About
Héctor Marín Moreno works at the interface between environmental geoscience, geophysics, and geotechnics in the marine environment.
He is interested in a range of topics including solutions to accelerate the green energy transition from offshore renewables, climate change mitigation techniques, and natural greenhouse gas emissions from marine sources.
His main research focuses on climate and human-induced abiotic changes in marine sediments. He develops and apply analytical and numerical modelling techniques at different spatial (grain-core-basin) and temporal scales (seconds to centuries) to explore the behaviour of the non-living part below our oceans. Applications include naturally induced methane emissions from gas hydrates and geological CO2 storage.
Currently, he is also working on optimizing the value of geoscience information to reduce the time and costs of offshore soil investigations, ultimately, to accelerate the green energy transition. He is exploring hybrid physics-based and data-driven solutions for joint processing and interpretation of geophysical and geotechnical data in offshore wind developments.
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Research
Research interests
- Smart and cost-effective solutions for joint processing and interpretation of geophysical and geotechnical data from renewable energy developments offshore
- Geological storage of CO2 and hydrogen
- Climate and human-induced methane emissions in the marine environment
- Thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical coupled processes in marine sediments
Current research
Active projects
Deep-learning Enabled Engineering Parameters with Detailed Integration of Geosciences (DEEP-DIG)
Researchers: Dr Héctor Marín Moreno
Offshore Renewable Energy (Computational Geosciences): Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering
Researchers: Dr Yuting Zhang, Prof Susan Gourvenec, and Dr Héctor Marín Moreno
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Teaching
Héctor Marín Moreno coordinates and teaches modules on environmental and engineering geology, geotechnics for geoscientists, carbon capture and storage, and fieldwork with geophysical techniques. He also acts as an advisor for BSc, MSci, and MSc independent research projects on topics ranging from geotechnical and geophysical data integration, seafloor methane emissions, and geological storage of CO2.
Since January 2025, he is the Training Coordinator for the Doctoral Training Program INSPIRE and Doctoral Landscape Award IGNITE, and Industry Liaison for Earth Science Programs.
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Biography
Appointments
Feb 2023: Lecturer, University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, UK
May 2020 - Dec 2022: Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
July 2018 - April 2020: Senior Marine Geoscientist, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Sept 2015 - June 2018: Marine Geoscientist, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
May 2014 - Aug 2015: Research Fellow at the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014: Geotechnical Analyst, FugroGeoconsulting Ltd, Wallingford, UK
Education
2010 - 2014: PhD, Graduate School National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK
2009 - 2010: MSc, Geotechnical Engineering, UPC BarcelonaTECH, Spain
2004 - 2009: MEng (5 years degree), Geological Engineering, UPC BarcelonaTECH and University of Barcelona, Spain
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