Shell Studentships

 

A number of projects supported by Shell will be available for 2012 entry.  The deadline for the first round of applications is Friday 11 May 2012.  Please contact Professor Stephen Hesselbo with any queries.

Project EARTH-12-SHELL1: Global expression of climatic and palaeoceanographic events in black shales: generation of new high-resolution records from the Jurassic of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina

Project EARTH-12-SHELL2: Carbon burial in continental settings: lacustrine records of major environmental changes in deep time and their depositional and diagenetic consequences

Project EARTH-12-SHELL3: Isotopic and elemental records of ocean redox conditions

Project EARTH-12-SHELL4: Polygonal faults and de-watering of mudrocks during early burial

Project EARTH-12-SHELL5: Physical property changes in fine-grained sediments due to early diagenesis

Project EARTH-12-SHELL6: Fracturing of fine-grained sediments during early burial