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Juliet Biggs | |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Thesis | InSAR observations of the earthquake cycle on the Denali Fault, Alaska (2007) |
Juliet Biggs is a British geologist and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. Her research considers satellite geodesy and the use of interferometric synthetic-aperture radar to understand the physics of the Earth's surface. She was awarded the American Geophysical Union John Wahr Award in 2017 and a European Research Council Consolidator Grant in 2020.
Early life and education
Biggs has said that she liked science from a young age.[1] Her parents were both academic mathematicians.[1] She has said that she enjoyed visiting the Science Museum, London.[1] Biggs studied earth sciences at the University of Cambridge. In her first year of university she got a summer research internship, and worked on a research mission with academics at the University of Southampton.[1] She moved to the University of Oxford as a doctoral researcher, where she studied the earthquake cycle in Denali Fault.[2] During her doctoral research Biggs used interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (InSAR) to determine strain around faults.[3] This strategy has been adopted by InSAR researchers around the world. During her postdoc, Biggs started working with satellite imagery to understand tectonic and volcanic regions.[3][4]
Research and career
In 2010 Biggs joined the University of Bristol, where she was made a full Professor in 2019. Her research considers earthquakes and and the earthquake cycle. She has studied dyke intrusions in the East African Rift and the development of new hazard assessments. Biggs has used satellite imagery to understand volcanoes all around the world, and identified several volcanoes that were previously considered dormant are in fact evolving rapidly.[3][5] She proposed that this imaging approach could be used to forecast volcanoes that were at risk of eruption.[6] She used imagery from the Sentinel-1 to understand deformation around Mount Agung.[7] In 2020 she was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to image volcanoes using 'strain tomography'.[8]
Awards and honours
- 2012 Royal Astronomical Society Winton Award[1]
- 2016 British Geophysical Association Bullerwell Lecture[9]
- 2016 Lloyds of London Science of Risk Prize[6][10]
- 2017 American Geophysical Union John Wahr Early Career Award[4]
- 2018 Leverhulme Prize[11]
- 2022 ERC Consolidator Project[8]
Select publications
- Tim J Wright; Cindy Ebinger; Juliet Biggs; Atalay Ayele; Gezahegn Yirgu; Derek Keir; Anna Stork (20 July 2006). "Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode". Nature. 442 (7100): 291–4. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..291W. doi:10.1038/NATURE04978. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 16855588. Wikidata Q28252992.
- Juliet Biggs; Tim Wright; Zhong Lu; Barry Parsons (September 2007). "Multi-interferogram method for measuring interseismic deformation: Denali Fault, Alaska". Geophysical Journal International. 170 (3): 1165–1179. Bibcode:2007GeoJI.170.1165B. doi:10.1111/J.1365-246X.2007.03415.X. ISSN 0956-540X. Wikidata Q60706650.
- J. R. Elliott; J. Biggs; B. Parsons; T. J. Wright (26 June 2008). "InSAR slip rate determination on the Altyn Tagh Fault, northern Tibet, in the presence of topographically correlated atmospheric delays". Geophysical Research Letters. 35 (12). Bibcode:2008GeoRL..3512309E. doi:10.1029/2008GL033659. ISSN 0094-8276. S2CID 55951736. Wikidata Q60698709.
References
- ^ a b c d e Bristol, University of. "Dr Juliet Biggs". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ "InSAR observations of the earthquake cycle on the Denali Fault, Alaska | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ a b c academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/53/1/1.37/219041. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b "John Wahr Early Career Award | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ Bristol, University of. "Ground monitoring equipment deployed on two Ethiopian volcanoes showing signs of unrest". phys.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ a b Bristol, University of. "December: Bristol research wins Science of Risk prize | News and features | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ Bristol, University of. "February: Bali volcano satellite images | News and features | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ a b "ERC Consolidator Grants 2020" (PDF). 2020.
- ^ Haworth, Richard (2014-02-16). "The Bullerwell Lecture". The British Geophysical Association. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ "Lloyds of London Science of Risk". University of Bristol. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ Bristol, University of. "2018: Cabot Institute academics win Philip Leverhulme Prizes | Cabot Institute for the Environment | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-21.