Results for Environment
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Can we restore Blue Carbon? - Assessing carbon dynamics in restored UK salt marshes through molecular tools
Background: Coastal vegetated ecosystems have recently received much attention for their contribution to climate change mitigation. Especially the high rates of carbon sequestratio...
The impact of small impoundments and connectivity loss on fishdistribution and abundance in river ecosystems: leveraging cutting edge geospatial model
Rivers are among the world's most threatened ecosystems. Freshwater fisheriesare at risk from multiple stressors including climate change, pollutants and the presence of dams which...
Simulating groundwater flow and contaminant migration in heterogeneous alluvial sediments
Sellafield is a large nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear waste storage, nuclear decommissioning and former nuclear power generating site on the coast of Cumbria. It is due to be fu...
Developing a next-generation biodiversity indicator to provide improved estimates of trends in wildlife abundance.
Global biodiversity is in decline (IPBES, 2020). Understanding how wildlife populations respond to anthropogenically induced climate-change, land-use change and other threats is cr...
Bacterial cell envelope remodelling in Rhizobium leguminosarum: contribution to symbiosis and resistance to abiotic stress
The aim of this project is to investigate how bacterial cell envelope remodelling by Ldts contributes to symbiosis (in pea and bean) and to resistance to abiotic stress (heat, o...
Developing rapid and low-cost mass spectrometry-based identification of biological sex in fossils
The analysis of proteins preserved in archaeological and paleontological contexts (termed palaeoproteomics) is an exciting new area in archaeological science, generating ground-br...
The role of rats and mice in dissemination of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Rats and mice are ubiquitous in urban and rural environments, are in contact with sewage effluents, have a generalist and opportunistic diet and interact frequently with human wast...
Development of sexual signals in bowerbirds (Ref: 4235)
Male bowerbirds are famous for their complex courtship displays that incorporate a bower decorated with coloured objects, vocalisations, and vigorous display movements. Male great...
Veterinary medicines and feed additives in the environment following use in the poultry industry
Veterinary medicines are a mainstay of modern farming practice and are widely used to treat disease and to protect the health of animals. However, following their use these chemica...
Investigating methods for a multi-faceted approach to determine distribution and habitat use of harbour porpoises to inform management
HPs are the UKs most numerous cetacean, occurring in all coastal areas and are particularly vulnerable to disturbance from human activities. Pressures on the marine systems that su...
Urban forests through space and time
Urban trees and forests play an important role in both the physical and cultural environment of the UK's towns and cities [Davies et al., 2017]. However, our understanding of the w...
Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctioning in rivers with modified flow regimes
"The regulation of river flows is one of the biggest stressors affecting river ecosystems across the world. In many westernised countries, major legislative efforts are theref...
Transport-oriented tools for weather forecast verification
The goal of this project is to develop a practical methodology for forecast verification that takes into account the transportof atmospheric fields. In essence, we would like to de...
Analysis of how the regulatory landscape can support the transition to safer and sustainable chemical alternatives
Chemicals play a central role in enhancing society with thousands of substances in use every day. As our use of chemicals has grown, so has the science and policy around hazardous...
Dynamics of 'Glacier Blood' microbial ecosystems in the European Alps
Mountain environments are home to extremophilic terrestrial microalgae that become loaded with pigments to protect them from strong light conditions. The red staining of snow an...
Identifying factors affecting the distributions of large marine vertebrates in coastal areas to predict current and future distributions
Marine megafauna tend to aggregate in coastal areas, with many environmental factors affecting them. The recent emergence of aerial drones provides novel opportunities to explore h...
Multi-faceted Studies on Highly Oxidized Organic Molecules MUSHROOM
"Highly oxidized organic molecules (HOMs) are a key set of compounds in the atmosphere that have attracted considerable recent attention.1 The low volatility of these compound...
CE317: Improving parametrizations for convection in climate models
The project will investigate the interaction between convective clouds and their impact on the cloud spectrum with the aim to improve the representation of convection in climate m...
CoolRhythms: the impact of ice volume and ocean circulation on Earth's Coolhouse climate beat
Earth's changing climate is inexorably linked to the energy it receives from the Sun, which varies rhythmically, driven by the eccentricity, obliquity and precession of Earth's orb...
Determining the drivers and mechanisms of Quaternary submarine megaslides on the North Sea Fan using high-resolution seismic datasets
"This project uses seismic datasets covering the Northeast Atlantic Margin to analyse how glacial sedimentation changes with ice sheet margin fluctuations. In particular, it f...