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Peter Sammonds

 

Specialisation

Rock physics and seismology

Research interests Earthquake mechanics, volcano mechanics, ice sheet mechanics

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+44 (0)20 7679 2422

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Email p.sammonds@ucl.ac.uk

Short curriculum vitae

2001 Professor of Geophysics, Dept. Earth Sciences, UCL

1999 Visiting Professor (by competition), Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan

1992-01 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Dept. Geological Sciences, UCL

Recent publications
Rocchi, V., Sammonds, P.R., Kilburn, C.R.J. (2002) Flow and fracture maps for basaltic rock deformation at high temperatures. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 120: 25-42.

Feltham, D.L., Sammonds, P.R. & Hatton, D. (2002) Method of determining a geophysical-scale sea ice rheology from laboratory experiments, Proc. 16th IAHR Symposium on Ice, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2-6 Dec 2002, vol. 3, International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research.

Sammonds, P.R. (2002) Extreme climates, in “Nature’s Revenge: Hurricances, Floods & Climate Change”, pp. 19-40, Hodder & Stoughton, London.

Fracture of Antarctic shelf ice, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 10.1029/2000JB000058, 01 January 2002. (Rist, M. A.; Sammonds, P. R.; Oerter, H.; Doake, C. S. M.)

Design tokenism and global warming, in "Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age", ed. I Abley & J. Heartfield, John Wiley & Sons, 2001. (Guldberg, H.; Sammonds, P.R.)

Sea ice fracture and friction, in "Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics", ed. J.P Dempsey & H.H. Shen, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 2001. (Sammonds, P.R.& Rist, M.A.) pp. 183-194.

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 > 2008 Hazard & Risk Science Review
 > Chinese Embassy visit to Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre
 > Nature papers: Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma
 > UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Are We On Target?

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