Research Opportunities
The following Ph.D. projects are currently available:
| Title | Supervisors | Funding |
|---|---|---|
Volcanology and geochemistry of the Onaping Formation, Sudbury Impact Structure, Ontario: A possible analogue for the Hadean zircon forming environment. |
Prof. Balz Kamber (TCD) (kamberbs@tcd.ie) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
A detailed geochemical, isotopic and biomarker study of Precambrian carbonates: the Neoproterozoic Little Dal Group; the Huronian Espanola Fm.; and the Neoarchaean Campbellrand Platform |
Prof. Balz Kamber (TCD) (kamberbs@tcd.ie), Elizabeth Turner (Laurentian University, Ontario) | Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
Zn isotopes- a novel biogeochemical tracer for the study of primary productivity in the oceans |
Dr David Chew (TCD) (chewd@tcd.ie), Dr J. Menuge (UCD), Dr D. Gagnevin (UCD) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
Apatite as a provenance indicator in sedimentary systems |
Dr David Chew (TCD) (chewd@tcd.ie), Dr S. Tyrrell (UCD) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
| Quantifying the timing of ore genesis and Variscan deformation in Ireland by U-Pb dating of vein calcite | Dr David Chew (TCD) (chewd@tcd.ie), Prof. J. Stephen Daly (UCD) and Dr Quentin Crowley (TCD) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
| Student will require IRCSET (or other) award | ||
Palynological dating and correlation of Late Devonian glaciogenic rocks in the eastern Appalachian Basin, USA |
Prof. Geoff Clayton (TCD) (gclayton@tcd.ie), Prof. Frank Ettensohn, (University of Kentucky), Prof. Charles Mason (Morehead State University) and Prof. Tom Lierman (Eastern Kentucky University) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
High-resolution prediction of radon anomalies in Ireland |
Dr Quentin Crowley (TCD) (crowleyq@tcd.ie) (TCD), Dr Alan Kelly (Public Health, TCD) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
Nature and timing of rift-related magmatism and its preservation in the sedimentary rock record: perspectives from Tertiary Magmatism of the North Atlantic Margin |
Dr Quentin Crowley (TCD) (crowleyq@tcd.ie), Dr D. Chew (TCD), Prof. J.S. Daly (UCD) and Prof. V. Troll (Uppsala) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
Oxygen and Strontium Isotopes in the Irish Biosphere |
Dr Quentin Crowley (TCD) (crowleyq@tcd.ie) and Dr. Andrew Jackson (TCD) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
Goniatite biostratigraphy of the Clare Basin |
Dr John Graham (TCD) (jrgraham@tcd.ie), Prof. George Sevastopulo (TCD) and Dr Peter Haughton (UCD) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
| Petroleum geology of the onshore Ruvuma Basin from Mesozoic to Recent, southern Tanzania – northern Mozambique. |
Dr Chris Nicholas (TCD) (nicholyj@tcd.ie), Wellington Hudson tumushaw@tcd.ie (Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation) | Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
Reconstructing a high resolution record of oscillating East African climate and rift events; Kaiso-Tonya, Lake Albert, Uganda. |
Dr Chris Nicholas (TCD) (nicholyj@tcd.ie) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
| Sedimentation, tectonics and volcanicity in the Gregory Rift (Lakes Eyasi – Manyara – Natron), northern Tanzania. | Dr Chris Nicholas (TCD) (nicholyj@tcd.ie), Wellington Hudson tumushaw@tcd.ie (Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
| Thermal modelling of planetesimals in the early Solar System | Dr Ian Sanders (TCD) (isanders@tcd.ie) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
The petrography of chondrules as a constraint on their formation |
Dr Ian Sanders (TCD) (isanders@tcd.ie) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
The Euomphalid gastropods of the Mississippian of Ireland and Britain with an investigation of the skeletal ultrastructure and functional morphology of the giant form Phanerotinus cristatus (Phillips, 1836) |
Dr Patrick Wyse Jackson (TCD) (wysjcknp@tcd.ie) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
| Faunas of the Carboniferous peri-Waulsortian envelope, Shannon region, Ireland | Dr Patrick Wyse Jackson (TCD) (wysjcknp@tcd.ie) and Prof. George Sevastopulo (TCD) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
| CT microtomographic investigation of the zoarial structure of Palaeozoic bryozoans | Dr Patrick Wyse Jackson (TCD) (wysjcknp@tcd.ie) |
Student will require IRCSET (or other) award |
Candidates are asked to contact the supervisors directly for further information on the projects listed. The lists of previous recently funded projects and the list of current postgraduate projects may also be useful to prospective students. Links are available to these lists to the left of the page.
Students may conduct research leading to M.Sc. or Ph.D. degrees. If you have a research topic of your own in mind, please contact in the first instance:
Prof. Balz Kamber,
Chair of Geology and Mineralogy,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2, Ireland.
Tel: +353 1 8962957
Fax; +353 1 671 1199
e-mail: kamberbs@tcd.ie