This website is the default portal for Ben Kneller's deep marine clastics research group at University of Aberdeen with links to associated groups at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Colorado School of Mines, Montana State University, Bozeman, Turbidite Research Group at the University of Leeds and the Istituto di Scienze Marine, Bologna.
Group research is supported by BG, BP, ConocoPhillips, DONG, GDF Suez, Hess, Petrobras, RWE Dea, Statoil and Total.
Latest News
7 May 2012
Presentations of the 2012 Sponsors Meeting (Argentina) are
available online, click
here
4 July 2011
June 2011 Newsletter is available online, click
here
24 June 2011
Poster presentations of the Slopes 2 Group from the
Internal architecture, bedforms and geometry of turbidite channels at the
Geological Society (London, June 20-21st 2011) are available online (see
poster section)
1 April 2011
Fieldwork in Mexico, April 14th to 22nd,
with Cristian Vallejo (post-doc, Aberdeen), Luke Fairweather and Mark McKinnon
(Aberdeen), Viki Valdez (San Juan) and Rich Callow (post-doc, Memorial
26 March 2011
Viki Valdez to start work with Slopes in
San Juan, Argentina, September 2011 (currently visiting Aberdeen)
25 March 2011
Fieldwork in Argentina scheduled September
2011
24 March 2011
Oral Presentations of the 2010 Sponsors
Meeting in Monte Carlo are online
20 March 2011
Final sponsors meeting for Slopes2
scheduled for April 2012
4 March 2010
Turbidites website will be moved to a larger
disk between 1700-1715GMT. There should be no more than a few seconds
disruption
11 May to 15 June 2009
Field work planned in Baja
California
19 January 2009
New PhD student (Olivia Buchan) starts in
Colorado (Juncal Formation channels, California)
