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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. Thomas Molony (UOE African Studies )

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

s1030884@sms.ed.ac.uk

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. Ian Butler ~ Dr. Linda Kirstein ~ Professor Bryne Ngwenya

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 (SRUC) ~ Dr. Lorna Cole (SRUC)

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 ~ Dr. Daniel Goldberg

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