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Emma Chambers

@echambersgeo.bsky.social

Postdoctoral fellow at DIAS, Dublin. Seismologist, Geophysicist, Gardener and Cook. Particular interests in magma, joint inversion and geothermal energy.

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Emma Chambers @echambersgeo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The inversion also produces outputs for the depth to the LAB, Moho as well as determine Vs and radiogenic heat production. These new results will be useful for future geodynamic modelling studies and understanding Ireland's tectonic history.

2 maps of Ireland. The left hand figure shows the depth to the Moho (thickness of the crust) which ranges from 25 to 33 km depth while the panel on the right is the same but for the lithosphere asthenosphere boundary depth (78 to 118 km depth).

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Emma Chambers @echambersgeo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

We've used phase velocity data combined with variable surface heat flow, thermal conductivity and radiogenic heat production to model the crust and upper mantle across the island.

4 panels of subsurface temperature models of Ireland. These range from 2 to 30 km depth with the warmest temperatures in the North and cooler temperatures in the south.

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Emma Chambers @echambersgeo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

New subsurface temperature models for Ireland have been published! In this work we used a joint geophysical petrological inversion to solve directly for temperature. doi.org/10.1093/gji/...

Screenshot of a new paper titled "A new subsurface temperature model for Ireland from joint geophysical–petrological inversion of seismic, surface heat flow and petrophysical data"

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Emma Chambers @echambersgeo.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Excellent 2 days of fieldwork for the GRANNUS and MOD3LTHERM projects. 100% data recovery in Northern Ireland and we installed a fence to protect the equipment from cows. Thanks to Eoghan Totten @dias_geophysics and Rob Raine @GeoSurveyNI for making this possible #Diasdiscovers.

An image of a solar panel in a field in front of a stone wall. Grass has grown over the buried seismometer in the foreground

An image of a solar panel in an open field with clear blue skies. The wheat has been cut a few months before.

An image of a fence surrounding a solar panel, with Eoghan Totten installing a new panel for the fence to keep cows away from the solar panel and seismometer. It's in the corner of a field with a tree in the very corner.

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Emma Chambers @echambersgeo.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

The main controls on the temperature gradient were lithospheric and crustal thickness, however, thermal properties also significantly influence temperature with warmer geotherms found in granites and muds.

A map of the thermal conductivity of Ireland

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Emma Chambers @echambersgeo.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

New surface-wave measurements across Ireland were used with thermal property, surface heat flow, Elevation and Moho depth data in the inversion procedure. We compared to direct temperature measurements in Ireland and found the model reproduced temperatures within error

A series of 6 plots showing the direct temperature measurement and the calculated temperature using our new model. We also plot 2 previous studies results at the same locations.

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