Staff Profile

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

Google Scholar

Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD):

Kinematic dynamos
The geodynamo and geomagnetism
Other planetary dynamos
Galactic magnetic fields

• Gent FA, Shukurov A, Fletcher A, Sarson GR, Mantere MJ. The supernova-regulated ISM - I. The multiphase structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2013, 432(2), 1396-1423.
• 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 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.
• Snodin AP, Shukurov A, Sarson GR, Bushby PJ, Rodrigues LFS. Global diffusion of cosmic rays in random magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016, 457(4), 3975-3987.
• Rodrigues LFS, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Bushby PJ, Fletcher A. The Parker instability in disk galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 2016, 816(1), 2.
• Shukurov A, Sarson G, Videiko M, Henderson K, Shiel R, Dolukhanov P, Pashkevich G. Productivity of Premodern Agriculture in the Cucuteni-Trypillia Area. Human Biology 2015, 87(3), 235-282.
• Henderson DA, Baggaley AW, Shukurov A, Boys RJ, Sarson GR, Golightly A. Regional variations in the European Neolithic dispersal: the role of the coastlines. Antiquity 2014, 88(342), 1291-1302.
• Gangal K, Sarson GR, Shukurov A. The Near-Eastern Roots of the Neolithic in South Asia. PLoS One 2014, 9(5), e95714.
• Käpylä MJ, Gent FA, Väisälä MS, Sarson GR. The supernova-regulated ISM III. Generation of vorticity, helicity, and mean flows. Astronomy and Astrophysics 2018, 611, A15.
• Butters OJ, Sarson GR, Bushby PJ. Effects of magma-induced stress within a cellular automaton model of volcanism. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2017, 341, 94-103.
• Hollins JF, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Fletcher A, Gent FA. Supernova-regulated ISM. V. Space and Time Correlations. Astrophysical Journal 2017, 850(1), 4.
• Shukurov A, Sarson G, Videiko M, Henderson K, Shiel R, Dolukhanov P, Pashkevich G. Productivity of Premodern agriculture in the Cucuteni–Trypillia area. Human Biology 2015, 87(3), 235-238.