Dr Rachel Brackenridge

Dr Rachel Brackenridge
Lecturer
- About
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Rm. 145, Meston Building, Kings College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX
Biography
The dominant research theme to my work is 'Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Resources, Hazards and Climate’. This has been focused on the interaction of ocean currents with the sea floor and the resulting deposits, named contourites. My PhD research focused on characterising sand-rich contourite depositional systems, and their importance as potential hydrocarbon reservoirs. My research is now focused on the how the distribution of these deposits are controlled by global climate and how bottom currents interact with the continental margins with respect to margin architecture and geohazards.
The application of geoscience is central to my research. Gaining a number of years of experience in the petroleum industry has given me a good multidisciplinary understanding of the evolution of extensional settings through to passive margins. Frontier basins and plays have been the main focus of past work. Following my postdoctoral research on the UK Central North Sea, energy stability and energy equality has become an important driver to my work.
- Research
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Research Overview
Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Sedimentology; Contourites; Mixed systems; Strat. Traps; Ocean Currents; Climate; Geohazards; Tsunamigenic Submarine Landslides; Passive Margins; Sequence Stratigraphy; Source-to-Sink; Sediment Transport; Machine Learning.
Petroleum Geology & GeoEnergy: Petroleum Exploration; Regional Geology; Frontier Basins; Frontier Plays; Play Mapping; Deep Water Plays; Geohazards; Big Data; Risking.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Programme Director, MSc Integrated Petroleum Geoscience.
Course Coordinator, GL5011 ‘Geophysics & Petrophysics’ (Level 5).
Course Coordinator GL5301 'Borehole Geophysics and 4D Reservoir Modeling' (Level 5)
Course coordinator GL5907 'Projects in Integrated Petroleum Geoscience' (Level 5)
Lecturing
GG1010: Creating the Anthropocene: 'The Growth of Energy’
GG1512: The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 'Clean and Affordable Energy'
GP3501: Interpretation of Seismic Reflection Data. 'Seismic Stratigraphy', 'Seismic Mapping', and 'Seismic Facies'
GL4034: Applied Geological Synthesis
GL5011: Geophysics & Petrophysics. 'Exploration Geophysics Fundamentals'
- Publications
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Virtual field trips utilizing virtual outcrop: construction, delivery and implications for the future
Geoscience Communication, vol. 5, pp. 227-249Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-227-2022
Improving Subsurface Characterisation with ‘Big Data’ Mining and Machine Learning
Energies, vol. 15, no. 3, 1070Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRE-EVALUATION OF THE FORTH APPROACHES BASIN: THE DEBATABLE HYDROCARBON PROSPECTIVITY AND THE STORAGE POTENTIAL
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202113233
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Contourite porosity, grain size and reservoir characteristics
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 117, 104392Contributions to Journals: ArticlesContourites along the Iberian continental margins: conceptual and economic implications
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 476, pp. 403-436Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/sp476-2017-46
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Indonesian Throughflow as a preconditioning mechanism for submarine landslides in the Makassar Strait
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 500, pp. 195-217Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Mid North Sea High Region of the UK Continental Shelf
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 154-173Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTextural characteristics and facies of sand-rich contourite depositional systems
Sedimentology, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 2223-2252Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12463
Controls on Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) Prospectivity in the Mid North Sea High Region
AAPG Search and Discovery , 11050Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDefining Prospective Play Fairways over the Southern Flank of the UK Mid North Sea High
AAPG Search and Discovery , 11052Contributions to Journals: Articles