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Research grants 2016

The Society has made the following research grants in 2016. The Research Grants Committee, which met on 17 March 2016, was very pleased with the high standard of applications received.   The Society is very grateful for the contributions made by the Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust, the Robert Scott Memorial Trust and Hannon Westwood.

 

APPLICANT

AFFILIATION

TITLE OF PROGRAMME

FUND

AMOUNT
(£)
Ross ANDERSON

Yale

Evaluating preservational bias in the fossil record of Proterozoic eukaryote evolution

Daniel Pidgeon

 

960
Anna BIDGOOD

Oxford

Subduction and exhumation of the Tso Morari region, Ladakh

Mike Coward

 

1000
Sam BROOKE

Imperial

Constraining sediment routing system response to climate using alluvial fans in Death Valley.

Timothy Jefferson

1100
Neil BURNSIDE

Glasgow

Glasgow University Rift Valley Exploration

Timothy Jefferson

600
Stacy CAROLIN

Oxford

Relationship between tropical Pacific rainfall and abrupt cooling in the north Atlantic: a 12.5 kyBP case study

Fearnsides

954
Alexander CLARKE

Royal Holloway

Seismogenic zone input: the upper plate contribution in Costa Rica. Structural analysis of the Osa Mélange

Daniel Pidgeon

750
Robert GREEN

Cambridge

Crustal structure and melt storage in the Icelandic rift systems

Elspeth Matthews

1500
Tianchen HE

UCL

Tracing the continental weathering history during the Cambrian Explosion using lithium isotopes

Fearnsides

1630
Steven HOLLIS

University College Dublin

Constraining regional deformation associated with arc-continent collision in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland: implications for mesothermal Au mineralization in the Dalradian Supergroup and the Grampian orogeny.

Mike Coward

 

650
Alex HUGHES

Imperial

Constraining spatial and temporal variations in fault slip rate on the San Cayetano Fault, Southern California

Mike Coward

1371
Edward INGLIS

Durham

Using Western Alps ophiolites to understand cycling of redox mediating elements at subduction zones

Timothy Jefferson

1000
Rosemary JONES

Oxford

The fate of volatiles in a cold subduction zone: insights from the noble gas compositions of mantle xenoliths from the Kamchatka arc

 

 

Timothy Jefferson

1750
Charlotte McLEAN

Glasgow

Quantifying the thermal effect of diatremes in a sedimentary basin

Timothy Jefferson

1150
Susannah MAIDMENT

Imperial

The anatomy, taxonomy and stratigraphic location of a new stegosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Montana, U.S.A.

Garwood

 

1011
Catherine MOTTRAM

Dalhousie

Palaeothermometry of Himalayan palaeoseimic events

Elspeth Matthews

1000
Iain NEILL

Glasgow

Fire and shaking in the South Caucasus: carbon dating Armenia’s recent geological past

Elspeth Matthews

1930
Amelia PENNY

Edinburgh

The palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology of the terminal Ediacaran Nama Group, Southern Namibia (550-541Ma)

Daniel Pidgeon

 

1000
Anastasia POLYMENI

Heriot-Watt

Mapping the Apennine-Maghrebian Foreland in Sicily: establishing the Onshore-Offshore Link

Mike Coward

 

1000
Jennifer ROBERTSON

Birkbeck

Using uplift to investigate normal and subduction-related active faulting along the western Hellenic subduction zone

Mike Coward

 

1120
Helen ROBINSON

Glasgow

Glasgow University Rift Valley Expedition

Timothy Jefferson

900
Duna RODA-BOLUDA

Imperial

Constraining Plio-Pleistocene exhumation rates and sediment sources in Southern Italy using AHe

Elspeth Matthews

1990
Melanie SIEGBURG

Southampton

Tectono-magmatic interaction at Boset Volcanic Complex in the Main Ethiopian Rift

Mike Coward

1500
Adam SPROSON

Durham

The Silurian Icehouse: Insights from Osmium and Lithium Isotopes

Fearnsides

1000
Thomas STOKES

Edinburgh

A new tool for determining oxidation state of magmas based on apatite

Daniel Pidgeon

 

1250
Thomas VANDYK

RHUL

Convergence of ice sheets in a Neoproterozoic pan-glacial: a study in the Silurian Hills, California

Robert Scott Memorial Trust

 

1000
Hanwen (Steven) ZHANG

Bristol

A phylogenetic reappraisal of the Elephantidae

Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust & Fearnsides

 

2791
UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK BURSARIES
Anna PEEL

Cambridge

A structural and stratigraphic exploration of a late Tertiary basin in the central Pyrenees

Hannon Westwood/Novas

750
Thomas PEPLOE

Birmingham

The Solid Geology of Southern tip of Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins, including potential petroleum reservoirs and hydrogeological issues associated

Hannon Westwood/Novas

500