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Overview

Stephen Stokes was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions primarily focused on engineering and environmental science, with an emphasis on ocean and environmental engineering, along with mechanical engineering aspects. Their work intersected with materials chemistry and safety, risk, reliability, and quality disciplines.

Their publication record included notable papers such as:

  • Modelling of Multiphase Flow During Transient Operation of a Carbon Capture and Storage System (2023, Offshore Technology Conference)
  • Embracing Australia's Decommissioning Liability (2021, The APPEA Journal)
  • Pipeline CO2mmissioning: The First Step is the Hardest (2024, Offshore Technology Conference Asia)

Stephen Stokes collaborated frequently with researchers including Suling Zhai, Hooman Haghighi, Craig James McKay, Dale Erickson, and Andrew Taylor. Their research was published in venues such as the Offshore Technology Conference, The APPEA Journal, and Offshore Technology Conference Asia.

Their scientific focus encompassed several main topics, including:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
  • Graphite, Nuclear Technology, Radiation Studies
  • Nuclear and Radioactivity Studies
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies

Stephen Stokes contributed research within fields concerned with carbon dioxide capture and storage, reservoir simulation, and offshore engineering challenges. Their investigations into geologic interactions related to CO2 sequestration aligned with environmental engineering priorities, while their work on reservoir analysis and hydraulic fracturing reflected cross-disciplinary engineering interests.

Best Publications

  • A record of Holocene climate change from lake geochemical analyses in southeastern Arabia

    Adrian G. Parker;Andrew S. Goudie;Stephen Stokes;Kevin White

  • The Early to Middle Stone Age transition and the emergence of modern human behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan.

    P Van Peer;R Fullagar;S Stokes;R.M Bailey

  • Multiple episodes of aridity in southern Africa since the last interglacial period

    Stephen Stokes;David S. G. Thomas;Richard Washington

  • Holocene vegetation dynamics in the northeastern Rub' al-Khali desert, Arabian Peninsula: a phytolith, pollen and carbon isotope study

    A. G. Parker;L. Eckersley;M. M. Smith;A. S. Goudie

  • Late Pleistocene/Holocene slip rate of the Zhangye thrust (Qilian Shan, China) and implications for the active growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Ralf Hetzel;Ralf Hetzel;Mingxin Tao;Stephen Stokes;Samuel Niedermann

  • Luminescence dating applications in geomorphological research

    Stephen Stokes

  • Optical dating of young (modern) sediments using quartz: Results from a selection of depositional environments

    Stephen Stokes

  • Optical resetting in large drainage basins: tests of zeroing assumptions using single-aliquot procedures

    S Stokes;H.E Bray;M.D Blum

  • Alternative chronologies for Late Quaternary (Last Interglacial–Holocene) deep sea sediments via optical dating of silt-sized quartz

    S. Stokes;S. Ingram;S. Ingram;M.J. Aitken;F. Sirocko

  • OPTICAL DATING OF SEDIMENTS: INITIAL QUARTZ RESULTS FROM OXFORD

    B. W. Smith;E. J. Rhodes;S. Stokes;N. A. Spooner

  • Dating volcanic and related sediments by luminescence methods: a review

    Morteza Fattahi;Morteza Fattahi;Stephen Stokes

  • Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary aridity in the Northern Kalahari: new evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arid and humid chronologies

    D.S.G. Thomas;P.W. O'Connor;M.D. Bateman;P.A. Shaw

  • Middle- and late-Holocene dune reactivation in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA

    Stephen Stokes;James B. Swinehart

  • Assessing the completeness of optical resetting of quartz OSL in the natural environment

    J.S. Singarayer;R.M. Bailey;S. Ward;S. Stokes

  • Multiple phases of North African humidity recorded in lacustrine sediments from the Fazzan Basin, Libyan Sahara

    S J Armitage;Nicholas Drake;S Stokes;A El-Hawat

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene dune construction at the north-eastern edge of the Rub Al Khali, United Arab Emirates

    Andrew S. Goudie;Alison Colls;Stephen Stokes;Adrian Parker

  • A ∼200 ka record of climatic change and dune activity in the Thar Desert, India

    A.K. Singhvi;M.A.J. Williams;S.N. Rajaguru;V.N. Misra

  • Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari

    S. Stokes;G. Haynes;D.S.G. Thomas;J.L. Horrocks

  • Identification of partial resetting using De as a function of illumination time

    R.M. Bailey;J.S. Singarayer;S. Ward;S. Stokes

  • Age limits on the Late Quaternary evolution of the upper Loire River

    A.E Colls;S Stokes;M.D Blum;E Straffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Bailey
Richard M. Bailey University of Oxford
Andrew Goudie
Andrew Goudie University of Oxford
Kevin White
Kevin White University of Reading
Warren W. Wood
Warren W. Wood Michigan State University
Joy S. Singarayer
Joy S. Singarayer University of Reading
Paul A. Shaw
Paul A. Shaw University of the West Indies
Ralf Hetzel
Ralf Hetzel University of Münster
Michael D. Blum
Michael D. Blum University of Kansas
Lee J. Arnold
Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide
Adrian G. Parker
Adrian G. Parker Oxford Brookes University

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