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Geoscience Projects for International Students at Keele University
International MSc students undertake their research project at Keele University. Potential research areas are given below.
Students are encouraged contact the academic member of staff listed before making an official application.
Applied Geology and Renewable Energy
The student can investigate a range of renewable energy issues, including the effects of wind turbines, geothermal energy and shale gas fracking.
Contact : Dr Ian Stimpson
Applied, Environmental and Forensic Geology
The student can participate in ongoing long-term geophysical monitoring projects, including monitoring of collapsing salt mines in Cheshire as well as environmental forensics topics, including geophysical monitoring of simulated clandestine graves, detection of near-surface buried objects and detection and characterisation of illegally buried waste.
Contact : Dr Jamie Pringle
Coastal Environments and Sea Level Change
The student can research sea-level change and coastal environmental change via a range of sedimentological and micropalaeontological techniques.
Contact : Dr Katie Szkornik
Environmental Science and Ecology
The student can carry out projects in experimental biogeochemistry with a focus on soil greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, CNP cycling and water quality at catchment scale as well as restoration ecology of wetland and floodplain ecosystems.
Contact : Dr Sami Ullah
Environmental Studies and Palaeoceanography
The student can study modern marine environments and marine environmental change (palaeoceanography) using a range of micropalaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical techniques.
Contact : Dr Alix Cage
Environmental Studies and Palaeolimnology
The student can research lake (and catchment) processes and environmental change (palaeolimnology) via a range of sedimentological, geochemical and micropalaeontological techniques.
Contact : Dr Antonia Law
Glacial and Periglacial Environments
The student can study both modern and ancient glacial and peri-glacial environments, including glacier-permafrost interactions and glacial processes.
Contact : Dr Richard Waller
Igneous Petrology and Volcanology
The student can study a range of topics in igneous petrology and volcanology.
Contact : Dr Ralf Gertisser and Dr Brian O'Driscoll
Palaeontology
The student can study a range of topics in micropalaentology, palaeoecology and biogeography.
Contact : Dr Michael Montenari
Sedimentology and Basin Dynamics
The student can study sedimentary basins, their controls, fill and subsequent deformation and inversion using sedimentological techniques, numerical analysis, seismic reflection interpretation and structural geological modelling.
Contact : Dr Stuart Clarke and Dr Stuart Egan
