Schaeffer).]
• Lebedev, S., J. M.-C. Adam, T. Meier. Mapping the Moho with seismic surface waves: A review, resolution analysis, and recommended inversion strategies. Invited Review, Tectonophysics, “Moho” special issue, 609, 377–394, 2013.
• Tirel, C., J.-P. Brun, E. Burov, M.J.R. Wortel, S. Lebedev. A plate tectonics oddity: Caterpillar-walk exhumation of subducted continental crust. Geology, 41, 555–558, 2013.
• Adam, J. M.-C., S. Lebedev.Azimuthal anisotropy beneath southern Africa, from very-broadband, surface-wave dispersion measurements. Geophys. J. Int., 191, 155-174, 2012. [WINNER, GJI Student Author Award for best paper, 2012 (J. Adam).]
• Legendre, C., T. Meier, S. Lebedev, W. Friederich, L. Viereck-Goette. A shear-wave velocity model of the European upper mantle from automated inversion of seismic shear and surface waveforms. Geophys. J. Int., 191, 282-304, 2012.
• Endrun, B., S. Lebedev, T. Meier, C. Tirel, W. Friederich. Complex layered deformation within the Aegean crust and mantle revealed by seismic anisotropy, Nature Geoscience,  4, 203-207, 2011.
• Lebedev, S., J. Boonen, J. Trampert. Seismic structure of Precambrian lithosphere: New constraints from broadband surface-wave dispersion,  Lithos, Special Issue “Continental Lithospheric Mantle: the Petro-Geophysical Approach”, 109, 96-111, 2009.
• Deschamps, F., S. Lebedev, T. Meier, J. Trampert. Stratified seismic anisotropy reveals past and present deformation beneath the East-central United States, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 274, 489-498, 2008.
• Lebedev, S., R. D. van der Hilst. Global upper-mantle tomography with the automated multimode inversion of surface and S-wave forms, Geophys. J. Int., 173, 505–518, 2008.
• Lebedev, S., T. Meier, R. D. van der Hilst. Asthenospheric flow and origin of volcanism in the Baikal Rift area, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 249, 415–424, 2006.
• Lebedev, S., G. Nolet, T. Meier, R. D. van der Hilst. Automated multimode inversion of surface and S waveforms, Geophys. J. Int. 162, 951–964, 2005.
• Lebedev, S., G. Nolet. Upper mantle beneath Southeast Asia from S velocity tomography,  J. Geophys. Res., 108(B1), 2048, doi:10.1029/2000JB000073, 2003.
• Lebedev, S., S. Chevrot, R. D. van der Hilst. Seismic evidence for olivine phase changes at the 410- and 660-kilometer discontinuities, Science, 296, 1300–1302, 2002.

Professor Michael J. (Ben) Kennedy
Coordinator of Irish Geoscience Graduate Programme (IGGP)

  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
  Geophysics Section
  5 Merrion Square
  Dublin 2
  Ireland

   Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x218
   Fax: +353-1-443-0575
   Email: benk-at-cp.dias.ie

Research interests

• Structural Geology and Tectonics
• Development of the Appalachian-Caledonian orogenic belt

Qualifications

1963

B.A. Mod. (Geology) Trinity College, Dublin

1966

M.A. Ph.D. (Geology) Trinity College, Dublin

Career

1966 – 1967

Postdoctoral Fellow. Geological Survey of Canada. Ottawa. ONT.

1967 – 1976

Assistant, Associate and Professor. Department of Geology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, NF.

1976 – 1980

Professor and Chair of Department of Geological Sciences. Brock University, St. Catharines, ONT.

1980 – 2005

Professor of Geology. University College, Dublin. Head of Department 1980 – 1999.

1999 – 2005

Dean. Faculty of Science, University College, Dublin.

Research Career

Worked extensively on the geology and development of the Northern Appalachians in Canada and the Caledonides in Ireland.
Author of over 40 publications in international journals.
Increasingly involved in university administration from mid 1990’s.
Coordinator of IGGP 2008 – 2010.

