Studentships 2006
3-year Natural History Museum-funded PhD studentship
Available commencing October 2006 (negotiable), for one of the following projects:
- Belizean Rain Forest Diversity and Dynamics
with Samuel Bridgewater (Natural History Museum) and Toby Pennington (University of Edinburgh) - A Functional Comparison of Earthworms and Termites as Ecosystem Engineers
with Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum) and Rod Blackshaw (University of Plymouth) - Interrelationships of Free-Living Flatworms Estimates using Mitogenomics
with Tim Littlewood (Natural History Museum) and Max Telford (University College of London) - The Geology of the Moon; Geochemistry and Petrology of Lunar Basalts
with Sara Russell (Natural History Museum) and Mahesh Anand (Open University) - Efficient Phylogenetic Inference and Caecilian Evolution
with Mark Wilkinson (Natural History Museum) , David Gower (Natural History Museum) and Andy Purvis (Imperial College, London)
Minimum 2i (Hons.) required. Informal enquires should be addressed to the relevant supervisors. Full applications comprising a full academic CV and covering letter should be sent to the relevant supervisor no later than Friday 17 March 2006.
3- year externally funded-PhD studentships
Available commencing October 2006 (negotiable), for the following projects:
- Biomechanics of Sauropod Dinosaur Skulls - Studied Using Finite Element Analysis
with Paul Barrett (p.barrett@nhm.ac.uk), Larry M Witmer (University of Ohio), Paul Upchurch (University College London) and Emily Rayfield (University of Bristol). NERC CASE. - Micropalaeontology of the Setul Limestone (Ordovician-Devonian), Langkawi, Malaysia: Biostratigraphic and Palaeobiogeographic Constraints on the Palaeozoic Eevolution of the Sibumasu Terrain
with Giles Miller (g.miller@nhm.ac.uk), Ivan Sansom (University of Birmingham) and Lee Chai Peng (University of Malaya). NERC CASE. - More information on the University of Birmingham website
- Phylogeography of the European Schizoporellidae: A Combined Morphological, Molecular and Ppalaeontological Approach in an Important Family of Biofouling Bryozoans
with Paul Taylor (p.taylor@nhm.ac.uk) and Joanne Porter (University of Wales, Aberystwyth). NERC CASE. - Corals and climate change in the Cenozoic; a case study based on the staghorn coral Acropora
with Brian Rosen (b.rosen@nhm.ac.uk), Prof Dan Bosence (RHUL), & Carden Wallace (Museum of Tropical Queensland). - More information on the Royal Holloway, University of London website.
Informal enquires and full applications comprising a full academic CVs and covering letter should be addressed to the relevant supervisor. Minimum 2i (Hons) required.