Scientist

Damon Teagle is Professor of Geochemistry and Royal Society Wolfson Foundation Merit Award holder at Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton. His principal science interests are interactions between fluids and rocks to understand hydrothermal systems, global chemical cycles, ore formation, and fault zones.  He is expert in the hydrothermal alteration of the oceanic crust and the interplay between seawater-derived fluids and the basalts of the ocean floor, from crustal accretion at the mid-ocean ridges and continuing on the vast ridge flanks until subduction. He has been Co-Chief Scientist on three scientific ocean drilling expeditions (ODP Leg 206, IODP Expeditions 309/312 & 335) and is a lead proponent of the Hole 1256D « Superfast », MoHole to Mantle, and Oman Drilling Projects.

Lab

The National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) is the UK’s largest centre for research in the marine and Earth sciences and technology development. It houses about 300 principal investigator-level scientists and engineers and almost 900 undergraduate and post-graduate students. NOCS Graduate School provides research and training of more than 150 early career scientists.

NOCS hosts state-of-the-art geochemistry facilities (MC-ICP-MS, TIMS, HR- ICP-MS, laser ablation facilities (193nm excimer laser), micro-sampling drills, XRD, SEM-EDS, XRF and micro-scanner XRF) and an extensive suite of Class 100 clean laboratories. It has experience in controlled and passive source sampling of Earth (e.g multichannel seismics, seismology) and modelling of Earth processes (reactive tracer transport …). It benefits from the student housing and training capacities from the University of Southampton.

Team

• Damon Teagle, Professor of geochemistry and Director of Research at NOCS, Deputy Director (Research) at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (Field geology, Geochemistry, policy)
• Timothy Henstock, Senior Lecturer Geophysics (Numerical modelling of Earth processes)