Professor Alan Jones – Senior Professor Emeritus

  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
  Geophysics Section
  5 Merrion Square
  Dublin 2
  Ireland

  Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x200
  Fax: +353-1-443-0575
  Email: alan-at-cp.dias.ie
  Personal homepage

Research interests

• Electromagnetic induction
• Magnetotellurics (MT)
• Magnetotelluric tensor decomposition
• Time series analysis
• Continental dynamics
• Continental tectonics
• Continental mantle lithosphere
• Mantle anisotropy

Qualifications

1969 -1972:

B.Sc. (Physics) Department of Physics, University of Nottingham

1972 – 1973:

M.Sc. (Applied Geophysics) Department of Geology, University of Birmingham

1973 – 1977:

Ph.D. (Geophysics) Department of Geophysics, University of Edinburgh

Recent publications

• Lithospheric geometry of the Wopmay Orogen from a Slave Craton to Bear Province magnetotelluric transect.
  J. E. Spratt, A. G. Jones, V. Jackson, L. Collins, and A. Avdeeva, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B01101, doi: 10.1029/2007JB005326.
• Velocity-conductivity relationships for mantle mineral assemblages in Archean cratonic lithosphere based on a review of laboratory data and Hashin-Shtrikman extremal bounds.
  A. G. Jones, R. L. Evans, and D. W. Eaton, Lithos, 109, 131-143, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.10.014. In Special Issue of Lithos devoted to The Structure of the Lithosphere: the petro-geophysical approach workshop that was held in Merrickville, Ontario, Canada, 7–10 March 2007.
• Robust processing of magnetotelluric data in the AMT dead-band using the Continuous Wavelet Transform
  X. Garcia and A.G. Jones, Geophysics, 73, F223-F234.
• The elusive lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath cratons.
  David W. Eaton, Fiona Darbyshire, Rob L. Evans, Herman Grütter, Alan G. Jones, and Xiaohui Yuan, Lithos, 109, 1-22, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.05.009. In Special Issue of Lithos devoted to The Structure of the Lithosphere: the petro-geophysical approach workshop that was held in Merrickville, Ontario, Canada, 7–10 March 2007.
• Features of faults in the central and northern Tibetan plateau based on results of INDEPTH (III)-MT.
  Wei, W., S. Jin, G. Ye, M. Deng, H. Tan, M. Unsworth, J. Booker, A.G. Jones and S. Li, 2007. Frontiers in the Earth Sciences in China, 1, 121-128.
• Joint inversion of teleseismic receiver functions and magnetotelluric data using a genetic algorithm: Are seismic velocities and electrical conductivities compatible?
  Moorkamp, M., A.G. Jones and D.W. Eaton, 2007. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L16311, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030519.
• Source field effects in the auroral zone: Evidence from the Slave craton (NW Canada).
  Lezeata, P., A.D. Chave, A.G. Jones, and R.L. Evans, 2007. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 164, 21-35.
• TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes.
  Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., P.A. Ziegler, P.J.F. Bogaard, P.A.M. Andriessen, I.M Artemieva, G. Bada, R.T. van Balen, F. Beekman, Z. Ben-Avraham, J.-P. Brun, H.P. Bunge, E.B. Burov, R. Carbonell, C. Facenna, A. Friedrich, J. Gallart, A.G. Green, O. Heidbach, A.G. Jones, L. Matenco, J. Mosar, O. Oncken, C. Pascal, G. Peters, S. Sliaupa, A. Soesoo, W. Spakman, R.A. Stephenson, H. Thybo, T. Torsvik, G. de Vicente, F. Wenzel, M.J.R. Wortel, and the TOPO-EUROPE Working Group, 2007. Global and Planetary Change, 58, 1-118.
• The geometry of the Iapetus suture zone in central Ireland deduced from a magnetotelluric study.
  Rao, C.K., A.G. Jones, and M. Moorkamp, 2007. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 161, 134-141.
• Electromagnetic imaging of a complex ore body: three-dimensional forward modeling, sensitivity tests and down-mine measurements.
  Queralt, P., A.G. Jones, and J. Ledo, 2006. Geophysics, 72, 85-95.
• Electromagnetic interrogation of the anisotropic Earth: Looking into the Earth: Looking into the Earth with polarized spectacles. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.
  Jones, A.G. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 158, 281-291.
• Electrical anisotropy of South African lithosphere compared with seismic anisotropy from shear-wave splitting analyses.
