Research project

Rift Volcanism: Past, Present and Future

Project overview

RiftVolc is built around a NERC funded large grant which aims to research past, present and future volcanic and seismic activity in different sectors of the East African rift system. The project also draws on several NERC funded PhD studentships (SPITFIRE and INSPIRE). Project partners include the BGS, the Universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Imperial, Florence, Pisa, Strasbourg, Sorbonne, Addis Ababa, the Geological Survey of Ethiopia, and Reykjavik Geothermal.

The team at the University of Southampton primarily focus on using passive seismology, structural geology, volcanology, and geochemistry to understand tectonics, magmatic, and hydrothermal processes during extension.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Derek Keir

Associate Professor
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Berhe Goitom, Maximilian J. Werner, Katsuichiro Goda, J.‐michael Kendall, James O. S. Hammond, Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi, Clive Oppenheimer, Agnes Helmstetter, Derek Keir & Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, 2017, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(3), 1478-1494
Type: article
Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Derek Keir, Jonathan Bull, Atalay Ayele, James O. S. Hammond, J-Michael Kendall, Ryan Gallacher, Thomas Gernon & Berhe Goitom, 2017, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(2), 521-531
Type: article
N.J. Accardo, J.B. Gaherty, D.J. Shillington, C.J. Ebinger, A.A. Nyblade, G.J. Mbogoni, P.R.N. Chindandali, R.W. Ferdinand, G.D. Mulibo, G. Kamihanda, D. Keir, C. Scholz, K. Selway, J.P. O’Donnell, G. Tepp, R. Gallacher, K. Mtelela, J. Salima & A. Mruma, 2017, Geophysical Journal International, 209(3), 1892-1905
Type: article
C. Civiero, S. Goes, J.O.S. Hammond, S. Fishwick, A. Ahmed, A. Ayele, C. Doubre, B. Goitom, D. Keir, J-M. Kendal, S. Leroy, G. Ogubazghi, G. Rumpker & G.W. Stuart, 2016, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(10), 7395-7408
Type: article
R. Gallacher, D. Keir, N. Harmon, G. Stuart, S. Leroy, J.O.S. Hammond, J-M. Kendall, A. Ayele, B. Goitom, G. Ogubazghi & A. Ahmed, 2016, Nature Communications, 7
Type: article