The Department of Geology is offering five fully funded studentships.

Successful candidates will work within a thriving postgraduate community and in collaboration with international research scientists from leading companies and academic organisations. The department's vibrant atmosphere reflects our commitment to world class research and teaching.

• Ash dispersal from ignimbrite-forming super-eruptions in the central Snake River Plain, Yellowstone hot-spot, USA
• Electrical resistivity measurements in coal: assessment of coal-bed methane content, reserves and coal permeability
• Magmatic, structural and tectonic controls on Cu-Au mineralization in the Solomon Islands arc, SW Pacific
• Petroacoustic modelling of heterogeneous sandstone reservoirs
• Primary biological controls on UK lower Namurian shale gas prospectivity: understanding a major potential UK unconventional gas resource

For further details and to apply http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geology/postgraduate-study/ffphdtopics2009