User:Theboyrhys/Zoe Shipton

Shipton Received a Bachelors of Science from the University of Leeds in January 1994, and subsequently received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in January of 1999.

From 2007 to 2020, Shipton has become active as a member or Chairman in 7 different external organizations, including the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), the Scottish Government, the Institute of Civil Engineering, Tectonic Studies Group, the Geological Society of London, Sense About Science, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Shipton has organized 4 special symposia; ‘Geomechanical and Petrophysical Properties of Mudrocks’ in October of 2015, ‘Communicating Contested Geoscience’ in June 2014, ‘Fault Zones: Structure, Geomechanics, and Fluid Flow’ in September 2008, and ‘Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting’ in January 2007.

Shiptons research focuses on the structural and permeability architecture of faults, with four main areas of focus; how faults act as high permeability conduits, low permeability faults faults that produce hydrocarbon traps and barriers to fluid flow, understanding fault processes as tangible evidence that earthquakes are relative movements across fault zones, and how to constrain uncertainty in geological models. 24 PhD students have worked across these questions and projects for their thesis as well as post-doctoral studies under Shipton.

Shipton has Published over 190 peer reviewed research articles and papers, has been cited over 5600 times, and has an H-index of 34.

Shipton was awarded the William Smith Fund in 2010 for excellence in contributions to applied and economic aspects of geology in an under 40.