Browse theses by postgraduate research students from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
FLOW INJECTION INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE IN SITU MONITORING OF NUTRIENTS IN SEA WATER, Anthony R. J . David
Holocene palaeohydrology from testate amoebae analysis: developing a model for British peatlands, Wendy Ann Woodland
Human-environmental relations on Bodmin Moor during the Holocene, Benjamin Richard Gearey
INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING AND REVITALISATION IN THE UK COASTAL ZONE, SARAH JANE HARCOMBE
Interfacing High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Speciation Studies, Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
Investigation and computer modelling of the pore structure of paper and of consolidated pigment coatings, John Kettle
INVESTIGATION OF CHELATING DYE IMPREGNATED RESINS FOR THE SELECTIVE ADSORPTION AND SEPARATION OF TRACE METALS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS, Richard Matthew Charles Sutton
Slurry, Solution and Speciation Analysis By Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry, KAREN LORRAINE O'HANLON
SOCIAL HOUSING IN WATERFRONT REGENERATION: A CRITICAL EVALUATION, IMELDA ISABELLA GIARCHI
Socioeconomic processes of land degradation in Guadalajara province (Spain), Jose Domingo Garcia Perez
SOME MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF BORE CORE SEDIMENTS, HUAJUN SHI
THE AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY OF HAY MEADOWS WITHlN THE SOMERSET LEVELS AND MOORS ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA, FRANCIS WILLIAM KIRKHAM
THE EFFECTS OF WHOLE TREE HARVESTING ON SITE HYDROLOGY AND SOIL STRUCTURE AT BEDDGELERT FOREST, N. WALES, UK, JULIA ELIZABETH HODGKINS
The Fate of Naphthalene and n-Alkylnaphthalenes During Combustion, and an Evaluation of the Sources of these Compounds in Diesel Exhaust Emissions, Robin Douglas Pemberton
The Middle to Late Cretaceous microbiostratigraphy (foraminifera) and lithostratigraphy of the Cauvery Basin, Southeast India, Archana Tewari
THE SPATIAL CHARACTERISATION OF TRANSITIONAL AREAS BETWEEN PLANT COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY FROM UPLAND BRITAIN, WENDY JANE GILL
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
AN EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR SHALLOW EUTROPHICATED LAKES AND RESERVOIRS, HELEN M. WILSON
AN INVESTIGATION OF SOIL WATER MOVEMENT ON DRAINED AND UNDRAINED CLAY GRASSLAND IN SOUTH WEST ENGLAND, PAULA JANE ADDISON
Characterisation and environmental effects of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons, Kevin Victor Thomas
Characterisation of waxy gas-condensates by high temperature capillary gas chromatography and oxidative degradation, David John Heath
Ecological Management Strategies for Impounded Harbours, Jim Smith
HlGH RESOLUTION PALAEOMAGNETIC ANALYSES OF CRETACEOUS SHALLOW WATER CARBONATES, Marina lorio
INVESTIGATIONS OF PREFERENTIAL AND MATRIX FLOW IN A MOLE DRAINED SOIL BLOCK, LYNDA KAREN DEEKS
MODELLING PORE-LEVEL PROPERTIES OF POROUS MATERIALS, CATHERINE JEAN RIDGWAY
ON-LINE SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED SAMPLE INTRODUCTION IN ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, LESLIE JOHN PITTS
Profiling the Organic Emissions from a Light-Duty Direct Injection Diesel Engine over a range of Speeds and Loads, Anthony Richard Collier
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF HIGHLY BRANCHED ISOPRENOID ALKENES FROM SEDIMENTS AND ALGAE, DAVID ALAN COOKE
STUDY OF TRACE ELEMENT DETERMINATION BY ION CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH CHEMILUMINESCENCE DETECTION, HUGH GRAHAM BEERE
THE DETERMINATION OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE IN SEA WATER USING FLOW INJECTION WITH CHEMILUMINESCENCE DETECTION, David Price
THE EFFECT OF SYNOPTIC SCALE WEATHER AND TOPOGRAPHY ON ROAD SURFACE TEMPERATURES IN DEVON, PETER JAMES MCLEAN
The Microbiostratigraphy of the Paiaeocene of the Northwest European Continental Shelf, Michael Dominick Bidgood
