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Towards design of chemical-resilient agricultural landscapes
Project Overview: UK biodiversity is under threat: the abundance of terrestrial and freshwater species has declined by 13% since 1970 and 15% of species are threatened with extinct...
Arctic and Climate Change
Arctic and Climate Change
The Influence of Climate on the long-term stability of Greenland's Outlet Glaciers
This project will quantify the influence of variations in both atmospheric and oceanic forcing on the longterm dynamic stability of outlet glaciers draining the Greenland Ice Sheet...
How does post-industrial land regeneration contribute to Biodiveristy Net Gain in the UK?
Restoration of former mining sites usually involves habitat creation that not only aims to reduce the concentration of pollutants but also enhance biodiversity. Habitat restoration...
Exo-Titans: Exploring Exoplanet Atmospheres through Titan Analogues
The number of exoplanet discoveries has grown exponentially since the first discovery in 1992 to over 5,500 detections, thanks to dedicated space surveys such as Kepler. Super-Eart...
Constraining electrification in volcanic plumes through numerical simulation (FlAshPlume)
Recent advances in global lightning detection have revealed that volcanic plumes rising to 10 km altitude and higher tend to generate lightning.Volcanic lightning is so common that...
Beyond net zero: integrating extreme risks from climate overshoot into the long-term global goal in order to minimise climate risk
In 2015 a long-term global goal was established in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Given the current rates of climate change and th...
Super-traits of Ediacaran organisms ~ (580-560 Ma)
It is currently not clear which biological characters or traits are key to influencing taxon interactions in the Ediacaran.This project will focus on the Ediacaran clade Rangeomorp...
Relating changes in melt genesis to dynamic conditions of the demise of a continental arc: Antarctic Peninsula arc
The poorly understood Antarctic Peninsula volcanic arc was an active continental margin between the Early Late Jurassic and the Early Miocene. Although many expeditions have visite...
Establishing the relative importance of a rainforest microcosm in oil palm plantations
Palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on Earth and the expansion of oil palm (Elaies guineensis) plantations is a major contributor to the loss of terrestrial biodiver...
Promoting a nature-positive future: how to measure biodiversity to assess habitat restoration success
Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem services and resilience to global change but is declining globally. Recent regulatory shifts requiring biodiversity reporting, offsetting an...
The ecological and functional consequences of fire in heathlands
Global fire regimes are changing, becoming more frequent and more severe. These changes irrevocably alter plant and soil communities, potentiallyaffecting important interactions be...
Earthworms as ploughs and bioreactors: understanding mechanical and biogeochemical impacts for sustainable soils
Earthworms are ecosystem engineers; burrowing significantly impacts soil causing substantial particle movement, influencing soil physical properties and affecting many soil ecosyst...
Future changes in convective storms across Africa in new km-scale climate scenarios
Africa is a uniquely vulnerable region.Both drought and flooding are expected to increase in future with climate change [1], which is a major threat to rainfed agriculture, drinkin...
The Shackleton Range of East Antarctica: unravelling a complex geological history via an integrated geochronological, geochemical and geophysical appr
The proposed project is a multidisciplinary geochemical, geochronological and geophysical study on rock collections and aeromagnetic data from the remote Shackleton Range of East A...
Processes beneath the Great Wave: improved understanding of tsunami geohazards using advances in deep-sea sedimentology
Tsunami pose a very significant hazard to coastal communities and infrastructure, as seen in the giant earthquake-generated tsunami that affected the Indian Ocean in 2004, and Japa...
Assessing and explaining the per unit costs of non-native plant species
The aim of this project is to estimate the damage and management costs of non-native plant species per unit of abundance and area, and to explore how the characteristics of the non...
Measurements of ozone-depleting substances at the Cape Verde Observatory
This project will expand our atmospheric halocarbon GC-MS measurements at the Cape Verde Observatory (CVO) to include a wider range of established and emerging ozone depleting subs...
Assessing the environmental and ecological drives of interannual variability in the life histories and population dynamics of icefishes (Family Channi
The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia is a hotspot of regional marine biodiversity in the Southern Ocean and supports high levels of endemic and range-edge fauna. It is also on...
How did our masticatory system evolve? Investigating bone and teeth microstructure in extant and fossil apes through X-ray synchrotron microtomography
Teeth and the bony structures that support them, mandible and maxillae, are key sources of evolutionary information about taxonomy, life-history, growth rates, diet and health.Yet,...