Professor James Jackson
James Jackson is a geophysicist investigating how the
continents are deforming today in areas of active plate tectonic
movement - from Africa, Iran and the Aegean to New Zealand and Nevada,
USA.
James uses a variety of techniques in earthquake science and remote sensing to decipher
the movement of the plates and to diagnose active tectonics on all scales. These studies range from the details of the
fault rupture in a single earthquake, to the fault patterns and tectonic movement over vast
areas of the continents. The two pictures illustrate how useful satellite images can be in earthquake studies. The picture on the left is a satellite image of part
of Iran. The other image shows the same area covered by a radar interferogram,
made from space, showing a bull's-eye pattern of uplift after an
earthquake: each colour fringe is about 2 cm of uplift.
James is currently Head of Department in Earth Sciences, and is a fellow of Queens' College. He teaches geophysics and active tectonics, and leads the field trip to Greece in Year 3.
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