School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
Geology PhD students
Name | Research theme | Research title | |
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Matteo Battini | mb936@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments |
Dining after the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Palaeocene mammals |
Katie Baumber | kb503@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Relating changes in melt genesis to dynamic conditions of the demise of a continental arc: Antarctic Peninsula arc |
Rachel Belben | rb497@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments |
The anatomy, function and evolutionary history of the pterosaur bauplan - a taphonomic approach |
Jessica Berry | jb772@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | An integrated accessory mineral approach to understanding post-subduction magmas and mineralisation |
Daniel Bowden-Haynes | dbh12@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Catastrophic emplacement and depositional processes during large asteroid impacts: lithofacies analysis and applied volcanology, Manicouagan (Canada) and Chicxulub (Mexico) |
Samuel Bright | ssb43@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | From Genesis to Displacement: testing models of Caledonian granitoid plutonism using the Strontian and Foyers complexes, Scotland |
Kate Canham | krc18@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Controls on the metallurgy of sulfide mineralisation of the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex |
John Cartwright | jc895@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments |
Box-stone diagenesis in the Northampton Sand Formation (MPhil) |
Sofia Chinaglia | sc889@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Crustal formation on a pre-plate tectonic Earth: An Andean analogue |
Molly Desorgher | md512@le.ac.uk | Contemporary Environments | Sustainable use of water in the mutualistic cities of the near future |
Alice Fugagnoli | af314@le.ac.uk | Contemporary Environments |
Plastic, a new anthropogenic component of the geological cycle: its chemical and physical behaviour and transformation |
Reven Gibaga | crg22@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Resource or Environmental Liability? Development of Novel Ground Imaging Tools to identify critical metals and environmental susceptibility in legacy mine wastes |
Tom Green | tg210@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments |
A hidden record of early animal evolution? Exploring the Cambrian diversity of acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils. |
Tayyaba Khurram | tk231@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Evaluating the shale gas potential of Carboniferous Bowland-Hodder Shales in Britain |
Hedwig Krawczyk | hak19@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments | SIOPACT - Developing a 250 year climate record for the Southeastern Indian Ocean sector of the Indo-PACific warm pool and its global climate Teleconnections |
Bethan McCarroll | bm284@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth |
Impact-cratering in Scotland: field investigation of the emplacement, sedimentology and environmental effects of a major impact-event |
Anna McGairy |
am1220@le.ac.uk | Evolution and past Environments |
The early Palaeozoic evolution of Vietnam |
Edward McGowan | egm8@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Eruption source vents and subsidence patterns in exhumed caldera volcanoes, English Lake District |
Vanessa Neo | hfn3@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments | Improving thermal stress prediction for coral reefs from observational, modelled and proxy datasets across the Tropics. |
Alexander Rutson | acr32@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Unpicking global mantle convection influences from the local: investigating asthenospheric versus lithospheric constraints on the evolution of landscapes |
Rab Smyth | rshs1@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments | Pteraichnites’ and their implications for pterosaur terrestrial palaeoecology and evolution |
Chris Stockey | css25@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments | Ecological drivers and evolutionary patterns: diet, feeding, evolution and extinction in conodonts |
James Symons | js1147@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of metal ore processing wastes from “green” solvents |
Nicky Taylor | njpt1@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Image analysis and mass petrography |
Erin Thompson |
et201@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Primary controls on the emplacement of mineralised magmatic units in the northern Bushveld Complex |
Lauren Tuffield | lt259@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | Fertility of subduction and post subduction magmatism associated with porphyry- and epithermal-Cu-Au mineralisation in the Aegean using zircon geochronology and geochemistry |
Lara Tritton | lt263@le.ac.uk | Solid Earth | A geometallurgical approach to maximising value of Te, Bi, and W by-products at Björkdal Gold Mine, Sweden |
Yasmin Yonan | yvy2@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments |
The marine Anthropocene and the law of the sea |
Manlin Zhang | mz224@le.ac.uk | Evolution and Past Environments | Unlocking Western Tropical Indian Ocean temperature and hydroclimate back to the Little Ice Age and the Holocene, reconstructed from coral geochemistry |