Continuation and expansion of the themes from the current Stratigraphic Development of Slope systems consortium funded reserach is currently being proposed in to a second phase. Click here for more details.

SLOPES CONSORTUIUM WEBSITE BACK ONLINE! Check out the new layout and expanded content by logging into the site here.

The Slopes Consortium website has been temporarily taken offline in order to carry out essential maintenance. The site will be back online shortly.

9 group abstracts have been accepted for AAPG 2007 in Longbeach. Click here for more details.

Launch of the Slopes Consortium Newsletter. The newsletter provides an overview of the lastest research headlines within the slopes group and will be released every three months.

As of 1st October - Alex Fordham has joined the team as a post-doctoral researcher. Alex has just completed her PhD on dryland rivers, and comes to us as a sedimentologist with considerable field experience

As of 14th January - Sacha Tremblay has left the group to work at Statoil's research centre at Trondheim

As of 15th January - Juan Pablo Milana has joined the turbidites team from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, as a Research Fellow. He is a sedimentologist, stratigrapher and glaciologist. He will be joining in field-work in Mexico and Argentina, and also undertaking experimental work on slope system development at the University of Marburg in Germany.

Our annual sponsors meeting was held at the Institute for Marine Geology (ISMAR), University of Bologna, Italy. The meeting was attended by sponsor companies and gave a review of all research work to date.

2 posters presented at the AAPG Annual Convention 2006 in Houston.

4 abstracts submitted and accepted for the upcoming AAPG International Convention 2006 in Perth.