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Arctic hydrate dissociation as a result of climate change: Determining the vulnerable methane reservoir and gas escape mechanisms

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: [email protected]

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
Resistivity image beneath an area of active methane seeps in the west Svalbard continental slope
Bedanta K. Goswami, Karen A. Weitemeyer, Timothy A. Minshull, Martin C. Sinha, Graham K. Westbrook & Héctor Marín-Moreno, 2016, Geophysical Journal International, 207(2), 1286-1302
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw330
Type: article
A joint electromagnetic and seismic study of an active pockmark within the hydrate stability field at the Vestnesa Ridge, West Svalbard margin
Bedanta Goswami, Karen Weitemeyer, Timothy Minshull, Martin Sinha, Graham Westbrook, Anne Chabert, Timothy Henstock & Stephan Ker, 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(10), 6797-6822
DOI: 10.1002/2015JB012344
Type: article
Estimates of future warming-induced methane emissions from hydrate offshore west Svalbard for a range of climate models
Héctor Marín-Moreno, Timothy A. Minshull, Graham K. Westbrook & Bablu Sinha, 2015, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(5), 1307-1323
DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005737
Type: article
Record of methane emissions from the West Svalbard continental margin during the last 23,500years revealed by ?13C of benthic foraminifera
Giuliana Panieri, Rachael H. James, Angelo Camerlenghi, Graham K. Westbrook, Chiara Consolaro, Isabel Cacho, Valentina Cesari & Cristina Sanchez Cervera, 2014, Global and Planetary Change, 122, 151-160
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.08.014
Type: article