Winners of the 2010 Research Grants
The Society has made the following research grants in 2010. The Research Grants Committee, which met on 2 March 2010, was very pleased with the increase in applications, and in the high standard that was maintained. The successful applicants were as follows. Some are the subject of applications to various bodies for joint funding and the Society is very grateful for the contributions made by the Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust and Novas Consulting.
| Applicant | Affiliation | Title of Programme | Fund | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARGLES, Thomas | Open University | Resolving the kinematics and context of critical tectonic contacts in the eastern Himalaya | Mike Coward | £1479 |
| BOULTON, Sarah Jean | Plymouth | Evaluating Holocene tsunamis incidence along the Libyan coast | Edmund Johnson Garwood | £650 |
| BRAY, Andrew William | Leeds | The role of CO2 concentration on abiotic and biotic dissolution rates of biotite | William George Fearnsides | £1500 |
| BURDETT, Heidi | Glasgow | The Impact of Global Warming on Local Climate Regimes in Eastern Canada | Joseph Burr Tyrell | £1000 |
| ENEA, Cornelia Florentina | Portsmouth | The Onset of Modern Plate Tectonics | Mike Coward | £1325 |
| GERNON, Dr Thomas Michael | Southampton | The impact of early Cenozoic shallow marine hyaloclastite volcanism on global climate | Distinguished Geologists Memorial | £780 |
| HUGHES, Anna | Swansea | Reconstructing the retreat and thinning rates of two glaciers of the SE Greenland Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum | William George Fearnsides | £700 |
| IVANOVIC, Ruza Francesca | Bristol | Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange during the Messinian Salinity Crisis | Daniel Pidgeon | £745 |
| JAN, Irfan U | Leicester | Investigating the palaeoenvironments of the Palaeotethyan Permo-Carboniferous: The boulder beds of the Salt and Khisor Ranges, Pakistan | Edmund Johnson Garwood | £1140 |
| JORDAN, Nina | Leicester | Eruptive History of a peralkaline caldera volcano: Pantelleria, Italy | Timothy Jefferson Field | £1000 |
| MATHER, Kathleen | Durham | Evolution and diamond potential of the lithospheric mantle beneath the NE Slave craton – How did the earliest craton evolve? | Joseph Burr Tyrell | £1017 |
| MATTHEWS, Jack | Oxford | Understanding the Biostratigraphy and Sedimontology of the Edicaran roks of Ferryland Head, Newfoundland | Novas Consulting | £1160 |
| OWEN, Sarah | Leicester | Geological origins of sugar loaf peaks in eastern brazil and their environmental importance as refugia for Atlantic rain forest preservation. | Timothy Jefferson Field (£200) & Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust (£1000) | £1200 |
| SEYFULLAH, Leyla | Birmingham | Exceptionally preserved fossil plants from Chemnitz, Germany | Edmund Johnson Garwood | £990 |
| TARFF, Robert | Birkbeck | An investigation into phreatomagnetic Surge, Lahar and Ignimbrite deposits on Oceanic Islands | Annie Greenly | £1200 |
| VERNON, Rowan | Cardiff | The age, geological character and structural setting of quartz-pyrite veins in the Assynt Terrance, Lewisian Compex, NW Scotland | Annie Greenly | £600 |