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Keele CDT student wins Sedimentology’s ‘Editors’ Pick’ Award 2020

Charlotte Priddy, from the 2016 cohort, along with her PhD supervisor, Stuart Clarke, published a manuscript in the journal ‘Sedimentology’ in 2020, entitled “The Sedimentology of an Ephemeral Fluvial-Aeolian Succession”. This paper was 1 of 15 chosen as an Editors Pick by the editorial board from all manuscripts published in Sedimentology in 2020 as an […]


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NERC CDT in Oil & Gas teams up with new training partner, GeoLogica

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Oil and Gas is delighted to announce that it has entered into partnership with a leading training provider, GeoLogica. The agreement enables the PhD students to participate in GeoLogica’s extensive suite of online courses as part of the CDT’s Geological Society accredited training […]


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Last adventure before lock-down; A Siberian field trip

Arctic Interdisciplinary Studies, ARCTIS, is an interdisciplinary field course organised by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists in Russia (APECS Russia) and the UK Polar Network (UKPN). The main goal of the course is to facilitate bilateral and interdisciplinary (Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Terrestrial, Marine and Social & Humanitarian) cooperation of early career scientists from the […]


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International competition success for two CDT students

We are delighted to congratulate two NERC CDT in Oil & Gas PhD students, Quentin Corlay and Bastian Steffens, of Heriot-Watt University’s Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering’s (IGE) GeoDataScience and Uncertainty Quantification Group, on winning the first prize of $9,000 in an international online programming data/geoscience competition. Agent-based models are often used to understand the behaviour […]


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PetroSkills Academy joins the CDT training portfolio

World-leading geoscience training provider offers online resources to the NERC CDT PetroSkills has teamed up with the NERC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) to offer online learning and teaching modules. The PetroSkills Alliance was founded in 2001 by Shell, BP and the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), to provide “important but not unique” competency […]


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5th Annual Conference 2019

The ever-widening reach of the CDT community has seen the Annual Conference become a key fixture in the calendar of research events for the oil and gas sector as 83 students and 97 delegates gathered at a new venue, the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Edinburgh’s city centre, to discuss and celebrate the research outcomes achieved […]


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4th Annual Conference 2018

The CDT’s 4th Annual Conference took place on Friday 2nd November 2018 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in the city centre, showcasing the work of 109 PhD students from 17 universities across the UK through both oral and poster presentations.


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Verus Petroleum joins CDT industry sponsorship as 10th partner

The NERC CDT in Oil & Gas is delighted to have been included in a major funding package of £416k from Verus Petroleum, an independent oil company active on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS). The award has been made to Professor John Underhill in the the Institute of Petroleum Engineering (IPE) at Heriot-Watt University […]


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