Geography, Geology and the Environment

Originally an Industrial Electrical Engineer, I joined Keele in 1997 to study for a PhD in the numerical modelling of Ground-Penetrating Radar after completing a BSc (Hons) Geophysics degree at the University of Liverpool. I’m currently Reader in Applied Geophysics and was recently a Royal Society Industrial Fellow.

I am part of the Applied & Environmental Geophysics Group and a member of the Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics (EPSAM).

My research involves the application of engineering and geophysical methods for the characterisation, investigation and remediation of environmental, geological, hydrological, archaeological, forensic and geotechnical problems and spend most of my research time on the development of practical, non-invasive site investigation and numerical modelling tools for industry and academia.

• The application of mathematical modelling in the interpretation of near-surface ground penetrating radar.
• KAGe Supercomputer
• Merapi NERC Project
• The application of mathematical/numerical modelling and inversion in the interpretation of near-surface ground penetrating radar (RS, NERC & EPSRC funded).
• High resolution ultrasonics for NDT & Geo-envirmental testing applications.
• Thermal and electrical monitoring of environmental/engineering structures.

I am a member of the Applied and Environmental Geophysics Research Group and Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics (EPSAM)

Year 1

• ESC-10028 : Environmental Science Skills

Year 2

• ESC-20031 : Advanced Structural Geology & Solid Earth Geophysics
• ESC-20017 : Human Impact on the Environment: Scientific Perspectives

Year 3

• ESC-30022 : Engineering and Hydrological Geology (module leader)
• ESC-30026 : Geoscience Research Project

• Year 4

• ESC-40004/5/6 : M.Geoscience Research Project
• ESC-40007 : Geoscientific Spatial Data Analysis