PhD Students
Ansa Nke
Thesis title: Impact of the Great Oxidation Event on South African marine basins
Supervisors: Dr Rosalie Tostevin and Associate Professor Harilaos Tsikos
Contact details:
Room 302, Geological Sciences Building
Email: nkxans001@myuct.ac.za / ansahmbomyong@gmail.com
Research interests:
Precambrian Geochemistry, Geochemical Proxies, Great Oxidation Event, Banded Iron Formations.
Jessica Von Der Meden
Thesis Title: U-Th dating tufas at Ga-Mohana Hill, Northern Cape, South Africa: a new late Pleistocene palaeoenvironment record relevant for human occupation
Supervisors:Dr Robyn Pickering (Geology), Dr Jayne Wilkins (Archaeology) and Dr Rosalie Tostevin (Geology)
Contact Details:
Room 302, Geological Sciences, vdrjes001@myuct.ac.za
Research Interests: Quaternary Geology, Palaeoclimate, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, U-series dating
Howard Head
Thesis title: Climate change in the Early Jurassic: cyclicity and fluvial-aeolian interactions in the ancient desert system of southern Africa (Clarens Formation, Karoo Sgr.)
Superisor: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 507 - 2, Geological Sciences Building
Email: hdxhow001@myuct.ac.za / hvhead@gmail.com
Research interests: Aeolian Sedimentology and Fluvial Sedimentology
Martin Giger
Thesis Title: Trace element based thermobarometry for peridotite xenoliths from the Kaapvaal craton
Supervisor: Associate Professor Phil Janney
Contact details:
Room 309, Geological Sciences Building
Email: martinbgiger@gmail.com
Research interests: geochemical evolution of the mantle, geochemistry and ore geology
Marvel Makhubele
Thesis Title: Sequence stratigraphy of the post-Jurassic in the Algoa and Gamtoos Basins: Implication for hydrocarbon potential in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 503, Geological Science
Email: mkhmar015@myuct.ac.za
Research Interests: Exploration geophysics, play-based exploration, seismic interpretation, seismic attributes, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis
Sichumilesanda Spelman
Thesis Title: The Geological Library of the Main Karoo Basin: A Preliminary 3-D geo-model
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 503, Geological Science
Ph: +27 71 491 8520
Email: sanda.spelman@gmail.com
Interests: Sedimentary basins (Karoo Basin), 3D modeling, GIS and remote sensing
Organizations: Geological Society of Southern Africa, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers