Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)

General information

I am senior lecturer in igneous petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry. My main research interests are volcanoes and the link between magmatism and plate tectonics; of particular interest are the geodynamics of subduction zones. Others include magma crystallisation, mineral and ore formation, meteorites and the early evolution of the Earth.

Teaching

I am unit co-ordinator for:

• Level 1: Earth Materials (Introductory mineralogy, igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary petrology)
• Level 3: Geoscience Study Tour to Cyprus

I also contribute to:

• Level 2: Petrology
• Level 2: Volcanology
• Level 2: geological mapping component of Structural Geology
• Level 3: Magmatism and Tectonics
• Level 3: Geodynamics
• Level 4: Volcanology
• Field work at all levels from level 1 day trips to the Isle of Wight and Dorset Coast to two-week residential courses in the Sierra Norte in Spain and Cyprus. I have also contributed to the geological hazard courses in Southern Italy and Sicily (levels 2 and 4), and the level 4 contaminated land course in Devon and Cornwall
• Supervisor for final year mapping projects in Snowdonia and the Lake District

Career

• 2006 to present: senior lecturer, University of Portsmouth
• 2001 – 2005: PhD research, University of Portsmouth
• 1998 – 2001: Undergraduate degree, BSc (Hons) Geology, University of Portsmouth
• Pre-1998: experience of working in the agricultural and construction industries

Professional record

• Fellow of the Geological Society of London
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research

Current research projects:

• Examining detrital minerals in marine sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean in relation to the timing and onset of glaciations in Greenland, with Craig Storey and Emile Bruand.
• Using whole rock and mineral geochemistry to determine the depths to magma chambers beneath the island of Tenerife, with Carmen Solana-Jennings.
• Investigating the petrogenesis of Caldeonian granitoids in Shetland, with Mike Fowler.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2006

• Bullen, D.S., Hall, R.P.H., and Hanson, R.E. submitted to Lithos. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of mafic sills in the 1.1 Ga Umkondo large igneous province, southern Africa.
• Hanson, R. E., Harmer, R. E., Key, R. M., Blenkinsop, T. G., Bullen, D. S., Dalziel, I. W. D., Gose, W. A., Hall, R. P., Kampunzu, A. B., Mukwakwami, J., Pancake, J. A., Seidel, E. K, and Ward, S. E. (2005) Mesoproterozoic intraplate magmatism in the Kalahari craton. Journal of African Earth Sciences, Special Volume on Kibaran Orogenic System of Africa, 46: 141-167.
• Hanson, R. E., Gose, W. A., Crowley, J. L., Ramezani, J., Bowring, S. A., Bullen, D. S., Hall, R. P., Pancake, J. A. and Mukwakwami, J. 2004. Palaeoproterozoic intraplate magmatism and basin development on the Kaapvaal craton: Age, palaeomagnetism and geochemistry of ~1.93 to ~1.87 Ga post-Waterberg dolerites. South African Journal of Geology, 107: 233-254.