The Origin of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Diesel Exhaust Emissions, Paul James Tancell
THE REACTIVITY OF SOME TRANSITION METAL NITRIDES AND CARBIDES, Jeremy Clark
THE SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION OF THE 'EXMOOR BASIN' DURING THE LATE EMSIAN - EARLY EIFELIAN: THE LYNTON FORMATION, CHRISTOPHER JOHN POUND
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
AN INVESTIGATION OF SEISMIC ATTENUATION IN MARINE SEDIMENTS, RODERICK DAVID EDDIES
BRACKEN (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) STAND CHARACTERISATION ON THE NORTH YORK MOORS: A STUDY OF THE RHIZOME AND FROND SYSTEM WITH REGARD TO A LARGE SCALE CONTROL PROGRAMME, STEPHEN MARK HOLLOWAY
DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF METALLOPORPHYRINS IN COALS, SEDIMENTS AND OILS, WARREN GAVIN PRETORIUS
INVESTIGATION OF CHELATING DYE IMPREGNATED RESINS FOR THE ION CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF TRACE METALS, Brett Paull
PORE-LEVEL FLUID MIGRATION IN RESERVOIR SANDSTONES, ADAM KEITH MOSS
THE CHARACTERISATION OF ENGINE OILS BY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH LUMINESCENCE DETECTION, SIMON WYNDHAM LEWIS
THE DETERMINATION OF TRACE METALS IN SEA WATER USING ICP-MS, MARTIN JOHN BLOXHAM
THE DISSOLUTION AND PHOTODEGRADATION OF KUWAIT CRUDE OIL IN SEAWATER, LULWA NASSER ALI
THE SUB-SURFACE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME HEAVY METALS FOLLOWING SEWAGE SLUDGE INJECTION INTO GRASSLAND SOILS, RACHEL BROWN
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HYDROFLUOROALKANES, AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF HALOCARBONS TO THE CHLORINE/BROMINE LOADING OF THE ATMOSPHERE, DAVID CHRISTIAN DOWDELL
CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF A GC-ICP-MS INSTRUMENT FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ORGANOMETALS AND OTHER TRACE ELEMENT SPECIES, ALEXANDER WALTER KIM
Environmental fate and effects of chromium(III) and (IV) investigated using electroanalytical chemistry., Michael Henry Irvin Comber
FLOW INJECTION AND MULTIVARIATE CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESS ANALYSIS, PAUL MACLAURIN
Fundamental studies of mixed gas plasmas in ICP-MS, Michael John Ford
INVESTIGATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CHELATION ION CHROMATOGRAPHY FOR TRACE METAL DETERMINATIONS, OWEN JOHN CHALLENGER
INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF INDENOPYRIDINES, ANGELA SUGDEN
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Characterisation of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons by degradative methods, Andrew Thomas Revill
Nitrate Selective Electrodes Containing Immobilised Ion Exchangers, NICHOLAS CHARLES FRAMPTON
ORIGINS AND SHORT-TERM SEDIMENTARY FATE OF GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED BIOLOGICAL MARKER HYDROCARBONS, SIMON JOHN HIRD
Palynological investigations of Cenomanian chalks and marls from England, Ailbhe Maire Duane
SAMPLE INTRODUCTION AND INSTRUMENTATION IN PLASMA SPECTROMETRY, James Henry Dean Hartley
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL RAIL LINK: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, David Matthew Smith
TURONIAN DINOFLAGELLATE CYST ASSEMBLAGES FROM SOUTHERN ENGLAND, Meriel FitzPatrick
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Estuaries as Sources of Methylated Arsenic to the North Sea, Heather Jane Kitts
Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Albian to Santonian (Cretaceous) of Bornholm, Denmark, Stephen Ronald Packer
New Approaches to Automated Analytical Instrumentation, WARREN THOMAS CORNS
REACTIVE GASES IN ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMISATION ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY, Andrew Fisher
SLURRY ATOMISATION USING MIXED GAS PLASMAS, Phillip Stephen Goodall
Studies of sediments in a tidal environment, Fiona Fitzpatrick
Tectonics and sedimentation in the Devonian and carboniferous rocks of SW Devon, England., Robert David Seago
THE DETERMINATION OF TRACE METALS IN CONCENTRATED BRINES FOR PROCESS CONTROL, HOWARD WILLIAM HANDLEY
