The application of my science, i.e. its relevance to solving real-world societal problems, is central to my research strategy and my work is broadly aligned with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 7 (affordable and clean energy); 13 (climate action); and 14 (life under water).
The overarching theme of my past research has been to understand past and present sediment transport. My PhD research focused on characterising sand-rich depositional systems deposited by ocean currents (named contourites) and their importance as potential hydrocarbon reservoirs. My research is now focused on the how the distribution of these deposits are controlled by global climate and how bottom currents interact with the continental margins with respect to margin architecture, geohazards and pollutant (microplastic) dispersion.
Gaining a number of years of experience in the petroleum industry has given me a good multidisciplinary understanding of the evolution of extensional settings through to passive margins. Frontier basins and plays have been the main focus of past work. Following my postdoctoral research on the UK Central North Sea, energy stability and energy equality has become an important driver to my work. Current research examines the utilisation of the subsurface for the Energy Transition including the investigation of the subsurface for intermittent and long-term energy storage.
Petroleum Geology & GeoEnergy: Petroleum Exploration; Regional Geology; Frontier Basins; Frontier Plays; Play Mapping; Deep Water Plays; Geohazards; Big Data; Risking, Salt Cavern Storage, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS); Hydrogen Storage; Salt Caverns.
Contourites along the Iberian continental margins: conceptual and economic implications
Llave, E., Hernández-Molina, F., García, M., Ercilla, G., Roque, C., Juan, C., Mena, A., Preu, B., Van Rooij, D., Rebesco, M., Brackenridge, R., Jane, G., Gómez-Ballesteros, M., Stow, D.
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 476, pp. 403-436
Textural characteristics and facies of sand-rich contourite depositional systems
Brackenridge, R., Stow, D. A. V., Hernández-Molina, F., Jones, C., Mena, A., Alejo, I., Ducassou, E., Llave, E., Ercilla, G., Nombela, M. A., Perez-Arlucea, M., Frances, G.
Middle Miocene reworked turbidites in the Baiyun Sag of the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea margin: processes, genesis, and implications
Gong, C., Wang, Y., Zheng, R., Hernández-Molina, F. J., Li, Y., Stow, D., Xu, Q., Brackenridge, R.
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 128, pp. 116-129
Oceanographic processes and morphosedimentary products along the Iberian margins: A new multidisciplinary approach
Hernández-Molina, F. J., Wahlin, A., Bruno, M., Ercilla, G., Llave, E., Serra, N., Roson, G., Puig, P., Rebesco, M., Van Rooij, D., Roque, D., Gonzalez-Pola, C., Sanchez, F., Gomez-Romero, M., Preu, B., Schwenk, T., Hanebuth, T. J., Sánchez Leal, R., García-Lafuente, J., Brackenridge, R. E., Juan, C., Stow, D. A. V., Sánchez-González, J. M.
Evolution of the gulf of Cadiz margin and southwest Portugal contourite depositional system: Tectonic, sedimentary and paleoceanographic implications from IODP expedition 339
Hernández-Molina, F., Sierro, F., Llave, E., Roque, C., Stow, D. A. V., Williams, T., Lofi, J., Van der Schee, M., Arnáiz, A., Ledesma, S., Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Tovar, F. J., Pardo-Igúzquiza, E., Brackenridge, R. E.
Procesos oceanográficos y sus productos alrededor del margen de Iberia: una nueva aproximación multidisciplinar
Hernández-Molina, F. J., Wahlin, A., Bruno, M., Ercilla, G., Llave, E., Serra, N., Roson, G., Puig, P., Rebesco, M., Van Rooij, D., Roque, D., Gonzalez-Pola, C., Sanchez, F., Gómez, M., Preu, B., Schwenk, T., Hanebuth, T., Sánchez Leal, R., García-Lafuente, J., Brackenridge, R., Juan, C., Stow, D. A. V., Sánchez-González, L. A.
