Earth and Ocean Sciences

Clusters

Biogeoscience Group

• Studies of the Irish sea floor and marine—groundwater interactions.

Geofluids Group

• Investigations into the role of fluids in the mineralogical, chemical, and structural evolution of the Earth's crust.

Magmatic Studies Group

• Investigations into the petrogenesis of magmatic and related rocks.

Oceanography Group

• Studying physical, chemical and biological interactions in the oceans.

Subjects covered in this course are:-

• Palaeontology and Evolution
• Carbonate Sedimentology
• Metals in Groundwater
• Coastal Karstic Aquifers
• Integrated catchment management
• Sedimentary Provenance (new techniques and applications)
• “Source to Sink” modelling of sedimentary basins
• Evolution of modern and ancient large-scale drainage systems
• Climate records in sedimentary archives
• Ocean acidification
• Carbon cycling in coastal waters
• Trace element cycling in coastal waters
• Physical habitat mapping 
• Caledonian/Variscan geology
• Marine geophysics
• Land-based geophysics
• Hydrogeology
• Physical oceanography
• Chemical oceanography