Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- rachel.brackenridge@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Rm. 145, Meston Building, Kings College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
The application of my science, i.e. its relevance to solving real-world societal problems, is central to my research strategy and my work is broadly aligned with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 7 (affordable and clean energy); 13 (climate action); and 14 (life under water).
The overarching theme of my past research has been to understand past and present sediment transport. My PhD research focused on characterising sand-rich depositional systems deposited by ocean currents (named contourites) 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, geohazards and pollutant (microplastic) dispersion.
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. Current research examines the utilisation of the subsurface for the Energy Transition including the investigation of the subsurface for intermittent and long-term energy storage.
- Research
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Research Overview
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, Microplastics.
Petroleum Geology & GeoEnergy: Petroleum Exploration; Regional Geology; Frontier Basins; Frontier Plays; Play Mapping; Deep Water Plays; Geohazards; Big Data; Risking, Salt Cavern Storage, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS); Hydrogen Storage; Salt Caverns.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Programme Director, MSc Sustainable Energy Geoscience.
Course Coordinator, GL5011 ‘Geophysics & Petrophysics’ (Level 5).
Course Coordinator GL5301 'Borehole Geophysics and 4D Reservoir Modelling' (Level 5)
Course coordinator GL5572 'Subsurface Storage and Sequestration' (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'
GL5572: Subsurface Storage & Sequestration. 'Subsurface Storage Fundamentals'
GL5913: Projects in Energy Geoscience. 'Report Writing'
- Publications
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Genesis of honeycomb buildups in the Permian Zechstein Group, Southern North Sea
Marine and Petroleum GeologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesIntroduction: Special issue on bottom currents and contourites: Processes, products and impact
Marine Geology, vol. 469, 107237Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107237
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The search for "Jenyon's channel": The Missing link between the Permian basins in the North Sea
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 160, 106619Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLate Permian Evaporite Facies Variation in the Forth Approaches Basin, North Sea: Implications for Hydrogen Storage
Geoenergy, vol. 1, no. 1Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVirtual field trips utilizing virtual outcrop: construction, delivery and implications for the future
Geoscience Communication, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 227-249Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImproving 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: Articles