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The Department of Earth Sciences invites applications for two professorial posts and two lectureship posts from 1st October 2012. More...
Current Topics
Name |
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Topic |
Supervisors |
Grant Body |
| Wendy Austin-Giddings | Tsunami hazard and volcanic lateral collapse events in the Atlantic Ocean. | Prof Bill McGuire & Dr Dave Tappin (BGS) | NERC/BGS | |
| Rosie Barnes | The evolution, palaeoeclogy and biostratigraphy of titanosaurian dinosaurs. | Dr Paul Upchurch | NERC | |
| Laura Carmody | Carbonatite volcano in the east African Rift. | Dr Adrian Jones & Dr Chris Kilburn | NERC | |
| Lorenzo Cremonese | Nitrogen isotopes at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in China. | Dr Graham Shields & Dr Ulrich Struck (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) | DFG | |
| Lottie Davis | Biomarkers in alkaline lakes and application to Mars. | Dr Ian Crawford, Dr Adrian Jones & Dr John Ward (Microbiology UCL) | NERC | |
| Mike Davis | 3-D characterisation of the chalk aquifer. | Dr Willy Burgess & Dr Richard Taylor (Dept. Geography) | ESPRC | |
| P. Davis | Palaeoecology of interdune slacks and pools. | Dr Charlie Bristow | Self-funded and Birkbeck College | |
| Simon Drake | Palaeogene silicic volcanism, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland. | Dr David Brown (University of Glasgow) & Dr Andrew Beard | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Corinne Fay | Mid-Cretaceous pCO2, carbon-cycling and the rise of the flowering plants. | Dr Stuart Robinson, Prof Paul Bown & Dr Jennifer McElwain (UCD) | NERC | |
| F. Fearnhead | Systematics and paleobiology of the British Llandovery crinoidea. | Dr Charlie Underwood | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Elizabeth Gaunt | Volcanic dome stability: Pressurisation, fracturing and permeability of lava domes | Prof Peter Sammonds, Dr Chris Kilburn, & Prof Phil Meredith | NERC | |
| Jeremy Gould | Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils and their use as palaeocaropaic proxies. | Prof Paul Bown & Dr Stuart Robinson | Self-funded | |
| Andrew Griffiths | Slope stability studies on newly discovered submarine volcanoes in the Kermadec Arc Region, SW Pacific. | Prof Bill McGuire & Dr Ian Wright (NIWA, NZ) | Self-funded | |
| Guillaume Guinot | Palaeoecology of late Cretaceous sharks of northern Europe. | Dr Charlie Underwood & Henri Cappetta (Montpellier) | French Govt. | |
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Thomas Halliday |
The enigmatic evolutionary relationships of Palaeocene mammals and their relevance for the Tertiary radiation of placental mammals. | Drs Anjali Goswami & Paul Upchurch | NERC | |
| Jennifer Harris | The identification of spectral signatures of life and habitable environments on planetary surfaces. | Drs Ian Crawford & Claire Cousins | Birkbeck | |
| Julia Heathcote | Geometric morphometrics and the phylogeny of the Sauropoda. | Dr Charlie Underwood & Dr Paul Upchurch | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Harry Heorton |
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Modelling the sea ice edge. | Dr Daniel Feltham & Ann Keen (Met Office) | NERC CASE/ UK Met Office |
| C. Hibbert | Monitoring continental weathering in a monsoonal climate, Goa, India. | Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards & Dr Mike Widdowson (OU) | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Steve Hirons | Metamorphic studies in the English Lake District. | Dr Gerald Roberts | Birkbeck College | |
| Judith Kelly | Cumulate xenoliths in the Cape Verde Islands. | Prof Hilary Downes & Dr Andrew Beard | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Da Li | The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in South China. | Dr Graham Shields | Chinese Scholarship Council | |
| A. Longbottom | Fossil fish from the Tertiary of Mali. | Dr Charlie Underwood | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Adam Martins | Hydrogen and Helium at conditions of Gas Giant interiors | Prof Lars Stixrude & Prof Dario Alfe | STFC | |
| Richard Mccormack | Experimental measurements of the transport properties of mantle minerals. | Prof David Dobson & Prof John Brodholt | Marie Curie | |
| Rakia Meister | A comparison of altimetry and gravity data over the oceans. | Prof. Duncan Wingham & Prof. Mark Maslin (Dept. Geography) | UCL Environment Institute | |
| Tania Micoara | Nannoplankton evolution through the Oligocene-early Miocene interval. | Prof Paul Bown & Dr Stuart Robinson | Self-funded | |
| Ceri Middleton | Thermal and structural evolution of ice-rock bodies of the solar system. | Prof Peter Sammonds, Dr Ian Wood, Dr Dominic Fortes, Dr Peter Grindrod | STFC | |
| Julie Mizzi | The Cenozoic middle Eocene nannoplankton diversity peak: biogeography, taxonomy and stratigraphy. | Prof Paul Bown | Self-funded | |
| Simon Morris | An integrated analysis of deep water distal gravity flow facies located near to the Norwegian Utsira High, Quad 24 and 25. | Dr Charlie Bristow | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Emma Nichols | Sharks as indicators of mid-Cretaceous water masses. | Dr Charlie Underwood | UCL/Birkbeck Research School Award | |
| V. Nikku-Paavola | Petrogenesis of carbonatites and related magmas, Namibia. | Prof Hilary Downes & Dr Francis Wall (NHM) | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Lucy Norman | Geofluids, Geology and Astrobiology of Titan | Dr Dominic Fortes, Dr Ian Crawford | Origins | |
| Matthias Papp | The Geological Evolution of the Marwar Supergroup (Rajasthan, India) and its Hydrocarbon Potential. | Prof Jürgen Thurow, Dr J A. Cozzi | MPRG-ENI | |
