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2009 - 2010

For the Academic Year 2009 / 2010


Dr W.D. Cunningham
Investigation of the Lithological and structural architecture of the northern Trudo Mountains
£78,853 NERC Grant in Kind

Dr W.D. Cunningham
NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility
£8,900 and £5,100 NERC Grant in Kind

Dr W.D. Cunningham
Active Fault systems and earthquake hazards in the Tibetan foreland region
£2,239 Royal Society

Dr S. J. Davies and Dr J.A. Zalasiewicz
Investigating the palaeoenvironments and narrow palaeoclimate zones of the Palaetethyan Permo-Carboniferous icehouse: the boulder beds of the Salt Range, Pakistan, Research Studentship
£12,000 NERC

Dr S. J. Davies
Provision of Logging and Scientific Petrophysical Research Services FY10
£474,640 NERC via IODP

Dr S. J. Davies
Supplement - The JOI Alliance: Systems Integration and a Riserless Vessel for IODP FY10
£164,852 IODP via Columbia University

Dr S. J. Davies
Primary biological controls on UK lower namurian shale gas prospectivity
£38,845 BGS

Dr S. J. Davies
Invited speaker at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
£500 The Royal Society

Dr R.W. England
NERC Support of the Geophysical Equipment Facility SEIS-UK Leicester Node
£42,000 NERC

Dr S.E. Gabbott
Preservation and taphonomy of the fossils of the Herefordshire (Silurian) Konservat- Lagerstätte
£12,000 NIGL Grant in Kind

Dr D.A. Holwell
Newly discovered precious and base metal mineralisation within the Kangerlussuaq
£10,000 Platina Resources Ltd

Dr G.R.T Jenkin
Active and Ancient Geothermal Systems in Tethyan Ophioltes (CASE Studentship)
£4,500 NERC

Dr G.R.T Jenkin
Studentship - Emmanuel Arhin
£84,666 Multi

Dr G.R.T Jenkin
Development of generic model for targeting gold mineralisation (CASE)
£9,352 NERC

Dr G.R.T Jenkin
Development of generic model for targeting gold mineralisation (CASE)
£4,500 Scotgold

Professor M.A. Lovell and Dr S.J. Davies
Petroacoustic Modelling of Heterogeneous Sandstone Reservoirs
£74,510 BG International

Professor M.A. Lovell
Integrating Static and Dynamic Data
£29,370 BG

Professor Brilliantov (Maths) and Professor M.A. Lovell
Methane Hydrate Modelling
£36,044 NERC

Professor M.A. Lovell and Dr S.J. Davies
Lithostratigraphy determination and mineralogical variation of subduction input
£15,821 NERC

Professor M.A. Lovell and Dr S.J. Davies
Physical Properties of Cenozoic carbonate sediments
£11,992 NERC

Professor M.G. Petterson
Investigating generic methodologies for combining technical natural hazards – Studentship
£3,390 Met Office

Professor M.G. Petterson
Magmatic structural and tectonic controls on Cu-AU mineralization in the Solomon arc SW Pacific
£30,000 BGS

Professor M.G. Petterson
Primary biological controls on UK lower Namuria shale gas prospectivity – Studentship
£30,000 BGS

Professor M.G. Petterson
Institutional strengthening of Geosocience at Kabul University through staff development and research
£30,000 Royal Society

Dr R.S. Sansom
Palaeozoic vertebrates of Mongolia
£2,874 Royal Society

Professor A.D. Saunders
Supplement - Professor of Isotope Geology and Head of NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory
£159,644 BGS

Professor D.J. Siveter and Dr M. Williams
Palaeobiology and evolutionary significance of fossils of the Chengjiang Biota
£12,000 Royal Society

Dr M. Williams and Professor J. Smellie
Glacial history of the NE Antarctic Peninsula region over centenial to milllenial timescales
£18,238 NERC

Professor B. F. Windley
Evolving Early Earth
£3,495 Royal Society

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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