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List of Supervisors with some links to Supervisor Information | Status & Funding | Apply |
**FULLY FUNDED** The geomorphology of Viking and medieval harbours in the North Atlantic
Prof Andrew Dugmore, Dr Simon Mudd, Dr Anthony Newton, Dr. Natascha Mehler, University of Vienna. | Available | On-Line |
**Fully funded** Using Micromagnetic Modelling to understand how rocks record changes in the Earth's magnetic field
Prof. Wyn Williams and Adrian Muxworthy (Imperial, London) | Available | On-Line |
**FULLY FUNDED** Monitoring the Earth's Dynamic Interior using Seismic Interferometry
Prof. Andrew Curtis | Available | On-Line |
**FULLY FUNDED** New methods to image the Earth's Interior using Seismic Interferometry
Prof. Andrew Curtis | Available | On-Line |
**FULLY FUNDED** Modelling the global nitrogen cycle
David Stevenson, David Fowler, Mark Sutton and Mat Heal | Available | On-Line |
**FULLY FUNDED** 4-dimensional studies of transport properties in low-grade metamorphic rocks
Dr Florian Fusseis and Dr Ian Butler | Allocated | |
Thermal diffusion in planetary interiors: Isotope fractionation and the Soret effect
Dr. Geoffrey D. Bromiley, John Craven (IMF), Linda Kirstein | Available | On-Line |
The radiation of mammals after the dinosaur extinction: the anatomy, phylogeny, and macroevolution of "condylarths"
Dr Stephen Brusatte, Professor Dick Kroon, Professor Rachel Wood, Dr Thomas Williamson (New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) | Allocated | |
The relative contribution of temperate and tropical nearshore ecosystems to local and regional climate patterns through volatile organic compound production (CASE Project with Operation Wallacea)
Dr Greg Cowie, Edinburgh (dr.greg.cowie@ed.ac.uk), Dr Dan Exton, Operation Wallacea, David Suggett, Essex University, Prof David Smith, Essex University | Available | On-Line |
Atmospheric composition over the UK and effect of air quality controls (CASE Award)
Dr Ruth Doherty, Fiona O'Connor UK Met Office, David Stevenson, Mat Heal | Available | On-Line |
Investigating the feedbacks between climate, tectonics and erosion using a coupled climate - landscape evolution model
Prof. Richard Essery, Dr Mikaёl Attal, Prof. Simon Tett, Prof. Jonathan Gregory (NCAS, Reading, and Met Office Hadley Centre | Available | On-Line |
Geochemical tracing of groundwater pollution from unconventional gas production
Dr. Stuart Gilfillan (stuart.gilfillan@ed.ac.uk), Prof. Stuart Haszeldine, University of Edinburgh, Prof. Fin Stuart, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), Prof. Susan Waldron, University of Glasgow and Lin Buntin, SEPA | Allocated | |
Dynamics of Himalayan Glaciers from 30 years of Earth Observation
Dr. Noel Gourmelen, Prof. Pete Nienow, Prof. Xiao Cheng (Beijing Normal University) | Available | On-Line |
**FULLY FUNDED** M3: Magnetic Material Monitoring - a novel technique of remote and passive monitoring of the long-term behaviour of a GDF for higher activity radioactive waste
Professor Simon L. Harley, Dr. Ian Butler and Dr. Geoffrey D. Bromiley | Allocated | |
Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) in porous sedimentary rocks (Potential Case Project)
Stuart Haszeldine, Mark Wilkinson, Hannah Chalmers (School of Engineering) Mark.Wilkinson@ed.ac.uk | Available | On-Line |
Linking global potential for CO2 storage to climate impact
Prof Stuart Haszeldine, Dr Vivian Scott, Prof Simon Tett | Available | On-Line |
Influence of regional processes and forcings on changing temperature extremes
Prof. Gabi Hegerl; Dr. David Stevenson, Prof. Piers Forster, Leeds University | Available | On-Line |
Causes of regional climate variability over the last millennium
Prof Gabriele Hegerl and Dr. Rob Wilson (St. Andrews / Edinburgh) | Available | On-Line |
Investigating the timing, extent and significance of Quaternary glaciations in Patagonia
Dr. Andrew Hein and Dr. Nicholas Hulton | Available | On-Line |
Investigating water pressure controls on glacier sliding rates on a calving glacier in Svalbard
Supervisors Dr Nick Hulton, Prof. Doug Benn, Prof. Bryn Hubbard | Available | On-Line |
The effects of drought stress on forest tree aphid populations
Dr. Gail Jackson G.Jackson@ed.ac.uk | Available | On-Line |
The effects of drought stress on cereal aphid populations
Dr. Gail Jackson, Dr. Ian Bingham and Dr Andy Evans at SRUC | Available | On-Line |
Millennial-decadal scale monsoon dynamics in the Arabian Sea
Dr S. Jung and Prof. D. Kroon | Available | On-Line |
Millennial-scale surface and intermediate/deepwater circulation in the western Indian Ocean
Dr S. Jung and Prof.D. Kroon | Allocated | |
Drainage reorganisation in Corsica
Linda Kirstein (linda.Kirstein@ed.ac.uk), Andrew Carter (Birkbeck College, London), Mikaël Attal | Available | On-Line |
Sediment provenance, sediment routing and deformation of the Andes
Linda Kirstein (linda.Kirstein@ed.ac.uk), Jenny Tait, Andrew Carter (Birkbeck College, London), Mikael Attal | Available | On-Line |
Statistical Reservoir Analysis as a tool for optimising production of oil and gas and minimising escape of injected CO2.
