Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Refinement of the calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy
Summary of PhD Program:
The biostratigraphy of the southern English White Chalk Group has a long tradition (see Gale et al. 2018 for an overview), and different fossil groups have been used to establish assemblage zonal schemes and age models. These include echinoids, brachiopods, (micro-) crinoids, bivalves, belemnites and microfossils among others. This study will use biostratigraphic methods to analyse the calcareous nannofossil zonations and assemblages in a recently extracted 91.5 metre chalk core (core BH302) recovered locally from Portsdown Hill and donated to the University of Portsmouth by a geotechnical company, Socotec.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Characteristics and evolution of former landslide-dammed lakes in tectonically active terrains
Summary of PhD Program:
‘Landslides in tectonically active regions can block valleys creating landslide-dammed lakes. There are many examples of such lakes worldwide, the largest being in the Pamir mountains where a lake of >16 km3 is impounded by landslide debris over 560 metres high that resulted from an earthquake in 1911. Such lakes are typically temporary, with breaching of the landslide dam resulting in catastrophic downstream flooding, potentially devastating downstream towns and villages.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Breached landslide – lacustrine deposit assemblages in the central Tien Shan mountains, including the Kara-Su valley, Kyrgyzstan
Summary of PhD Program:
The 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, on the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau, was remarkable for the very large number of landslides it triggered, producing innumerable landslide-dammed lakes. As an index, 32 of these lakes were considered sufficiently threatening, to communities downstream, that the Chinese authorities mobilised army engineers to prematurely breach the landslide dams using explosives. This event can serve as a model for the consequences of a large earthquake in the Tien Shan mountain range, an area of strong contractional GPS rates (~20 mm a-1) and uplift associated with India-Eurasia collision.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Tectonic and volcanological comparisons between the world’s two subaerial ridge-transform triple junctions, Iceland
Summary of PhD Program:
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is uniquely exposed above sea level as it transects Iceland, where it displays two ridge-transform triple junctions, one in the north and the other in the south of the country. Derek Rust and Malcolm Whitworth have very detailed drone imagery and field structural data from the northern triple junction and the MRes project would involve comparing these results, possibly augmented with additional volcanological information, with the southern triple junction.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Active tectonics of intermontane basins, with examples from the Tien Shan mountains, central Asia
Summary of PhD Program:
Derek Rust has field data from these basins, including an unexpectedly young 14C date from part of a thrust duplex now inactive and superseded by the presently active thrusting, a logged section through the duplex, and some 1:40000 stereo aerial photograph coverage. The MRes project would integrate these field results with a remote sensing analysis and map of evidence for active tectonic deformation, both within the basins and around their margins, with the aim of identifying the structural regime in operation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Active three-armed rifting in ocean-island volcanoes
Summary of PhD Program:
Three-armed rifts are a common response to updoming at volcanic centres, and several examples occur in ocean-island volcanoes, such as Tenerife and El Hierro in the Canary chain. Derek Rust and Carmen Solana have field data on the rifting in El Hierro and the MRes project would examine these results in the context of such rifting worldwide. The project aim would be to identify common patterns and mechanisms associated with this style of rifting.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling strain partitioning across compressional mountain belts
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to shed light on strain accommodation in such mountain belts, particularly its distribution between structures with differing orientations and possible affinities, and to suggest ways in which geological and GPS data may be reconciled. The project will involve designing, constructing and running a series of appropriately constrained model experiments, using rock mechanics equipment and analogue materials such as Plexiglas.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analysis of a deep-seated inland landslide on the Wight-Purbeck chalk ridge, SW Isle of Wight
Summary of PhD Program:
Deep-seated landsliding in chalk is unexpected, even in coastal settings, making the subject of this MRes research possibly unique in Britain. The work entails detailed field mapping and reconstructions, with volume estimates and comparisons between the source area and associated debris apron, as well as study and logging of available exposures at the margin of the apron and, if possible, collection of any available organic material for 14C dating.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mixing zones in Debris Flows
