Postgraduate Research Students

Matthew Allison is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr. Stephen Jones. His project is entitled: "New North Atlantic Palaeo-Temperature Reconstruction from Terrestrial Sedimentary Archives: Implications for the Influence of the Icelandic Plume on Oceanic Circulation and Climate."

Saad Al-Yousuf is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof. David Hannah. His project is entitled: "Climate Change impacts on water resources management: implications and adaptation."

Jake Atterby is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof. Sam Giles. His project is entitled: "Unravelling early teleost relationships: diversification at the dawn of the most successful fish radiation."

Gemma Baker is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sarah Greene. Her project is entitled: "Life on the edge: new tools to track animal-forest trophic interaction across intact to degraded ecosystems."

Hannah Bird is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Kirsty Edgar. Her project is entitled: "Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming."

Iacopo Cavicchini is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Sam Giles. His project is entitled: "Tackling taxonomic and taphonomic biases in the Early Triassic fossil fish record."

Patthapong Chaiseanwang is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr James Bendle, on a project entitled: "An application of a new suite of biomarkers from Gram-negative bacteria to reconstruct the first Holocene temperature in Southeast Asia region based on 3-hydroxy fatty acids."

Xin-Shi Cheng is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Jason Hilton, on a project entitled: "Seeds as proxies of seed plant evolutionary and diversity changes through profound intervals of climate and environment change."

Dan Doherty is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sarah Greene, on a project entitled: "Global carbon cycle feedbacks from massive volcanism."

Soph Fasey is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Sam Giles, on a project entitled: "Uniting taphonomy and tomography to illuminate early actinopterygian evolution."

Sarah Gale is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Shan Huang, on a project entitled: "The relationship between marine extinction and climate change in space and time."

Sushanth Gattupalli is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Tom Dunkley Jones, on a project entitled: "Investigating late miocene cocclith."

Changhai Hou is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr James Bendle, on a project entitled: "The application of 3-OH-FA based biomarkers to lake sediments."

Hazel Knight is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Stephen Jones, on a project entitled: "Did the North Atlantic Igneous Provice drive the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum?"

Marie Marsden is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Richard Butler, on a project entitled: "Stratigraphy and dinosaur palaeontology of the Wealden Group, Isle of Wight."

Michael McKnight is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Kirsty Edgar, on a project entitled: "Stratigraphies from key exploration areas in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean."

Kerys Meredew is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sebastian Watt, on a project entitled: "Magma-reservoir evolution following edifice destruction at Krakatau and Ritter Volcanoes."

Litanya Octonovrilna is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sebastian Watt, on a project entitled: "Complex tsunami hazard processes and exposure in Sulawesi, Indonesia."

Deborah Parke is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sebastian Watt, on a project entitled: "Examining eruption processes in the Chichinautzin volcanic field, working with samples from the Lake Chalco sediment core, Central Mexico."

Ibrahim Yusuf is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Stephen Jones, on a project entitled: "Structure and Dynamics of the Porcupine Magma-Poor Continental Margin from new Ocean Bottom Seismometer Data."