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Tropical wetland methane emissions - processes and predictions: TropMethane
Two-thirds of global methane emissions from wetlands originate in the tropics, but this estimate is uncertain and our ability to predict variation in methane emissions from tropica...
North Atlantic Foraminifers and Climate: Expedition 395
This research will contribute to an expedition of the International Ocean Discovery Program to the mid-Atlantic Reykjanes Ridge south of Iceland which will take a series of sedimen...
Why did we start Fermenting cereals? A molecular dissection of Ancient Bread and Beer making (FABB)
Cereals have formed part of the human diet for more than 20,000 years, though fermented cereal products such as beer and leavened bread are more recent innovations. Although the us...
Late Miocene to Recent Coccolith geochemistry from the NE Atlantic
Our understanding of how the oceans and marine life respond to large changes in global climate, such as increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, largely comes fro...
A palaeontological solution to the origin of the vertebrate pectoral girdle
Paired fins were among the most critical anatomical innovations in vertebrate animals. These structures originated in the ancestors of jawed vertebrates more than 430 million years...
Multi-trophic response and effects of an extensive oil spill in a coastal fish nursery
On the 26th of March 2023 a large reservoir fluid spill occurred (totalling 31,000 Litre) from a Perenco pipeline in Poole Harbour, Dorset. This spill spread across the harbour and...
ECOSYSTEM RECOVERY FOLLOWING THE PERMO-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION
The Permo-Triassic mass extinction (PTME; c. 252 Ma) was the most catastrophic biotic event of the Phanerozoic with up to 96% of marine animals going extinct. This event was trigge...
Micro-structural controls on oceanic core complex formation: IODP Exp 399 Atlantis Massif
The surface of the Earth is divided up into tectonic plates that have moved throughout Earth history and these plates are continually created and destroyed at the boundaries betwee...
Offensive Sea-Snot
Life on Earth is heavily dependent on microscopic plankton that live in our oceans. These plankton (organisms that mainly drift in the oceans) can be divided between 3 types: (...
SCREED: Supergene enrichment of carbonatite REE deposits
The rare earth elements (REE), and in particular neodymium and dysprosium, are essential for renewable energy devices such as wind turbines and the development of electric motors f...
A new perspective on ocean photosynthesis (N-POP)
Sunlight penetrating into the ocean is the ultimate source of energy in oceanic ecosystems. This energy sustains fisheries and catalyses biogeochemical cycles that influence the ca...
New ways of measuring atmospheric hydrogen: paving the way for hydrogen leak quantification
The aim of this project is to develop and demonstrate how mobile measurements of atmospheric hydrogen can be used to locate and quantify fugitive emissions of hydrogen to the atmos...
Mantle dynamics beneath the North Atlantic region from integrated seismic imaging using new regional seafloor data and global datasets
Mantle plumes are enigmatic hot upwelling rising from instabilities at Earth's core-mantle boundary. When approaching the surface, they are thought to cause the emplacement of Larg...
Male-killing symbiosis across a predator-prey interaction: a genomic and experimental approach
Most insects carry specialised bacteria that dwell permanently inside them. These bacteria are known as symbionts and may be beneficial or costly to their insect host. In this proj...
Turbo-charging the mycorrhizosphere - Could more productive ecosystems threaten soil carbon stocks in boreal and sub-arctic zones of transition?
The Context of the Research - Many high-profile research papers and syntheses have equated increased vegetation productivity and shifting vegetation types in northern high latitude...
The Gulf Stream control of the North Atlantic carbon sink
We are all aware that atmospheric CO2 has risen over our lifetimes leading to global warming. The ocean has played an important role in moderating that atmospheric rise by taking u...
ArtiFISHal Intelligence: merging technology and ecology to understand infectious disease dynamics
Wildlife diseases play a role in species extinctions, spillover of pathogens to humans (zoonoses), and can threaten food security (e.g., wild fisheries). Systematic monitoring of i...
The Virgin Islands: Petrogenesis of early Earth-like Rocks (VIPER)
Our Earth is 4.56 billion years old and is unique among known planets in having a life-supporting atmosphere, liquid-water oceans, and continents made of silica-rich granitic crust...
Ghosts from summers past: quantifying the role of vegetation legacy to climatic extremes
The last two decades have witnessed record-breaking drought and heat extremes during summer months across Europe, with wide-ranging consequences for biodiversity, public health, an...
Investigating the early human settlement of Iceland with ancient soil DNA
This project aims to establish if early human settlement of Iceland can be detected and described through the analysis of ancient (centuries-old) DNA (aDNA) in soil. Iceland is an...