SUERC

Postgraduate Research Opportunities

PhD research projects available at SUERC are listed below.  A variety of routes are available for funding PhD research.

To discuss the projects and funding opportunities please contact the lead supervisor.

• IAPETUS2 DTP: Peat-forming seasonally flooded forests of the Peruvian Amazon: distribution, carbon storage, and long-term ecology
  Supervisors: Ian Lawson (University of St Andrews), Pauline Gulliver, Katy Roucoux (University of St Andrews), Euridice Honorio Coronado (University of St Andrews)
  Peruvian Amazon project description

• Fully-funded PhD: Tracing the origin of methane using clumped isotope geochemistry
  Supervisors: Matthieu Clog, Fin Stuart, Doug Hamilton (ThermoFisher)
  Methane clumped isotopes project description

• EASTBIO BBSRC DTP: Is mob grazing beneficial for soil health and the environment?
  Supervisors: Joanna Cloy (SRUC), Liz Baggs (University of Edinburgh), Gillian MacKinnon and Sarah Buckingham (SRUC)
  Mob grazing project description

• E4 DTP: Field testing of numerical models of landscape evolution using the fluvial archive: case study in the Rio Bergantes, Spain.
  Supervisors: Mikael Attal (University of Edinburgh), Simon Mudd (University of Edinburgh), Philippa Ascough, Richard Staff

• E4 DTP: Pushing the limits of geochronology with large particle accelerators
  Supervisors: Derek Fabel, Andy Hein (School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh)
  Pushing the limits of geochronology with large particle accelerators project description

• IAPETUS2 DTP: Positive Ion Mass Spectrometry (PIMS) - the next generation of radiocarbon analysis
  Supervisors: Richard Shanks, Clayton Magill (Heriot Watt University)

• IAPETUS2 DTP: Addressing the Global Methane Crisis with Novel Technology (PIMS 14C)
  Supervisors: Cameron McIntyre, Pauline Gulliver, Clayton Magill (Heriot Watt University), Jennifer Pratsch (Durham University)

• IAPETUS2 DTP: Age, origin, and dynamics of carbon in the central Congo peatlands: radiocarbon dating plant leaf waxes to build a novel 10,000 year record of change
  Supervisors: Dr Pauline Gulliver, Dr Ian Lawson (University of St Andrews), Prof. Jaime Toney (University of Glasgow), Dr Malu Cisneros-Dozal
  Congo peatlands project description

Further Information

Postgraduate research at SUERC is usually administered by the University of Glasgow College of Science & Engineering graduate school.

Research students attend a series of training courses organised both by SUERC and the College, and training in field and laboratory techniques specific to each research project is provided by SUERC researchers.

For further information about undertaking research degrees at SUERC please contact Dr. Derek Fabel (email).