THE LATE QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE RIVER ERME, SOUTH DEVON, SUSAN CREAK
THE SEDIMENTOLOGY, PETROLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER GREENSAND IN S.W. ENGLAND, COLIN L. WILLIAMS
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
A CONTINUUM MIXTURE THEORY APPROACH TO SEDIMENT TRANSPORT WITH APPLICATION TO TURBULENT OSCILLATORY BOUNDARY LAYERS, JOHN NIGEL ALDRIDGE
Arsenic Speciation in Food, Simon Branch
ASPECTS OF THE MICROPALAEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF CRETACEOUS SHELF CARBONATES FROM THE OMAN MOUNTAINS, MICHAEL DEREK SIMMONS
DETERMINATION OF TRACE METALS BY lON-CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH CHEMILUMINESCENCE DETECTION, TIMOTHY PAUL WILLIAMS
Geochemistry of suspended particles in the Tamar estuary, John Smith Findlay
SLURRY ATOMISATION SYSTEM FOR PROCESS CONTROL, BENEDICT EVELYN FAIRMAN
STUDIES OF TIN OXIDE GAS SENSORS FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETECTION, Peter William Ash
THE CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELLING/OF SOIL WATER PATHWAYS BENEATH A CONIFEROUS HILLSLOPE IN MID WALES, NICHOLAS ARTHUR CHAPPELL
The sedimentology, palaeoecology and stratigraphy of cretaceous rocks in N.W. Scotland, Sharon Mary Braley
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC SAMPLES BY PLASMA SPECTROMETRY, EVAN HYWEL EVANS
A PRECONCENTRATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF TRACE ELEMENTS, ANDREA JANE AMBROSE
Archaeomagnetic Directional Studies Of Large Fired Structures In Britain, Dougall Stanley Gentles
Characterisation of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons, Mark Adrian Gough
Mid- to late Cretaceous Microbiostratigraphy, Palaeo-ecology and Palaeogeography of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil, Eduardo Apostólos Machado Koutsoukos
MID-VICTORIAN PLYMOUTH: A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY, Vivien Frances Turner Pointon
PLASMA SPECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SLURRIES, MICHAEL EDWARD FOULKES
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Development of HPLC Techniques for the Analysis of Trace Metal Species in the Primary Coolant of a Pressurised Water Reactor, Keiron Robert Philip Barron
TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND MINERAOLOGY OF THE YOUNGER HISTORIC LAVAS OF MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, Mark Christopher Gyopari
THE LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY (FORAMINIFERA) OF THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF THE SOUTHERN NORTH SEA BASIN, Stephen Crittenden
THE MICROSTRUCTURES OF ESTUARINE PARTICLES, JOHN GRAHAM TITLEY
THE STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF SOME METALLURGICAL CARBONS, Kenneth Edwin Adams
THE STUDY OF THE DISSOLVED NITROGEN CONTAINING MACROMOLECULES IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, JASMIN CHAPMAN
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED SEDIMENT FORMED IN LOE POOL, CORNWALL, David Alan Pickering
OPTIMISATION OF THE INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SOLUTIONS AND SLURRIES, PHILIP NORMAN
Palaeolimnological study of the history of Loe Pool. Helston, and its catchment, Martin Andrew Coard
SPECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF WHOLE POWDERED COAL, HUW GARETH MICHAEL PARRY
SYNTHETIC AND BIODEGRADATION STUDIES OF SOME SEDIMENTARY ISOPRENOID HYDROCARBONS, JOHN NICHOLAS ROBSON
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SYNTHETIC AND NATURAL HYDROUS IRON OXIDES IN AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTS, Vincent Man
The Late Cenomanian Anoxic Event; implications for foraminiferal evolution, Paul Niell Leary
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
AGRICULTURAL ANALYSIS BY PLASMA EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY WITH SLURRY ATOMISATION, SIMON TIMOTHY SPARKES
Flow of power law fluids with application to oil drilling, E. J. Carter
METAL METHYLATION IN ESTUARINE WATERS, ANDREW PAUL WALTON
