Postgraduate supervision
Mike is an established research supervisor (10 PhD students and c. 10 MSc, MRes students since 2000). These projects have resulted in >50 joint authored peer-reviewed publications. Enquiries and applications are welcomed in the following research areas:
1) All areas of volcanology, in particular those related to the study of large igneous provinces, and associate environmental and/or biotic change.
2) Geochemical and isotopic studies of deep weathering, in particular linkages between their development to environmental change
Themes for past, present and future PhD studies include:
Volcanology:
Flood basalt volcanism
Environmental effects of volcanic eruptions
Interrogating the sedimentary record for LIP events
Chemical memory of LIP eruptions
Ancient Icelandic eruptions
Deep weathering processes:
Laterites and lateritization processes
Behaviour of isotopic systems during deep weathering
Evaluating weathering profiles as a paleoenvironmental proxy environment
PhD supervisions (Post 2000):
2019 - Current: Karen Nicholson (University of Hull)
Funded: Internal Scholarship/self-funded.
Volcanic Evolution at the Shatsky Rise LIP, NW Pacific Ocean
With: Prof. M. Elliott (University of Hull)
2013-2018: Luke Faggetter (University of Leeds)
Funded: NERC
The First Mass Extinction: interrogating the volcano sedimentary record of the Kalkarindji Flood Basalts, Australia.
With: Prof. P. Wignall and Dr R. Newton (University of Leeds).
2014-2018: Jonathan Moles (Open University)
Funded: NERC
Evolution of Tindfjallajökull volcano, Iceland.
With: Dr D. McGarvie, Dr Sarah Sherlock (Open University) and Dr J. Stephenson (University of Edinburgh/BGS).
2013-2017: Peter Nicholls (Open University)
Funded: NERC
Explosive eruptions from Iceland's largest volcanoes.
With: Dr D. McGarvie (Open University) and Dr J. Stephenson (University of Edinburgh/BGS).
2006-2016: Christopher Hibbert (Birkbeck College, University of London; Part-time)
Funded: Internal Scholarship/self-funded.
Chemical variation in riverine fluxes, Goa, Western India: monitoring continental weathering in a monsoonal climate.
With: Prof. K. Hudson-Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London).
2011-2015: Peter Marshall (Open University)
Funded: Proto Resources and Open University.
Volcanic architecture and prospectivity of the Central Kalkarindgi flood basalt province, Australia.
With: Prof. S.P. Kelley (Open University) and Dr D. Murphy (QUT, Australia)
2005-2009: Charlotte Vye (Open University)
Funded: (Open University - Research Development Fund).
Flow-field formation and compositional variation during flood basalt forming eruptions.
With: Prof. K.W. Burton and Prof. S. Self (Open University)
2003-2006: Daniel Campanile (University of Glasgow)
Funded: NERC
Determining the post-break-up evolution of high elevation passive margins.
With: Prof. P. Bishop (Glasgow University) and Dr F. Stuart (SUERCC, Glasgow)
2002-2005: Charlotte Pearce.
Funded: (Open University - Research Development Fund).
Molecular fossils at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary: ‘meteorite impact’ versus ‘volcanically-driven’ environmental crises.
With: Prof. I. Gilmour and Dr M. Sephton (Open University)