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Research project

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in Polar Marine Environments

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Tim Minshull

Professor in Ocean & Earth Science

Research interests

  • Continental breakup and the onset of seafloor spreading
  • Methane hydrate beneath the seafloor and its role in the Earth system
  • Exploration geophysics: seismic and electromagnetic imaging
Connect with Tim

Email: tmin@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Variability of acoustically evidenced methane bubble emissions offshore western Svalbar
Mario E. Veloso-Alarcó, Pär Jansson, Marc De Batist, Timothy Minshull, Graham K. Westbrook, Heiko Palike, Stefan Bünz, Ian Wright & Jens Greinert, 2019, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(15), 9072-9081
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL082750
Type: article
Pleistocene iceberg dynamics on the west Svalbard margin
Fang Zhao, Timothy A. Minshull, Anya J. Crocker, Julian A. Dowdeswell, Shiguo Wu & Simon M. Soryal, 2017, Quaternary Science Reviews, 161, 30-44
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.01.019
Type: article
Methane in shallow subsurface sediments at the landward limit of the gas hydrate stability zone offshore western Svalbard
Carolyn A. Graves, Rachael H. James, Célia Julia Sapart, Andrew W. Stott, Ian C. Wright, Christian Berndt, Graham K. Westbrook & Douglas P. Connelly, 2017, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 198, 419-438
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.015
Type: article
Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic
Rachael H. James, Phillipe Bousquet, Ingeborg Bussmann, Mathias Haeckel, Rolf Kipfer, Ira Leifer, Helge Niemann, Ilia Ostrovsky, Jacek Piskozub, Gregor Rehder, Tina Treude, Lisa Vielstädte & Jens Greinert, 2016, Limnology and Oceanography, 61(S1), S283-S299
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10307
Type: article
Removal of methane through hydrological, microbial, and geochemical processes in the shallow sediments of pockmarks along eastern Vestnesa Ridge (Svalbard)
Wei-Li Hong, Simone Sauer, Giuliana Panieri, William G. Ambrose, Rachael H. James, Andreia Plaza-Faverola & Andrea Schneider, 2016, Limnology and Oceanography, 61(S1), S324-S343
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10299
Type: article