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Environmental change: Past and present
 

Understanding rapid climate change across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary

Pallavi Anand (OU), Philip Sexton (Cardiff University), Iain Gilmour and Jonathan Watson (OU)

Ocean circulation in the Indian Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum
Pallavi Anand
, Mark Brandon (OU), Dick Kroon and Simon Jung (University of Edinburgh)


Palaeoclimate and sea-level fluctuations during the Early Jurassic

Angela L. Coe
(OU), David B. Kemp (Cambridge University) and Anthony S. Cohen (OU)


High resolution temperature records of abrupt climate change: An integrated geochemical and isotopic study

Angela L. Coe, Pallavi Anand and Anthony S. Cohen


Wetland and methane dynamics of the last million years

Neil Edwards
and Vincent Gauci

 

Quaternary environmental change in the tropics: providing a global perspective through land-ocean correlation
William Gosling
and Pallavi Anand

 

Peatland biogeochemistry during episodic acidifying events
Alison J. Blyth
, Vincent Gauci, William Gosling (OU) and Helen Talbot (Newcastle University)

 

Tracing the sources and pathways of air pollution by heavy-metals in an urban environment
Mahesh Anand
, Manuela Fehr, Nick Rogers (OU), Sudesh Yadav and V. Rajamani (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India)

 

Synthesising global methane emissions data for studies of global change: plant diversity and pollution controls
Vincent Gauci
(OU), Peter van Bodegom (University of Amsterdam) and David Gowing (OU)

 

Trace gas emission responses to landscape scale fenland restoration
Vincent Gauci
and David Gowing

 

Low temperature geochemistry and isotope systems

 

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, Pallavi Anand (OU) and Kevin Burton (University of Oxford)

 

Tin isotopic fractionation during microbial mediated production of organotin compounds
Charles Cockell
and Ian Parkinson


The aftermath of a mass extinction: Recovery of the Earth system following the K/Pg mass extinction and Dan-C2 hyperthermal events

Simon Kelley
, Iain Gilmour (OU), Dave Jolley (Aberdeen University) and Jonathan Watson (OU)

Understanding the marine delta53Cr record; an experimental and analytical approach

Ian Parkinson, Rachael James (Southampton University) and Caroline Peacock (Leeds University)

Guaranteed Funding
 

Igneous geochemistry and tectonics
 

Crustal extrusion during the Himalayan orogeny
Nigel Harris
, Tom Argles, Sarah Sherlock (OU), Randall Parrish (NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory) and Saibal Gupta (IIT, Kharagpur)

Proposed CASE award with NIGL
 

A re-evaluation of Sr isotopes in magmatic systems; combined radiogenic and stable Sr isotope studies and the high-temperature fractionation of Sr isotopes
Ian Parkinson
, Bruce Charlier (OU) and Kevin Burton (University of Oxford)


The Evolution of the Afar Mantle Plume: Tracking geochemical changes through 30 Ma of basaltic volcanism in Ethiopia
Nick Rogers
and Ian Parkinson (OU) and Charlotte Vye (British Geological Survey, Edinburgh)

Proposed CASE award with BGS Edinburgh

 
 
Volcanic processes
 
Forecasting the durations of volcanic eruptions
Stephen Blake
, Hazel Rymer (OU) and Pall Einarsson, (Nordic Volcanological Center, Reykjavik, Iceland)
 

A new method for predicting natural hazards

Hazel Rymer
, Stephen Blake (OU) and Mark Davies (ARKeX)

Proposed CASE award with ARKeX

 

Magma rise times beneath erupting volcanoes
Stephen Blake
and Ian Parkinson

 

Mt Etna volcano’s long-term deformation
Hazel Rymer, John Murray, Stephen Blake (OU), Marek Ziebart (University College London) and Ben van Wyk de Vries (Université Blaise Pascal, France)


Planetary Surfaces Research

 

The role of liquid water and salts in periglacial environments on Mars: a remote sensing and laboratory study
Matt Balme, Charles Cockell, Manish Patel, Axel Hagermann
NOTE: Closing date is 28 February 2010 for this project

 

Remote Sensing and GIS

Tom Argles (OU), Anne Adams, Emma Ward and Holger Kessler (British Geological Survey)

Proposed BUFI award with BGS
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