Earth & Ocean Sciences - Structured

To be eligible to enter on a programme of study and research for the degree of PhD you must have reached a high honours standard at the examination for the primary degree or presented such evidence as will satisfy the Head of School and the College of your fitness.

Course Code: PHDS-EOSC



Applications are made online via the NUI Galway Postgraduate Applications System

Structured PhD, full-time

Research Areas


Physical habitat mapping

Caledonian/Variscan geology

Other geological topics

Marine geophysics

Land-based geophysics

Hydrogeology

Physical oceanography

Chemical oceanography

Palaeontology and Evolution

Carbonate Sedimentology

Metals in Groundwater

Coastal Karstic Aquifers

Integrated catchment management

Sedimentary Provenance (new techniques and applications)

"Source to Sink" modelling of sedimentary basins

Evolution of modern and ancient large-scale drainage systems

Climate records in sedimentary archives

Ocean acidification

Carbon cycling in coastal waters

Trace element cycling in coastal waters