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Name | Topic | Supervisors | Grant Body | |
| Jabraan Ahmed | Protocols in Shale Gas Extraction. | Prof J. Thurow, Prof N. Skipper, Prof P. Meredith | ISR (Institute for Sustainable Resources) | |
| Thomas Baird | Sahara Dune Sands: Quantifying Celerity, Dust Production, and Provenance. | Dr Pieter Vermeesch | NERC - DTP | |
| Geoffrey Baron | Mineral physics of planetary ices. | Prof Lidunka Vocadlo & Ian Wood | STFC | |
| Rehemat Bhatia | Geochemical signals in greenhouse and icehouse planktonic foraminifera | Prof Bridget Wade | NERC | |
| Fuencisla Canadas | Paleoceanographic context of organic matter deposition on the Yangtze Craton, South China, during the Ediacaran Period. | Prof Graham Shields & Dr Philip Pogge Von Strandmann | NERC - DTP | |
| Kiran Chotalia | The effects of water content on mantle circulation, geochemical cycles and surface observables | Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni | NERC - DTP | |
| Pauline Cornard | Supercritical versus subcritical bedforms, facies, geometry and architecture, Eocene Ainsa and Banaston systems, Ainsa basin, Spanish Pyrenees: implications for reservoir heterogeneity. | Prof Kevin Pickering | UCL/Industrial Studentship | |
| Jeffrey Davis | 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 | |
| Christopher Dimech | Integrative Inference and Assessment of Subsurface Information derived from Terrestrial and Solar Seismic Measurements | Dr Vincent Tong | Self-funded | |
| Matthew Dodd | Biosignatures in Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks. | Dr. Dominic Papineau & Dr Adrian Jones | EPSRC | |
| Isra Ezad | Experimentally determined grain growth kinetics of the mantle. | Prof John Brodholt | NERC | |
| Omar Regalado Fernandez | The early evolution of Sauropodomorph dinosaurs and the origins of quadrupedality in the largest land animals. | Prof Paul Upchurch | The National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico (CONACYT) | |
| Lisa Fuellenbach | Iron (oxy)hydroxide aided heavy metal decontamination. | Prof Eric Oelkers | MSCA-ITN (EU) | |
| Christopher Garrison | The Great Dry Fog of 1831: re-appraisinghistorical volcanic eruptions and their effects. | Dr Chris Kilburn & Dr Steven Edwards | Self-funded | |
| Antoniette Grima | The NeoTethys subduction, a case for sustained lateral and vertical dynamic flow. | Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni | The Commonwealth Commission | |
| William Gregory | Using Complex Networks to Advance our Understanding of the Polar Climate System. | Dr Michel Tsamados & Professor Julienne Stroeve | NERC - DTP | |
| Christopher Howard | Properties of planetary ices formed in the H2O – NH3 – CO2 ternary system | Prof Ian Wood, Dr Dom Fortes & Prof Lidunka Vočadlo | STFC | |
| Tomos Kempley | Is Earth’s topography controlled by mantle thermodynamics? | Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni | NERC | |
| Elodie Kendall | Waveform modelling of global seismic anisotropy and geodynamical implications. | Dr Ana Ferreira & Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni | NERC - DTP | |
| Hojung Kim | Quantifying rates of evolution in Paleogene coccolithophores | Prof Paul Bown | NERC | |
| Mark Jefferd | Physics of creeping crustal rocks. | Dr Nicolas Brantut & Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Isobel Lawrence | Towards improving thickness retrievals from Cryosat | Prof Julienne Stroeve & Dr Michel Tsamados | NERC - DTP | |
| Kate Laxton | Monitoring degassing behaviour and eruption precursors at Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, Tanzania. | Prof Adrian Jones & Dr. Sudeshna Basu-Gupta | NERC - DTP | |
| Giulia Magnarini | The formation mechanism of long runout landslides on planetary bodies. | Dr Tom Mitchell & Dr Peter Grindrod | STFC | |
