PhD Students from Earth and Planetary Sciences report presentation and publication success
Three of our PhD students tell us about their recent successes with research presentations and papers.
PhD students in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences have been sharing their recent successes.
At the end of June, Louise Alexander won the best student presentation at a research meeting for the Centre for Planetary Sciences. Her talk, based on her PhD research, looked at basaltic diversity at the Apollo 12 site and how this can be examined through major, minor and trace element analyses of mineral phases.
Pari White has had a paper published, in collaboration with researchers at Birkbeck and UCL, in the Journal of Roman Archaeology entitled: The geological provenance of coloured carbonate mosaic materials used at Fishbourne.
Her postgraduate research concerns the stone mosaic materials from the palatial Roman villa at Fishbourne, West Sussex (late 1st to late 3rd c. A.D). Unlike the prevalent art historical approaches to mosaics, her research combines geological and archaeological methodologies to shed light not only on Fishbourne and its owner/s but also the exploitation of natural resources, trade routes and mosaic production in Britain, and our understanding of Roman mosaics in general.
Robert Tarff has had his paper, Chilled margin fragmentation as a trigger for transition from Strombolian to phreatomagmatic explosive activity at Cova de Paul Crater, Santo Antao, Cape Verde Islands, published in Bulletin of Volcanology 75(7): 1-14.
Find out more about our PhD researchers and their projects here.