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The nature and timing of deglaciation and landscape response to abrupt climate change
Glacier-fed drainage basins cover ~26% of global land surface populated by nearly one third of global population. Predicted increases in global temperatures means that understandin...
Exploiting big data to understand access to greenspace in the UK
Greenspaces provide valuable benefits to people; ecosystem services (ES). For example, there are over 62,000 urban greenspaces in GB, estimated to provide ES worth ~£130bn to...
Reconstructing past changes in wetland hydrology and carbon cycling
Project Background Microbial processes in terrestrial settings are critical to governing greenhouse gas emissions. The modern carbon soil reservoir exceeds that of terrestrial ve...
RESOLVING THE FISHER-FARMER CONUNDRUM IN PREHISTORIC EUROPE USING BIOMOLECULAR APPROACHES (AquaNeo)
For most of the modern human evolution, humans were depending on food resources they hunted, gathered and fished. The transition to the Neolithic saw a major change in subsistence,...
University of Exeter Cross-disciplinary research for Discovery Science
University of Exeter will build on several existing initiatives focussed on inter- and transdisciplinary relationships to administer and manage this funding, including the experien...
Landscape sensitivity to past and future climate: Solving the intermittency puzzle
Understanding how changing climate affects erosional processes that shape the planet's surface is a key goal for geoscientists. Constraints on the intermittency of water flux and s...
Fundamentals of Build-It-Yourself Environmental Sensors
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:...
Quantifying drivers of human-elephant conflict in an arid savanna ecosystem
The rapid expansion of agriculture and human settlement across the African continent has reduced and fragmented natural elephant habitat, resulting in remaining populations being...
Testing the core-mantle boundary & large igneous province hypothesis: a full-vector palaemagnetic study of the North Atlantic Igneous Province
Background: Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are large areas of volcanism that erupt over millions of years causing rapid environmental change and mass extinctions, e.g., the Permian...
In from the cold: how are winter plankton communities changing with the climate?
Lake ecosystems host diverse communities of organisms which show great variation over seasonal, year-to-year and decadal timescales. Growing evidence demonstrates that these commun...
Understanding atmospheric particulate matter geochemistry and cycling in the South Atlantic
This studentship will develop new dating tools using cosmogenic isotopes and, in turn, apply them in two volcanic landscapes (Antarctica and Pacific Northwest, USA) to solve import...
A Tale of Two Poles: Exploring Mixed-Phase Clouds from above and below in Greenland and Antarctica
Mixed-phase clouds over the polar regions have been shown to greatly increase surface heating and have contributed to large melting events on the Greenland ice sheet. The clouds ca...
The release and fate of organofluoro 'forever chemicals' from wastewater treatment works
This project will investigate the role of wastewater treatment works (WWTWs) as potential major sources of per/polyfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) to rivers and coastal waters. P...
Effects of seabird nutrient inputs on the productivity of coral reef fish communities
How coral reefs can sustain their extreme biomass of large reef fishes has continued to puzzle scientists. By living fast and dying young, small, bottom-dwelling ('cryptobenthic'...
Quantifying the hidden biodiversity, conservation value and effectiveness of fine sediment detention ponds in agri-environment schemes
Excessive fine sediment (typically particles <2mm) is one of the principal reasons for the failure of waterbodies to achieve good ecological status under the EU Water Framework...
Investigating the impacts of environmentally relevant microplastic exposures on iconic wetland biota in a multi-stressor
The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of MPs on the common frog, Rana temporaria, both as heterogenous assemblages, and upon co-exposure with other ubiquitous stres...
Optimising the long-term control of invasive American mink from catchment to coast: how many mink is too many?
Invasive Non-native Species (INNS) threaten biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services and impose costs to national economies. Management efforts are underway globally to reduc...
Understanding the Impact of Chemical Pollutants on Freshwater Ecosystem Services
This project addresses a key challenge in chemicals regulation and environmental protection: ensuring that society can benefit from chemicals, whilst protecting ecosystems from the...
Combined Sewer Overflows: A Hotspot for Riverine Plastic Pollution?
Tackling the global challenge of plastic pollution is at the forefront of current scientific research efforts. Nevertheless, research to date has focused upon the marine environmen...
Using Antarctica's response in the mid-Pliocene warm period to understand uncertainties about long-term future sea level rise
Sea level rise represents an existential threat to coastal populations and ecosystems. The response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate change is the highest uncertainty in futur...