New Opportunity - closing date Friday 12 August 2011
Anomalous enstatite achondrite meteorites - analogues for Mercury's crust
David Rothery, Mahesh Anand, Monica Grady (PSSRI) and Gretchen Benedix (NHM)
All places for the projects below have now been filled, 2012 projects will be available in November/December
Mountains, magmas and planets
Volcanic architecture and prospectivity of the Central Kalkarindgi flood basalt province, Australia
Mike Widdowson, Simon Kelley and David Murphy (Queensland University of Technology)
Eclogites as tracers of mantle processes
Mahesh Anand, Clare Warren and Tom Argles
Magma rise times beneath erupting volcanoes
Steve Blake, Ian Parkinson and Mahesh Anand
Eclogites, amphibolites and argon: tracking argon through a metamorphic cycle
Clare Warren, Sarah Sherlock, Simon Kelley and Darren Mark (SUERC)
Understanding the evolution of the syrtis Major volcanic complex (Mars) and comprison with volcanoes in the Afar Rift system (Earth)
Matt Balme, Dave Rothery, Charlotte Vye and Colm Jordan (British Geological Survey)
PLEASE NOTE: Formal application is via the BGS University Funding Initiative - http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/bufi/home.html. Details of the procedure can be found on http://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/vacancies.html
DEADLINE IS 28 FEBRUARY 2011
Environmental change and microfossils
Origin and significance of high-Mg calcite for the global carbon budget
Pallavi Anand, Neil Edwards, Charles Cockell (PSSRI) and Maureen Conte (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, USA)
Reconstruction of past changes in North Atlantic overturning using neodymium isotopes
Pallavi Anand, Neil Edwards, Ian Parkinson and Kevin Burton (University of Oxford)
Understanding the impact of recent ocean acidification on bio-calcification
Pallavi Anand, Phil Sexton, Jelle Bijma (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany and Maureen Conte (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, USA)
Note - this project has guaranteed NERC funding. Closing date: 28 February 2011
Microfossil extinction, diversification and abundance changes associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) period of extreme environmental change
Angela L Coe, James B Riding (British Geological Survey, UK) and Anthony S Cohen
The origins of subtropical forest biodiversity and its link to global palaeoclimate change during the Miocene
Angela L Coe, William Gosling and Anthony S Cohen
Quantifying Quaternary climate change in the tropical Andes using non-biting midges (chrionomids)
William Gosling, Steve Brooks (NHM) and Angela Coe
Past environmental change in the Amazon Basin
William Gosling, Vincent Gauci and Sarah Sherlock
The causes of paradoxically frequent extinctions in marine plankton
Philip Sexton, Richard Norris (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA), Paul Pearson (University of Cardiff) and Pallavi Anand
Ocean circulation during Eocene extreme 'greenhouse' climatic warmth
Philip Sexton, Pallavi Anand and Howie Scher (University of South Carolina, USA)
Biogeochemistry
Tropical soil methane dynamics in response to persistent volcanism
Vincent Gauci and Hazel Rymer
Methane dynamics in the natural and degraded tropical peat-swamp forests of Borneo
Vincent Gauci, Mike Gillman (Life Sciences) and Sue Page (University of Leicester)
Earth system science, radiometric dating and isotope geochemistry
Tellurium isotopes - investigation of a new oceanographic redox proxy of environmental change
Manuela Fehr, Anthony Cohen and Ian Parkinson
Marine carbonates and ocean chemistry: new insights on an old record
Ian Parkinson, Christopher Pearce and Pallavi Anand
Tracking the rise in atmospheric oxygen: a Cr isotopic approach
Ian Parkinson, Manuela Fehr and Ian Fairchild (University of Birmingham)
Climate change during the Holocene and the Indian summer monsoon; extending the speleothem record
Nigel Harris, Peter van Calsteren, Louise Thomas and Dave Mattey (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Extreme tropical weathering profiles as monitors for palaeoenvironmental change
Mike Widdowson, Mahesh Anand and Manuela Fehr
Ar-Ar laserprobe dating of meteorite impact craters
Sarah Sherlock, Simon Kelley and David Peate (University of Iowa, USA)
Dating early diagenesis in continental red beds by Ar-Ar lasterprobe
Sarah Sherlock, Simon Kelley, Peter Turner (Cuadrilla Resources), Darren Mark (SUERC)
GIS and education
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) in distance learning
Tom Argles and Anne Adams
Note - this project has guaranteed OU funding
