Teaching Earth Science at the University of Southampton
Responsibilities include preparing and presenting lectures, delivering tutorials, setting and marking coursework and examinations, running field courses and supervising independent mapping projects. Principally, I teach volcanic and mantle processes (level 3), structural geology (level 2) and advanced geological field skills (level 2, see details below). Over the past three years, taught courses have included dynamic earth (level 1), fieldwork & key skills for geologists (coordinator, level 2), and geohazards & Earth resources (level 2). I also coordinated a masters group project module, and supervised a group project and independent geological mapping projects (level 3).
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I am also involved in a number of outreach activities for schools and interested specialist groups.
SOES3020 Volcanic and Mantle Processes
Volcanoes and volcanic products are examined in this module. This is centered around a seven-day field course to Tenerife, with lectures focusing on physical volcanology and field studies examining the processes that generate effusive and explosive volcanics. The field work includes exercises examining pyroclastic deposits and the relationship between caldera development and progressive magmatism.​
SOES2022 Advanced Geological Field Skills
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An advanced understanding of the techniques and methodology of geological fieldwork and training in geological mapping is provided by systematic coverage of the principles of geological fieldwork, particularly observing and recording data, geological mapping, the application of knowledge of modern environments and processes to geological problems and development of an understanding of how the geology of the field area is applicable to a wider region. Appraisal of the geology of a selected area.
Module includes a 2-week fieldtrip to the Betic Cordillera, AlmerÃa province, SE Spain (left: Carboneras fault exposed at Sopalmo)
SOES2002 Structural Geology
Lectures cover geological structures from the scale of plate tectonics to the sub-microscopic, emphasising basic mechanical and tectonic principles as well as geometrical description. Laboratory exercises are designed to introduce widely used structural applications such as the presentation and manipulation of data using stereographic projections, construction of balanced cross-sections and techniques of structural mapping. There is a one-day field class at Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset (left) to collect data for structural and statistical analysis.