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“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead
little by little to the truth.”

Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

We retain strong links with academia and are involved in cutting edge research, so we are ideally positioned to bridge the gap between scientific rigour and commercial development. Maintaining close ties with our origins in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, and many other universities globally, we are able to deliver innovative and world leading solutions to geoscience problems. 

Our recent publications include collaboration with these research institutions


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Research Type
Type Author Year Title (link) Reference
Conference Wilkinson, M.W.
Wadsworth, F.
Jones, R.R.
Brown, R.
2018 Low-cost GNSS as a tool for near real-time monitoring of volcanic surface deformation using bespoke geodetic networks "Cities on Volcanoes 10" conference, Naples, September 2018
Conference Wedmore, L.N.J.
Gregory, L.C.
McCaffrey, K.J.W.
Wilkinson, M.W.
and others
2017 High resolution shallow co-seismic and post-seismic slip from the 2016 central Italy earthquake sequence captured using terrestrial laser scanning, structure from motion and low-cost near-field GNSS AGU Fall Meeting, 11-15 December 2017
Conference Gregory, L.C.
Walters, R.J.
Wedmore, L.N.J.
Craig, T.J.
and others
2017 Breaking barriers and halting rupture: the 2016 Amatrice-Visso-Castelluccio earthquake sequence, central Italy AGU Fall Meeting, 11-15 December 2017, New Orleans
Conference McCaffrey, K.J.W.
Gregory, L.C.
Walters, R.J.
Roberts, G.
and others
2016 Investigation of post-seismic deformation resulting from the 24th August 2016 Central Italy Earthquake (M 6.2) AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2016
Conference Wilkinson, M.W.
Jones, R.R.
McCaffrey, K.J.W.
Roberts, G.
and others
2018 Near-field surface displacement of the 2016 Norcia & Kaikoura earthquakes measured using low-cost GNSS AOGS, Hawaii, June 2018
Conference Wedmore, L.N.J.
Gregory, L.C.
Roberts, G.P.
Wilkinson, M.W.
and others
2017 Co-seismic and shallow post-seismic slip during the 2016 central Italy earthquake sequence revealed by differential terrestrial laser scanning and photogrammetry EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2017.
Conference Wilkinson, M.W.
Wadsworth, F.
Bonforte, A.
Roberts, G.P.
and others
2019 Measuring relative ground motion across the Pernicana fault during the December 2018 – January 2019 eruption and seismic crisis of Mt. Etna, Italy, at 1 Hz sampling frequency using low-cost GNSS EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2019.
Conference Jones, R.R.
Oxlade, D.M.
Long, J.J.
Gilment, S.R.
and others
2019 Automated surface detection in 3D point clouds: comparison between terrestrial and aerial derived photogrammetry datasets EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2019.
Conference Oxlade, D.M.
Wilkinson, M.W.
Long, J.J.
Jones, R.R.
and others
2018 An overview of geospatial methods for data acquisition and analysis: Useful insights exist beyond the hype. Extractive Industry Geology conference, Durham, September 2018
Conference Wilkinson, M.W 2020 Monitoring the surface deformation of geological hazards using low-cost GNSS Geological Society, Northern Group, 16th July 2020.
Conference Wilkinson, M.W.
Gregory, L.C.
Walters, R.J.
Wedmore, L.N.J.
and others
2017 An example of slip on a capable fault: Near-field co-seismic deformation of the 30th October Central Italy earthquake (6.6 Mw) measured using low-cost GNSS JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, Tokyo, May 2017
Scientific Article (peer reviewed) Wilkinson, M.W.
McCaffrey, K.J.W.
Jones, R.R.
Roberts, G.P.
and others
2017 Near-field fault slip of the 2016 Vettore Mw 6.6 earthquake (Central Italy) measured using low-cost GNSS Nature Scientifc Reports, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04917-w
Conference McCaffrey, K.J.W.
Gregory, L.C.
Wedmore, L.N.J.
Wilkinson, M.W.
and others
2017 Nearfield monitoring of fault slip during the 2016 central Italy seismic sequence Tectonic Studies Group Conference, Liverpool, January 2017
Conference Gluyas, J.
Wilkinson, M.W.
Imber, J.
Sowter, A.
and others
2018 Humbly Grove gas storage – does the Earth move? UK Energy Storage Conference, Newcastle, UK, March 2018
Conference Wilkinson, M.W.
Gregory, L.C.
Walters, R.J.
Wedmore, L.N.J.
and others
2017 An example of slip on a capable fault: Near-field co-seismic deformation of the 30th October Central Italy earthquake (6.6 Mw) measured using low-cost GNSS Workshop: "From 1997 to 2016: Three destructive earthquakes along the Central Apennine Fault System", Italy, 19-22 July 2017