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PhD and PostDoc Opportunities for 2008/9
University of Aberdeen:
Geology of the Palaeocene Turbidite Systems in the Central North Sea
Supervisors: Adrian Hartley & Mads Huuse (University of Aberdeen) Erik Scott (Shell EP Europe)
Date Posted: 08/04/08
Closing Date: Until Filled
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Investigating sediment transport processes in the Pleistocene-Holocene Indus System
Supervisors: Peter Clift (University of Aberdeen),Tim Henstock (NOC Southampton), Liviu Giosan (Woods Hole)
Date Posted: 12/04/08
Closing Date: Until Filled
See Aberdeen University website for details
Geophysical and geochemical characterization of fluid flow in thesouthern Kwanza Basin:
implications for basin dewatering and hydrocarbon migration
Supervisors: Mads Huuse, John Parnell, Lene Clausen & Lars Seidler
Date Posted: 08/06/08
Closing Date: Until Filled
See Aberdeen University website for details
University of Birmingham:
Slope apron fan development and stability: The Sula Sgeir Fan, Hebrides Slope.
Supervisors: Dr. Ken Thomson, Prof. Graham Westbrook, Dr. David Long (BGS Edinburgh), Huw Edwards (PGS Reservoir)
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university website
for postgraduate prospectus and further information
University of Brighton:
No positions currently advertised
University of Bristol:
PhD Opportunities
Can turbidity currents erode huge volumes of sediment in the deep ocean?
Supervisors: Dr Peter Talling, Dr Ralf Schiebel (National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton),
Dr Russell Wynn (National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton) and Dr Daniela Schmidt
Dynamics of very large volume (1-100 km3) fluid mud layers generated by turbidity currents
Supervisor: Dr Peter Talling
How do turbidites record submarine landslide dynamics, frequency and hazard?
Supervisor: Dr Peter Talling
The role of fluid flow in gas hydrate dynamics
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Whitaker
Links to all projects from can be found on the
university website.
University of Cardiff:
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university website
for postgraduate prospectus and further information
University of Durham:
Post-Doc Opportunity
Overpressure history in the Skagerrak Formation and its influence on sandstone diagenesis
Research into Earth Energy Systems (CeREES) / ConocoPhillips
Date Posted: 01/07/08
Closing Date: Position to start 01/09/08
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University of East Anglia: (Updated 02/12/07)
Bedforms under turbidity currents and sedimentary structures in turbidites
Supervisor: Dr Jan Alexander
The formation of antidunes in sand and their preservation sandstone
Supervisors: Dr Jan Alexander (School of Env Sci.); Dr Mark Cooker, (School of Mathematics)
Elemental geochemistry of Holocene Humber muds, UK.
Supervisors: Professor Julian Andrews; Professor Tim Jickells
Surface and deep ocean changes during millennial scale climate events
Supervisors: Dr Mark Chapman; Professor Julian Andrews
High resolution palaeoclimatology of the subpolar North Atlantic
Supervisors: Dr Mark Chapman; Professor Julian Andrews
Development of geophysical methods to investigate the influence of Quaternary sediments on hydrogeology
Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hiscock; Dr Victor Bense
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university website
for further details of these and other projects
University of Edinburgh:
3 Research Associate Posts
Full Time up to 24 months initial appointment
Research Associate in CO2 Storage and Sequestration: Reservoir Engineer or Chemical Engineer.
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Research Associate in Risk Analysis for Subsurface CO2 Storage Sites.
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Research Associate in Geophysical Subsurface CO2 Storage Site Monitoring.
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Date Posted: 08/06/08
Closing Date: Until Filled
An extensive list of PhD oppotunities can be found on the
univerisity website
along with the postgraduate prospectus and further information
Imperial College, University of London:
Growth faulting in deltaic successions
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Jackson
Linkage between soft-sediment deformation processes in sedimentary basins
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Jackson
Sedimentology and reservoir charaterisation of Ordovician glacial valley-fill deposits,
Algeria, and comparison with their Quaternary analogues
Suprvisors: Prof. Howard Johnson, Dr. Lidia Lonergan (IC & BP) & Richard Dixon (BP)
Landscape evolution at a young continental rift, Baja California, Mexico
Supervisors: Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, Prof. Philip Allen & Dr. Alex Densmore (Durham)
Evolution of Valley networks on Mars using HRSC 3-D imaging
Supervisors: Dr. Sanjeev Gupta & Prof. Jan-Peter Muller (UCL)
Ancient river systems on the Ganges Plain, India, and their relationship to the Harappan Civilisation
Supervisors: Dr. Sanjeev Gupta & Dr. Cameron Petrie (Dept. of Archaeology, Cambridge)
Geomorphic evidence for catastrophic floods in SW Eurasia
Supervisor: Dr. Sanjeev Gupta
Links to all projects from can be found on the
university website.
University of Liverpool: (Updated 29/11/07)
Antecedent drainage on an uplifted continental margin: Cenozoic fluvial evolution in southern South Africa
Supervisors: Dr. D. Hodgson & Prof. A. Lang (Geography)
Palaeoenvironment of hominid sites from Tanzania: isotopic and sedimentological study of sediments from Olduvai Gorge
Supervisors: Prof. J. Marshall & Prof. I. Stanistreet
Deformation in the crust and the role of feldspar: an Alpine study
Supervisors: Prof. J. Wheeler & Prof. D. Prior
Fe-mineral distribution in modern subtropical estuaries and river deltas: analogues for chlorite cement prediction in deep petroleum reservoirs
Supervisors: Dr. R. Worden & Dr. D. Hodgson
Does climate change control developmental mode in marine invertebrates? Evidence from the echinoids of South Eastern Australia
Supervisors: Dr. C. Jeffery Abt & Prof. J. Marshall
Links to all projects from can be found on the
stratigraphy
and
palaeontology/palaeoenvironment
websites.
University of Manchester:
See
university website
for current post-graduate opportunities and further information
Royal Holloway, University of London:
PhD studentships with confirmed funding
Facies prediction in carbonate platform reservoirs
Supervisors: Prof. D. Bosence and Dr. D. A. Waltham
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Further information on additional projects for which there is open competition for funding can be found on the
Univeristy website.
Dated Updated: 27/11/07
Closing Date: 30/05/08
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