| Simon Maxwell | The early evolution and distribution of Hominini (order Primates) and the quality of their fossil record. | Dr Phil Hopley (BBK) & Prof Paul Upchurch | NERC - DTP | |
| Gabriel Meyer | Creep of Granular Materials. | Dr Nicolas Brantut | EU Funding | |
| Paul Minton | Late Middle Miocene climatic and biotic evolution: a high-resolution record from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1338 | Prof Bridget Wade | NERC - DTP | |
| Fieke Mulders | Elucidating mineral dissolution and precipitation mechanisms. | Prof Eric Oelkers | EU Funding (EC Marie Curie Research Student) | |
| Giles Ostermeijer | Evolution and significance of fault damage structures on plate boundary faults: the southern San Andreas fault system. | Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Rebecca Pearce | Nature of the link between tectonics and volcanism in the Central and Southern Andes | Prof Phil Meredith & Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Claire Routledge | Plankton evolution and the Paleogene/Neogene transition. | Prof Paul Bown & Dr Jeremy Young | NERC - DTP | |
| Almudena Sanchez De La Muela Garzon | Understanding the tectono-magmatic relevance of transverse faults in the Andes, Chile from seismicity and seismic imaging. | Dr Tom Mitchell & Dr James Hammond | NERC - DTP | |
| Lara Smale | The Control of Hydrothermal Systems on Eruption Precursors at Large Volcanic Calderas. | Dr Chris Kilburn & Stephen Edwards | NERC - DTP | |
| Ashley Stanton-Yonge | Tridimensional stress and the development of structural permeability. | Dr Tom Mitchell | CONICYT (Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica), Becas Chile | |
| Becca Strachan | Structural Controls on Fluid Pathways and Alteration in the Seismic Cycle of Porphyry Deposits in Chile. | Dr Tom Mitchell, Dr Jamie Wilkinson (NHM) & Dr Pieter Vermeesch | NERC - DTP | |
| Sarah-Jane Strachan | Ankylosaur Palaeohistology and Life History Traits. | Prof Paul Upchurch & Prof Anjali Goswami | Self-funded | |
| William Sturgeon | 3D global seismic attenuation tomography and geodynamical implications. | Dr Ana Ferreira | NERC - DTP | |
| Sarmin Sultana | Investigations of hydrological loading influences on the Bengal Basin Aquifer System. | Dr William Burgess & Dr Richard Taylor | Commonwealth Commission, UK | |
| Ze Tao | Late Miocene climatic and biotic response: high-resolution records from the IODP Site U1338. | Prof Bridget Wade | China Scholarships Council - UCL Studentship | |
| Jac Van Driel | Understanding the role of Grain Boundaries in Lower Mantle: From the atom to the continuum. | Prof John Brodholt | UCL Studentship / NERC | |
| Paul Varotsis | A reappraisal of Dorsetisaurus and the origin and biogeographyof Anguimorpha | Prof Paul Upchurch and Prof Susan Evans (NHM) | Self-funded | |
| Maria-Jose Vera Gonzalez | Multiscale characterisation of seismic scattering, diffraction and anisotropy in the lithosphere/asthenosphere system. | Dr Alex Song | CONICYT Becas-Chile | |
| Fred Wilson | Thermodynamics of a MgO-CaO system under magma ocean conditions following giant impact. | Prof Lars Stixrude | MoltenEarth ERC Project | |
| Blaise Winnard | Long-term performance of a geological disposal facility in response to permafrost and climatic variation. | Dr Tom Mitchell, Prof Phil Meredith & Dr John Browning | Industrial CASE Studentship: EPSRC & RWM Limited, in partnership with BGS. | |
| Marisa Wood | Birch’s Law: does it work for iron and iron alloys in planetary cores. | Prof Lidunka Vocadlo | STFC | |
| Ferhat Yilmaz | Regional Climate Modelling and Analysis of Observed and Modelled Trends in Extreme Weather Events in Turkey: An Assessment of the Relative Roles of Global and Regional Climate Drivers in Any Changes. | Ministry of National Education of The Republic of Turkey | ||
| Tian Jerry Zheyu | Understanding the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian boundary on the North China craton. | Prof Graham Shields | CSC-UCL studentship award |