Results for Environment
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Reconstruction of Indian monsoon dynamics in response to Pliocene climate
The Indian Monsoon (IM) precipitation is the main seasonal driver of water availability, supporting billions of people. The future projection of mean annual ISM rainfall is highly...
Investigating novel reactive organic gases emitted from the ocean
The sea surface microlayer (SML) acts as a gateway for molecules to enter the atmosphere or ocean phase and plays a particularly important role in the production and removal of cli...
Nitrogen oxides in remote tropical ocean environments and their impact on air pollution and climate
Nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO+NO2) play a central role in the chemistry of the atmosphere, controlling both the production and loss of key air pollutants and climate gases such as meth...
Mitigating the impacts of artifical light at night on biodiversity and attractiveness to disease carrying insects
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a prominent form of environmental pollution. It accounts for a multitude of effects on biodiversity, and its effects have been observed through...
Exploring the diversity and evolution of CO2 fixation in macroalgae and seagrass to understand their response to a changing climate
Macroalgae and seagrass are keystone organisms in essential coastal ecosystems along the UK and global shorelines. However, our understanding of how they fix CO2 and the type of sp...
Using Ancient DNA to explore the effects of land use change on small mammals
This PhD project will expand the potential of palaeogenomic methodologies to small mammals, specifically examining how water vole (Arvicola amphibius) and brown rat (Rattus norvegi...
Hydrodynamic Modelling using UAV derived Topographical and Bathymetric Geospatial Data
This project is to use latest UAV sensors to undertake bathymetric surveys of water courses. The resulting high resolution data would be used to create an accurate representation o...
Effects of climate change and contaminants on oxygen availability for marine biota
In marine productive ecosystems, cyclical fluctuations of temperature, oxygen, pH and light significantly influence marine life by determining tolerance and adaptation and affectin...
Optimising Gully Blocks to Reduce Flood Discharge
The project aims to establish the optimum design features for ~10 gully blocks to be implemented into the uplands. This research will eliminate common upscaling errors seen in lite...
Fates and Impacts of Aroma Chemicals in Air
Background Increasingly rigorous regulation of industry and transportation has led to some air quality improvements, and a changing profile of the volatile organic compounds (VOC)...
Spatial optimisation of catchment-scale natural flood management strategies
This project aims to use the latest hydrological and hydrodynamic models with multi-objective optimisation genetic algorithms (GA) to approximate the Pareto-optimal set of NFM trad...
Compounding extreme rainfall and heatwaves: how important are large scale dynamics in generating extreme floods?
Weather extremes carry immense importance for society due to their potential to endanger human lives and cause extensive economic damages. In Europe, heatwaves rank among the most...
DV3M: Deforming Volcanoes with Dynamic Magma-Mush Models
Context Over 800 million people live near volcanoes, while many more depend on them for their livelihoods. Protecting lives and livelihoods during volcanic eruptions is the key ch...
"Stability of Antarctica's last frontier": Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica
This project will explore the internal structure of ice in the last major area of Antarctica to have been surveyed, and use these data to decode the stability of the ice and its po...
Tomographic imaging of New Zealand's Southern Alpine Fault to study seismic hazard and earthquake triggering
Understanding the potential for inter-earthquake triggering is an important component of improving earthquake forecasts. You will use a revolutionary new seismometer array to image...
Understanding micronutrients provision in a changing global food system
Micronutrient deficiency is likely to be intensified with climate change. This work will model micronutrient supply for countries globally, highlighting inequalities in food securi...
The evolution of dinosaur brains, senses, and intelligence
This project will use CT scans and advanced statistical methods to assess major trends in dinosaur brain and sensory evolution across 150+ million years of Mesozoic history.
RIFT-TIP: Rates of Ice Fracture and Timing of Tabular Iceberg Production
Calving of tabular icebergs from ice shelves accounts for around half of all the ice lost from Antarctica each year. The icebergs form when full-thickness fractures (known as rifts...
Wearable technology for personal sensing of air pollution and other environmental exposures
Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https:...
The seismic signature of rapid inflation at Askja volcano, Iceland
Askja is a large central volcano that sits within the Northern Volcanic Zone (NVZ) of Iceland, less than 50 km from the Vatnajökull ice cap. It has a long history of magmatic...