Dr Andy Emery, geologist and geophysicist. Seismic interpretation, landscape evolution, sedimentary environments.
andy [at] andy-emery (dot) co {dot} uk
Jobs and education (bio page) | Publications | Conference presentations | Other published works | Professional and academic service | Funding | Prizes | Outreach & communication
Peer-reviewed publications
Michel, G., Coughlan, M., Arosio, R., Emery, A.R., Wheeler, A.J., 2023. Stratigraphic and palaeo-geomorphological evidence for the glacial-deglacial history of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the north-western Irish Sea. Quat. Sci. Rev. 300, 107909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107909
Kaminskaite, I., Piazolo, S., Emery, A.R., Shaw, N., Fisher, Q.J., 2022. The Importance of Physiochemical Processes in Decarbonisation Technology Applications Utilizing the Subsurface: A Review. Earth Sci. Syst. Soc. 2, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.3389/esss.2022.10043
Velenturf, A.P.M., Emery, A.R., Hodgson, D.M., Barlow, N.L.M., Mohtaj Khorasani, A.M., Van Alstine, J., Peterson, E.L., Piazolo, S., Thorp, M., 2021. Geoscience Solutions for Sustainable Offshore Wind Development. Earth Sci. Syst. Soc. 1. https://doi.org/10.3389/esss.2021.10042
Emery, A. R., Hodgson, D. M., Barlow, N. L. M., Carrivick, J. L., Cotterill, C. J., Richardson, J., Ivanovic, R., and Mellett, C. 2020. Ice sheet and palaeoclimate controls on drainage network evolution: an example from Dogger Bank, North Sea, Earth Surf. Dynam., 8, 869–891, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-869-2020
Emery AR, Hodgson DM, Barlow NLM, Carrivick JL, Cotterill CJ, Phillips E. 2019. Left High and Dry: Deglaciation of Dogger Bank, North Sea, Recorded in Proglacial Lake Evolution. Frontiers in Earth Science. 7 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00234
Emery AR, Hodgson DM, Barlow NLM, Carrivick JL, Cotterill CJ, Mellett CL, Booth AD. 2019. Topographic and hydrodynamic controls on barrier retreat and preservation: An example from Dogger Bank, North Sea. Marine Geology. 416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.105981 | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/148104/
Swindles GT, Galloway JM, Macumber AL, Croudace IW, Emery AR, Woulds C, Bateman MD, Parry L, Jones JM, Selby K, Rushby GT, Baird AJ, Woodroffe SA, Barlow NLM. 2018. Sedimentary records of coastal storm surges: Evidence of the 1953 North Sea event. Marine Geology. 403, pp. 262-270 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.06.013 | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/132932/
Phillips E, Hodgson DM, Emery AR. 2017. The Quaternary Geology of the North Sea Basin. Journal of Quaternary Science. 32(2), pp. 117-339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2932 | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/111205/
Emery A. 2016. Palaeopressure reconstruction to explain observed natural hydraulic fractures in the Cleveland Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 77, pp. 535-552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.06.007
Conference presentations
Proceedings
Lyså A, Örn Benediktsson Ĺ, Emery A, Gregoire L, Jennings A, Morigi C, Müller J, O’Regan M, Sarala P, Stokes C, Szczuciński W, Winsborrow M. 2019. The First International Conference on ‘Processes and Palaeo-Environmental Changes in the Arctic: From Past to Present’ (PalaeoArc). Geologos Walter de Gruyter GmbH 25(2), pp. 175-179 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/logos-2019-0016
Fisher QJ, Brown A, Emery A. 2017. Hydrodynamics and fault sealing. 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201700637
Heller, J., O’Connor, S., Emery, A., Hoskin, E., Lee, J. and Ward, C., 2015, The effect of unconformities and subsequent loading on pore pressure profiles, Proceedings, 39th annual convention and exhibition, Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA15-G-016), Conference proceedings. http://archives.datapages.com/data/ipa_pdf/2015/ipa15-g-016.htm
