Research Grants

Natural Environment Research Council: Evaluation of historical earthquake interaction and seismic risk to western Sumatra, J. McCloskey, S. Steacy, and S. S. Nalbant, 2008 – 2009.

Natural Environment Research Council: Urgent assessment of the earthquake and tsunami hazard in western Sumatra following the 09/07 Mentawai Islands earthquake sequence, J. McCloskey, S. Steacy, and S. S. Nalbant, 2007 – 2008.

Griffith Geoscience Research Award: Capability building for the enhanced geophysical interpretation of the dynamics of CO2 sequestration, J. McCloskey, C. Bean (UCD) and R. Cassidy, 2007-2012.

Natural Environment Research Council: Stress interaction, rate-state friction, and earthquake triggering, S. Steacy, 2007 – 2009.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: Assessing tsunami hazard in Sumatra: A Royal Society Summer Science Exhibit, S. Steacy and J. McCloskey, 2006.

Royal Society: Summer Science Exhibition, S. Steacy and J. McCloskey, 2006.

Natural Environment Research Council: Tsunami Risk in the Indian Ocean from Threatened M>8 Event Under Mentawai Islands, J. McCloskey, S. Steacy, and S. S. Nalbant, 2005 - 2006.

Natural Environment Research Council: The influence of viscoelastic relaxation on the effective duration of Coulomb stress perturbations, S. S. Nalbant, J. McClosky, and S. Steacy, 2005 - 2007.

European Commission Framework VI Marie Curie: Constrained heterogeneous loading of complex fault networks (CONSTRAIN), S. Steacy, J. McCloskey, and A. Antonioli, 2005 - 2007.

Natural Environment Research Council with Tony Bjourson and Rachel Cassidy. An investigation of the time dependency of concentration of naked and armoured DNA tracers under environmental conditions (2005-2007).

Natural Environment Research Council with Sandy Steacy and Suleyman Nalbant. Urgent assessment of the location and orientation of the Bingöl rupture by mapping surface breaks, J. McCloskey.

Invest Northern Ireland RTD Networking: Securing future European funding for natural hazards research, S. Steacy, £1,000, 2004 - 2004.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: An Investigation of the Origin and Nature of the Gutenberg-Richter Relation, S. Steacy, J. McCloskey, and P. Morrow, 2002 - 2004.

European Commission Framework V: Towards Practical, Real-Time Estimation of Spatial Aftershock Probabilities: a Feasibility Study in Earthquake Hazard (PRESAP), J. McCloskey and S. Steacy, 2000 - 2003.

NERC Fully determined fluid velocity fields for complex 2D media with multi-scaled heterogeneity (2000-2003).

INTEREG IV. An integrated geophysical approach to the preliminary assessment of potential waste disposal sites.

European Commission Framework V with Sandy Steacy. Towards Practical, Real-Time Estimation of Spatial Aftershock Probabilities: a Feasibility Study in Earthquake Hazard (PRESAP).

Natural Environment Research Council: An Investigation of the Relation Between Coulomb Stress Perturbations, Large Aftershocks, and Fault Structure, S. Steacy and J. McCloskey, 1999 - 2001.

Royal Society: Conference Grant, S. Steacy, 1997.

U.S. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program: Investigating Intermediate Term Regional Seismic Precursors in a Heterogeneous Bond-Breaking Model, C. Sammis and S. Steacy, 1993.

Natural Environment Research Council with Sandy Steacy. An Investigation of the Relation Between Coulomb Stress Perturbations, Large Aftershocks, and Fault Structure.

NERC Geophysical Equipment Pool

Natural Environment Research Council. A Search for Repeating Microearthquakes in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece.

INCO mines Canada. Stage II of Seismic Simulation Project.

Esme Fairbairn Trust. with Dr. Derek Jackson, Department of Environmental Studies: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Littoral Aeolian Sediment Transport and its Importance in Coastal Management.

EC. with Prof. Julian Orford, and Prof. R.W.G. Carter, Variation in coastal forcing and its response along the European Atlantic shoreline.

EC/Fobairt. The Formulation of a Coastal Sensitivity Index Based on Wave Sediment Interaction.

INCO Mines Ltd. with Dr. C.J. Bean, University College Modelling rockbursts and mining induced seismicity in Creighton mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada using customised, self-organised critical cellular automata with long range deterministic coupling.

European Social Fund. Preferred porosity directions and azimuthal variations of the fractal statistics of the upper lithosphere.

Leverhulme Trust. Personal research fellowship: Modelling Seismicity in a fractally fractured crust.