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Mark Chapman is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

Their scholarly output includes a range of studies on seismic phenomena and geophysical methods, with significant contributions to topics such as seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, composite material mechanics, and numerical methods in engineering.

Recent publications by Mark Chapman include:

  • Linking elastic and electrical properties of rocks using cross-property DEM, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • Multiscale characterisation of chimneys/pipes: Fluid escape structures within sedimentary basins, 2021, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • The Power-Law Relation Between Inclusion Aspect Ratio and Porosity: Implications for Electrical and Elastic Modeling, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • CO2-Brine Substitution Effects on Ultrasonic Wave Propagation Through Sandstone With Oblique Fractures, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Core-scale geophysical and hydromechanical analysis of seabed sediments affected by CO2 venting, 2021, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Mark Chapman collaborates frequently with several researchers, notably P. Cilli, G. Papageorgiou, A. H. Robinson, Ben Callow, and Gaye Bayrakci, each having coauthored multiple papers alongside Chapman.

Their work is published in several recurrent venues, including:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Prospecting

Best Publications

  • Frequency-dependent anisotropy due to meso-scale fractures in the presence of equant porosity

    Mark Chapman

  • Glacial North Atlantic: Sea-surface conditions reconstructed by GLAMAP 2000

    U. Pflaumann;M. Sarnthein;M. Chapman;L. d'Abreu

  • Millennial-scale oceanic climate variability off the Western Iberian margin during the last two glacial periods

    Lúcia de Abreu;Nicholas J Shackleton;Joachim Schönfeld;Michael Hall

  • The influence of fluid-sensitive dispersion and attenuation on AVO analysis

    Mark Chapman;Enru Liu;Xiang-Yang Li

  • Surface and deep ocean interactions during the cold climate event 8200 years ago.

    Christopher R. W. Ellison;Mark R. Chapman;Ian Robert Hall

  • Derivation of a microstructural poroelastic model

    Mark Chapman;Mark Chapman;Sergei V. Zatsepin;Stuart Crampin;Stuart Crampin

  • Evidence of 550 year and 1000 year cyclicities in North Atlantic circulation patterns during the Holocene

    Mark R. Chapman;Nicholas J. Shackleton

  • Global ice-volume fluctuations, North Atlantic ice-rafting events, and deep-ocean circulation changes between 130 and 70 ka

    Mark R. Chapman;Nicholas J. Shackleton

  • Apparent long-term cooling of the sea surface in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Holocene.

    Olivier Marchal;Isabel Cacho;Thomas F. Stocker;Joan O. Grimalt

  • The Classic Marine Isotope Substage 5e

    Nicholas J. Shackleton;Mark Chapman;Maria Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi;Delphine Pailler

  • Modelling frequency-dependent seismic anisotropy in fluid-saturated rock with aligned fractures: implication of fracture size estimation from anisotropic measurements

    Sonja Maultzsch;Mark Chapman;Enru Liu;Xiang Yang Li

  • Changes in sea surface hydrology associated with Heinrich event 4 in the North Atlantic Ocean between 40° and 60°N

    Elsa Cortijo;Laurent Labeyrie;Laurence Vidal;Maryline Vautravers

  • Millennial-scale fluctuations in North Atlantic heat flux during the last 150,000 years

    Mark R. Chapman;Nicholas J. Shackleton

  • Sea surface temperature variability during the last glacial-interglacial cycle: assessing the magnitude and pattern of climate change in the North Atlantic

    Mark R Chapman;Mark R Chapman;Nicholas J Shackleton;Jean-Claude Duplessy

  • Application of spectral decomposition to detection of dispersion anomalies associated with gas saturation

    Emeka Odebeatu;Jinghua Zhang;Mark Chapman;Enru Liu

  • Changes in Meridional Temperature and Salinity Gradients in the North Atlantic Ocean (30°–72°N) during the Last Interglacial Period

    Elsa Cortijo;Scott Lehman;Lloyd Keigwin;Mark Chapman

  • Southern ocean fronts : controlled by wind or topography?

    Robert M. Graham;Robert M. Graham;Agatha M. de Boer;Karen J. Heywood;Mark R. Chapman

  • Faunal and alkenone reconstructions of subtropical North Atlantic surface hydrography and paleotemperature over the last 28 kyr

    M. R. Chapman;N. J. Shackleton;M. Zhao;G. Eglinton

  • The effect of fluid saturation in an anisotropic multi-scale equant porosity model

    Mark Chapman;Sonja Maultzsch;Enru Liu;Xiang-Yang Li

  • Frequency-dependent AVO Inversion

    Adam Wilson;Mark Chapman;Xiang‐Yang Li

  • Modelling and analysis of attenuation anisotropy in multi-azimuth VSP data from the Clair field

    Sonja Maultzsch;Mark Chapman;Enru Liu;Xiang-Yang Li

  • Modeling the effect of multiple sets of mesoscale fractures in porous rock on frequency-dependent anisotropy

    Mark Chapman

  • Experimental verification of the fracture density and shear-wave splitting relationship using synthetic silica cemented sandstones with a controlled fracture geometry.

    Philip Tillotson;Jeremy Sothcott;Angus Ian Best;Mark Chapman;Mark Chapman

  • Unified theory of global flow and squirt flow in cracked porous media

    Morten Jakobsen;Mark Chapman

  • Water saturation effects on elastic wave attenuation in porous rocks with aligned fractures

    Kelvin Amalokwu;Angus I. Best;Jeremy Sothcott;Mark Chapman;Mark Chapman

  • The influence of abnormally high reservoir attenuation on the AVO signature

    Mark Chapman;Enru Liu;Xiang-Yang Li

  • Quantitative gas saturation estimation by frequency-dependent amplitude-versus-offset analysis

    Xiaoyang Wu;Mark Chapman;Mark Chapman;Xiang-Yang Li;Patrick Boston

  • Velocity and attenuation anisotropy Implication of seismic fracture characterizations

    Enru Liu;Mark Chapman;Isabel Varela;Xiangyang Li

  • Observations of fluid‐dependent shear‐wave splitting in synthetic porous rocks with aligned penny‐shaped fractures‡

    Philip Tillotson;Mark Chapman;Angus Ian Best;Jeremy Sothcott

  • A Shale Rock Physics Model and its Application in the Prediction of Brittleness Index, Mineralogy, and Porosity of the Barnett Shale

    Zhiqi Guo;Xiangyang Li;Mark Chapman

  • Observation and analysis of frequency-dependent anisotropy from a multicomponent VSP at Bluebell-Altamont Field, Utah

    E. Liu;J.H. Queen;X.Y. Li;M. Chapman

  • Estimating seismic dispersion from prestack data using frequency-dependent AVO analysis

    Xiaoyang Wu;Mark Chapman;Xiang-Yang Li

  • Exploring the Effect of Fractures and Microstructure on Brittleness Index in the Barnett Shale

    Zhiqi Guo;Xiangyang Li;Mark Chapman

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiang-Yang Li
Xiang-Yang Li China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Enru Liu
Enru Liu ExxonMobil (United States)
Angus I. Best
Angus I. Best National Oceanography Centre
Timothy A. Minshull
Timothy A. Minshull University of Southampton
Timothy J. Henstock
Timothy J. Henstock University of Southampton
Jonathan M. Bull
Jonathan M. Bull University of Southampton
Ian Main
Ian Main University of Edinburgh
Stuart Crampin
Stuart Crampin University of Edinburgh
Christian Berndt
Christian Berndt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Rachael H. James
Rachael H. James University of Southampton

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