About
Emma researches into fault behaviour aimed towards the energy transition. Specifically, she enjoys exploring fault seal capacity, fault growth history, geomechanical behaviour of faults, as well as unravelling uncertainty in seismic scale data collection. She has recently identified best practice methods for seismic interpretation of faults, as well as documenting uncertainties when using modern machine learning technologies.
Emma received her Undergraduate Masters degree in Geoscience from the University of Leeds in 2010, after which she completed her PhD at the University of Aberdeen, researching into deformation of carbonate lithofacies surrounding faults. Emma then left academia to work at Badley Geoscience Ltd. as a consultant structural geologist, completing projects for predicting fracture patterns and fault seal potential in a range of settings. During this position, she also successfully generated a JIP with the University of Leeds, researching into carbonate fault seal. In February 2020 Emma moved to Oslo, Norway returning to academia as a postdoctoral research fellow, researching into de-risking faults for CCS, focussing on the potential CO2 storage site Smeaheia. Emma then moved back to the UK, where she began her current Lectureship position in December 2022.