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PhD Projects available for 2012
Projects may also be developed in consultation with potential supervisors in the School.
Follow the links below to find out about research projects offered in this RAE 5* rated School for 2012 start.
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has awarded the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences six research studentships each year in recent years in addition to NERC Open CASE and tied studentships.
Students are also funded from a variety of UK and international industry and government sources.
Applications are welcome. Please contact the Postgraduate Administrator via email earth-postgrad@bris.ac.uk or at the address at the bottom of this page if you have any questions and for application details. You can apply online here. If you wish to be considered for a NERC studentship or a University of Bristol scholarship the deadline is 31st January 2012.
- Organic matter alteration processes through time in recent evaporitic sediments - insights from the Abu Dhabi sabkha
Supervisors: Professor Richard Pancost, Dr Fiona Whitaker, Dr Miroslaw Slowakiewicz and Professor Maurice Tucker - Does the likelihood of a tropical cyclone change following a large volcanic eruption?
Supervisors: Dr Erica Hendy (School of Earth Sciences/School of Biological Sciences), Dr Alison Rust (School of Earth Sciences) and Dr Caroline Williams (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Faculty of Arts) - Magma microtextures and fragmentation
Supervisors: Kathy Cashman and Alison Rust - Black and white: Characterising a silicic invasion of a basaltic magma chamber
Supervisors: Dr J Gottsmann and Professor J Blundy; Project Partners: Dr R Sulpizio and Professor P Dellino, University of Bari, Italy - The structure, function, and palaeobiology of conodonts
Supervisors: Professor Philip Donoghue and Dr Emily Rayfield - Constraining the land carbon and water cycles with stable carbon isotope measurements in a Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System
Supervisors: Dr Marko Scholze and Dr Peter Rayner (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Deep-sea corals and climate
Supervisor: Dr Laura Robinson - Probing the Depths of the Critical Zone: Weathering of Deep Fractured Bedrock in a Tropical Environment
Supervisor: Dr Heather L Buss - Macroevolution of crocodiles.
Supervisors: Professor Michael J Benton, Dr Gavin Thomas (Biological Sciences, Bristol) and Dr Marco Andrade (University of São Paulo) - Magmatic Degassing: Bubbles, Crystals and eruption Dynamics.
Supervisors: Dr H M Mader, Professor K V Cashman and Professor J D Blundy - Shallow sub-volcanic structures of the Ecuadorian Andes: Volcan Cotopaxi and the Chalpus caldera.
Supervisor: Joachim Gottsmann; Project Partner: Geophysical Institute Ecuadro, Quito, Ecuador - Decoding the fossil record of early metazoan development
Supervisors: Professor Philip Donoghue, Professor Stefan Bengtson (NRM Stockholm) and Professor Dong Xiping (Peking University) - Constraints and efficiency in the evolution of birds
Supervisor: Dr Emily Rayfield - Wildfires as part of the global carbon cycle: quantitative analysis using data assimilation
Supervisors: Dr Wolfgang Knorr and Dr Marko Scholze - How does vertical land movement affect climate change?
Supervisors: Dr Mark Siddall, Dr Joy Singarayer, Professor Kurt Lambeck - Regional Metamorphic Evolution of Archean rocks from part of SW Greenland
Supervisor: Dr John C Schumacher - The fate of halogens in subduction zones. Implications for cycling of volatiles in the Earth's mantle.
Supervisors: Dr Simon C. Kohn and Dr Ray Burgess (University of Manchester) - Ice sheet self-similarity
Supervisors: Dr Mark Siddall - Hydrographic changes through the Mid Pleistocene Transition (MPT)
Supervisors: Dr Mark Siddall - Evolutionary assembly of the gnathostome bodyplan
Supervisors: Professor Philip Donoghue and Dr Zerina Johanson (NHM) [Possibility of NHM-CASE funding] - Ecological selectivity during the Permo-Triassic mass extinction
Supervisor: Professor Michael J Benton - Origin and early evolution of the vertebrate skeleton
Supervisor: Professor Philip Donoghue - Stow or blow? - When magma enters the crust . .
Supervisors: Catherine Annen, Luca Caricchi, Joachim Gottsmann, Thierry Menand - An Experimental Determination of the Magma Volatile Content Prior to the 1815 Eruption of Tambora
Supervisors: Richard Brooker, Luca Caricchi, Jon Blundy - Developing elemental and isotopic thermometers for primitive magmas
Supervisors: Mike Walter and Tim Elliott - Controls on the compositions of the Earth and terrestrial planets
Supervisors: Tim Elliott, Chris Coath and Sara Russell (Natural History Museum) - Circulation History of the Tropical Atlantic: links to global climate
Supervisor: Dr Laura Robinson - Climate variability in the North Atlantic in the last 20 kyrs
Supervisors: Dr Daniela Schmidt, Dr Morten Andersen and Dr Joy Singarayer (School of Geographical Sciences)
FULLY FUNDED
- Vertebrate taphonomy of the Jehol Group (Early Cretaceous), NE China
Supervisors: Professor Michael J Benton, Dr Stuart Kearns and Dr Patrick Orr (University College Dublin)
SOUTH WEST DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP PROJECT
(deadline 10th February 2012)
- Investigating the role of physical strain exerted by skeletal muscles on chondrocyte maturation and joint shaping
Supervisors: Dr Emily Rayfield and Dr Chrissy Hammond (University of Bristol School of Biochemistry)
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