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Professor Tony Morris

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2862-7377

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    Profile summary

    Professor of Geophysics and Geodynamics (he/him)

    Lead Director of the International Ocean Drilling Programme Science Office

    Chair of UK-IODP

     

    Professional memberships

    Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

    Fellow of the Geological Society of London

    Member of the British Geophysical Association

    Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

    Member of the American Geophysical Union

    Roles on external bodies

    • Lead Director of the International Ocean Drilling Programme Science Office (hosted by the University of Plymouth) (2024-2029)
    • Chair of the NERC-funded UK-International Ocean Drilling Programme, UK-IODP (2022-)
    • International Ocean Drilling Programme Planning Group (2021-)
    • Vice Chair of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling Science Support and Advisory Committee (ESSAC) (2022-2024)
    • Chair of ESSAC (2018-2019 & 2020-2021, two successive terms), leading European (and Canadian) scientific involvement in the International Ocean Discovery Program
    • IODP Science Framework Working Group (2019-2021)
    • UK Representative on ESSAC (2015-2024) 
    • Member of the UK-IODP Program Advisory Group, (2015-)
    • JOIDES Resolution Geophysics Laboratory Working Group, IODP (2015-2017)
    • Natural Environment Research Council Peer Review College member (2005-2008) 
    • Treasurer of the British Geophysical Association (2004-2011)

    Teaching interests

    As a geophysicist I am interested in applying physical methods to look at plate tectonic and geodynamic processes. In addition, I use field studies to examine the evidence for oceanic crustal processes preserved in ophiolites (slices of oceanic crustal and mantle rocks that are exposed on land). I have worked mainly in the eastern Mediterranean orogenic belt, but also have extensive experience of engagement with the International Ocean Discovery Program (that collects rock and sediment samples from the present-day ocean basins via scientific ocean drilling). I use my wide range of interests to inform my teaching. 

    Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

    1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
      SDG 4 Quality Education
    2. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
      SDG 14 Life Below Water

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    • Temporal linkages of explosive activity of Kolumbo and Santorini Volcanoes (Greece)

      Metcalfe, A., Pank, K., Kutterolf, S., Preine, J., Nomikou, P., Hübscher, C., Ronge, T. A., Beethe, S., Bernard, A., Berthod, C., Chen, H., Chiyonobu, S., Clark, A., DeBari, S., Fernandez-Perez, T., Gertisser, R., Jones, C., Johnston, R., Joshi, K. B. & Karstens, J. & 15 others, Kletetschka, G., Koukousioura, O., Lee, H. Y., Li, X., Manga, M., McCanta, M., McIntosh, I., Morris, T., Papanikolaou, D., Peccia, A., Polymenakou, P., Tominaga, M., Wang, K. L., Woodhouse, A. & Yamamoto, Y., 2 Feb 2026, In: Geology. 54, 5, p. 393-398 6 p.

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    • Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini

      Druitt, T., Kutterolf, S., Ronge, T., Hübscher, C., Nomikou, P., Preine, J., Gertisser, R., Karstens, J., Keller, J., Koukousioura, O., Manga, M., Metcalfe, A., McCanta, M., McIntosh, I., Pank, K., Woodhouse, A., Beethe, S., Berthod, C., Chiyonobu, S. & Chen, H. & 15 others, Clark, A., DeBari, S., Johnston, R., Peccia, A., Yamamoto, Y., Bernard, A., Fernandez, P. T., Jones, C., Joshi, K., Kletetschka, G., Li, X., Morris, A., Polymenakou, P., Tominaga, M. & Papanikolaou, D., 15 Jan 2024, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 24.

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    • Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera

      Preine, J., Karstens, J., Hübscher, C., Druitt, T., Kutterolf, S., Nomikou, P., Manga, M., Gertisser, R., Pank, K., Beethe, S., Berthod, C., Crutchley, G., McIntosh, I., Ronge, T., Tominaga, M., Clark, A., DeBari, S., Johnston, R., Mateo, Z. & Peccia, A. & 18 others, Jones, C., Kletetschka, G., Metcalfe, A., Bernard, A., Chen, H., Chiyonobu, S., Fernandez-Perez, T., Joshi, K. B., Koukousioura, O., McCanta, M., Morris, A., Polymenakou, P., Woodhouse, A., Yamamoto, Y., Wang, K. L., Lee, H. Y., Li, X. & Papanikolaou, D., 25 Mar 2024, In: Nature Geoscience. 17, 4, p. 323-331 9 p.

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    • Magnetic anisotropy of a sub-ophiolitic metamorphic sole (Mersin ophiolite, Turkey)

      ÇAVDAR, B., Morris, A., Anderson, M., Menegon, L. & Parlak, O., 17 Apr 2023, In: Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration. 170, p. 1-14

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    • Coeval volcanism and rotation of Neotethyan oceanic crust in the Oman ophiolite – fact or fiction?

      Morris, A., Di, C. A., Anderson, M., MacLeod, C., Koornneef, L., Hepworth, J. & Harris, M., 27 Mar 2022

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