G3 - 2019
Price, M.G., Davies, J.H., Panton, J. (2019). " Controls on the deep-water cycle within three-dimensional mantle convection models " Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 20
CV
Employment
- University of Cologne, Mar 2025 - Present Postdoc in numerical weather predicition, employed on the AC3 and WarmWorld projects.
- Cardiff University, Nov 2021 - Feb 2025 Postdoc in mantle geodynamics, employed on the MC2 project.
Education
- PhD, Advances in using three-dimensional mantle convection models to address geochemical problems, Cardiff University, 2016-2020
- MSci Geophysics, University of Southampton, 2012-2016
Publications
PhD Thesis
Panton, J. (2021). " Advances in using three-dimensional mantle convection models to address global geochemical cycles." PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
G3 - 2022
Panton, J.C., Davies, J.H., Elliott, T., Andersen, M., Porcelli, D., Price, M.G. (2022). " Investigating Influences on the Pb Pseudo-Isochron Using Three-Dimensional Mantle Convection Models With a Continental Reservoir " Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 20
JGR: Solid Earth - 2023
Panton, J.C., Davies, J.H., Myhill, R. (2023). " The Stability of Dense Oceanic Crust Near the Core-Mantle Boundary " Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . 128
PEPI - 2025
Ward, J., Walker, A.M., Nowacki, A., Panton, J., Davies, J.H. (2024). " The sensitivity of lowermost mantle anisotropy to past mantle convection " Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. . 356, 107264
Geoscientific Model Development - 2025
O`Malley, C.P.B., Roberts, G., Panton, J., Richards, F.D., Davies, J.H., Fernandes, V.M., Ghelichkhan, S. (2024). " Reconciling surface deflections from simulations of global mantle convection " Geosci. Mod. Dev. . 17,24
Scientific Reports - 2025
Panton, J., Davies, J.H., Koelemeijer, P., Myhill, R., Ritsema, J. (2025). "Unique composition and evolutionary histories of large low velocity provinces " Scientific Reports . 15, 4466
Solid Earth - 2025
Morgan, G., Davies, J.H., Myhill, R., Panton, J. (2025). " On the global geodynamic consequences of different phase boundary morphologies " Solid Earth . 16,4/5
G-cubed - 2025
Béguelin, P., Panton, J., Andersen, M., Elliott, T., Davies, H., Rodney, J., & Plimmer, A. (2025). " Comparing geochemical and geodynamical models of plume and ridge mantle source composition " Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 26,e2025GC012357
Proceedings A - 2025
J. H. Davies, J. Panton, I. Altoe, M. Andersen, P. Béguelin, A. Biggin, C. Davies, T. Elliott, Y. A. Engbers, V. M. Fernandes, A. M. G. Ferreira, S. Fowler, S. Ghelichkhan, B. J. Heinen, P. Koelemeijer, F. Latallerie, W. Li, G. Morgan, S. J. Mason, R. Myhill, A. Nowacki, C. P. O’Malley, A. Plimmer, D. Porcelli, N. Récalde, G. G. Roberts, J. B. Rodney, J. Shea, O. Shorttle, W. Sturgeon, A. M. Walker, J. Ward, J. Wookey (2025). " How to assess similarities and differences between mantle circulation models and Earth using disparate independent observations " Proc. A . 481,20240827
GJI - 2025
Morgan, G., Davies, J.H., Myhill, R., Wookey, J., Panton, J. (2025). " A method for the prediction of seismic discontinuity topography from thermochemical mantle circulation models " Geophy. J. Int. . 243,2
G-cubed - 2025
Plimmer, A., Davies, J. H., Panton, J. (2024). " Investigating the effect of lithosphere thickness and viscosity on mantle dynamics throughout the supercontinent cycle " Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 25e2024GC011688
JOSS - 2025
Nowacki, A., Panton, J., Ward, J., Myhill, R., Walker, A., Wookey, J., Davies, J.H. (2025). " terratools: A Python package to analyse TERRA mantle convection simulations " JOSS . 10(116),7539
Presentations
Poster @ UK SEDI 2019
Poster at UK SEDI, 2019, London, UK
The Pb cycle in 3D numerical geodynamic models
Poster at Goldschmidt, 2019, Barcelona, Spain
Investigating Pb isotope systematics using 3D geodynamic models
Poster at AGU Fall Meeting, 2019, San Francisco, California
Heat producing elements and mantle heterogeneity in geodynamic models
Talk at Ada Lovelace Workshop, Hévíz, Hungary
Using three-dimensional spherical mantle circulation simulations to better understand the distribution of chemical heterogeneity in the lower mantle
Talk at AGU Fall Meeting, 2022, Chicago, Illinois
Trace element and bulk chemistry of plumes and ridges in geodynamic simulations
Poster at EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria
Ocean basin scale geochemical heterogeneity in geodynamic models
Poster at Ada Lovelace Workshop on Modelling Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics, Sète, France, Sète, France
Teaching
Service
- Co-convenor, Constraining mantle convection models with Earth’s observations, EGU, Vienna, 2024
- Co-convenor, A deep dive into lowermost mantle processes, AGU, San Francisco, 2019
- Organiser of British Geophysical Association (BGA) Postgraduate Research in Progress (PGRiP) conference, 2018
Supervision
Co-supervisor:
- Abigail Plimmer - PhD student, Cardiff University. Now at University of Bergen.
- Gwynfor Morgan - PhD student, Cardiff University
- Nicolas Récalde - PhD student, Cardiff University
Primary Supervisor:
- Alistair Campbell - undergraduate student - summer research project, Cardiff University