Dr. Sarah J. Davies

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Grants

In 2008-2009, I have been awarded research funding totalling £1.4 million

In 2007-2008, I have been awarded research funding totalling £400,000.

2009 NERC/ECORD: Provision of logging and petrophysical research for the Mission Specific Platforms within the International Ocean Drilling Program.
2009 Columbia University: Provision of logging and petrophysical research for the Riserless Vessel in the International Ocean Drilling Program

2008 NERC/ECORD: Provision of logging and petrophysical research for the Mission Specific Platforms within the International Ocean Drilling Program.
2008 Columbia University: Provision of logging and petrophysical research for the Riserless Vessel in the International Ocean Drilling Program

2008 NERC Open Case PhD studentship: Controls on temporal & spatial distribution of organic matter in siliciclastic mudstones: implications for source rock development in shale gas plays. (With Professor Mike Lovell, Dr Joe Macquaker (University Manchester) and Dr. Kevin Bohacs (ExxonMobil)
2007 NERC IODP Post-Cruise Support: Lithostratigraphy determination and characteristics from logging while drilling data: NanTroSEIZE IODP expedition 314. (With Prof. M Lovell)
2007 Royal Society Conference Grant
2007 GSA International Travel Grant
2005 PhD NERC Case PhD studentship with BG plc
2004 NERC CONNECT B "Geological and geophysical investigations into active processes of intracontinental transpressional basin development". (with Drs. Cunningham (PI), England & Prof. Maguire.)
2003 UK Commonwealth Fellowship for Dr Farooqui
2000 University Research Grant “Vegetation-sedimentation interactions on palaeoequatorial Carboniferous floodplains”
2000 Nuffield Awards to Newly Appointed Lecturers in Science, Engineering and Mathematics. “The spatial and temporal response of low latitude marine systems to high frequency sea-level fluctuations driven by climate change.”
1998 BGS Contract Grant. “High resolution biostratigraphy in the Llandovery of the Southern Uplands” with Dr. Susan Rigby

Awards and invited presentations

2007 British Sedimentology Research Group Award recognising noteworthy published research in any field of sedimentology.
2007 Award of Excellence from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for a Top 10 Poster presentation at the 2007 Annual Convention. "Geochemical Controls on Petrophysical Responses and Properties S.J. Davies, T.S. Brewer, J. Macquaker, & M. Lovell".
2007 Invited oral and poster presentation. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Conference, USA
2003-2006 Chair of the British Sedimentological Research Group
2005 Invited oral presentation. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, USA. National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop “The late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age: Towards a more Refined Understanding of Timing, Duration, and Character”.
2003 Highly cited paper. SJ Davies, & MR Gibling. Architecture of coastal and alluvial deposits in an extensional basin: the Carboniferous Joggins Formation of eastern Canada. was one of three papers that were the most highly cited articles published in the journal Sedimentology in 2003.
2001 Invited presentation. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Conference, USA.  Session: 'Sedimentary responses to tectonics: linking process to stratigraphy.’