John Wheeler's research grants

Last revised > February 2019

These are some of the more major grants I have been involved with. There have been and are many other fruitful collaborations, and this is an incomplete list.

2018-2021 (NERC) "Calibration of a new model for mantle viscosity: the role of grain boundaries from bicrystal experiments"   L. Hansen; E. Mariani, J. Wheeler and others
2014-2019 (NERC) "The Feedback Between Volatiles and Mantle Dynamics" E. Mariani; J. Wheeler
2014-2017 (NERC)  "The Strength of the Lower Mantle (Liverpool)" E. Mariani; J. Wheeler
2012-2016 (NERC) "Fluid flow in the Earth: the influence of dehydration reactions and stress" J. Wheeler, D. Faulkner, E. Mariani, Sergio Llana-Funez (Oviedo)
Jan 2011 - May 2012 (CSIRO) "Real time microstructure development in native gold" E. Mariani,  D. Tatham, D. Prior, J. Wheeler
Jun 2005 - 2009 (NERC NE/C002938/1) "Feedback Between Physical and Chemical Processes During Dehydration Reactions" D. Faulkner; J. Wheeler with Sergio Llana-Funez as Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dec 2002 - Nov 2005 (NERC) "Grain nucleation mechanisms during recrystallization of deforming rocks: implications for creep processes and rheology" D.J. Prior; J. Wheeler; R. Pond (Materials Science); E. Rutter (Manchester) with Betta Mariani as Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jun 2001 - Jun 2002 (NERC) "Interactions of stress and chemical processes in rocks." J. Wheeler; A.B. Movchan (Maths, Liverpool) with Judy Ford as Postdoctoral Research Associate Find out more
Nov 1998 - Mar 2002 (NERC) "Linking experimental to natural rock deformation: quantitative microstructural analysis of quartz and feldspar" J. Wheeler; D.J. Prior with Zhenting Jiang as Postdoctoral Research Associate
Apr 1993 - Jun 1998 (NERC) "The role of extension in collisional orogenic belts" J. Wheeler; R. Butler; R. Cliff; A. Barnicoat (Leeds); S.P. Kelley (Open) with Steve Reddy as Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jul 1990 - Jun 1992: NERC "Burial and uplift dynamics of eclogite regions" J. Wheeler; R. Butler (Leeds)
Sep 1988 - Dec 1989 NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for J. Wheeler "Tectonic exhumation of very high grade metamorphic complexes in orogens"