PhD Students

Drs. Shamsudduha (2011) and Owor (2010) with Richard

current - primary supervisor

None.

current - secondary / tertiary supervisor

MIKE DAVIS (EngD, 2008-), EPSRC EngD Studentship
Thesis: 3D characterization of UK chalk aquifers using new techniques of borehole imaging.
Co-supervision: Dr. Willy Burgess, UCL Earth Sciences (primary supervisor), Alex Gallagher BGS

completed 

GRAHAM BRADLEY (PhD, 2007-2011): Thermochronology, landscape evolution, and hydrogeology of the Katonga Valley in south-west Uganda. UCL Geography TA Studentship
Co-supervision: Dr. Andy Carter & Dr. Charlie Bristow, UCL Earth Sciences
- Graham is writing up papers from his dissertation and takes up a faculty position the Department of Earth Sciences, SUNY Oswego in July 2012.

MOHAMMAD SHAMSUDDUHA (PhD, 2007-2011): Groundwater dynamics and arsenic mobilisation in Bangladesh: a national-scale characterisation. Dorothy Hodgkin EPSRC PhD Studentship
Co-supervision: Dr. Richard Chandler, UCL Department of Statistics; Professor K.M. Ahmed (Department of Geology, University of Dhaka)
- Shams is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.

CRYSTAL FENWICK (PhD, 2006-2010): Identifying the water poor - an indicator approach to assessing water poverty in rural Mexico. EPSRC PhD Studentship,
Co-supervision: Dr. Sarah Bell, UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering (primary supervisor)
- Crystal is now based in the US and engaged in environmental consultancy.

MICHAEL OWOR (PhD, 2006-2010): Groundwater/surface-water interactions on deeply weathered surfaces of low relief in the Upper Nile Basin of Uganda. Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship, Co-supervision: Dr. Julian Thompson, UCL Geography
- Michael has returned to his faculty position in the Department of Geology and Petroleum Studies, Makerere University in Kampala.

LUCINDA MILEHAM (PhD, 2004-2008):  Impact of climate change on terrestrial hydrology in a humid, equatorial catchment in Uganda. NERC PhD Studentship, Co-supervision: Dr. Martin Todd, Dr. Julian Thompson, UCL Geography
- Lucinda is adding to her impressive publication record and spending time on the golf course improving her (already very low) handicap.

SRIVATSAN VIJAYARAGHAVAN (PhD, 2004-2008): Climate change impacts over the Okavango Delta region of southern Africa using Regional Climate Models - quantifying errors and uncertainties. Dorothy Hodgkin NERC PhD Studentship, Co-supervision: Dr. Martin Todd, UCL Geography (primary supervisor)
- Sri is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore where he is developing and assessing projections of future climate change in SE Asia using Regional Climate Models.

CALLIST TINDIMUGAYA (PhD, 2004-2008): Groundwater flow and storage in weathered crystalline rock aquifer systems of Uganda: evidence from environmental tracers and aquifer responses to hydraulic stress. International Atomic Energy Agency PhD Fellowship, Co-supervision: Professor John Barker and Professor Tim Atkinson, UCL Earth Sciences
- Callist is the Commissioner for Water Resources Regulation in the Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda.

PAUL DENNIS (PhD, 2003-2007): How do rhizosphere bacteria interact with their environment at the microhabitat scale? BBSRC CASE Doctoral Studentship, Co-supervision: Dr. Tony Miller, Dr. Penny Hirsch, Rothamsted Research; Dr. Eva Valsami-Jones, Natural History Museum
- Paul is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Australian Centre for Ecogenomincs at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.