Structured PhD (Earth & Ocean Sciences), full-time

Short summary of the research area.

Clusters:-

1. Biogeoscience Group 

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

2. Geofluids Group 

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

3. Magmatic Studies Group 

Investigations into the petrogenesis of magmatic and related rocks.

4. Oceanography Group

Studying physical, chemical and biological interactions in the oceans.

Some subjects in this course are:-

• Physical habitat mapping 
• Caledonian/Variscan geology 
• Other geological topics 
• Marine geophysics 
• Land-based geophysics 
• Hydrogeology 
• Physical oceanography 
• Chemical oceanography
• 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