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PhD Students in Geology



 


2010

 


Emmanuel Arhin

Use of regolith geochemistry to delineate potential gold targets in savana regions of Ghana

Nicola Clark

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

Emily McCarthy

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

Nyree Hill

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

David Hartigan

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

Oliver Knevitt

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

Joanne Robbins

Investigating generic methodologies for combining technical natural hazards models with social infrastructure datasets to generate a multi-hazard risk and impact product for the South West Pacific region of Papua New Guinea using models and data feeds from the Met Office

Jennifer Smith

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

Amy Stephen

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

Joao Afonso

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

Aveen Hameed

Gravel hosted mineral deposits - Spatical distribution of gravel hosted mineral deposits based on international examples

Sven Koenitzer

Primary Biological Controls on UK lower Namurian shale gas prospectivity: understanding a major potential UK unconventional gas resource

Sam Matthews

Petroacoustic Modelling of Heterogeneous Sandstone Reservoirs

Simon Tapster

Magmatic, structural and tectonic controls on CU-AU mineralization in the Solomon Islands arc, South West Pacific

Tom Knott

Ash dispersal from ignimbrite-forming super-eruptions in the central Snake River Plain, Yellowstone hot-spot, USA

2009

 


Jennifer Gibbs

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

Nina Jordan

Eruptive history of the peralkaline caldera volcano at Pantelleria, Italy.

Sarah Owen

Geological origins of sugar loaf peaks in eastern Brazil and their environmental importance as refugia for Atlantic rain forest biodiversity

Claudia Sahy

Isotopic ages for the late Eocene - early Oligocene: insights into the greenhouse-icehouse transition

2008

 


Sam Cheyney

3D quantitative interpretation of archaeomagnetic surveys: application of mathematical modelling to determine depths and physical characteristics of buried materials

Laurent Darras

The evolution and macroecological consequences of grazing and shellcrushing in fishes

Jennifer Graham

Controls on the temporal and spatial distribution of organic matter in siliciclastic mudstones: implications for source rock development in shale gas plays

Mohibullah Mohibullah

Ostracod faunal response to global climate change during the Late Ordovician and Early Silurian

Alison Tasker

The micropalaeontology and geological provenance of Roman mosaics

2007

 


Stephen Grebby

Application of airborne LiDAR to fault mapping, structural analysis, and identification of fracture controlled mineralisation, Slovenia and Cyprus

Irfan Jan

The Palaeocene-Ecocene thermal maximum (PETM) in the clastic sequences of the Kohat Basin, northern Pakistan: a low latitude, Tethyan view of the fastest global warming in recent Earth history

David Riley

Preservation and taphonomy of the fossils of the Herefordshire (Silurian) Konservat-Lagerstatte

Clive Sirju

Integrating Static and Dynamic Data in Petrophysics

Dinah Smith

The Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Change in the Fenland of Eastern England

Christopher Willcox

 

Piecemeal - type explosive calderas: eruption behaviour, periodicity, and volcanic structure in Los Humeros volcano, Central Mexican Volcanic Belt

   

2006

 


Jawad Afzal

Paleocene/Ecoene foraminifers of the Indus Basin, Pakistan

Alex Lemon

Modelling Marine Gas Hydrate Dissociation and Sediment Stability

Nick Roberts

Mesoproterozoic crustal evolution in southwest Norway

Rebecca Williams

Catastrophic emplacement of hot volcanic density currents over irregular topography, Pantelleria, Italy

   

2005

 

Carys Bennett

Lower Carboniferous ostracods and isotopes of the Midland Valley, Scotland: testing for the ecological shift into non-marine environments

Mark Button

Impact of Arsenic species present in soil on human health

Pete Fitch

 

Heterogeneity in the petrophysical properties of carbonate reservoir rocks

Nicholas Lloyd

 

Transport, uptake and behaviour of 'old' depleted uranium in the environment

Xiaoya Ma

The Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan, China

Andrew Shore

Global ocean oxygenation through geological time from selenium isotopes

Andrea Snelling

Characterization of stratigraphy and palaeoceanography using graptolites: exploring new concepts

Jo Tudge

Petrophysical Properties of The Berkine Basin, Algeria

Vince Williams

Aspects of Dinosaur Palaeobiology 

   

 2004

 

Hassan Al-Marzouki 

The Potential Uses of Waste Materials from Ornamental Stones (Granite) Quarries in Saudi Arabia

David Baines

Tooth Microwear: Its use and application in assessing ecological and evolutionary processes within the sub-phylum Vertebrata

Abdullah Bamousa

Structural Development and Tectonic Significance  of the Carmel Head Thrust Belt, Anglesey, NW Wales

Pablo Davilla Harris 

Catastrophic sedimentation and volcanism in southern Tenerife, Canary Islands

Ben Ellis

Physical Volcanology of Explosive Super-Eruptions in the Snake River region of Idaho, U. S. A.

Anthony Hardwick 

Active deformation in intracontinential transpressional basins in Mongolia determined from earthquake data

Simon Jowitt 

The Geometry and Evolution of Fluid-Flow Systems forming Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulphide (VHMS) Deposits - the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus

Hassan Al-Marzouki

The Potential Uses of Waste Materials from Ornamental Stones (Granite) Quarries in Saudi Arabia

Steve Rippington 

The structural geology and hydrocarbon potential of the Nemegt Range, Mongolia.

Dan Smith 

Understanding Active and Fossil Magmatic-Hydrothermal Mineralising Processes within an Emergent Volcano (Savo, Solomon Islands)

John Frank Williams 

The petrophysical properties of rocks - characterisation and evaluation

To apply

All candidates should apply online indicating the reference number of the Studentship. 

Your uploaded documents must include your C.V. and two completed references.  You are encouraged to apply as early as possible. 

Closing date: Friday 10th February 2012. Interviews will be held early in March 2012.

Contact details

University of Leicester,
Department of Geology,
University Road,
Leicester,
LE1 7RH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3933
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3918
Email: geology@le.ac.uk

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