Teaching
Current courses
Year 1: Principles of Earth Science (Earthquakes and seismic hazards)
- Course lecture and practical booklet
- Course Powerpoint slides
- Podcast: Lecture Week 16: Earthquakes and Seismic Hazard, 2012
Year 2: Geophysical Methods in Geology (gravity & magnetic methods)
- Course lecture and practical booklet
- Course Powerpoint slides
- Gravity summative practical advice
- Recent Long Valley Caldera Review Paper
- Long Valley Summative Assessment Feedback
- Long Valley Summative Assessment Feedback 2011
- Podcast: Lecture 1: Introduction, gravimeters, 2016
- Podcast: Lecture 2: Gravimeters, surveying, 2014
- Podcast: Lecture 3: Isostasy, density, 2014
- Podcast: Lecture 4: Interpretation of gravity anomalies, 2014
- Podcast: Lecture 5: Examples of gravity anomalies, 2014
- Podcast: Lecture 6: Magnetics–Introduction, magnetism & susceptability, 2014
- Podcast: Lecture 7: Magnetics–Instruments, 2014
- Podcast: Lecture 8: Magnetics–Surveying & interpretation, 2014
- Podcast: Optional additional lecture: Magnetics–Interpretation & examples
Year 2: Tutorials
Year 2: Geophysical Fieldwork (gravity surveying, data reduction and interpretation)
Year 3: Earth Structure and Dynamics (earthquake seismology)
- Course lecture booklet, Lectures 1-8
- Course practical booklet
- Lecture 1 Powerpoint slides
- Lecture 2 Powerpoint slides
- Lecture 3 Powerpoint slides
- Lecture 4 Powerpoint slides
- Lecture 5 Powerpoint slides
- Lecture 6 Powerpoint slides
- Lecture 7 Powerpoint slides
- Lecture 8 Powerpoint slides
- Nuclear detection encyclopedia article, by Paul G. Richards & Zhongliang Wu
- Podcast: Lecture 1: Introduction to earthquake seismology, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 2: Waves, rays & locations, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 3: Magnitudes & fractals, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 4 & 5: Source mechanisms, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 6: Nuclear detection, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 7: Instrumentation, 2014
- Podcast: Lecture 8: Earth structure I, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 9: Earth structure II, 2014
Year 3: Challenges in Geodynamics (Understanding the dynamics of Earth’s interior)
- Podcast: Lecture 1: The Plates vs. Plumes controversy, surface dynamics, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 2: Magmatism: Volumetric, spatial & temporal aspects, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 3: Chemistry, heat & temperature, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 4: Mantle structure I, 2015
- Podcast: Lecture 5: Mantle structure II, 2015
Year 4: Frontiers of Earth Science (the mantle plume controversy)
Current Ph.D. project topics
last update 24th September, 2016