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. |