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The Department of Earth Sciences invites applications for two professorial posts and two lectureship posts from 1st October 2012. More...

UCL Earth Sciences
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

+44 (0)20 7679 2363

Funded project open for applications:

Topic	Supervisor	Co-supervisor	CASE Partner / Supervisor
Towards sustainable and risk free gas production from an unconventional source	Juergen Thurow	Neal Skipper, Philip Meredith, Joanna Faure-Walker

Deadline for applications for the topics below was 18th February 2012.

Topic	Supervisor	Co-supervisor	CASE Partner / Supervisor
Impact melting and vaporization of the proto-Earth.	Lars Stixrude
Material behaviour governing the evolution of the magma ocean.	Lars Stixrude	Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
The water content of the Earth’s mantle.	David Dobson	P McMillan (UCL Chemistry)
Melting curve of iron alloys in super-Earths.	Lars Stixrude	Lidunka Vocadlo
Diffusion in mantle minerals and how the Earth convects.	John Brodholt	David Dobson
Novel proxies for post-perovskite properties.	David Dobson	Ian Wood
Carbon-bearing fluids in the Earths mantle.	John Brodholt	Lidunka Vocadlo
New laser-based instruments for monitoring volcano degassing and space mission applications.	Adrian Jones	P Muller (MSSL) D Weidmann (Oxford))	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Mercury: its composition, internal structure and magnetic field.	Lidunka Vocadlo	Lars Stixrude

Topic	Supervisor	Co-supervisor
Rates of slip and earthquake recurrence from combined GPR and LiDAR investigations of faults scarps, central Italy.	Peter Sammonds	Gerald Roberts
High temperature pressurization, fracturing and permeability in volcanic systems.	Peter Sammonds	Phil Meredith

Topic	Supervisor	Co-supervisor
Will climate change exacerbate fluorosis in the tropics?	William Burgess	H.A. Dharmagunawardhane (Univ. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)

Topic	Supervisor	Co-supervisor	CASE Partner / Supervisor
Plankton evolution and the Paleogene greenhouse–icehouse climate-mode transition.	Paul Bown	Stuart Robinson	D Rutledge (Petrostrat) CASE with Petrostrat
Biological and geological controls on diversity patterns among neosuchian crocodiles.	Paul Upchurch	D Gower (Natural History Museum London)
Evolution of continental-shelf surface-water environments during the changing 'greenhouse' world of the Cretaceous-early Palaeogene.	Stuart Robinson	Paul Bown	Prof Rich Pancost (Bristol)
Reconstructing early Cretaceous continental climates.	Stuart Robinson	Tim Atkinson
Reconstructing early climate using phosphorite geochemistry.	Graham Shields	Juergen Thurow

Topic	Supervisor	Co-supervisor
Estimates of ice thickness distribution and surface roughness from Envisat and CryoSat satellite laser and radar altimetry.	Seymour Laxon	Katherine Giles
Arctic Ocean mean dynamic topography from satellite altimetry and gravity measurements.	Seymour Laxon	Katharine Giles
Mathematical modelling of the role of surface melt in the retreat and disintegration of Antarctic ice shelves.	Daniel Feltham	Peter Sammonds
Flooding of snow-laden sea ice.	Danny Feltham	Peter Sammonds

Topic	Supervisor	Co-supervisor
Forecasting volcanic eruptions: how episodic loading can break a volcano.	Chris Kilburn	Phil Meredith

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