| Marie Pears | Collapse, Survival and Entrainment in Mantle Plumes: An experimental fluid dynamics perspective. | Dr Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Prof Duncan Wingham & Prof David Dobson | STFC | |
| Marianne Pearson | Systematics, Phylogenetic Relationships and Biogeographic History of Early Salamanders. | Dr Paul Upchurch, Prof Susan Evans (Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology) & Dr Mark Wilkinson (Dept of Zoology, NHM) | NERC and CASE with the Natural History Museum | |
| Alek Petty | The mixed layer over the Antarctic continental shelf | Dr Daniel Feltham & Dr Paul Holland (BAS) | NERC | |
| A. Prince | Interaction between components in contaminated land. | Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Simon Quinn | Contaminant attentuation in chalk groundwater: a new approach using radio-chemistry. | Prof Tim Atkinson, Dr Willy Burgess, Prof. John Barker & Dr J. Pates (Lancaster) | NERC LOCAR | |
| Nikhil Radia | Incorportation of frazil ice into a sea ice - ocean model. | Dr Daniel Feltham, Dr Miguel Maqueda (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) & Dr Seymour Laxon | NERC CASE with POL | |
| Robert Robertson | Researching volcanic seismicity and uplift links as short term eruption predictors. | Dr Chris Kilburn & Prof Bill McGuire | Self-funded | |
| Steven Robinson | Cryogenian climate change as inferred from sequences in North and South China. Did the low latitudes freeze? |
Dr Graham Shields |
NERC | |
| Aidan Ross | Carbon rich ureilite meteorites and early earth processes. | Prof Hilary Downes, Dr Adrian Jones & C. Smith (NHM) | NERC CASE with NHM | |
| Gemma Russell | Investigating the feasibility of recharging the chalk aquifer in north London with reclaimed water. | Dr Willy Burgess & Sian Hills (Thames Water) | EPSRC & Thames Water | |
| Helen Salmon | Petrogenesis of satellitic intrusions, Igaliko complex, Greenland. | Prof Hilary Downes & Dr A. Finch (Hertfordshire) | Self-funded Bbk | |
| James Santangeli | The Origin of Deep Earthquakes. | Prof David Dobson & Phil Meredith | NERC | |
|
Andria Sarri |
Quantification of uncertainty for landslide-generated tsunami models. |
Dr Serge Guillas Profs Bill McGuire & Frederic Dias |
IRDR |
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| Gillian Sclater | Physics of dissociating clathrates in cryovolcanic vents: application to Titan and Enceladus. | Dr Ian Crawford, Dr Dominic Fortes | Self-funded Bbk | |
| James Scotchman | Stratigraphic context and timing of sand supply to deep-marine Ainsa-Jaca basin, Middle Eocene, Spanish Pyrenees: Constraints from geochemistry and sedimentology. | Prof Kevin Pickering & Dr Stuart Robinson | ExxonMobil | |
| Alexandra Seymour-Pierce | Characterisation of the high speed friction of ice Supervisor: | Prof Peter Sammonds | Funded by Impact | |
| Brian Smith | Origin and weathering of V-U-Cu-Ag nodules at Budleigh Salterton, UK | Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards & Dr Kevin Taylor (MMU) | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Joshua Snape | Lunar meteorites and lunar regolith. | Dr Ian Crawford & Dr Adrian Jones | STFC | |
| Rebecca Southworth | Nitrogen isotope fractionation at high pressures and temperatures. | Dr. Adrian Jones, Dr. David Dobson and Dr. Alex Verchovsky (Open University) | EPSRC CASE (De Beers) | |
| Angela Stewart | Siderophore-mediated dissolution of iron oxides. | Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards & Dr William Dubbin (NHM) | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Clare Sutcliffe | Deep marine turbidites, the Eocene Guaso System, Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees. | Prof Kevin Pickering | NERC and SHELL | |
| B. Tabor | Modal characterisation of granitoid rocks. | Prof Hilary Downes | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Robert Tarff | Emplacement of ignimbrites during explosive phreatomagmatic eruptions, San Antao, Cape Verde Islands. | Prof. Hilary Downes | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Rosalie Tostevin | Carbon and sulphur isotopes across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition and the evolution of biomineralization. | Dr Graham Shields, and Dr. Rachel Wood (Edinburgh) | NERC life and the planet programme | |
| Richard Wall | Forecasting Volcanic Eruptions in Extensional Tectonic Settings | Dr Chris Kilburn & Prof Phil Meredith | NERC | |
| Elizabeth Wann | The composition of the Core of terrestrial planets: the role of nickel and light elements. | Prof Lidunka Vocadlo & Dr Ian Wood | STFC | |
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Thomas Wigley |
Biostratigraphy of Syn-rift successions in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. |
Drs Gerald Robers U Charlie Underwood. |
Self-funded Bbk | |
| Pari White | How can petrological and geochemical analyses of Romano British mosaic materials contribute to the archaeological evidence for industry, trade, transportation and settlements active in the manufacture of stone products in southern Britain? | Dr Charlie Bristow, Dr Ruth Siddall & Dr Charlie Underwood | Self-funded Bbk | |
| Rosemary Willatt | Satellite estimates of ice thickness distribution and surface roughness form satellite laser. | Dr Seymour Laxon & Dr Daniel Feltham | NERC | |
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Peerasut Goh Wongsureerat |
Influence of lithospheric structure on Earth's stress field. | Dr Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni & Prof Phil Meredith | Self-funded | |
| Robin Wylie | Magma Chamber Processes monitored through Carbon Isotopes at Etna Volcano. |
Dr Adrian Jones |
NERC |
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