Newcastle University

Qualifications

• PhD in Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, 1990-1994
  
• BSc in Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, 1986-1990
  

Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
  
• Member of the American Geophysical Union
  

Research Interests

• Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD):
  
  
  
  • Kinematic dynamos
    
  • The geodynamo and geomagnetism
    
  • Other planetary dynamos
    
  • Galactic magnetic fields
    
  
  

• Gent FA, Shukurov A, Sarson GR, Fletcher A, Mantere MJ. The supernova-regulated ISM - II. The mean magnetic field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2013, 430(1), L40-L44.
• Baggaley AW, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Boys RJ, Golightly A. Bayesian inference for a wave-front model of the neolithization of Europe. Physical Review E 2012, 86(1), 016105.
• Baggaley AW, Boys RJ, Golightly A, Sarson GR, Shukurov A. Inference for population dynamics in the Neolithic period. Annals of Applied Statistics 2012, 6(4), 1352-1376.
• Ryan DA, Sarson GR. A coupled low order dynamo/turbulent shell model for geomagnetic field variations and reversals. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 2011, 188(3-4), 214-234.
• Dolukhanov P, Shukurov A, Davison K, Sarson G, Gerasimenko N, Pashkevich G, Vybornov A, Kovalyukh N, Skripkin V, Zaitseva G, Sapelko T. The spread of the neolithic in the south east european plain: Radiocarbon chronology, subsistence, and environment. Radiocarbon 2009, 51(2), 783-793.
• Sarson GR, Nordlund A, Gudiksen B, Shukurov A, Brandenburg A. Self-regulating supernovae heating in interstellar medium simulations. Astrophysics and Space Science 2004, 292(1-4), 267-272.
• Shukurov A, Sarson GR, Nordlund A, Gudiksen B, Brandenburg A. The effects of spiral arms on the multi-phase ISM. Astrophysics and Space Science 2004, 289(3-4), 319-322.
• Brandenburg A, Blackman EG, Sarson GR. How magnetic helicity ejection helps large scale dynamos. Advances in Space Research 2003, 32(10), 1835-1844.
• Brandenburg A, Blackman EG, Sarson GR. How magnetic helicity ejection helps large scale dynamos. In: Magnetic Helicity at the Sun, In Solar Wind and Magnetospheres: Vistas from x-ray Observatories. 2003, Houston, Texas, USA: Pergamon.
• Sarson GR. Kinematic dynamos driven by thermal-wind flows. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2003, 459(2033), 1241-1259.
• Brandenburg A, Sarson GR. Effect of hyperdiffusivity on turbulent dynamos with helicity. Physical Review Letters 2002, 88(5), 055003.
• Sarson GR. Reversal models from dynamo calculations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2000, 358(1768), 921-942.
• Sarson GR, Jones CA, Longbottom AW. Convection driven geodynamo models of varying Ekman number. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 1998, 88, 225-259.
• Sarson GR, Jones CA, Zhang K, Schubert G. Magnetoconvection dynamos and the magnetic fields of Io and Ganymede. Science 1997, 276, 1106-1108.
• Sarson GR, Gubbins D. Three-dimensional kinematic dynamos dominated by strong differential rotation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1996, 306, 223-265.