Past PhD & MScR students:

Miss Amy Le – 2021–2022, MScR thesis title: Quantifying microplastic contamination in the Río Bermejo (Argentina) compared to the River Wear (UK). [supervised by Dr Darren R. Gröcke]

Mr Chung Yin Leung – 2021–2022, MScR thesis title: Macroalgae nitrogen isoscape maps of island environments: assessing nitrogen pollution against social and agricultural activities. [supervised by Dr Darren R. Gröcke]

Miss Amy McGuinness – 2021–2022, MSci thesis title: Microplastic concentrations in north-east England rivers. [supervised by Dr Darren R. Gröcke]

Miss Sarah O'Donnell – 2021–2022, MSci thesis title: Stable isotope analysis of grey seal vibrissae from the south coast of England. [supervised by Dr Darren R. Gröcke]

Miss Jennifer Talbot – 2021–2022, MScR thesis title: Quantifying microplastic contamination in rivers and coastal waters from the Durham Heritage Coast. [supervised by Dr Darren R. Gröcke]

Mr Adam Khan – 2020–2021, MSci project title: Understanding woolly mammoth and African elephant ecology through isotope analysis.

Mr Jack Silver – 2020–2021, MSci project title: Rainfall isotope records in Durham — is there a link with NAO?

Miss Hoi Dik Rosalie Ashleigh Cheung – 2019–2020, MScR project title: Carbon and sulphur isotopes in marine evaporites from the late Permian to Late Triassic, Yorkshire, UK.

Dr Munira Raji – 2014–2018, PhD thesis title: Offshore unconventional petroleum reserves in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, North Sea, UK. [with Prof H. Chris Greenwell]

Miss Tara Love – 2017–2018, MScR project title: Relating shale mineralogy and microstructure to swelling activity [with Prof H. Chris Greenwell]

Miss Blanca Racionero-Gómez – 2015–2017, MScR thesis title: Rhenium, osmium and nitrogen uptake in Phaephyceae macroalgae, Fucus vesiculosus. [with Prof H. Chris Greenwell, Durham University]

Miss Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir (now Dr) – 2015–2016, MScR thesis title: An Archaeobotanic and Isotopic Analysis of Fruit Remains from 17th and 18th Century Contexts at the Bishopric of Skálholt, South Iceland. [with Dr Mike Church, Durham University]

Dr Leo Newport – 2013–2016: Geochemical and lithological controls on a potential shale reservoir: Carboniferous Holywell Shale, Wales. [with Prof H. Chris Greenwell, Durham University]

Dr Alice Du Vivier – 2010–2014: Global evaluation of Os and Ca marine isotope stratigraphy and U-Pb geochronology of the OAE 2. [with Prof Dave Selby, Durham]

Dr Andrew H. Caruthers – 2009–2013: Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extinction in western North America. [with Prof Paul L. Smith, University of British Columbia, Canada]

Mr Peter J. van Hengstum (now Dr) – 2006–2008: Thecamoebians as proxies for paleoenvironmental analysis: modern cave and deep-time examples. [with Prof Ed Reinhardt, McMaster University]

Mr Andrew W. Kingston (now Dr) – 2005–2007: Investigating marine resource strategies of the Heiltsuk Nation, Namu, on the coast of British Columbia.

Miss Michele Asgar-Deen – 2003–2005: Cretaceous shales of the Western Canada sedimentary basin. [with Prof Claudia Schroder-Adams, Carleton University, Canada]

Miss Alison Cohen – 2003–2005: Biomarker analysis of high-productivity oceans in the geologic record. [with Prof Roger Summons, MIT]

Past undergraduate students (incl. MSci):

Mr Justin Wan – 2020, project title: Using spatial analysis of stable nitrogen isotopes in macroalgae to trace anthropogenic input around Scotland.

Miss Rhiannon Marchi-Smith – 2018, project title: Sulphur Isotopes in Stratigraphy Across the Triassic/Jurassic Boundary.

Miss Jenny Wilcox – 2017, summer intern project title: Stable isotope fingerprinting of edible oils and biofuels.

Miss Tara Love (now Dr) – 2017, project title: Nitrogen isotope stratigraphy across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary.

