Staff profile
Professor Kenneth Mccaffrey
Head of Department, Chair of the Board of Studies, Professor
| Affiliation | Telephone |
|---|---|
| Head of Department, Chair of the Board of Studies, Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences | +44 (0) 191 33 42322 |
Biography
| 3/00- present
01/06-12/09 05/11-09/14
| Earth Sciences, University of Durham, Professor, Earth Sciences from October 2013 Reader, from October 2008, Senior Lecturer, from October 2004, Lecturer, from 2000. Royal Society Industrial Fellow (50% FTE) Director – Centre for Research in Earth Energy System (CeREES) |
| 7/95 - 2/00
| Dept of Geological Sciences Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK Lecturer, Senior Lecturer from 1997) |
| 10/91 – 6/95 | Geology Department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, Temporary Lecturer from 1993. |
| Education (10/86-12/89) | University of Durham - Ph.D. Awarded 1990. Thesis: ‘The emplacement and deformation of granitic rocks in a transpressional shear zone: The Ox Mountains Igneous Complex' |
| Higher Education (9/82-7/86) | Queen’s University Belfast Geology B.Sc. (Honours) |
Committee and Society Service
2013 – present — Member of Petroleum Group Committee, Geological Society of London
2000 – 2002 — Member of Science Committee, Geological Society of London
2000 – 2002 — Secretary, Tectonic Studies Group
Conferences and Workshops
2016 -- Fifty years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics Geological Society london Co-convenor
2011 — New constratints on active fault zones. AGU
2011 — Shale and Coal Basins of North East England: Opportunities for Research and Industry Collaboration - NPESMD, India School of Mines
2009 — Lead Convener, Virtual Fieldtrips session, 7th Petroleum Geology Conference
2009 — Tectonic reactivation and Fault Zone weakening. AGU
2006 — Unlocking 3D Earth Systems – Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models. GSA Penrose Meeting – University of Durham
2004 — Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting – University of Durham
2002 — Transport and Flow processes within Shear Zones - Geological Society, London
2001 — Hydrocarbons in Crystalline rocks - Geological Society, London
2001 — Deformation at Convergent Margins – European Union Geosciences XI Strasbourg
2001 — Vertical and horizontal coupling and decoupling processes in Orogenic Belts – American Geophysical Union, San Francisco
Editorial Roles
2006 – 2012 '— Specials' editor for the Geological Society of London
Editor Visual Geosciences
Invited Keynotes
Invited International Lectures
2012 — Natural Fractures in Shale gas basins of NE England, Geoshale Conference, Warsaw.
2011 — ‘Shale basins of NE England: Opportunities for research and Industry collaboration’, Industry/Academia collaboration session, Indian Geological Congress, Indian School of Mines Dhanbad.
2011 — ‘Virtual fieldwork using terrestrial laser scanning and Google Earth’– Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research, GSA Penrose at Google HQ, San Francisco
2010 — From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Norwegian Petroleum systems, Stavanger
2010 — Digital Geospatial methods in Earth Sciences’ Italian National Geophysical & Volcanology – Pisa, Italy
2007 — Capturing Detailed Outcrop Geology using Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Lidar) and other digital technologies: Current status and Future directions’(Jones R.R. & McCaffrey, K.J.W) AGU San Francisco
2006 — Magma Chamber Processes and Geometries 'What is a magma chamber? The role of sheet in the assembly of intrusions' session GSA Salt Lake City.
2002 — ‘Dimensional Data and Growth Models for Tabular Intrusions’ Laccolith and sill intrusion meeting, Freiberg, Germany
1998 — ‘Magmatic versus tectonic influences on granite emplacement’ AGU Annual Spring meeting – Boston
1997 — ‘Tabular plutonic sheets: Geometry and emplacement’ GAC/MAC annual meeting – Ottawa
1996 — ‘Scale invariant geometry of tabular sheet intrusions?’ Syntectonic crystallisation of igneous rocks – Vaxenburg, Austria
Prizes & Awards
2005 — Murchsion Fund - Geological Society
2001 — Durham University Excellence in teaching Award
1993 — Ramsay medal
Research interests
- Geoinformatics methods and applications
- high resolution 3D/4D modelling of continental margins
- magmatic and mineralised systems
- reservoir models of fractured reservoir analogues including shale basins
- structural characterisation of fault and shear zones
- tectonic and magmatic interactions
- tectonic and mechanical processes of active normal faults and earthquake activity
- the geometrical and kinematic evolution of deformation zones
- visualisation and analysis of geological architecture
Esteem Indicators
- 2021: Dewey Medal 2021: Awarded by the Geological Society of London for fieldwork and mentoring contributions