{"id":177,"date":"2019-01-13T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=177"},"modified":"2019-01-13T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T17:19:47","slug":"professor-jenny-collier-professor-of-marine-geophysics-earth-science-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2019\/01\/13\/professor-jenny-collier-professor-of-marine-geophysics-earth-science-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jenny Collier, Professor of Marine Geophysics, Earth Science and Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-large wp-image-179 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2019\/01\/180110_marine_geophysics_jenny_collier_005-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I am a marine geophysicist which means I mainly conduct my research from ships using specialist remote-sensing equipment. <\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In these experiments we typically go to sea for 30 days or so and carry 40-50 scientists and technicians. It is a thrilling experience as so little of our marine environment has been explored. I am interested in the solid Earth (rather than the water itself) and study how the top few tens of kilometres (from the seabed downwards) formed and evolved over time. A central theme throughout my career has been the relationship between tectonics and magmatism. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">My early work involved mapping the magmatic plumbing beneath mid-ocean ridges (the longest chain of volcanoes on the planet) and the response of the oceanic lithosphere to loading by volcanic islands such as the Canaries. More recently I have studied the pattern of volcanic rocks erupted along the continental margins of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans in order to determine the thermal conditions during breakup. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A second theme of my research is at a smaller scale and has been focussed mainly on the north-west European shelf. I conducted the first ever multibeam bathymetry survey within UK territorial waters which led to the discovery that catastrophic megafloods separated Britain from Europe. I am also interested in the application of acoustic methods for biological habitat mapping as a way of both quantifying the resources there and also protecting them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a marine geophysicist which means I mainly conduct my research from ships using specialist remote-sensing equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}