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English geophysicist
John-Michael Kendall (born 1962)
[6]
FRS
[7] is a
Geophysicist and
Professor in the
Department of Earth Sciences at the
University of Oxford .
[1]
Education
Kendall was educated at
Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario where he was awarded a
Bachelor of Science degree in 1984
[5] and a
PhD in 1991 supervised by Colin J. Thomson.
[6]
[5]
[9]
Career and research
Kendall's research interests are in
geology ,
geophysics and
seismology .
[2]
[10] Kendall has led field experiments in a range of geologic settings varying from the
Arctic Archipelago , to
Oman
[11] and
Ethiopia .
[12]
[13]
Previously Kendall has worked for the
Chevron Corporation in
Canada , the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the
United States , the
University of Toronto , the
University of Leeds
[3] and the
University of Bristol .
[4]
[5]
Awards and honours
Kendall served as president of the
British Geophysical Association (BGA) and vice-president (Geophysics) of the
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). In 2019, he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and in 2011 he was elected
Fellow of the
American Geophysical Union (AGU).
References
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a
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"Department of Earth Sciences » Professor Michael Kendall joins Oxford Earth Sciences" . earth.ox.ac.uk . Oxford.
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John-Michael Kendall publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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a
b Kendall, J.-M.; Silver, P. G. (1996). "Constraints from seismic anisotropy on the nature of the lowermost mantle". Nature . 381 (6581): 409–412.
Bibcode :
1996Natur.381..409K .
doi :
10.1038/381409a0 .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
S2CID
4281356 .
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a
b Wookey, James; Stackhouse, Stephen; Kendall, J-Michael; Brodholt, John; Price, G. David (2005). "Efficacy of the post-perovskite phase as an explanation for lowermost-mantle seismic properties". Nature . 438 (7070): 1004–1007.
Bibcode :
2005Natur.438.1004W .
doi :
10.1038/nature04345 .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
PMID
16355222 .
S2CID
4351425 .
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b
c
d
e Kendall, John-Michael (2019).
"Professor Mike Kendall FRS" . johnmichaelkendall.com . Archived from
the original on 2019-11-05.
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a
b
c Kendall, John-Michael (1992).
Contributions to the theory and modelling of seismic waves in anisotropic inhomogeneous media with applications to subduction-zones . queensu.ca (PhD thesis). Queen's University.
OCLC
28669169 .
^ Anon (2019).
"Professor John-Michael Kendall FRS" . royalsociety.org . London:
Royal Society . Archived from
the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .” --
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Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
^ Kendall, J-M.; Thomson, C. J. (1989).
"A comment on the form of the geometrical spreading equations, with some numerical examples of seismic ray tracing in inhomogeneous, anisotropic media" . Geophysical Journal International . 99 (2): 401–413.
Bibcode :
1989GeoJI..99..401K .
doi :
10.1111/j.1365-246X.1989.tb01697.x .
ISSN
0956-540X .
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John-Michael Kendall publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Al-Harrasi, Othman Harith (2010).
Fractured reservoir characterisation using shear-wave splitting in microseismic data : a case study from Oman . bristol.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Bristol.
hdl :
1983/30288fe4-70c5-4284-afeb-adab400ed4c6 .
OCLC
757129763 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.529853 .
^ Kendall, J.-M.; Stuart, G. W.; Ebinger, C. J.; Bastow, I. D.; Keir, D. (2005). "Magma-assisted rifting in Ethiopia". Nature . 433 (7022): 146–148.
Bibcode :
2005Natur.433..146K .
doi :
10.1038/nature03161 .
hdl :
2158/1078050 .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
PMID
15650736 .
S2CID
1290686 .
^ Teanby, N. A.; Kendall, J.-M.; van der Baan, M. (2004). "Automation of Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements using Cluster Analysis". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America . 94 (2): 453–463.
Bibcode :
2004BuSSA..94..453T .
doi :
10.1785/0120030123 .
ISSN
0037-1106 .