Mr James Marschalek – 2016, project title: Using δ15N in Fucus vesiculosus to determine the cause of macroalgal blooms on Seal Sands.

Miss Julia Windeler – 2016, project title: Carbon storage and water-use efficiency in tree rings from Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

Miss Rosemary Knight – 2016, project title: Carbon isotope ratios of maritime pine tree rings along a salinity gradient.

Miss Stefania Boughey – 2015, project title: A study of the geochemistry of the marine successions at Bowlees Quarry, Teesdale: palaeoenvironment implications.

Miss Naomi Pratt (now Dr) – 2015, project title: Submerged forests and tree-ring stable isotopes: A preliminary investigation.

Mr Chris Dalby (now Dr) – 2015, project title: Intra-bed and inter-bed isotopic variation of the Whitby Mudstone Formation, Port Mulgrave.

Miss Marianne Brett (now Dr) – 2012, project title: Environmental controls on stable isotope ratios in New Zealand Podocarpaceae: implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction.

Mr Ben Flint – 2012, project title: Hydrological and vegetation isoscapes of the Lake District, UK.

Mr James France – 2012, project title: A dendrochronology/dendroclimatology study of Fagus sylvatica L. from Bickerton, Northumberland, UK.

Miss Keara Masrani – 2012, project title: Characterising the carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of vegetation in the UK.

Miss Emma-Kate Prout – 2012, project title: Within- and between-ear isotopic variation in modern cereal grains.

Mr James Spray (now Dr) – 2012, project title: Investigation into the suitability of oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes in single malt whisky as geographical tracers.

Miss Rachael Wellfare – 2012, project title: The effect of ironstone pollution on nutrient transport at Saltburn-by-the-Sea.

Mr Ben Andrew – 2011, project title: Water quality and pollution in Kosovo.

Miss Rebecca Collingwood – 2011, project title: The palaeogeographic distribution of gingko plants over the past 200 million years.

Miss Beth Emberton – 2011, project title: The altitudinal effect on stable isotope ratios in modern plant leaves. 

Miss Rhiannon Griffin – 2011, project title: Geochemical analysis of a sediment core from Oxbow Lake, County Durham, UK.

Miss Emily Hawkes (now Dr) – 2011, project title: Isotopic shifts associated with leaf senescence. currently doing a PhD in plant genetics at John Innes Centre, UK.

Mr David Munroe – 2011, project title: Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic changes during the distillation of whiskey.

Miss Yanning Rao – 2011, project title: An altitudinal carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of leaves, wood and soil from Peru.

Miss Alice Du Vivier (now Dr) – 2010, project title: Osmium and carbon isotope stratigraphy across the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary.

Miss Siobhan Moran – 2010, project title: A detailed analysis of stable carbon isotope ratio distribution in leaves. 

Miss Taryn Gray – 2008, project title: Examination of the mid-Cretaceous terrestrial carbon-isotope record (Moose River, Ontario) and Oceanic Anoxic Event 1d.

Miss Tatiana Lee – 2007, project title: LA-ICP-MS analysis of Wilson Bands in archaeological Roman teeth. 

Miss Amy Reynolds – 2007, project title: Carbon isotope intraleaf variation in modern and fossil leaves.

Miss Jessica Wierdsma – 2007, project title: Stable-isotope analysis of plants from sloth faeces over the last 40,000 years.

Mr Andrew Kingston (now Dr)– 2004, project title: Late Ordovician climates and isotopes in trilobite skeletons from the Utica Basin.

Miss Kirsty Edgar (now Dr) – 2003, project title: Stable isotopes in modern European beetles.

Mr James Hunt (now Dr) – 2003, project title: Trace-element geochemistry of the mid-Cretaceous Greensand Formation, Isle of Wight, England.

Miss Elisabeth Macdonald – 2003, project title: Mid-Cretaceous foraminifera stable isotopes.

Mr David James – 2002, project title: Cyclostratigraphy in the mid-Cretaceous.

Mr Matthew Tritton – 2002, project title: Late Jurassic carbon-isotope stratigraphy.

Mr Dave Kemp (now Dr) – 2001, project title: Nonlinear dynamical analysis of sedimentary time series.