Prof Ian Main (School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, ian.main@ed.ac.uk) and Dr. Peter Richtarik (School of Mathematics, Edinburgh) | Available | On-Line |
Operational Earthquake Forecasting
Prof Ian Main ian.main@ed.ac.uk, Dr Mark Naylor, Dr Andrew Bell, Janine Illian (School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews). | Available | On-Line |
Scale-model seismology: Forecasting failure in real time in the laboratory
Ian Main ian.main@ed.ac.uk, Andrew Bell , Bryne Ngwenya and Ian Butler | Available | On-Line |
Can rain forest species respond to climatic warming in one of the world's biodiversity hotpsots, the Peruvian Andes? If so, which groups of species, and how can we predict their behaviour?
Prof. Patrick Meir, Dr Caroline Nichol and Prof. John Grace | Allocated | |
Impacts of nitrogen deposition on the forest carbon and nitrogen cycle
Prof. Maurizio Mencuccini, Dr Kate Heal (k.heal@ed.ac.uk), and supervisor from Forest Research Northern Research Station (to be confirmed) (Possible CASE Project) | Available | On-Line |
Tree mortality and species succession in Mediterranean ecosystems under drought
Maurizio Mencuccini, Yann Salmon | Available | On-Line |
Assessing the carbon balance of Africa's forests and savannas
Ed Mitchard, Mat Williams, Casey Ryan, Simon Lewis (UCL/University of Leeds) | Available | On-Line |
Source-Sink attribution for methane - inverse lagrangian analysis using Differential Absorption LiDAR profiles.
Prof John B. Moncrieff | Available | On-Line |
Modelling the competition between climatic and geologic control on the development of landscapes
Dr Simon M. Mudd, Dr. Mikael Attal, Dr. Martin Hurst and Dr Chris Thomas (British Geological Survey) | Allocated | |
Finding tectonic hot spots using high resolution topographic data
Dr Simon M. Mudd, Dr. Mikael Attal, Dr. Richard Phillips (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds | Available | On-Line |
Environmental impacts of the Hekla 3 and Hekla 4 eruptions
Dr Anthony Newton, Dr Andrew Dugmore, Dr John Stevenson | Available | On-Line |
Models for hydrothermal REE fluorocarbonate mineralisation in carbonate-bearing systems
Dr Bryne Ngwenya, Dr Ian Butler and Fred Mosselmans (Diamond Light Source Ltd) | Allocated | |
Investigating controls on flow variability in Greenland tidewater glaciers
Dr Peter Nienow and Dr Andrew Sole | Allocated | |
Quantifying UK anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases using atmospheric measurements of their isotopes
Prof. Paul Palmer | Available | On-Line |
Fossil insects, Holocene climate change and the evolution of subsistence patterns in Lapland
Dr Eva Panagiotakopulu, Dr Kjell-ūe Aronsson,Ajtte Museum, Sweden, Professor Reidar Bertelsen, University of Tromso, Norway | Available | On-Line |
The fluctuating Ice margins of Yorkshire during the Last Glacial Maximum
Dr Eva Panagiotakopulu and Dr Mark Bateman,University of Sheffield | Available | On-Line |
Modelling and space-based observation of volcanic SO2 plumes (Possible CASE Project)
Hugh Pumphrey and David S. Stevenson | Available | On-Line |
Back-arc rift processes: evidence from the onshore southern margin of the Eastern Black Sea basin (NE Turkey)
Prof. A.H.F. Robertson, Prof. D. Kroon, Prof. T. Ustaömer (Istanbul Uni.) | Available | On-Line |
Improving estimates of African woodland biomass by fusing radar data, models and ground observations
Dr. Casey Ryan, Prof. Mathew Williams, Dr. Iain Woodhouse, Dr Tim Hill (U. of St Andrews) | Available | On-Line |
Forest transitions and ecosystem services in Zimbabwe
Dr Casey Ryan, Dr Isla Grundy (University of Zimbabwe) | Allocated | |
The Sedimentological Record of Extreme Events in the Himalaya
Hugh Sinclair, Simon Mudd, Dave Sanderson (SUERC). | Available | On-Line |
River Dynamics in the Himalayan Foreland Basin
Hugh Sinclair, Mikael Attal, Rachel Walcott and Simon Mudd, Vikrant Jain & Vimal Singh (Delhi University) | Allocated | |
Investigating past and future changes in the stratospheric ozone influx to the troposphere. (CASE Project with NIWA)
David Stevenson, Hugh Pumphrey, Guang Zeng, Olaf Morgenstern (NIWA, Lauder, New Zealand) | Available | On-Line |
Model-data synthesis using inverse methods and climate models
Professor Simon Tett and Dr Coralia Cartis (School of Mathematics) | Available | On-Line |
Has European Precipitation changed due to Human Influences?
Professor Simon Tett, Prof. Gabi Hegerl & Dr Michael Wehner (Lawrence Berkley Labs, USA) | Available | On-Line |
Separating magnetic field sources from the Swarm satellite constellation
Prof Kathy Whaler and Dr Susan Macmillan, BGS | Available | On-Line |
Magnetofossils: Identification and functionality in ancient ecosystems
Professor Wyn Williams (GeoSciences, Edinburgh University) Dr. Adrian Muxworthy (Earth Sciences, Imperial College) | Available | On-Line |
Understanding Thermal Recording Processes in Rocks
Professor Wyn Williams (GeoSciences, Edinburgh University) Dr. Adrian Muxworthy (Earth Sciences, Imperial College) | Available | On-Line |
How does land management affect greenhouse gas emissions in the UK? A landscape-scale study using field and airborne measurements (Possible Case Project)
Mathew Williams and John Moncrieff | Available | On-Line |
**FULLY FUNDED** Ocean oxygenation and the rise of Metazoans
Dr Rachel Wood, Simon Poulton (Newcastle) and Andrey Yu Zhuravlev (Moscow) | Allocated | |
