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Seeing the Northern Lights at the equator? Predicting the next reversal of Earth's magnetic field
The geomagnetic field is a fundamental part of planet Earth, existing for at least 3.5 billion years. Yet far from being a constant, the field is very dynamic, exhibiting slow fluc...
Quantifying the Resilience and Functioning of Freshwater Ecosystems Across Spatial and Temporal Gradients of Environmental Stress
How natural and semi-natural systems will adapt to extreme events as our climate changes remains a pressing question in ecology. Ecosystems are highly sensitive to multiple, and of...
How fragmented are the world's savannas?
Fragmentation is known to be widespread in the world's tropical forests, with negative impacts on biodiversity and resilience. However, the situation in savannas is poorly known -...
Machine learning for remote sensing and modelling of mountain snow patches
Snow in the mountains provides many services as a store of water, a habit and a playground. It also poses threats as a flood and avalanche risk, and snow is highly sensitive to cli...
Enhancing Autonomy and Decision-Making Capabilities of an Obstacle Avoidance System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating Under Ice
Today's marine science requires the collection of data in extreme environments, including polar oceans and under ice. AUVs are often employed for these tasks, granting access to ar...
Ants as ecosystem engineers: using ants to promote biodiversity
We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious student to develop an exciting project using field experiments to quantify the relationship between meadow ants and management reg...
Controls on the high-grade gold-cobalt mineralisation at Rajapalot, Finland
Cobalt is one of the crucial metals needed for the energy transition as cobalt is found in batteries in e.g. electric vehicles. Gold, in turn, remains a key economic commodity but...
Genomics of extinction, reintroduction and recovery of white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) on the British Isles
White-tailed eagles were historically widespread across the British Isles, but human persecution and habitat alterations led to their extinction by the early 20th century. Reintr...
Next-generation radiocarbon calibration: Incorporating information on calibration curve covariance
A 6-month project to investigate the effect on radiocarbon calibration of covariance information within the IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve. Radiocarbon (14C) provides the m...
DiMethylSulfonioPropionate cycling In Terrestrial environments (DMSP InTerrest)
Marine-dwelling microbes and plants produce 8 billion tonnes of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) per year in Earth's surface oceans alone, via enzymes we have identified. Organism...
The environmental drivers of senescence: an experimental test in the wild
Age predicts many things about our health, including which infections we might have, our risk of dying from these infections, or which chronic diseases we are at risk from. Some in...
QUANTIFYING FERTILITY LOSS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE ACROSS THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
The world is warming rapidly, and heatwaves are becoming more common. Many animals- including humans, livestock, pollinators, disease vectors, and species of conservation concern-...
Testing the role of nutrient input thresholds in governing microbial-mediated carbon sequestration for temperate peatlands
Our research will shed new light on the ways nutrient input (primarily phosphorus and nitrogen) controls how efficiently temperate, ombrotrophic peatlands store carbon. Our recent...
Using immune cell repertoires to identify pathogen threats
Wild animals live with a myriad of infections - viruses, bacteria, fungi, worms. The harm that these infections cause and the costly efforts animals make to resist these infections...
NERC Environmental Data Service 2023-2028
Environmental science, and in particular the data which underpins it, support a wide range of stakeholder requirements and use cases. For over 40 years, the implementation of NERC'...
Microplastic entrainment, transport and fragmentation in atmospheric boundary-layer flows
Plastics are central to modern living, supporting innovations in manufacturing, health care and construction. However, they are also recognised as an emerging and 'poorly reversibl...
Climate and carbon dioxide during the end-Permian hyperthermal biosphere crisis
Predictions of future climate change are highly uncertain and unconstrained, with projected global average temperatures not seen for many millions of years . Past hyperthermal even...
Using synthetic biology to manipulate bacterial social behaviours to maximise the microbial degradation of environmental waste plastics.
Plastic pollution is a growing worldwide problem, with 12,000 million metric tonnes of plastic waste predicted to be in landfill or the environment by 2050. Whilst recycling can gi...
Hydro-JULES-Next
As recent floods in Australia and Pakistan and prolonged severe drought in the UK, USA, and East Africa show, the water cycle is a key driver of environmental change in the 21st ce...
Beyond 1D Structure of Earth's Core - Reconciling Inferences from Seismic and Geomagnetic Observations
The geomagnetic field plays a key role in the Earth system by shielding the surface environment from a wind of charged particles emanating from the sun. However, this shielding eff...