Summary of PhD Program:
Using field and laboratory measurement of Visible Near-InfraRed (VNIR) spectra and geotechnical indices, the project will explore the relationship between source materials, surface topography and debris flow deposits to improve understanding of how debris moves, mixes and is deposited in different debris flows. Test sites will be drawn from locations in the UK and China.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Establishing the glacial history of the Drac Valley, Grenoble France, using glacial sedimentology and stratigraphy
Summary of PhD Program:
The Sinard area, within the Drac Valley, is predominantly underlain by thick and extensive sequences of glaciofluvial outwash and glaciolacustrine deposits, that have subsequently been incised by fluvial channels. These sediments are believed to have been deposited during the Würm glaciation (last glacial period), by the Isère Glacier, and document the formation of a large ice-dammed lake.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Variations in elevation of sea-level indicators for the last Interglacial around English Channel coasts
Summary of PhD Program:
The last interglacial period, about 125 ka ago, was a time when sea level was as high as today, or perhaps a few metres higher. There have been many published studies of raised beach deposits dating from this period around English Channel coasts. One well known example being from Croyde in North Devon. The interesting aspect is that the elevation of these deposits varies significantly, particularly as this coastline contains 13 present and proposed nuclear power stations.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Active fault-propagation folding above blind thrusts
Summary of PhD Program:
Thrust faulting is likely to be the dominant mode of tectonic strain release in contractional mountain belts, yet the geological signature of these shallowly dipping structures is notoriously hard to recognise, hampering mitigation efforts. This problem is exemplified by the 1991 Mw 7.0 Racha earthquake, the strongest recorded in Georgia but without the clear ground rupturing expected from an earthquake of this size. Other examples include the 1952 Mw 7.3 Kern County earthquake and the 1994 Mw 6.7 Northridge earthquake, respectively north and south of the Transverse Ranges in California.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigation into occurrence in mine waste tailings from copper and tin mining at Devon Great Consols (DGC) Mine, SW England
Summary of PhD Program:
The toxic metalloid As occurs within the various tailings heaps at DGC in various proportions and in various forms from unprocessed primary sulphides and oxides to stromatolitic and colloidal precipitates. As is sensitive to changes in Redox conditions within the pore waters of the tailings and can be released into solution and become bio-accessible. This project would use SEM with EDX and EBSD techniques to determine the mode of occurrence and concentrations of As-bearing minerals in mine waste tailings from the spoil heaps of DGC Mine.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in The land-ice sources of Ice Rafted Debris within deep sea drill core and the fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Mid Pliocene Warm Period
Summary of PhD Program:
Ice rafted debris (IRD) represents grains of continental derived material that have been transported at the base of land-sourced ice sheets out to the deep ocean, where iceberg melting has resulted in deposition of these grains within the deep ocean sediments. They thus represent periods within the seafloor stratigraphy where continental ice was present and able to calve into the ocean and the individual grains come from point sources that may be tracked with appropriate methods.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Linking mineralization and tectonics in the Cornubian Ore Province: new chemical and isotopic approaches
Summary of PhD Program:
The Cornubian Orefield in Devon and Cornwall is the most intensely mineralised region in the British Isles, with mined ore-deposits including W, Sn, Cu, Fe, Pb, As, Mn, Zn, U and Ag. These include the world-class Drakelands W-mine, which began production in 2015. The opening of Drakelands Mine has highlighted a number of major gaps in understanding how ore-deposits in the region relate to tectonic and magmatic evolution.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geochronology of mid-crustal shear zones: insights from accessory minerals
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will capitalize on our expertise in laser ablation ICP-MS geochronology to compare the age-record of accessory minerals with differing sensitivity to diffusion driven by heating or metasomatism. For example, mid-crustal shear zones from the Sudbury Ni-Cu-PGE mining region in Ontario and the Amorican Shear Zone, Brittany contain multiple accessory minerals as shear-fabric forming minerals, including titanite, allanite and apatite. Comparison of U-Th-Pb ages from these minerals will provide powerful new insights into the orogenic and metasomatic history of these important, but poorly understood structures.
