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Geochemistry PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
We have 51 Geochemistry PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
Iron oxyhydroxide nanoparticle crystallisation and transformation during radioactive effluent treatment: Application to the Enhanced Actinide Removal Plant
Saturn_Nuclear_CDT. The treatment of radioactive effluents is a key process in the decommissioning of nuclear sites in the UK and worldwide. Read more
An embarrassment of riches: reconciling our solar system’s platinum problem
Project Background. The Earth and Mars have too much platinum. This is also true of the rest of the platinum group elements (PGEs), osmium, iridium, ruthenium, rhodium and palladium, all of which are highly-siderophile elements (HSEs) that strongly partition into the metallic cores of planets during differentiation. Read more
PhD Studentship: GREEN: Growing Rare Earth Elements in the Northeast
Award summary . 100% fees covered for four years and a minimum tax-free annual living allowance of £19,237 (2024/25 UKRI rate). Read more
Benchmarking major element isotopic compositions of chondritic meteorites
Project Background. Primitive, so-called chondritic, meteorites provide a key, compositional estimate of the proto solar nebula. Planets, that grew from this nebular disk, are expected to inherit its bulk composition and so any observed differences might be attributed to processes involved during their growth (e.g. Read more
STFC studentship - Impact melting and reprocessing of mafic planetary crusts
Applications are invited for a fully-funded three and a half year PhD to commence in October 2025. . Read more
PhD in Geographical and Earth Sciences - Paired meteorites: identical or nonidentical twins
Start Date. 01 October 2025. Aim: . The fundamental assumption underpinning the field of meteoritics is that all extraterrestrial rocks that are found in the same strewn field in the aftermath of a meteorite dropping fireball event are identical to each other. Read more
PhD in Geographical and Earth Sciences - Meteorite impact mass extinctions: Alkali feldspars as a record of impact energy, and an agent of environmental change
Start Date. 01 October 2025. Background and aims. The impact of a ~12 km diameter asteroid sixty-six million years ago caused one of the most devastating mass extinctions in Earth history. Read more
PhD in Geographical and Earth Sciences - The geological evolution of C-complex asteroids and their role in the origins of life on Earth
Start date. 01 October 2025. This project asks whether the terrestrial planets including Earth were made habitable by carbonaceous chondrite meteorites delivering bio-essential ingredients including water, organic compounds, nitrogen and phosphorus. . Read more
Autogenous diagenesis of limestone waste (FES-PhD-2425-01)
Diagenesis refers to the physical, chemical and biological processes that ‘turn’ sediments into rock (1,2). As sediments become buried by natural processes, they are subject to overburden pressure and raised temperatures, albeit lower than those that cause metamorphism (2,3). Read more
Tracking ocean circulation in the Cretaceous ‘Chalk Sea’
Ocean circulation is a fundamental component of the modern climate system but may have operated very differently in the geological past, especially when palaeogeography was different, climates were much warmer and sea-levels were considerably higher. Read more
Towards a holistic understanding of carbonate mineralisation controls
Calcium-carbonates (CaCO. 3. ) are climate-controlling minerals, acting as long-term sinks in the biogeochemical carbon cycle, and playing the role of stable carbon stores in many carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies. Read more
The impact of ocean warming on nutrient and carbon acquisition of marine plankton
In the evolution of complex life, the uptake of and development of the primary endosymbiotic plastid by the ancestral heterotroph represents a singularity i.e. Read more
The gas geochemistry of hydrothermal resources in the Eastern Caribbean
Volcanoes provide the heat and fluids that drive active geothermal systems, and their hydrothermal features. Read more
River methane leaks: novel methods to quantify and fingerprint river methane emissions
Methane (CH. 4. ) is a potent greenhouse gas whose concentration is increasing in the atmosphere. Aquatic systems are known to be important sources of CH. Read more
Retreating glaciers and carbon-cycle feedbacks
Ongoing climate change is causing profound change to the cryosphere. In particular, rising temperatures and changing ice-melt and precipitation patterns drive glacier retreat, exposing new land surfaces to the atmosphere and changing the pathways and residence times of water beneath glacial systems (Moon et al., 2018). Read more