  Hamilton, M.P., A.G. Jones, R.L. Evans, C.J.S. Fourie, X. Garcia, A. Mountford, J.E. Spratt, and the SAMTEX Team. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 158, 226-239.
• Crustal rheology of the Himalaya and Southern Tibet inferred from magnetotelluric data.
  Unsworth, M.J., A.G. Jones, W. Wei, G. Marquis, S. Gokarn, J.E. Spratt, and the INDEPTH-MT team, 2005. Nature, 438, 78-81, doi: 10.1038/nature04154.
• The electrical resistivity structure of Archean to Tertiary lithosphere along 3,200 km of SNORCLE profiles, northwestern Canada.
  Jones, A.G., J. Ledo, I.J. Ferguson, C. Farquharson, X. Garcia, N. Grant, G.W. McNeice, B. Roberts, J. Spratt, G. Wennberg, L. Wolynec, and X. Wu, 2005. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 1257-1275.
• Improving Bahr’s invariant parameters using the WAL approach.
  Martí, A., P. Queralt1, A.G. Jones and J. Ledo, 2005. Geophysical Journal International, 163, 38-41.
• Geoelectric structure of the Proterozoic Wopmay Orogen and adjacent terranes, Northwest Territories, Canada.
  Wu, X., I.J. Ferguson and A.G. Jones, 2005. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 955-981.
• Structure of the crust in the vicinity of the Banggong-Nujiang suture central Tibet from INDEPTH magnetotelluric data.
  Solon, K., A.G. Jones, K.D. Nelson, M.J. Unsworth, W. Wei, H. Tan, H., S. Jin, M.Deng, J.R. Booker, S. Li, P. Bedrosian, 2005. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B10102, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002405.
• Electromagnetic images of the Trans-Hudson orogen: The North American Central Plains anomaly revealed.
  Jones, A.G., J. Ledo and I.J. Ferguson, 2005. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 457-478.
• Electrical resistivity imaging of the central Trans-Hudson Orogen in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada.
  Ferguson, I.J. K.M. Stevens and A.G. Jones, 2005. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 495-515.
• Temperature of the upper mantel beneath the Intermontane Belt, northern Canadian Cordillera, determined from combining mineral composition, electrical conductivity laboratory studies and magnetotelluric field observations.
  Ledo, J. and A.G. Jones, 2005. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236, 258-268.
• Electromagnetic image of the Trans-Hudson orogen: THOT94 transect.
  Garcia, X. and A.G. Jones, 2005. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 479-493.
• Geophysical Transect across a Paleoproterozoic Continent-Continent Collision Zone: The Trans-Hudson Orogen.
  White, D.J., M.D. Thomas, A.G. Jones, J. Hope, B. Nemeth, and Z. Hajnal, 2005. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 385-402.
• Lithospheric anisotropy structure inferred from collocated teleseismic and magnetotelluric observations: Great Slave Lake shear zone, northern Canada.
  Eaton, D.W., A.G. Jones and I.J. Ferguson, 2005. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L19614, doi:10.1029/2004GL020939.
• A new methodology for the acquisition and processing of audio-magnetotelluric (AMT) data in the AMT dead-band.
  Garcia, X. and A.G. Jones, 2005. Geophysics, 70, G119-G126.
• Electrical resistivity structure of the Yellowknife River Fault Zone and surrounding region.
  A.G. Jones and X. Garcia, 2005. Gold in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Northwest Territories: Results of the EXTECH III Multidisciplinary Research Project, publ. by Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, Special Publication, accepted, 13 May, 2004.
• Precise temperature estimation in the Tibetan crust from seismic detection of the alpha-beta quartz transition.
  Mechie, J., S.V. Sobolev, L. Ratschbacher, A. Yu. Babeyko, G. Bock, A.G. Jones, K.D. Nelson, K.D. Solon, L.D. Brown, and W. Zhao, 2004. Geology, 32, 601-604.
• Crustal structure of the India-Asia collision zone, southern Tibet, from INDEPTH MT investigations.
  Spratt, J., A.G. Jones, K.D. Nelson, M.J. Unsworth, and the INDEPTH MT team, 2005. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 150, 227-237.
• Central Baffin electromagnetic experiment (CBEX) maps the NACP in the Canadian arctic.
  Evans, S., A.G. Jones, J. Spratt and J. Katsube 2005. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 150, 107-122.

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