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Students

We recruit 18+ students each year via our annual studentships competition.

See the students which make up each of our cohorts.

The 2014 cohort

2015 Cohort

Jacob Ainscough

From Arran to Arnavon: Dynamics of ecosystem service trade-offs and trajectories of environmental change of community based Marine Protected Areas
Dr. Meriwether Wilson ~ Dr. Jasper Kenter

s1555871@sms.ed.ac.uk

Gregory Albery

Inbreeding and parastie resistance
Professor Josephine Pemberton ~ Professor Loeske Kruuk

s1552388@sms.ed.ac.uk

Zachary M.D. Baynham-Herd

Resolving the conservationist?s dilemma: using game theory to develop stable collaborative conservation strategies
Dr. Aidan Keane ~ Dr. Mathew Bell ~ SR9, MB7

Vanessa C. Burton

Understanding the influences of land ownership on benefits from woodlands expansion
Dr. Marc Metzger ~ CB18 ~ DM7

Jessica Clark

Limits to adaptation: how pathogen resistance constrains reproduction and survival
Professor Tom Little

Benjamin A. Clarke

Understanding the nature of pyroclastic density current generation at Quaternary silicic volcanoes in the Main Ethiopian Rift
Dr. Eliza Calder ~ Professor David Pyle ~ Dr. Julia Crummy

s1562935@sms.ed.ac.uk

Eleri R. Clarke (Nee Simpson)

Squeezing the sponge: the role of serpentinites in subduction zones
Dr. Jan de Hoog ~ Dr. Geoffrey Bromiley ~ Dr. Linda Kirstein

s1562973@sms.ed.ac.uk

Roseanne Clement

Earthquake nucleation: small signals from Big Data
Professor Ian Main ~ Dr. Andrew Bell ~ Dr. Brian Baptie

Richard Delf

Characterisation of subglacial hydrology in Svalbard using ground-based radar
Dr. Robert Bingham ~ Dr. Antonis Giannopoulos (University of Edinburgh, Engineering) ~ Professor Andrew Curtis

R.Delf@ed.ac.uk

Ribanna Dittrich

The role of organic matter in the oceans around Antarctica
Dr. Sian Henley ~ Professor Raja Ganeshram ~ Dr. Gregory Cowie

s1142176@sms.ed.ac.uk

Andrew J. Dobrzanski

Evaluating the role of deformation on rare earth element mobility a case study from Norra Karr complex, Smaland, Sweden
Dr. Linda Kirstein ~ Dr. Ian Butler ~ Dr. Rachel Walcott

s1563349@sms.ed.ac.uk

Sarah Donoghue

PRELUDE: PREdictive modelling of Lead concentrations Using g-base Datasets for urban Environments
Dr. Margaret Graham ~ Dr. Neil Stuart ~ FF2, ML14

s0824765@sms.ed.ac.uk

Stacey M. Fairhurst

Oilseed rape and pollinators: the impact of variety on resource availability and pollination resilience
Dr. Gail Jackson ~ Dr. Andy Evans ( Scotland’s Rural ~ Dr Lorna Cole ( Scotland’s Rural

s1576575@sms.ed.ac.uk

Guillaume C.H. Goodwin

Coastal Sediment Supply and the Life and Death of Salt Marshes
Professor Simon Mudd ~ Professor Andrea D'Alpaos

s1563094@sms.ed.ac.uk

Andrew Griffiths

Understanding Climate Adaptation Along Tropical Altitudinal Gradients
Dr. Kyle Dexter ~ Professor Patrick Meir ~ YM1, MS19

s1576642@sms.ed.ac.uk

Anna Mackie

Interpreting Earths top-of-the-atmosphere broadband radiation fluxes using numerical models
Professor Paul Palmer ~ Helen Brindley (Imperial College London)

s0906805@sms.ed.ac.uk

Monika Mendelova

Investigating the timing, extent and significance of Quaternary glaciations in Patagonia
Dr. Andrew Hein ~ NRJH

s0948425@sms.ed.ac.uk

Elsa Panciroli

The origin and early evolution of mammals: study of an exceptional skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland
Dr. Stephen Brusatte ~ Dr. Nicholas Fraser ~ Dr. Stig Walsh

Elsa.Panciroli@ed.ac.uk

Lauren R. Shotter

Environmental impacts of the Hekla 3 and Hekla 4 eruptions in Iceland
Dr. Anthony Newton ~ Professor Andrew Dugmore ~ JS12

Lauren.Shotter@ed.ac.uk

Jonathon Siva-Jothy

Two projects: Generating super-spreaders & The Evolutionary Ecology of behaviour during infection
Pedro Vale ~ Professor Tom Little

s1115177@sms.ed.ac.uk

Ashley Smith

Separating magnetic field sources using the Swarm satellite constellation
Professor Kathryn Whaler ~ Dr Ciaran Beggan (BGS) ~ DR Susan MacMillan (BGS)

s1556306@sms.ed.ac.uk