Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Students and Postdocs
My aim is to develop a small team of students and postdocs working especially on research areas to do with the geochemical record of the early evolution of life and bioremediation in cold climates.
Link to New PhD projects available
Link to Potential Honours Projects
Link to Five reasons to come to Macquarie University in Sydney to do research
 | P. Sargent Bray (Molecular fossils and biogeochemistry of saline Lake Tyrrell). Co-supervised by Jochen Brocks at ANU |
 | Ellen Woolfenden (Rates of depletion of lubricant and fuel contaminants during natural attenuation from Antarctic marine environments, and ecosystem response to exposure to complex mixtures) Co-supervised by Chris McRae (CBMS) and Ian Snape (AAD) |
 | Guoyan Mu (Molecular organic geochemistry of the Proterozoic, Yanshan, North China) Co-tutelle student with Prof Ningning Zhong at China University of Petroleum Beijing |
| Soumaya Abbassi (Mass balancing of generation and escape of methane on the North West Shelf of Australia in the Cenozoic). Co-supervised by Herbert Volk (CSIRO) and Brian Horsfield (Potsdam) |
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Jennifer Van Holst (Understanding microbial gasification of coal: A study of the stable isotope composition of microbial gas generation). Part-time, at CSIRO. Co-supervised by Linda Stalker (CSIRO), David Midgley (CSIRO) and Michael Gillings |
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Jessica Coffey (The palaeontology and palaeoecology of the 2.7 Ga Tumbiana Formation, Fortescue Group, WA) Now based at University of New South Wales, supervised by Prof Malcolm Walter) |
Current Honours students:
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Max Easton (Long-term Degradation of Lubricant Oil in Antarctic Sediments). |
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Danielle Mitchell (Organic geochemistry of high latitude early Permian sediments exposed on the south coast of NSW) |