Student Opportunities

  • New PhD project: Linking in situ crystallisation and magma chamber replenishment in the Rum Western Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland - EPSAM 2012-5 NERC studentship

 

PhD Projects

Adam Jeffery

Effusive versus explosive trachytic to rhyolitic volcanism in the Azores, Portugal

Liam Bullock

The emplacement and textural characterisation of silicic lava flows: examples from the Aeolian Islands, Italy

Lizzie Derbyshire

Podiform chromitites as tracers of upper mantle processes and serpentinisation in the Caledonian ophiolites of Britain

Katie Preece

Petrology and the persistently active volcano: identifying the driving forces behind recent pulsations in activity at Merapi volcano, Java, Indonesia

(University East Anglia; co-supervised by Ralf Gertisser)

Sylvain Charbonnier

The dynamics and hazards of small-volume pyroclastic flows: a case study of the 2006 eruption of Merapi volcano, Java, Indonesia

(completed: 2010)

 

Selected MGeoscience Projects

April Fitzgerald-Hudson (2012)

A breadcrust bomb-rich pyroclastic flow of Merapi: insights into pre-eruptive processes from amphibole dehydration textures.

Adam Jeffery (2010)

A Quantitative Textural Analysis of the 2007-08 Eruption of Kelut Volcano, East Java, Indonesia

Julie Boyce (2009)

 The welded airfall tuff of the Middle Pumice eruption, Santorini, Greece

Charlie May (2009)

  The volcanological and magmatic evolution of Monte dei Porri, Salina, Italy

Oliver Jones (2008)

A breadcrust-bomb-rich pyroclastic-flow deposit from Merapi volcano, Central Java, Indonesia

Katie Preece (2008)

The Lower Pumice 2 eruption, Santorini, Greece

 

Nuffield - Geological Society Student Projects

April Fitzgerald-Hudson (2010)

Pattern formation in slowly cooled crystal mushes: quantitative textural insights from the Stillwater layered intrusion, USA

Diane Lawrence (2010)

Hazard assessment and numerical modelling of tephra fallout from explosive volcanic eruptions of Santorini volcano, Greece.

Charlie May (2008)

Volcanoes and climate: Volatile emissions and climatic effects of the 1993 eruption of Lascar, Chile.

Oliver Jones (2007)

 Reducing volcanic risk: Numerical modelling of deadly pyroclastic flows of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia.