Investigative Team
Dr Mel Murphy
Postdoctoral Researcher
My research focuses on examining the interplay between terrestrial weathering processes and (i) ocean oxygenation and redox chemistry (ii) atmospheric CO2, and ultimately (iii) the Earth’s climate system over modern and geological timescales. In particular, I am interested in silicate, carbonate and sulfide mineral weathering at high-latitude glaciated and permafrost-dominated Arctic regions.
To do this, I apply non-traditional isotopic, elemental and mineralogical tools to better understand geochemical cycling in riverine/estuarine and marine environments
David Wilson
Postdoctoral Researcher
As a geologist and earth scientist, my research uses isotopic and geochemical measurements to investigate past changes in ocean chemistry, ocean circulation, continental weathering, and polar ice sheets, and how these interacted with Earth’s climate evolution. Evidence from such paleoclimate studies provides an invaluable context for understanding the present and future climate system
Fuencisla Canadas
PhD Researcher
Paleoceanographic context of organic matter deposition on the Yangtze Craton, South China during the Ediacaran Period
Fieke Mulder
PhD Researcher
Elucidating mineral dissolution and precipitation mechanisms.
Project Description
My thesis will focus on the mechanisms by which minerals dissolve and precipitate as a function of the system’s distance from equilibrium. To formulate a general law by which dissolution and precipitation reaction mechanisms and rates behave at near to equilibrium conditions, two completely different minerals will be precipitated and dissolved in the lab: sepiolite, a Mg-silicate, and siderite, an Fe-carbonate.
Lisa Friberg
MSCI
Joe Sumesar-Rai
PhD Researcher
Lara Cosford
MSCi
Chloe Tooley
Masters
“Enhanced weathering CO2 sequestration experiments at 4°C”
Lisa Friberg
MSCI
Past Members
Pingqi Yu
Masters
Ollie Short
Masters
Tyrone Holmes
MSc Researcher