Edwards, A., Green, S., S’O, C., Goodman, W., Emery, A. and Heinemann, N., 2014, August. Shale diagenesis and its impact on pore pressure prediction: A case study along the NE margin of Eastern Canada. In 4th Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference St. John’s, NL Canada pp. 146-149 http://earthsciences.dal.ca/BasinLab/Files/StJohns2014/Abstracts.pdf
Oral presentations
| June 2022 | EAGE Annual Meeting, Madrid: Geological Evolution and Sustainable Offshore Wind (invited) |
| October 2021 | QRA Engineering Group conference (online): Quaternary Geology: past landscapes and future offshore wind (invited) |
| February 2021 | South-East Regional Group of the Geological Society meeting (online): Between the ice and the sea: past landscapes for offshore wind (invited) |
| January 2021 | QRA ADM, Portsmouth (online): Marine inundation of low-relief topography and barrier coastlines at Dogger Bank, North Sea |
| December 2020 | BSRG AGM, Liverpool (online): Turbulence and turbines: impacts of offshore wind on seabed sediment dynamics revealed by satellite-derived bathymetry |
| October 2020 | Global Offshore Wind, online: Understanding past landscape evolution as a tool for more cost effective, and resilient, offshore windfarm siting |
| December 2019 | BSRG AGM, Royal Holloway: Stratigraphic and sedimentary archives of terrestrial drainage network evolution at Dogger Bank, North Sea |
| July 2019 | INQUA, Dublin: Long-term controls of inherited topography on glacial-postglacial stratigraphy: Late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution at Dogger Bank, North Sea |
| April 2019 | EGU, Vienna: Seismic geomorphological mapping of buried glacial landforms at Dogger Bank, North Sea: implications for ice-sheet retreat |
| December 2018 | BSRG AGM, Edinburgh: Seismic stratigraphy of a proglacial lake: implications for deglaciation processes and engineering prediction of Dogger Bank, North Sea |
| July 2018 | White Rose INUNDATE project update meeting, invited to give update on Dogger Bank work |
| April 2018 | EGU, Vienna: Postglacial landscape evolution during rapid marine transgression at Dogger Bank, North Sea |
| January 2018 | QRA ADM, Plymouth: Holocene relative sea-level change: influences on sedimentary processes and stratigraphy at Dogger Bank |
| December 2017 | BSRG AGM, Newcastle: Environmental change during relative sea-level rise and marine transgression at Dogger Bank |
| November 2017 | Yorkshire Palaeo group meeting: Holocene marine transgression of Dogger Bank: relative sea-level influences on sedimentary processes and stratigraphy |
| November 2017 | White Rose INUNDATE project update meeting, invited to give update on Dogger Bank work |
| June 2015 | AAPG ACE, Denver: Reconstructing Basin Overpressure and Geomechanical History to Explain Observed Natural Fracture Patterns, Cleveland Basin, UK |
| April 2015 | Geopressure, Durham: Reconstructing basin overpressure and geomechanical history to explain observed natural fracture patterns in the Cleveland Basin |
| January 2015 | TSG, Edinburgh: Reconstructing basin overpressure and geomechanical history to explain observed natural fracture patterns in the Cleveland Basin |
Poster presentations
| January 2020 | QRA ADM, Leeds: Down by the river: Terrestrial drainage network evolution at Dogger Bank during glacial to interglacial transition |
| December 2019 | Yorkshire Geological Society President’s Day: WharfeDate: ice-marginal dynamics of the southeastern British-Irish Ice Sheet |
| July 2019 | INQUA, Dublin: Sedimentary and seismic stratigraphy of buried glacial landforms at Dogger Bank, North Sea: implications for ice-sheet retreat |
| December 2018 | BSRG AGM, Edinburgh: Inherited topographic controls on barrier retreat and preservation: an example from Dogger Bank, North Sea and Sedimentary records of coastal storm surges: Evidence of the 1953 North Sea event |
