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

Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Mr Kip Jeffrey (University of Leicester); Dr Tony Milodowski and Dr Phil Wilby (British Geological Survey) and Dr Jane Evans (BGS/NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory)

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

Dr Tiffany Barry, Dr Jan Zalasiewicz, Professor Andy Saunders (University of Leicester) and Professor Brendan Murphy (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)

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

Professor Melanie Leng and Dr Sarah Davies (University of Leicester); in association with Professor Mike Stephenson (British Geological Survey); Professor Lucia Angiolini (University of Milano)

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

Professor Melanie Leng and Professor Randall Parrish (University of Leicester); Dr Bernd Wagner (University of Cologne)

THIS PROJECT HAS FULL FUNDING

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

Dr Dave Holwell and Dr Gawen Jenkin (University of Leicester)

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

Professor Randall Parrish and Professor Andy Saunders (University of Leicester)

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

Professor Randall Parrish and Professor Mike Petterson (University of Leicester)

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

Dr Richard England and Dr Jan Zalasiewicz  and Dr Dickson Cunningham(University of Leicester)

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

Dr Stewart Fishwick and  Dr Richard England (University of Leicester)

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

Professor Randall Parrish  and Professor Melanie Leng (University of Leicester); Dr Philip Hopley (Birkbeck College London; University College London) and Dr Colin Menter (University of Johannesburg)

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

Dr Mike Branney and Dr Dickson Cunningham (University of Leicester)

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)

Dr Mike Branney, Dr Tiffany Barry (University of Leicester) and Dr Richard Brown (University of Durham)

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

Professor Randall Parrish and Professor Melanie Leng (University of Leicester); Professor C. Hawkesworth (St-Andrews) and Dr Craig Storey (University of Portsmouth)

CO2 sequestration into diamond mine waste (Ref: GL.12.17)

Dr Gawen Jenkin, Dr Dan Smith, Mr Kip Jeffrey and Dr Shaun Heaphy (University of Leicester)