Research project

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in Polar Marine Environments

Lead researcher:

Professor Tim Minshull
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Staff

Lead researcher

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

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