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Completed Students


Completed PhD Candidates


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Leigh Lawrence, PhD (2021) - Supervisors Dr. Carl Spandler & Prof. Eric Roberts
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Geochemistry of titanite-hosted alkaline melt inclusions from Oligocene-aged            volcanic tuffs in the Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania

B. Geology (Class I Honours), 2016 - James Cook University
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Jelle Wiersma, PhD (2021) - Supervisor Dr. Eric Roberts & Prof. Paul Dirks

​Cave Sedimentation Processes and Geochronology of the Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.


MSc. Geology, 2015. University of Utah, USA.
BSc. Geology, 2011. VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Christopher Todd, PhD (2020) - Primary Supervisor Prof. Eric Roberts

The stratigraphy and sedimentary basin analysis of Queensland's Mesozoic basins and the reconstruction of their histories and palaeodrainage evolutions.
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B. Geology (Class I Honours), 2014 - James Cook University
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Paul Slezak, PhD (2019) ​- Primary Supervisor Dr. Carl Spandler

​Evolution and origin of the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex: Understanding Rare Earth Element Mobility in the Continental Crust

M.Sc. Geology ('12) Queen's University, Canada
B.S. Geology ('09) New Mexico Tech, USA

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Prince Owusu Agyemang, PhD (2019) - Primary Supervisor Dr. Eric Roberts
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Sedimentary provenance analysis of Jurassic-Cretaceous continental strata across central Africa.

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Cassy Mtelela, PhD (2016) - Primary Supervisor Dr. Eric Roberts

​Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the late Cenozoic Lake Beds Succession, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania: Implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity.

Currently: Lecturer in Sedimentology, Department of Geology, University of Dar es Salaam

Msc. Geology, 2010. University of Dar es Salaam. Geology and Geochemistry of the Late Archean Kavirondian Supergroup. 
BSc Geology, 2007. University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Quaid Jadoon, PhD (2016) - Primary Supervisor Dr. Eric Roberts

​Unconventional shale gas Reservoir characterization and modelling in the Cooper Basin, Queensland and South Australia. 

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 Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, PhD  (2016) - Primary Supervisor Dr. Eric Roberts
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BA Geology, (2012) - Carleton College, USA.

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Ryan Tucker, PhD (2014) - Primary Supervisor Dr. Eric Roberts

Lecturer in Sedimentology at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 

M.Sc. Vertebrate Palaeontology ('10) South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA;
B.S. Geology 
('08) South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA.

Specialises in: sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology, taphonomy, palaeontology.


email: tucker@sun.ac.za

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Zubair Jinnah, PhD (2011) - Primary Supervisor Dr. Eric Roberts

Lecturer in Sedimentology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. ​

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Lucy and Mitch  -  (Former PhD students, Wits '2.0 Ma)  

​Currently employed in a World Heritage Site in South Africa.

Australopithecus africanus​

Completed Honours Students


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Mason Baty - Honours (2018)

Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Gregory Range District, Carpentaria Basin, Australia.
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Harrison Gardner - Honours (2017)

Strontium isotope stratigraphy of invertebrate fossils through the Late Cretaceous in Antarctica

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Tylah Drochmann - Honours (2015) 

Sedimentology, stratigraphy and provenance of Jurassic and Cretaceous strata in the Carpentaria Basin, Australia.


BSc (Adv.) Geology, 2014 - James Cook University

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Todd Kane  -  Honours (2015)

​Taphonomy and Systematic Palaeontology and of Holocene Decapoda (Decapoda: Macrophthalmus latreillei, Decapoda: Thalassina anomala & Decapoda: Scyllaserrata) from Townsville, North-eastern Australia.


B. Geology, 2013 - James Cook University

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Visiting Undergraduates

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​Rachel Surprenant, Macalaster College, USA.

Semester 1, 2017

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Grace Guenthner, Macalester College, USA.

Semester 1 - 2016

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Alyssa Erding, Macalester College, USA.

Semester 2 - 2015

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Cedric Hagen, Macalester College, USA.

Semester 1 - 2015

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