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Students past/present under supervision at CIGCES -Department of Geological Sciences, UCT.

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Name / Email	ALEXANDER, James - jalex@cigces.uct.ac.za
Project	Chemical stratigraphy of the Dwyka Sequence, Karoo, South Africa.
Research Interests	James has moved on to industry after a long spell in the field for De Beers Africa Exploration in Gabon and Mauritania. He is now exploration manager for NE District of SA. He has married and lives in Polekwana in Limpopo Province.
Name / Email		BAARS, Frankie - Docegeo@br.homeshopping.com.br
Project	The geotectonic and geothermal evolution of the Southern São Fransisco Craton, Brazil. Half way during his PhD time, Frankie moved permanently to Brazil where he married and now has a family. He has climbed the corporate mining industry ladder and worked – for some time – as the principal geologist in charge of GIS. After producing the GIS/Geology of Brazil he has moved on and now works as a private consultant. We’re still hoping that one day he’ll finish his thesis because this will incorporate a vast knowledge of Brazilian Geology.
Research Interests	Still working on thesis 15 years later
Name / Email	BERGERS, Karen - Kbergers@mhs10.tns.co.za
Project	Platinum-group elements in Barberton gold ores.
Research Interests	Karen has not yet finished her thesis. She now works at the De Beers Geoscience Centre in Johannesburg.
Name / Email	BURFORD, Dennis - dburford@cs.uct.ac.za
Project
Research Interests	Click here à dennis to see more Dennis is now working on his PhD in the Dept of Computer Studies, UCT
Name / Email	DAVIES, Tim M IANDAVIES@compuserve.com
Project	Shear zone and lithographic studies in the SE portion of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa.
Research Interests
Name / Email		DECKER, John jdecker@science.uct.ac.za
Project	Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the upper Karoo Sequence near Lesotho (Moleno Formation). John has discovered a number of interesting positive organic carbon isotope spikes in these Triassic terrestrial sequences which he has interrupted as fluctuations in C3 and CAM operating plants. If correct, this is the earliest evidence of CAM photo-synthesis in the geologic record. This work is now in press.
Research Interests	John is an active bag-pipe player, but he is also interested in carbon isotope stratigraphy and the global carbon cycle.
Name / Email		GHOSH, Joy G - jgg@vsnl.net
Project	Tectonic evolution of the India subcontinent and * 13C-stratigraphy of the classic Gondwana sequence of central India. Just published “Age and tectonic evlution of Neoproterozoic ductile shear zones in the Southern Granulite Terrain of India, with implications for Gondwana studies”. In: Tectonics Vol.23, TC3006, doi: 10.1029/2002TC001444,2004.
Research Interests	Joy has returned to his job at the Geol Survey of India in Calcutta. He has established a new geochronology lab and is producing the first accurate U/Pb zircon ages in and Indian institute. He has recently published the oldest known rock in India at ~3.6 Ga. Joy is interested in Archean tectonics and carbon isotopes of India’s Gondwana Sequences.
Name / Email		GOOD, Nadine edwards@sovintel.ru
Project	Structural controls on the regional fluid flow and mineralisation in the Transvaal Sequence along the Thabazimbi-Ysterberg-Murchison Shear System. Nadine has created a finite element model of fluid flow through the Transvaal Basin in response to the intrusion of the Bushveld Complex. This work will be published shortly in Tectono-Physics in 2 parts.
Research Interests	Nadine is married to Rob Edwards and has learned how to speak Russian. She’s interested in doing contract work involving structural geology and stress mapping.
Name / Email		JAMAL, Daud L Djam@fmuctear.uem.mz
Project	Crustal studies across selected transects in northeast Mozambique: differentiating between Kibarean (Mozambican) and Pan-African events, with implications for Gondwana studies and evaluation for mineral potential.
Research Interests	Daud is about to finish his thesis, but he has to juggle his life between his office in Maputo and Cape Town as well as in the bush of Northern Mozambique where he is in charge of an active geological mapping and exploration program funded through the EEC.
Name / Email	LE GRANGE, Mark
Project	Tectonic evolution of Maevatonava Greenstone belt, Madagascar
Research Interests	Mark is now working for a mining company and had married …………… from Madagascar.
Name / Email		KHUMALO, A Sipho asipho@geology.uct.ac.za
Project
Research Interests	Research Assistant and map curator.
Name / Email	MULLER, Bernd R G
Project	Geology of the Bongolava-Ranotsara Shear Zone, Madagascar.
Research Interests	Finished his thesis and has returned to Germany.
Name / Email		RAKOTOSOLOFO Nicolas
Project	Geology, carbon isotope stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of the Karoo  Sequences of the southern Morondava Basin, SW Madagascar.
Research Interests	MSc completed October 1999. PhD topic - Paleomagnetism in the Andes. Nicolas has recently finished his thesis at the Univ of Munich, Germany
Name / Email		TINKER, Justine Justine@cigces.uct.ac.za
Project	Seismic stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of the Transvaal Basin, South Africa. Justine Tinker is now in the final stages of her PhD thesis which is focused on the uplift history of Southern Africa using fission track dating and has coupled this to the sediment budget in the offshore basins around this part of the continent. She has managed to publish a number of papers for which she has received the Jubilee Medal of the Geological Society of South Africa in 2004.
Research Interests	Prestigious S2A3 Bronze Medal - top honour for South African Master’s students. Click here à TINKER, Justine Tinker, J., de Wit, M.J., and Royden, W. (2004). Old, strong continental lithosphere with weak Archaean margin at ~ 1.8 Ga, Kaapvaal Craton South Africa. S.Afr J. Geology , 107, 255-260 Tinker, J., de Wit, M.J. and Grotzinger, J. (2002). Seismic stratigraphic constraints on Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic evolution of the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton. S. Afr. Journal Geology , 105, 107-134.
Name / Email		MABIDI Tshifhiwa tshifi@cigces.uct.ac.za
Project	Secular change in mineralisation using CIS and geostatistics
Research Interests	Earth Sciences Seek Niche Apart from Mining Industry Click here à TSHIFHIWA Mabidi
Name / Email		SAHU, Bijay K bijay_sahu@hotmail.com
Project	Geophysical and geological evidence for a close reassembly of Precambrian central Gondwana and its initial disruption.
Research Interests	After finishing his thesis Sahu has returned to India where he is working for the Geological Survey on seismic risk analysis.
Name / Email		STANKIEWICZ, Jacek - jacek@cigces.uct.ac.za
Project	African river basins: their present geometry and recent past as a framework for their evolution. Jacek has recently finish his thesis and has produced several papers on this work that are now in press. He is presently a post-doc researcher at CIGCES. He is working on a number of projects including the intriguing question of how lemurs might have colonised Madagascar across 400 km of ocean.
Research Interests	Click here à STANKIEWICZ, Jacek