2 Dorothy Hodgkin Studentships jointly with BP
We invite applications from exceptionally able students from India, China, Hong Kong, Russia and the Developing World. Candidates must have a first class degree, preferably at the Masters level, in Geophysics or Geology, with a strong background in Mathematics/ Physics, or a first class degree, preferably at the Masters level in Mathematics or Physics.
The studentship will fund University and College fees and provide a maintenance grant of around £12,600 a year for 3 years.
Please send your CV, a statement of your research interests, your class of degree, and the names, addresses and e-mails of 3 referees to
Mrs.Gill Turner
Bullard Laboratories,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Madingley Road,
Cambridge CB3 0EZ, preferably by e-mail to: gt211@cam.ac. uk by Friday 28 March 2008.
See details of the scheme at http://www.rcuk. ac.uk/hodgkin/ default.htm
Also the Department and BPI websites:
http://www.esc. cam.ac.uk
http://www.bpi. cam.ac.uk
1. Modelling the use of phase change materials in buildings to develop low energy cooling.
Professor A.W. Woods BP Institute and Dr. J. Adams (BP)
The project will involve experimental and theoretical modeling of the use of phase change materials in low energy building design, especially in the context of using pcms with night cooling, to provide cooling during hot summer conditions. The project will involve development of mathematical models of the pre-cooling of air by heat exchange with the pcm's, combined with models of the nonlinear convective flow in the building which controls the flow rate; in addition, the modeling will account for the absorbtion of heat in the pcm's during the day, and the subsequent solidification as cooler air is brought into contact with them through the night.
2. Evolution of Conjugate Deep-Water Margins
Dr. N. J. White, Dr. A. Crosby, Dr. M. Thompson (BP ) and Dr. R. Corfield (BP )
Ocean basins form when continental lithosphere is stretched to infinity. During the early stages of this process, modest stretching generates an extensional sedimentary basin which evolves into a conjugate pair of more highly stretched margins. Structural and stratigraphic patterns of these margins yield important insights into
the dynamical evolution of lithospheric stretching and ocean basin formation. The most hotly debated issues concern the symmetry of this process, the form of depth dependent extension, and the possible existence of hot, cold and even warm margins.
Furthermore, the subsequent stratigraphic history of each margin is moderated in significant ways by tilting and vertical motions generated by mantle convection processes. Both topics are of considerable interest to the hydrocarbon industry.
In recent years, large amounts of industrial and academic deep seismic reflection and wideangle data, calibrated by boreholes, have been acquired across many conjugate margin systems throughout the Atlantic Ocean and, at present, within the Arctic Ocean.
During this project,a comprehensive seismic database will be developed, mapped and analyzed in conjunction with well-log information and other geophysical observations. Crustal and stratigraphic data will then be modelled using a suite of inverse algorithms which permit the strain rate history in time, distance and depth to be recovered. The main aims will be to explore how well simple models can account for a wide range of observations, to compare detailed rift architecture with predicted strain rate histories, and to constrain the history of subsequent tilting and vertical motions as conjugate margins spread apart.
We are especially interested in explaining lateral variations in thermal histories and in vertical motions maintained by mantle convection processes. An important component of the project will be analysis of newly acquired surveys from the Arctic Ocean.
This pro ject will appeal to geology and/or physics graduates who are interested in understanding how conjugate margins evolve and in how these margins record later vertical motions.
He/she will be trained in many aspects of seismic data manipulation, computer modelling and hydrocarbon exploration. The pro ject will be carried out in close collaboration with our colleagues in BP Exploration.
White, N., Thompson, M. & Barwise, T., 2003. Understanding the structural and thermal evolution of deep-water continental margins. Nature, 426, 334-343.
Jones, S.M., White, N.J., Faulkner, P., & Bellingham, P., 2004. Animated models of extensional basins and passive margins. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 5, 8, Q08009, doi:10.1029/ 2003GC000658.
Minshull, T. A., White, N. J., Edwards, R. A., Shillington, D. J., Scott, C. L., Demirer, A., Shaw-Champion, M., Jones, S. M., Erduran, M., Besevli, T., Cosku, G., Raven, K., Price, A. & Peterson, B., 2005. New seismic data reveal deep structure of Eastern Black Sea basin. Eos, 86, 43, 413-419.
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