Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry Group

This page itemises the higher degrees (PhD, MPhil and MSc) obtained by students working in the Group. The links below lead to the abstract of the thesis and possibly other information.

2016

• Lukas Smik
  Development of biomarker-based proxies for paleo sea-ice reconstructions
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2015

• Michael J. Wilde
  On the bicyclic acids of petroleum
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2014

• Charlotte Cree
  Distributions of glycine betaine and the methylamines in coastal waters: Analytical developments and a seasonal study
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• Alba Navarro Rodríguez
  Reconstruction of recent and palaeo sea ice conditions in the Barrents Sea
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2013

• Charlotte Alexander
  Regional variation in marine mammal diet determined using highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) diatom biomarkers
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• Patricia Cabedo Sanz
  Identification of variability in sub-Arctic sea ice conditions during the Younger Dryas and Holocene
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• David Jones
  Synthesis, fractionation, characterisation and toxicity of naphthenic acids from complex mixtures
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• Ashleigh Ringrose
  Temporal and vertical distributions of IP₂₅ and other lipid biomarkers in sea ice from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada
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2011

• Thomas A. Brown
  Production and preservation of the Arctic sea ice diatom biomarker IP₂₅
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2008

• Max Frenzel
  Persistence, bioremediation and fate of unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of hydrocarbons in the environment
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2007

• Clare H. Redshaw
  The transport and fate of fluoxetine hydrochloride, diazepam and their human metabolites in sewage sludge-amended soil
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• Alan G. Scarlett
  Effect-directed analysis of toxicants in unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of hydrocarbons from biodegraded crude oils
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• Charles E. West
  The photooxidation of diazepam and its human metabolites in water
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2006

• Phillippa K. Curtis-Jackson
  Characterisation of algal derived organic nitrogen
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• Benjamin E. Smith
  Naphthenic acids: Synthesis, characterisation and factors influencing environmental fate
  [Abstract]
  
  

2004

• Andrew M. Booth
  Biodegradation, water solubility and characterisation studies of unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of aromatic hydrocarbons
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2003

• Guillaume G. Massé
  Highly branched isoprenoid alkenes from diatoms: A biosynthetic and life cycle investigation
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• Paul J. McCormack
  The characterization of oilfield chemicals by electrospray ionization multi-stage mass spectrometry (ESI-MSⁿ)
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2002

• W. Guy Allard
  Sources and structures of commonly occurring highly branched isoprenoid alkenes
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• Emma L. Smith
  Unresolved complex mixtures of aromatic hydrocarbons in the marine environment: Toxicity, solubility and photodegradation
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2001

• Malcolm J. Hetheridge
  An evaluation of the environmental fate of reactive dyes
  [Abstract]
  
  
• Helen F. Sturt
  Molecular characterisation of fluidised catalytic cracker feedstocks using ruthenium tetroxide oxidation: A study of model hydrocarbons
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2000

• Timothy W. Fileman
  The transport and fate of organic contaminants in estuarine and coastal systems
  [Abstract]
  
  
• Paul A. Sutton
  The quantitative isolation of 'insoluble organic matter' (IOM) from sediments and bacteria, and its attempted dissolution using the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride-aluminium (III) chloride
  [abstract]
  
  

1999

• Lesley A. Johns
  Structural characterisation and the diagenetic pathways of C₂₅ highly branched isoprenoid hydrocarbons
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• Stewart J. Niven
  The origins and occurrence of estrogenic A-ring aromatic steroids in U.K. sewage treatment works effluents
  [abstract]
  
  
• Andrew O. Tyler
  The distribution and reactivity of organochlorines in estuaries
  [abstract]
  
  

1998

• Michael C. Cooper
  Laminated sediments of Loch Ness, Scotland: Indicators of Holocene environmental change
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1997

• Emma J. Wraige
  Studies of the synthesis, environmental occurrence and toxicity of unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of hydrocarbons
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1995

• David A. Cooke
  Structural characterisation of highly branched isoprenoid alkenes from sediment and algae
  [Abstract]
  
  
• David J. Heath
  Characterisation of waxy gas-condensates by high temperature capillary gas chromatography and oxidative degradation
  [Abstract]
  
  
• K.V. Thomas
  Characterisation and environmental effects of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons
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1994

• Lulwa N. Ali
  The dissolution and photodegradation of Kuwait crude oil in seawater
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• Warren G. Pretorius
  Development of improved methods for the analysis of metalloporphyrins in coals, sediments and oils
  [Abstract]
  
  

1993

• Alexander W. Kim
  Construction and validation of a GC-ICP-MS instrument for the analysis of organometals and other trace element species
  [Abstract]
  
  

1992

• Simon J. Hird
  Origins and short-term sedimentary fate of globally distributed biological marker hydrocarbons
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• Andrew T. Revill
  Characterisation of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons by degradative methods
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1989

• Mark A. Gough
  Characterisation of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons
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1987

• John N. Robson
  Synthetic and biodegradation studies of some sedimentary isoprenoid hydrocarbons
  [Abstract]
  
  

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