Current PhD Projects

Variations in temperature, melt and composition beneath the African continent: combining studies of seismic attenuation and seismic wavespeed (Ref:GL.12.12)

 

The nature and origin of PGE mineralisation in the Rooipoort area, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa

 

Metallogenesis of Quaternary Mn and Ba mineralisation, Cape Vani, Milos, Greece: A Biogeochemical Genesis? (Ref:GL.11.15)

 

Neogene uplift of Scandinavia: a seismic study of the crust (Ref:GL.12.11)

 

Mountain Building Processes in the Tibetan Foreland: The Precambrian-Recent Evolution of the Dunhuang Block, NW China (Ref:GL.11.17)

 

The evolution of transitional hydrothermal systems in space and time: the natural laboratory of Milos Island, Aegean Sea

 

The influence of mineralogy, geochemistry and sedimentology on petrophysical properties in fine-grained successions

 

Seismic structure of the upper mantle beneath the Atlantic Ocean: Implications for the lithosphere-asthenosphere system

 

Current PhD Studentships

 

Active and ancient geothermal systems in Tethyan ophiolites as examples of novel solutions for natural C0² sequestration

 

Modelling mantle dynamics back in time: finding the most likely scenario (Ref: GL.12.19)

 

Primary biological controls on UK lower Namurian shale gas prospectivity: understanding a major potential UK unconventional gas resource

 

Tooth wear in fishes and killer whales - developing 3D microtextural analysis as a robust tool for dietary and trophic analysis in living and fossil aquatic vertebrates

 

Neotectonics of the UK: linking crustal deformation and surface evolution (Ref:GL.12.10)

 

Research Groups

 

Exceptional preservation of a Silurian Biota - taphonomy and palaeobiology of the Eramosa Lagerstätte

 

The sedimentology and geochemistry of Palaeozoic black shales on opposing margins of the lapetus Ocean: understanding deposition in a greenhouse environment

 

Trace fossils - a key to understanding pterosaur behaviour, ecology and evolution in the mid-Mesozoic

 

Origin and significance of accretionary lapilli in density currents and ash plumes from explosive volcanic eruptions: case studies in Italy and Canary Islands

 

Reconstructing sedimentary provenance in the past: applying a state of the art isotopic toolbox (Ref: GL.12.16)

 

Electrical resistivity measurements in coal: assessment of coal-bed methane content, reserves and coal permeability

 

Active and ancient geothermal systems in Tethyan ophiolites as examples of novel solutions for natural CO2 sequestration

 

Development of a genetic model for targeting gold mineralisation in the Scottish Dalradian

 

A molluscan record of Late Cenozoic change and palaeoseasonality from South America

 

The rise and erosion of the Canadian Rocky Mountains: Its relation to modern topography, N American Climate, and N Hemisphere glaciations (Ref: GL.11.2)

 

Chronic lead and uranium pollution and its fate in urban soils: Human exposure, biomarker development, and environmental legacy (Ref: GL.12.7)

 

Refining the tectonic history of the Eastern Himalaya in Bhutan/Aranachal Pradesh (Ref:GL.12.8)

 

Quantifying Shale Gas Productivity & CO2 Sequestration Potential (Ref: GL.11.5)

 

The genesis of low temperature, mudrock-hosted monazite - a potential economic resource of rare earth elements (Ref:GL.12.1)

 

Architecture of an emergent volcano and associated geothermal systems, Milos Island Greece (Ref: GL.11.7)

 

Investigating Early Palaeozoic mantle processes: a study of Rheic Ocean ophiolites (Ref: GL.12.3)

 

Determining lithospheric anisotropy from joint inversion of magnetotelluric, surface wave and receiver function data (Ref: GL.12.2)

 

Dating of hominin-bearing cave sequences in South Africa using uranium-lead methodologies (Ref:GL.12.13)

 

Ash plumes and density currents from large explosive volcanic eruptions: exploring the behaviour of fine volcanic ash (Canary islands and northwest USA) (Ref: GL.12.15)

 

Evolutionary and environmental controls on graptolite morphology (Ref GL:12.9)

 

Equatorial sea surface temperature seasonality in the Mississippian (Carboniferous) derived from brachiopod shell carbonate (Ref:GL.12.4)

 

Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) using stable isotopes (Ref: GL.12.5)

 

The behaviour of platinum-group elements within fractionating magmatic sulfide liquids: evidence from 3D textural and mineralogical characteristics (Ref: GL.12.6)

 

Hot explosive volcanoes: structural analysis of ductile deformation of ignimbrites over topography at Pantelleria (Italy) and Yellowstone hot-spot (USA) (GL: 12.14)