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Research Grants 2018

The Research Grants Committee met on 1 March and considered 44 applications from Fellows and non-Fellows spanning early career and established researchers.  Council approved the award of 30 grants totalling £35,526 and the Robert Scott Memorial Fund of £2,000 to one applicant.   The Society is very grateful for the contributions made by the Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust and the Robert Scott Memorial Award.


APPLICANT       

AFFILIATION

TITLE OF PROGRAMME

FUND

 

AMOUNT

(£)

Billy ANDREWS

 

Strathclyde

The effect of sedimentary structures on fracture attributes within the UK Carboniferous Coal measures

Gloyne Outdoor

 

 

876

Anna BIDGOOD

 

Oxford

Oxford University Liverpool Land Expedition: the geological history of a subducted continent

Mike Coward

2000

Sarah BOULTON

 

Plymouth

The role of lithology on catchment average erosion rates in the Gediz Graben, Turkey

Elspeth Matthews

1000

Samuel BROOKE-BARNETT

 

 

Imperial

The effects of salt tectonics in the evolution of a fold and thrust belt

Mike Coward

840

Daniel COLLINS

 

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Holocene mangrove carbon sequestration in the Northern Mekong delta

Daniel Pidgeon

1000

Patrick DOWEY

 

Manchester

Trace element productivity and redox proxies in the Bowland-Hodder Shale, UK

Edmund Johnson Garwood

950

Finley GILCHRIST

Bristol

A petrological investigation into the evolution of the 1902 eruption of Santa Maria, Guatemala

Daniel Pidgeon

363

Catherine GODDARD

 

 

Oxford

What is the strength of the lower crust as determined by examining the roots of exhumed fault zones?

Mike Coward

 

 

1000

Joshua GRINHAM

 

 

St Andrews

Out-of-Phase Magnetic Susceptibility as a Tool in Mineral Exploration

Daniel Pidgeon

 

1050

Daniella GUY

 

 

Imperial

Utilising outcrop analogue data from the Ebro Basin, Spain for forward modelling in South Lokichar, Kenya

Elspeth Matthews

 

 

1165

Julie HARRALD

 

 

Open

Use of an unmanned aerial vehicle as a tool for mapping complex foreshore deposits

Annie Greenly

1323

Chris HOLDSWORTH

 

Glasgow

Ecotoxic metal distribution, mobility and flux in steel slag-derived alkaline leachate environments

William George Fearnsides

 

900

Joshua JONES

 

 

Plymouth

Investigating the spatial distributions and susceptibility of co-seismic landslide in a glacial environment, Langtang Valley, Nepal

Elspeth Matthews

 

1100

James Logan KING

 

 

Bristol

Brain Anatomy in Transitional Asian Sauropods and Ankylosaurs: Mapping Sensory

Evolution and Perception in Non-Avian Dinosaurs

Daniel Pidgeon

 

 

2700

Brendan McCORMICK KILBRIDE

 

Cambridge

A geochemical survey of volcanic unrest at Rabaul caldera, Papua New Guinea

Elspeth Matthews

 

1276

Susannah MAIDMENT

 

NHM

Palaeobiology of north Africa’s first stegosaur: implications for herbivorous dinosaur evolution and biogeography

Edmund Johnson Garwood

 

1980

Catherine MASCORD

Hull

Worms on film: How, where and when did metazoans begin bioturbating microbial substrates

Elspeth Matthews

 

 

997

Zoe Mildon

Plymouth

Measuring Holocene throw of normal faults to improve models of Coulomb stress transfer in the central Italian

Apennines for assessing seismic hazard

Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust and

Mike Coward

 

 

1220

Hannah MOORE

 

Bristol

Investigating the triggers of the regular paroxysms observed at Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala

William George Fearnsides

 

 

363

Aodhan O’GOGAIN

 

Trinity College Dublin

Micro-computed tomography of tetrapods from the Langsettian (Pennsylvanian) Jarrow assemblage: implications for early tetrapod evolution and ecology

William George Fearnsides

 

 

400

David PEACOCK

 

University of Bergen

Detailed mapping of damage zones around intersecting faults on Gozo, Maltese Islands

Annie Greenly

 

 

900

Carla PONT

FELLOW

 

Imperial

Field constraints on lithological controls on landscape response times to active faulting in Calabria, Italy

Elspeth Matthews

 

1498

Pamela RATTIGAN

 

Glasgow

The stratigraphy and emplacement of lava-like ignimbrites on the southern flank of the Las Cañadas Caldera, Tenerife: implications for volcanological hazards in the Canary Islands

William George Fearnsides

 

1530

Tom RAVEN

 

Brighton

Evolution and palaeobiology of North American armoured dinosaurs

Daniel Pidgeon

 

 

1105

Michael STEVENTON

Imperial

Mass-transport complexes (MTCs) as seals: a case study from the Magnus Field, Northern North Sea

Daniel Pidgeon

 

1000

Mark STILLINGS

Strathclyde

What happens to groundwater chemistry during fault slip?

Daniel Pidgeon

 

1200

James WHEELEY

Birmingham

Deciphering the palaeoceanography and temperature structure of Iapetus using conodont oxygen isotopes: temporal variability across the Cambro-Ordovician boundary, Newfoundland, Canada

Joseph Burr Tyrrell

 

 

1990

Esty WILLCOX

Aberystwyth

Using high resolution thermal imaging and stereo-photography to quantify calving law controls

Robert Scott Memorial Fund

 

2000

Julia WOITISCHEK

FELLOW

Cambridge

Understanding the persistent outgassing of open vent volcanoes

Elspeth Matthews

 

2000

Ying ZHOU

FELLOW

UCL

Tracing silicate weathering during the early Tonian using Lithium isotopes

William George Fearnsides

 

1800