| November 2018 | Yorkshire Palaeo group meeting: Inherited topographic controls on barrier retreat and preservation: an example from Dogger Bank, North Sea |
| June 2018 | Yorkshire Palaeo group meeting: Sedimentary records of coastal storm surges: Evidence of the 1953 North Sea event |
| September 2017 | TU Delft sea-level summer school: Coastal environmental change at Dogger Bank: factors affecting postglacial marine transgression in the North Sea Basin |
| May 2017 | Royal Society Theo Murphy meeting, Chicheley Hall: Coastal environmental change at Dogger Bank: factors affecting postglacial marine transgression in the North Sea Basin |
| January 2017 | QRA ADM, Durham: The role of deglaciation and relative sea-level change in marine transgression of the Dogger Bank |
| December 2016 | BSRG AGM, Cambridge: Role of deglaciation, sea-level rise and isostatic adjustment in marine transgression of the Dogger Bank. Prize-winning poster. |
| January 2013 | TSG, Leeds: Tectonic control on pressure regimes: lateral drainage and Tertiary loading in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, Eastern Canada |
| January 2012 | TSG, Edinburgh: The timing and controls of salt wall collapse in the Central Graben of the North Sea |
Other published works
Landscapes under the North Sea: Geology and Offshore Wind, expronews, https://expronews.com/technology/landscapes-under-the-north-sea-geology-and-offshore-wind/
Emery AR. 2019. Book review. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association. 130(2), pp. 259-259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.10.005
Quaternary Research Association, Quaternary Newsletter 144, February 2018, field trip report: Joint QRA – Glacial Landsystems Working Group field meeting 18, Nairn and the Inverness Firth – 26th-29th October 2017 blog post
Professional and academic service
Website article author, AntarcticGlaciers.org, writing about the British-Irish Ice Sheet.
PalaeoArc research network: Early Career Representative and board member.
EGU Cryosphere division, Early Career team, social media (@EGU_CR).
Priestley Climate Scholar, University of Leeds: selected to join a multidisciplinary research group.
Convened two EGU sessions (2018, 2019), and a shareEGU online session (2020). Organised two EGU short courses (2020) cancelled due to moving conference online.
Convened sessions at INQUA (Dublin, 2019), BSRG (Heriot-Watt, 2018; Royal Holloway, 2019) and QRA (Leeds, 2020).
Over 5 peer reviews for national and international journals.
Funding
10 successful funding bids (83% success rate) for research and travel support, totalling ~£5,000
| Yorkshire Geological Society Research Fund to conduct geochronology dating | £1000 |
| Leeds OD&PL (joint application with 4 other Priestley Climate Scholars) | £500 |
| Institute of Applied Geosciences, University of Leeds, student support grant | £925 |
| INQUA travel bursary | €600 |
| Quaternary Research Association INQUA Travel Fund | £450 |
| University of Leeds LeedsforLife Foundation Conference Award | £400 |
| British Sedimentological Research Group, Steve Farrell Memorial Fund | £300 |
| Quaternary Research Association Quaternary Conference Fund | £500 |
| British Society for Geomorphology Postgrad Conference Attendance Fund | £260 |
| Quaternary Research Association Postgrad Meeting Attendance Fund | £200 |
Prizes
University of Leeds, School of Earth & Environment PGR Publications Prize – commended
British Sedimentological Research Group, Best Poster Prize, December 2016
ConocoPhillips Global Summer Intern Prize, August 2011
Outreach & communication
Involved in a new project to try and increase numbers of University Geosciences applicants with the Yorkshire Geological Survey, including filmed interviews.
Many Twitter sci-comm initiatives to share my enthusiasm for glacial geomorphology and stylistic map designs using QGIS.
Social media manager for PalaeoArc (@PalaeoArc) and EGU Cryosphere (@EGU_CR) teams, sharing research and meeting information
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