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Ph.D Projects awarded 2000 - 2012

Year Student Title
2012 Alastair Haddow Investigation of the palynology, stratigraphy and palaeogeography of Carboniferous rocks in western Irish offshore basins
2012 Michael Pointon Constraining global Carboniferous climatic fluctuations using high resolution geochronology
2011 Alina Premrov

Evaluation of measures to reduce nitrate loss to groundwater from tillage land

2011 Karina Fernandes Structure and emplacement of igneous sills in the offshore North Atlantic Igneous Province: implications for mantle processes and climate change
2011 Aoife O'Halloran Major global climate fluctuations recorded at low latitude on the Indian Ocean margin during the Paleogene
2011 Paul Byrne Volcanic Super Terraces on Mars
2011 Wellington Hudson Structural evolution and petroleum geology of the Mandawa Basin, southern coastal Tanzania
2010 Lucie Matheau Evolution and structure of large, long-lived arc volcanoes
2010 Sebastian Wiesmaier Micro-analytical approaches at Teide volcano, Tenerife, Spain: understanding the evolution of ocean island volcanoes
2010 Sophia Gold Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Ara Group in outcrop and its implications for play development in the South Oman Salt Basin
2010 Nick Owen Micropalaentology of deposits of thermohaline currents on slopes west of Ireland - implications for climate change
2010 John Murray Visean rocks around the Shannon and Fergus estuaries and their bearing on the evolution of the Shannon Basin.
2010 Rachel Walters Geochemical signature of rift relocations at Iceland
2010 Eleanor Donoghue Hydrothermal alteration in caldera volcanoes: causes and effects
2010 Audray Delcamp Evolution of ocean island rift zones: the internal structure of Tenerife, Canary Islands
2009 Niall Paterson A palynological investigation of Mississipian strata in West Virginia and Kentucky, USA
2009 Sarah Heal Palynological correlation of Mississippian (Carboniferous) stages in Western Europe and the USA
2009 Jo Hellawell Nitrogen and Carbon isotopes in modern and fossil aquatic ecosystems
2009 Fiona Meade Processes of magma differentiation within the southern British and Irish Palaeogene Igneous Province.
2009 Graeme Nicoll Evolution and crustal contamination of igneous rocks from the Palaeocene volcanic district of north-west Scotland.
2008 Jane Chadwick Crustal processes in volcanic systems: case studies from Northern Ireland, New Zealand, and Indonesia.
2008 Eoin Holohan

An experimental study of the geometry and kinematics of caldera collapse.

2008 David Jordan Aspects of landscape evolution, lineaments and fault zone mineralisation in southeast Ireland
2008 Eloise Rogers Temporal and spatial evolution of African epeirogeny.
2008 Marc-Antoine Longpre The influence of Caldera Systems on Neighbouring Stratovolcanoes.
2008 Eoin Haugh 3D numerical modelling of crustal flow beneath Iceland
2007 Brian O'Driscoll Quantitative studies of rock fabrics and textures in layered mafic intrusions of the British Tertiary.
2007 Minet, E.

Evaluation of stable isotope analysis as a tool to determine nitrate sources in Irish groundwaters

2006 Duggan, C.

Acritarch and prasinophyte colours as thermal maturity indicators.

2006 Bright, A.

Deformation band fault core: character, evolution and influence on bulk fluid flow.

2006 Bennett, S.

Tertiary dykes in northwest Ireland: field occurrence, emplacement mechanisms, host rock deformation.

2006 Corcoran, D.

Exhumation in Irish sedimentary basins and implications for hydrocarbon exploration, offshore Ireland.

2006 Dockrill, B.

Understanding leakage from a fault-sealed CO2 reservoir in East-Central Utah: a natural analogue applicable to CO2 storage.

2006 MacSharry, B. The influence of fractures on topography and groundwater flow in the Burren and Gort lowlands, western Ireland
2005 Gould, R. Early Tertiary volcaniclastics of Ireland and NW Britain; eruption chronology, tectonics and correlation with offshore sediments.
2005 Styles, D. Phosphorus dynamics in some Irish soils: the influence of laboratory drying, soil characteristics and season.
2005 Wagner (nee Hetfeld), K. A new method for assessing thermal maturity: coherent scattering illite domain size (CSIDS), a comprehensive study with an emphasis on the influence of stress on clay minerals.
2004 Meadows, N. The sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Early Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group in the East Irish Sea and Cheshire Basins of NW England.
2003 Connolly, N. Sedimentological analysis and correlation of the Mullaghmore Sandstone Formation in the north and north-west of Ireland.
2003 James, J. A. The provenance of the Mississippian Ballyvergin Shale: an integrated palynological and lithostratigraphic investigation.
2003 Mulhall, C.M. An investigation of the fluids involved in the formation of some Irish Lower Carboniferous dolomites.
2003 Connolly, J. A study of the effects of thin dyke intrusions on mudrock.
2002 Hevey, P.J. Thermal modelling of planetesimals heated by 26 A1: implications for chondrule formation.
2002 Kilroy, G. Phosphorus in Irish aquifers: implications for input to surface waters.
2002 McCaughan, G.A. Recognition of abnormal thermal histories of Jurassic source rocks from integrated analyses of vitrinite reflectance and organic matter colour/fluorescence.
2002 Solla Hach, C. Cenozoic flexural uplift in northwestern Ireland and sedimentation in the northeastern Irish Rockall Basin.
2002 Kurz, I. Phosphorus exports from agricultural grassland with overland flow and subsurface drainage water.
2001 Leather, J. Sedimentology, chemostratigraphy, and geochronology of the Lower Huqf Supergroup, Oman.
2001 Quin, J.G. The genesis of exceptionally thick shallow marine sequences exposed within the South Munster Basin of southern Ireland.
2001 Malone, J. Provenance and flux of late Quaternary sediment, southeast Ireland.
2000 Cunningham, M. Mesozoic-Tertiary tectonics of SE Ireland and genetic link to offshore extensional basins.
2000 Cruise, M.D. Iron oxide and associated base metal mineralisation in the Central Midlands Basin, Ireland.
2000 Cleary, D. Biometric revision of the genus Stenophragmidium Bassler, 1952 (Trepostomata, Bryozoa) from the Upper Palaeozoic.
2000 Fernandes, P.M.C. Investigation of the stratigraphy, maturation and source-rock potential of Carboniferous black shales in the Dublin Basin.
2000 Mannifield, K. The use of dissociated crinoid ossicles as biostratigraphical and palaeoecological tools in the Carboniferous of northwest Ireland.

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