The dominant research theme to my work is 'Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Resources, Hazards and Climate’. This has been focused on the interaction of ocean currents with the sea floor and the resulting deposits, named contourites.  My PhD research focused on characterising sand-rich contourite depositional systems, and their importance as potential hydrocarbon reservoirs. My research is now focused on the how the distribution of these deposits are controlled by global climate and how bottom currents interact with the continental margins.

 

The application of geoscience is central to my research. Gaining a number of years of experience in the petroleum industry has given me a good multidisciplinary understanding of the evolution of extensional settings through to passive margins. Frontier basins and plays have been the main focus of past work. Following my postdoctoral research on the UK Central North Sea, energy stability and the transition to renewable energies has become an important driver to my work. 

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I am a Geoscientist who loves the outdoors. I have worked and researched many different basin across the World, from Spain to Vietnam, Gabon to Kazakhstan. Now working in Aberdeen, I am aiming to really get to know the Geology of the UK. Follow along with my blog and we can learn together!