Sam Mitchell

Very happy to announce the publication of my first lead author paper 🎉 Proud to contribute to earthquake hazard research by investigating the rupture relationships between 2 across-strike faults using field observations! Huge thanks to everyone involved. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.…

Last week at the European Seismological Commission in Corfu, I presented my work on slip relationships between two faults using 36Cl dating & rupture observations. Great to discuss new advances in earthquake research. #ESC2024 @London_NERC_DTP @BirkbeckUoL @UCLRDR

Last week staff & #PhD #students gathered for the 2024 Spring Academy at the beautiful @HartsfieldManor in Surrey. Our annual two-day residential trip takes us into the countryside to spend time together to contemplate, connect, inspire & engage in meaningful discussion.

@billy_andrews @EliasRugen @GeoJenni @ZoeMildon Haha thanks Billy! Those woods have left scars and it was definitely worth it.

@structuralsam @EliasRugen @GeoJenni @ZoeMildon Congratulations! Lovely work and glad to see the vicious wounds in your field photographs were worth it.

Very happy to announce the publication of my first lead author paper 🎉 Proud to contribute to earthquake hazard research by investigating the rupture relationships between 2 across-strike faults using field observations! Huge thanks to everyone involved. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.…

@MarcoMeschis @EliasRugen @GeoJenni @ZoeMildon Thanks Marco!

@structuralsam @EliasRugen @GeoJenni @ZoeMildon Congrats Sam! Outstanding work.

@EliasRugen Scrambling scree slopes, scratching through never ending thorny bushes and splitting up to find the fault.. it doesn’t get better than this

Yasas! Very proud @structuralsam…..some great fieldwork memories

Excited to share that my first scientific paper as a contributing author is out! 📄 Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this new article in the Journal of Structural Geology: doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.…

@billy_andrews @BirkbeckUoL @UCLIRDR @GeoJenni Thanks Billy, looking forward to seeing what you do with your incredible dataset!

@structuralsam @BirkbeckUoL @UCLIRDR @GeoJenni Great to hear it went well, not that I’m surprised as it’s awesome!

Enjoyed doing my first conference presentation at #INQUARoma2023 showing my findings on the 1981 earthquake ruptures. Also, great getting to know so many earthquake researchers and see the exciting work that’s coming out of this community. @BirkbeckUoL @UCLIRDR

Great pleasure to discuss my research on earthquakes and surface displacement hazard at the IRDR annual conference. I learnt so much from an inspiring day of talks with the theme of risk without borders #IRDR13

Attica region Holocene active fault mapping ✅ Highlights😄: -Finding some elusive faults, e.g. the Afidnai fault. -Runs in the mountains. Lowlights😳: -Police pulling us over with guns for showing “suspicious activity” in Athens (fault hunting). -Bad fall on the Skinos Fault.

10-day whirlwind fieldtrip of Central Greece completed ✅ Discovered some new faults sites that I can’t wait to publish 🏔️ The fiat panda served us well (just about). @London_NERC_DTP @BirkbeckUoL @UCLIRDR

And that concludes the @UCLIRDR Spring Academy 2023! Special thanks to @IlanKelman for organising yet another successful gathering of #staff and #students, and to all for attending, and sharing ideas, tactics, and strategies for the #IRDR going forward!

Day 4 mapping: Identified the Thermopylae Fault, Greece, (notice the proximity to a railway line in the top left). Visited the location of the 480 BC battlefield (which the film 300 was based on) including the statue of Leonidas and hot springs which may be sourced at the fault.

Day 2 and 3: Finding the Atalanti and Kamena Vourla Fault whilst getting inventive with field work including: ⁃extra waterproof socks ⁃using a fault as a slide (not recommended) ⁃hand signals for distance measurements

Greece Holocene fault mapping (between Gulfs of Evia and Corinth) begins with Matthew Morris from ICL. Day 1: Akontio Fault. Holocene throw profile ✅ slip vectors ✅

2nd year Birkbeck undergraduate field trip to the Perachora Peninsula, Greece. Lovely bunch of hard working students. A year since starting my earthquake geology PhD and already teaching my research in Holocene active faults and historical ruptures - could be worse. @BirkbeckUoL

Earthquake data collections are made easier with a Swiss Army Field Assistant @EliasRugen

The challenge of finding an earthquake rupture (commonly identified in the form of cm-scale soil steps). Yellow waypoints = rupture locations Red line = trekking up and down thorny overgrown slopes

An exceptional fieldtrip to the rapidly extending tectonic setting of central Greece. Begin detailed rupture mapping of the 1981 earthquakes for my first paper on throw variation ✅ Locate fault scarp sample sites ✅ Mapping paleoshorelines and finding corals for dating ✅