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Name |
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Topic |
Supervisors |
Grant Body |
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Jabraan Ahmed |
Protocols in Shale Gas Extraction. |
Prof J. Thurow, Prof N. Skipper, Prof P. Meredith and Dr J.Faure-Walker |
ISR (Institute for Sustainable Resources) |
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Thomas Armitage |
Estimates of ice thickness distribution and surface roughness from Envisat and CryoSat satellite laser and radar altimetry. |
NERC | ||
| Rosie Barnes | The evolution, palaeoeclogy and biostratigraphy of titanosaurian dinosaurs. | Dr Paul Upchurch | NERC | |
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Blanca Cantalejo-Lopez |
email |
Fine-grained laminated sediments, mid-Eocene, Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees |
Prof Kevin Pickering & Dr Stuart Robinson |
UCL |
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Alexis Cartwright-Taylor |
email |
A non-extensive statistical physics approach in earthquake geophysics |
Prof Filippos Vallianatos |
UCL Impact, IRDR, Technological Institute of Crete |
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Mike Chandler |
email |
Fracture toughness and brittleness of shale under reservoir conditions. |
Prof Phil Meredith & Dr Brian Crawford (ExxonMobil URC) |
ExxonMobil URC / UCL Impact |
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Nicola Dakin |
email |
Understanding the basin-floor scale, geometry, architecture and run-out length of mass transport complexes/deposits (MTCs/MTDs) on reservoir heterogeneity. |
Prof Kevin Pickering |
Nexen UK Ltd |
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Jeffrey Davis |
email |
The groundwater resources of weathered precambrian basement complex acquifiers below erosion surfaces in southern and eastern Africa. |
Dr Willy Burgess and Dr Nick Robins (BGS) |
Self-funded |
| Mike Davis | 3-D characterisation of the chalk aquifer. | Dr Willy Burgess & Dr Richard Taylor (Dept. Geography) | ESPRC | |
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Amy Edgington |
Mercury: its composition, internal structure and magnetic field. |
Prof Lidunka Vočadlo & Dr Ian Wood |
STFS | |
| 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 | |
| Elizabeth Gaunt | Volcanic dome stability: Pressurisation, fracturing and permeability of lava domes | Prof Peter Sammonds, Dr Chris Kilburn, & Prof Phil Meredith | NERC | |
| 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 | |
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Thomas Halliday |
The enigmatic evolutionary relationships of Palaeocene mammals and their relevance for the Tertiary radiation of placental mammals. | Dr Anjali Goswami & Dr Paul Upchurch | NERC | |
| Harry Heorton |
email |
Modelling the sea ice edge. | Dr Daniel Feltham & Ann Keen (Met Office) | NERC CASE/ UK Met Office |
| Adam Martins | Hydrogen and Helium at conditions of Gas Giant interiors | Prof Dario Alfe | STFC | |
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Georgios Michas |
email |
Self-organized criticality and non extensivity in the Corinth Rift Zone. |
Prof Peter Sammonds, Prof Filippos Vallianatos, Dr Gerald Roberts |
IKY Greek State Scholarship Foundation |
| Tania Micoara | Nannoplankton evolution through the Oligocene-early Miocene interval. | Prof Paul Bown & Dr Stuart Robinson | Self-funded | |
| Julie Mizzi | The Cenozoic middle Eocene nannoplankton diversity peak: biogeography, taxonomy and stratigraphy. | Prof Paul Bown | Self-funded | |
| Lucy Norman | Geofluids, Geology and Astrobiology of Titan | Dr Dominic Fortes, Dr Ian Crawford | Origins | |
| Cherry Newsam | Plankton evolution and the Paleogene greenhouse–icehouse climate-mode transition. |
Prof Paul Bown David Rutledge (Petrostrat) |
NERC and CASE with Petrostrat | |
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Georgios Papadakis |
email |
A non-extensive statistical physics approach to the Seismicity in subduction zones. Application to the geodynamic system of the Hellenic arc. |
Prof Peter Sammonds, Prof Filippos Vallianatos |
IKY Greek State Scholarship Foundation |
| 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 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 | |
| Nikhil Radia | Incorportation of frazil ice into a sea ice - ocean model. | Dr Daniel Feltham, Dr Miguel Maqueda (Proudman Oceanography) | 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 | |
| James Santangeli | The Origin of Deep Earthquakes. | Prof David Dobson & Phil Meredith | NERC | |
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Andria Sarri |
Quantification of uncertainty for landslide-generated tsunami models. |
Dr Serge Guillas Profs Bill McGuire & Frederic Dias |
IRDR |
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| Alexandra Seymour-Pierce | Characterisation of the high speed friction of ice. | Prof Peter Sammonds | Funded by Impact | |
| Joshua Snape | Lunar meteorites and lunar regolith. | Dr Ian Crawford & Dr Adrian Jones | STFC | |
| Rebecca Southworth |
email |
Nitrogen isotope fractionation at high pressures and temperatures. | Dr Adrian Jones, Prof David Dobson and Dr. Alex Verchovsky (Open University) | EPSRC CASE (De Beers) |
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Paul Sutherland |
email |
The hydrogeological impacts of Coal Bed Methane development. |
Dr Willy Burgess |
BP |
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Samuel Thomas |
Arctic Ocean mean dynamic topography from satellite altimetry and gravity measurements. |
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NERC | |
| Rosalie Tostevin |
email |
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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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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