David McInroy

Mr David McInroy Science Manager, ECORD Science Operator

Location: Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 6500 382

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Biography

  •  2010 – Present :  Science Manager, ECORD Science Operator
  •  2004 – 2010 :  Staff Scientist, ECORD Science Operator
  •  2001 – Present :  2D and 3D seismic interpretation and analysis
  •  2001 :  Joined BGS Marine Geoscience
  •  2000 – 2001 :  Processing Geophysicist, Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG), London
  •  1999 – 2000 :  M.Sc. (Distinction) Geophysics, University of Durham
  •  1995 – 1999 :  B.Sc. (Hons) Geology and Applied Geology, University of Glasgow

Skills

  •  2D and 3D seismic and well interpretation, basin analysis
  •  Planning and implementation of scientific ocean research drilling operations for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)

Current projects and collaboration

Research interests

  •  Geology and evolution of the NW European Atlantic Margin
  •  Geophysics / seismic interpretation

Published outputs

Key papers

Monaghan, A, Ford, J, Milodowski, A, McInroy, D, Pharaoh, T, Rushton, J, Browne, M, Cooper, A, Hulbert, A and Napier, B. 2012. New insights from 3D geological models at analogue CO2 storage sites in Lincolnshire and eastern Scotland, UK. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 59, 53-76. doi:10.1144/pygs.59.1.289.

Smith, M, Lawrence, D, McInroy, D, Monaghan, A, Edwards, M, Naylor, M, Ford, J and Bricker, S. 2012. Defining the store : geological interpretation and storage modelling. In: Smith, M, Campbell, D, Mackay, E and Polson, D (Eds.) CO2 aquifer storage site evaluation and monitoring : understanding the challenges of CO2 storage : results of the CASSEM Project. Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage, 37-67.

Stoker, M S, Kimbell, G S, McInroy, D B and Morton, A C. 2012. Eocene post-rift tectonostratigraphy of the Rockall Plateau, Atlantic margin of NW Britain: Linking early spreading tectonics and passive margin response. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 30, 98-125. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.09.007.

Expedition 313 Scientists. 2010. Shallow-water drilling of the New Jersey continental shelf: global sea level and architecture of passive margin sediments. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 313. doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.313.2010.

Mountain, G, Proust, J-N and Expedition 313 Scientists. 2010. The New Jersey margin scientific drilling project (IODP Expedition 313): untangling the record of global and local sea-level changes. Scientific Drilling,, 10, 26-34. doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.10.03.2010.

Mountain, G, Proust, J-N, McInroy, D, Cotterill, C and the Expedition 313 Scientists. 2010. Shallow-water drilling of the New Jersey continental shelf: global sea level and architecture of passive margin sediments). Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 313: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.313.2010007.

McInroy, D B and Hitchen, K. 2008. Geological evolution and hydrocarbon potential of the Hatton Basin (UK sector), north-east Atlantic Ocean (extended abstract). Proceedings of Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference, Halifax, 2008.

Camoin, G F, Iryu, Y, McInroy, D B and the Expedition 310 Scientists. 2007. The last deglacial sea level rise in the South Pacific: offshore drilling in Tahiti (French Polynesia). Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 310: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/​iodp.proc.310.2007.

Camoin, G F, Iryu, Y, McInroy, D and the Expedition 310 Scientists. 2007. IODP Expedition 310 reconstructs sea level, climatic, and environmental changes in the South Pacific during the last deglaciation. Scientific Drilling, 5, 4-12. doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.5.01.2007.

Backman, J, Moran, K, McInroy, D B, Mayer, L A and the Expedition 302 Scientists. 2006. Arctic Coring Expedition: Paleoceanographic and Tectonic Evolution of the Central Arctic Ocean. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 302: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.302.2006.

Expedition 310 Scientists. 2006. Tahiti Sea Level: the last deglacial sea level rise in the South Pacific: offshore drilling in Tahiti (French Polynesia). Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 310. doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.310.2006.

McInroy, D B, Hitchen, K & Stoker, M S. 2006. Potential Eocene and Oligocene stratigraphic traps of the Rockall Plateau, NE Atlantic Margin. In: Allen, M R, Goffey, G P, Morgan, R K and Walker, I M (Eds.) The Deliberate Search for the Stratigraphic Trap. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 254, 247-266.

Backman, J, Moran, K and McInroy, D. 2005. IODP Expedition 302, Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): a first look at the Cenozoic paleoceanography of the central Arctic Ocean. Scientific Drilling, 1, 12-17. doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.1.02.2005.

Expedition 302 Scientists. 2005. Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): paleoceanographic and tectonic evolution of the central Arctic Ocean. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 302. doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.302.2005.

Johnson, H, Ritchie, J D, Hitchen, K, McInroy, D B and Kimbell, G S. 2005. Aspects of the Cenozoic deformational history of the northeast Faroe-Shetland Basin and the Wyville-Thomson Ridge and Hatton Bank areas. In: Doré, A G & Vining, B A (Eds.) The Petroleum Geology: North-West Europe and Global Perspectives—Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference, 993-1007.